and the crazy Polish driver? Actually it’s not a joke but a funny real-life news story that shows up a funny mistake.

Basically the Irish police thought there was a crazy Polish driver called Prawo Jazdy running wild who was getting loads of speeding tickets and parking fines, and who was evading justice by giving a different address every time. Then some eagle eyed officer worked out that Prawo Jazdy just means “Driving Licence” in Polish! The arresting officers had obviously been reading that at the top of the licences of numerous different Polish drivers and thinking it was the offender’s name then entering it into their computer system (over 50 times), like duh. Pretty funny. Classic “data entry”/”human error” scenario.

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