Photo: Facebook / CHP
Some drivers would go to any length to avoid paying tolls on the highway, but they probably don’t even consider that the consequences they’d have to face if caught are greater than whatever amount they should pay.
One driver from Marin County, California, had his white Ford Mustang impounded and is facing 2 charges after he got busted with both his plates covered with a receipt for chicken wings. As the California Highway Patrol puts it on Facebook, this is the kind of stuff that not even they could make up.
CHP says that an officer spotted the Ford Mustang north on north on Highway 101 near Sir Francis Drake Blvd, with what looked like something stuck on his rear plate. Since the car was nearing the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge, the officer assumed this was no coincidence.
As it turns out, it was deliberate: the driver used a receipt from Safeway to cover digits on both plates, as a way to avoid paying the toll. CHP says that this is actually a common occurrence in the area, but not even they were faced with such creativity before.
“Sure enough the driver had used his receipt from a pound of Teriyaki Chicken Wings he had bought at Safeway earlier in the day, ripped it in half and used it to cover two digits of both the front and rear plate,” the statement says.
“The driver was cited for driving on a suspended license and having an obstructed license plate. The Mustang was impounded,” CHP adds.
The identity of the man has not been made public, but the Internet will probably remember him as the “chicken wings guy.” It’s not as great as the “007 plate-cloaking old guy” (a 70-year-old from Florida who used a plate-cloaking device to defraud the tolling system) but at least it’s something.
CHP says that an officer spotted the Ford Mustang north on north on Highway 101 near Sir Francis Drake Blvd, with what looked like something stuck on his rear plate. Since the car was nearing the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge, the officer assumed this was no coincidence.
As it turns out, it was deliberate: the driver used a receipt from Safeway to cover digits on both plates, as a way to avoid paying the toll. CHP says that this is actually a common occurrence in the area, but not even they were faced with such creativity before.
“Sure enough the driver had used his receipt from a pound of Teriyaki Chicken Wings he had bought at Safeway earlier in the day, ripped it in half and used it to cover two digits of both the front and rear plate,” the statement says.
“The driver was cited for driving on a suspended license and having an obstructed license plate. The Mustang was impounded,” CHP adds.
The identity of the man has not been made public, but the Internet will probably remember him as the “chicken wings guy.” It’s not as great as the “007 plate-cloaking old guy” (a 70-year-old from Florida who used a plate-cloaking device to defraud the tolling system) but at least it’s something.
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