Perhaps you can't help getting the feeling that some criminals are a sandwich short of a picnic; if the police are looking for you, you keep a low profile, right?

Well, nope; not in this case, at least: on the 28th of December (Spanish April Fools’ Day, by the way) a man who had an arrest warrant out on him decided to sail past a Guardia Civil speed control doing 128 kph on a stretch of road where the limit was 90 kph.

The Guardia Civil were ecstatic…

This was on the A-140 within the municipality of San Esteban de Litera (Huesca, Aragón). They pulled him over and asked for his ID etc and he handed over a Bulgarian driving licence which had all the indications of being on the Mickey Mouse side. Not good: speeding and a rubber, driving licence.

The officers ran his details through their computer system and they went from ‘jolly excited’ to borderline orgasmic. The gentleman had an arrest warrant out on him issued by a law court in Fraga, accused of… forgery and driving without a valid licence.

After a brief but intense round of high-fives the police informed him that he was solidly nicked. It turned out that this 44-year old man from Monegros had used his ersatz Bulgarian work of art on several occasions.

(News: Huesca, Aragon)