Traffic Officers saw double and reacted to catch two taxi owning brothers who decided to clone their two unroadworthy Toyota Quantum taxi’s. Dolly would have been proud.
Dolly, a female domestic sheep that was born on 5 July 1995 became famous as the first mammal to be cloned from an adult somatic cell using the process of nuclear transfer.
But, in Govan Mbeki Avenue, Port Elizabeth, the cunning cloning plan of the two taxi owners to operate two different vehicles using the same registration number on their number plates, was thwarted when their vehicles were spotted travelling in different directions.
Officers from the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality’s Traffic and Licensing Department were busy with routine vehicle checks when they spotted the anomaly.
Besides the fact that both vehicles had serious defects, it was discovered that the licence fees were last paid in 2009 and that they raked up outstanding traffic fines totalling R30 650.00.
The owners had to pay the registration as well as additional penalties retrospectively to 2009.
Even though Dolly lived until six years before she succumbed to a progressive lung disease, the cloning initiative from the brothers from Nelson Mandela Bay will probably not be considered to be a marvel of any sort now that they have been taken off the road never to return until all the defects on their taxi’s have been fixed.
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