Scarboro Driver Caught With Hand-Drawn Plate

It’s official: there are probably enough hand drawn, hand-crafted and modified plates seized by Ontario to put together a museum exhibit. After this driver's artwork, and this clever reproduction and many others we don’t yet know about, we present you this here masterpiece signed by a Scarboro driver with great talent and imagination.

The artist's breakthrough happened during a R.I.D.E stop in Vaughan last Friday. At first, the driver had humbly and blatantly covered his work with a plastic cover. York Regional Police took it upon themselves to remove the cover in order to see if there was an actual plate under there and discovered a botched hand-drawn Ontario plate. As you can see by the rust rings on the upper part, this "plate" has been in service for a while.

The driver made sure to apply two colours in a (evidently clumsy) staggered fashion in order to try to deceive the vigilant eye into thinking that the letters and numbers were actually embossed. Brilliant!

To make things work the “CVDR 604” on the front plate matched the stolen plate (an actual genuine plate, this time) in the rear.

It was discovered that the crafty driver was on probation and couldn’t be out past 10 PM. He was charged with two counts of failing to comply with a court order, possession of property obtained by crime under $5,000, and Highway Traffic Act charges of using an unauthorized plate and driving a motor vehicle with no licence on top of this.

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