"Next Level": Metro Police Arrest Man Driving With Fake Licence Made From Grocery Store Points Cards
- Metro police in South Africa arrested an undocumented foreign national found driving with a fraudulent licence
- The fake licence was reportedly crafted using Spar loyalty points cards, leaving officers stunned
- A TikTok clip of the incident went viral, drawing sharp reactions from viewers across the region
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Metro police in South Africa made a surprising arrest after stopping a driver who turned out to be carrying a counterfeit driver's licence built from an unlikely material: Spar loyalty points cards.
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According to the post on TikTok, officers pulled over a man who had no legal right to be in the country, only to discover his driver's licence was not issued by any transport authority. Instead, it had been fashioned out of a shopping rewards cards.
The clip by @matebeleland.united left many viewers torn between disbelief and reluctant admiration at the audacity of the scheme. What made the arrest particularly notable was how the deception was uncovered. Metro police are increasingly equipped with QR code scanners to verify driver's licences on the spot.
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A genuine South African driver's licence card contains an embedded microchip and QR code that links to a national database. A card made from a supermarket points card, regardless of how convincing it might look at a glance, would fail any digital verification instantly. Watch the TikTok clip that sparked the debate:
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Mzansi reacts to fake licence
The video drew a wave of comments from viewers who could not quite believe what they were seeing:
@Constance Moyo said:
"This is on another level"
@Donny Joseph wrote
"Shocking but South Africans are doing the same"
@slyCradleview Cadence commented:
"That's being smart"
Other Briefly News stories about police
- A South African woman whose confrontational encounter with traffic officers during a roadside stop has taken TikTok by storm.
- South Africans reacted to a dashcam video that ignited intense debate among South Africans after it captured a traffic officer assaulting a driver on a rural highway.
- A KwaZulu-Natal traffic officer went viral for allegedly refusing a bribe during a routine roadside stop.
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