{"id":375587,"date":"2026-10-17T13:52:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T13:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/375587\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T13:52:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T13:52:18","slug":"you-wont-believe-what-ny-driver-used-as-a-fake-car-registration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/375587\/","title":{"rendered":"You Won&#8217;t Believe What NY Driver Used as a Fake Car Registration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the Most Ridiculous Fake Registration Stickers Ever<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve seen some pretty creative attempts to fool police over the years, but this one might take the cake. Or, in this case, the prescription cream.<\/p>\n<p>The New York State Police recently shared a photo of a fake vehicle registration sticker discovered during a traffic stop, and it&#8217;s so ridiculous that you almost have to admire the creativity.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s Not a Registration Sticker!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo?fbid=1428427096147667&amp;set=a.153499126973810\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">According to the New York State Police<\/a>, a trooper in Western New York found a fake registration sticker on a vehicle&#8217;s windshield.<\/p>\n<p>They didn&#8217;t name the New York driver who tried to pull a fast one, but the homemade sticker was apparently fashioned from a prescription label for Permethrin 5% cream, a medication commonly used to treat scabies.<\/p>\n<p>The label even included instructions to massage the cream into the skin from head to toe and leave it on for 8 to 14 hours.<\/p>\n<p>Not exactly the kind of information you&#8217;d expect on a New York State registration sticker.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/attachment-fake-registration.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: NYSP\" loading=\"lazy\" onload=\"this.parentNode.parentNode.classList.add('frame-loaded');\" onerror=\"this.parentNode.parentNode.classList.add('broken-image');\" fetchpriority=\"low\" width=\"751\" height=\"487\"\/>Photo: NYSPPhoto: NYSP<\/p>\n<p>The NYSP seemed to really enjoy this one, writing on social media that, &#8220;The prescription says to apply from head to toe. It doesn\u2019t say anything about making your own registration.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read More: <a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/wgna.com\/lake-george-ranked-hottest-market\/?utm_source=tsmclip&amp;utm_medium=referral\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lake George One of America&#8217;s Hottest Housing Markets<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Comments Were Even Better<\/p>\n<p>Naturally, the internet had a field day, and some of the comments were priceless.<\/p>\n<p>One commenter wondered how the officer kept a straight face.<\/p>\n<p>My favorite comment (and perhaps the most incriminating) came from someone who admitted that years ago, when money was tight, he drove for an entire year with a Reese&#8217;s Peanut Butter Cup wrapper on his windshield because it matched the sticker color.<\/p>\n<p data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/nyspolice\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">State Police<\/a> have not said whether the driver received any additional charges.<\/p>\n<p>But one commenter may have summed it up best:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If the officer laughs, the penalty should be reduced.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Counties In New York With The Highest Tax Rates<\/p>\n<p>This is according to the most recent data on record <\/p>\n<p>The Best High Schools In Upstate New York<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the Most Ridiculous Fake Registration Stickers Ever We&#8217;ve seen some pretty creative attempts to fool police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375588,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,49,51,50,12],"class_list":["post-375587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}