Prawo Jazdy: mystery motorist who bamboozled Irish traffic police-solved!

[babylonsister]

:rofl: Thanks, Rachel.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/driving/news/article5768337.ece


Prawo Jazdy: mystery motorist who bamboozled Irish traffic police
David Sharrock, Ireland Correspondent


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.

“Having noticed this I decided to check on Pulse (the criminal data base) and see how many members have made this mistake. It is quite embarrassing to see that the system has created Prawo Jazdy as a person with over 50 identities.

“He can also be found on the Fixed Charge Processing System as well. This mistake needs to be rectified immediately and a memo sent to the members concerned. I also think that Garda Information Service Centre Castlebar should be notified and some kind of alert put on these two words.”

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. True story, many years ago I picked up a patient down in TJ

fine, that is expected.

Well, at the time I had my maiden name on my name tag, Brzezinski... which is a VERY COMMON Polish last name

So this fine gentleman started talking to me in ... wait for it... POLISH

So I tell him, NO Popolsko, aka I don't speak Polish

Thankfully he spoke English...

And his injuries were minor

He and I laughed about it once he realized the only language we shared was English...

Oh and to the credit of the Polish Consulate... they were there FAST.

I wish I could say the same about the US Consulate.

[regnaD kciN]

2. Damn! This story would come out AFTER the DU name change amnesty...

Otherwise, I wonder how many DUers would seek to change their username to Prawo Jazdy.

It reminds me of when the New York Times correspondent to El Salvador went off to interview the country's guerrilla leaders, and returned with the breathless news that the Salvadorian rebels were being trained by Arab terrorists...because one of the leaders at the guerrilla camp was named "Ali Hondro."

:banghead: