Elderly woman says Star Trek license plates got her thousands of dollars in speeding tickets

If you were to look up the license plate of 76-year-old Long Island resident Beda Coury, you’d think she’s both the most traveled and worst driver in the country CBS Newshe has thousands of dollars worth of traffic tickets originating from almost everywhere in the United States.

The problem. Kuri hasn’t driven in four years. He doesn’t even have a license plate number. He turned them in years ago.

Back when Koori was on the road, he had a special license plate that paid homage to his favorite show, “Star Trek.” He secured the plate number NCC-1701The registry identifier of the Starship Enterprise in the original Star Trek television series.

To get that ID on a Constitution-class starship, you have to go through the United Federation of Planets.To get it on a car in New York, like Koori did, you have to pay $31.25 per year to update custom plates. But for just $15 on Amazon, you can get yourself some new plates that bear the identifier NCC-1701 and will unfortunately contribute to the continued bullying of this poor pensioner.

This is what happens. people buy these novelty plates, in most cases, because they think it’s a fun reference, and drive around with them. who owned the actual number plates registered under NCC-1701.So when the tickets are sent they appear at his address.

Currie has been ticketed for just about everything imaginable. He’s been ticketed for speeding, parking violations. He regularly receives E-ZPass tolls when license plate scanners spot NCC-1701 plates got a phone call from Ohio, a police chief looking for plates because they were involved in a robbery,” he said. told CBS.

At this point, Coury has been hit with tens of thousands of dollars in fines, none of which are actually his due, but he’s still theoretically trying to buy these tickets that just end up in his mailbox is to respond to various calls and try to sort out the mess.

For its part, the New York Department of Motor Vehicles can’t seem to fix the problem. The agency told CBS that there’s nothing in the state’s system that connects Kur to the plates he gave up years ago. The problem appears to stem from something else from the states. Each respective state’s DMVs are connected to ensure they are up to date with other states’ data. by year.

Part of the problem may be that DMVs are woefully behind the times when it comes to sharing information the nation’s first state make non-commercial driver information available electronically to other states, and that didn’t happen until 2022.

Whatever the reason, here is a simple request. Leave Beda Kuri alone already, finding peace from the DMV shouldn’t be the last frontier for her.