'Get out of jail free' card doesn't work, police tell California driver

FULLERTON, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A "get retired of jailhouse free" paper is not a valid ineligible defense, constabulary say, aft a operator successful Southern California attempted to usage the paper aft a postulation stop.

The BMW driver, who was trying to get retired of a postulation citation, presented the paper to officers "in a last-ditch effort," according to the Fullerton Police Department.

In a post connected societal media connected Tuesday, constabulary admired the driver's creativity but added that the "get retired of jailhouse escaped card" is not a ineligible defense.

While the Fullerton Police Department has made it wide that their officers bash not grant the card, the rules of Monopoly bash authorities that the paper "may beryllium kept until needed oregon sold."

This effort is not the archetypal clip idiosyncratic has tried to usage a "get retired of jailhouse free" paper to woody with a constabulary encounter. According to the FBI, successful March 1967, 1 of the bureau's apical 10 astir wanted presented a "get retired of jailhouse free" paper to the agents who apprehended him. However, contempt the creativity, James Robert Ringrose was inactive arrested.