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Old 02-19-2009, 09:26 PM
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Where's Piotr?

Will the real "Prawo Jazdy" please stand up
Thu Feb 19, 6:11 am ET

DUBLIN (Reuters) – Irish police have solved the mystery of a Polish recidivist who clocked up 50 traffic offences on different addresses and who was never caught, after one officer noticed his name meant driving licence in Polish.

An internal police memo cited by Irish papers on Thursday said officers taking details of Polish traffic offenders had been mistakenly using "Prawo Jazdy," printed in the top right corner of the driving licence, as the holder's name.

"Prawo Jazdy is actually the Polish for driving licence and not the first and surname on the licence," the police memo dated June 2007 said. "It is quite embarrassing to see the system has created Prawo Jazdy as a person with over 50 identities."

A police spokesman declined to comment on the reports.

About 200,000 Polish people flocked to Ireland during the boom years of its "Celtic Tiger" economy but a poll in November indicated a third of them planned to leave due to recession.

(Reporting by Andras Gergely; Editing by Carmel Crimmins and Peter Millership)

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Old 02-20-2009, 12:52 AM
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Old 02-20-2009, 09:00 AM
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Gawd, that's funny!!!!

Around here, there's a brand of Polish sausage named, appropriately enough: Kiolbassa. Closer inspection of the wrapper reveals "...our name means sausage." Which, in fact, it practically does.

Kiolbassa.
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Old 02-20-2009, 09:34 AM
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I have a friend named Piotr. Maybe it's Snibble getting all these tickets.
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Old 02-20-2009, 01:18 PM
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I have a friend named Piotr. Maybe it's Snibble getting all these tickets.
Forget about Snibble. Didn't he go off to school in Poland for a couple of semesters?
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Old 02-20-2009, 06:33 PM
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Forget about Snibble. Didn't he go off to school in Poland for a couple of semesters?
Dental school. He should be done by now. Kids grow up fast don't they?
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Old 02-20-2009, 07:38 PM
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Dental school. He should be done by now. Kids grow up fast don't they?
Dang! I hope he's doing well. Seem like a nice mix of youthful idealism and humor.
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Old 02-20-2009, 07:51 PM
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A car owner in CA applied for vanity plates and as a last choice wrote "no plate". Of course that was the plate issued. The applicant received thousands of tickets because the offending vehicle had "No Plate".
http://www.snopes.com/autos/law/noplate.asp

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