To be able to overcome the queues he used a sort of «secret weapon», a flashing light to be placed on the roof of his car, which allowed him to overtake otherwise prohibited. So he could pass off as an unmarked car of the police forces and deliver pizzas on time, still warm, to customers. An unorthodox method of being a rider, discovered by the Carabinieri of Castelfranco in the night between Monday and Tuesday, at 2am, when they ordered the halt to a twenty-year-old motorist who was traveling through the Castello di Godego area (Treviso).
License suspended
The young man was unable to explain precisely why he was still around at that time, but it was while inspecting the vehicle that the carabinieri found inside the passenger compartment. found the flashing light. What was it for? The twenty-year-old explained to the soldiers on patrol that he was carrying out the work of delivery boy for a pizzeria and that the light device it was used precisely to move more quickly and freedom along the streets of Castellana. For the young man, without any criminal record behind him, they took one reported for possession of counterfeit distinctive signsthe relevant report to the prefecture and the withdrawal of driving licence driving, as the police also accused him of possessing a few grams of hashish.
The crime
The flashing light was seized by the police and now it will be up to the Treviso prosecutor’s office to establish the judicial process that the deliveryman will have to follow. What was applied in this situation was the integration to article 497-ter, paragraph 1, of the penal code, which prohibits the “possession of a mark (a removable blue flashing light, complete with power supply) although currently no longer supplied to the police, but which simulates its function, being suitable to easily mislead citizens about the personal qualities of the person who uses it and on the connected power.” The fact is that now the boy risks one punishment ranging between two and five years of imprisonment.
