“The identity of one of Europe’s most notorious drivers, who racked up dozens of speeding and parking offences in a crime spree across Ireland while continuing to elude the courts, has been uncovered by police - with the help of a dictionary.
“Prawo Jazdy, presumed to be one of the hundreds of thousands of Poles lured to Ireland during its economic boom, was the Scarlet Pimpernel of motoring, leaving a trail of multiple identities and vehicles across the data base of the Republic’s Garda Siochana.
“With not a single conviction by 2007 and more than fifty offences recorded, the police decided to take a closer look at Mr Jazdy, according to the Irish Times and Irish Independent.
“The result was unexpected and embarrassing: in a letter that is now doing the rounds of Garda e-mail inboxes, a traffic division official wrote that it had come to his attention that officers inspecting Polish driving licences were recording Prawo Jazdy as the licence holder’s name. ‘Prawo Jazdy is actually Polish for 'driving licence' and not the first and surname on the licence,’ he wrote.
Who wants to bet that “Prawo Jazdy” starts showing up on fake IDs sometime soon?
1 comment:
I like coming here from time to time. But today, instead of intellectual pleasure, I got an unpleasant feeling: is something wrong with my driving licence? It has the correct 12 stars of EU around "PL", but not a single word in English. On the other hand, it looks precisely as a European drivng licence should look like, as regulated by the European Parlament Directive 2006/126/EC. My name and surname are on the same places and positions as on any "new model" European licence. Then, something must be wrong with these Irish policemen. Or rather, my compatriots can outcheat absolutely anyone.
My congratulations on the blog
Marcin Podbielski
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