A 59-year-old hadn't had a driver's license for a long time - now he was caught in a police check.
Macabre: The man showed the driver's license of a dead man.
A driver's license costs a lot of money - especially if you have to repeat the tests, like so many applicants did last year.
The “rag” is again significantly more expensive than here, for example in Sweden and Switzerland.
For some, however, the money is not the problem at all, but their driving style or other offenses such as excessive alcohol consumption, which result in a driver's license being revoked.
There are even contemporaries who completely do without the "rag" - in Great Britain a man was actually driving for 72 years without a driver's license until he was caught by the police.
Now, in Lower Saxony, a driver who has not had a driver's license for a long time has been checked by the police.
He tried to deceive the police with a rather macabre ploy.
Macabre action: drivers want to deceive the police with a dead man's driver's license
As the officials report, the man was stopped by civilian investigators from the federal police on the A30 at the Schüttorf exit.
During the check, the 59-year-old driver presented the officers with an old gray paper driver's license (which, like so many older driver's licenses, has to be exchanged within a certain period of time).
However, this was not his own, but belonged to a man who died in 2019.
The 59-year-old driver's license had already been revoked in 2015.
Bad #Bentheim 📍
On the road with a driver's license of a deceased since 2019.
Our colleagues made this bizarre discovery on Tuesday at the German-Dutch border.
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— Federal Police North (@bpol_nord) March 22, 2023
Drivers want to deceive the police with a dead driver's license – fraud is exposed
The youth photo in the driver's license bore little resemblance to the driver - but the 59-year-old had apparently bet that the police would not notice this with such an old "rag".
But the officials found out about the fraud.
The driver's license was secured and criminal proceedings were initiated against the 59-year-old for misusing identity documents and driving without a license.
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Less macabre, but rather cheeky was the action that a 26-year-old delivered to police officers some time ago: He showed a fake driver's license from the "Bunte Republic of Germany", with a smiley pictogram applied - and instead of the yellow stars there is the internet address of a joke article site.
It placed an ad for forgery and driving without a license.
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