Wow, that’s ridiculous. Forcing someone to change their own signature defeats the whole purpose of having one. Good thing nobody actually cares about signature matching in practice it sounds like the officer was just on a power trip
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InvalidName2@lemmy.zip 21 hours ago
For a solid few years, the signature on my driver’s license did not match the signature that I use to sign things nor did it match my normal handwriting.
This is because the small town, fascist, dick cheese of a police officer who was handling my renewal decided he didn’t like my signature. So, he told me I had to sign the thing with a legible (to him) signature. After redoing the signature multiple times and having him reject it each time, I finally signed it like I was trying out for the Olympic handwriting team. He accepted that one.
Like what even is the point of this exercise besides just being a giant festering asshole? Fortunately the signature mismatch was never an issue because it’s such and unimportant and useless detail that almost nobody cares when they check your license.
Brian_hayson@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
BanMe@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Yeah that’s insane, you are legally allowed to make any mark and it’s a signature. But cops are above the law, so
tiramichu@sh.itjust.works 17 hours ago
Plus, the whole point of a signature is that it’s easily reproducible by you, but not by other people.
Fast and fluid in a way that feels good to your hand is therefore the best signature, whereas something written slowly and precisely is easier to copy.