While it’s irresponsible, I can understand being a few months late on getting your car’s registration renewed. I get it. Things slip your mind, and life can get in the way of something that seems so insignificant.
However, I’ll admit that I don’t think I’ve gone more than just a couple of months without renewing, not four years. This Virginia driver was driving around with a vehicle registration that expired back in 2022.
When an officer pulled her over, she seemed shocked. Somehow, things got even worse when the officer ran the tags on the car.
I’d like to think that this driver won’t be driving with this car any time soon. Honestly, with all the violations and citations accrued in this one stop, I’m curious to know what their driving record looked like afterwards.
There’s No Way the Driver Didn’t Know
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The video above shows a Fairfax County Police Officer speaking with the driver of a vehicle whose tag expired four years back. After being told, it was almost as though they were being told for the very first time, responding with, “I did not know that.”
In fact, the registration that was on the vehicle’s license plate didn’t even belong to the car being driven. Upon further investigation, it was discovered that the vehicle’s inspection tag was also expired.
As a result, the driver was awarded a pretty hefty set of tickets and citations for not having valid tags, not having insurance, not having a front tag, having an expired safety inspection, and having an open title on the vehicle.
The Comments Found One Thing Hilarious
Whatever happened during this traffic stop, commenters seemed to agree on one thing: that printer was putting in some serious overtime. Several people immediately compared the seemingly endless stream of paper to the notoriously long receipts handed out at CVS.
“When your ticket is longer than a CVS receipt, you know you’re in trouble,” one person joked. Another admitted they “didn’t think that printer was ever stopping,” which probably isn’t what anyone sitting in the driver’s seat wants to hear during a traffic stop.
The revelation that the situation apparently involved something dating back four years caught people’s attention, too. One commenter was shocked by the length of time, joking that they had felt bad about letting something go for only a month.
Others focused on what the driver was doing while waiting. One person wondered whether she was looking at her phone to see if her own traffic stop had already made it onto social media. Then, just when that enormous stack of paper seemed bad enough, another commenter added what might be the least welcome sentence of the entire encounter: “…also we’re going to have to tow the car.”