Buriram Highway Police crack down on driver using deceptive number plate sticker

A 45 year old man landed himself in hot water with highway police in Thailand’s northeast Buriram province after attempting to foil them with a deceptive tactic. He attempted to dodge speeding tickets by putting a sticker over his vehicle’s number plate, leading the traffic police on a convoluted hunt.

The bizarre case began with a Mercedes-Benz owner filing a complaint about numerous speeding tickets being delivered to his residence. The images capturing the vehicle in violation showed the same number plate, however, he was certain the Mercedes-Benz used in the speeding incidents wasn’t his. Moreover, during the dates of the detected violations, he had never travelled to Buriram. Thus, he asked the police to investigate the vehicle in the images.

The tireless work of Police Lieutenant Colonel Nattirut Wattanachatrat of the Buriram…