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Couple forced to prove New Mexico is a state while applying for marriage license
Posted on 11/30/18 at 9:19 am
Posted on 11/30/18 at 9:19 am
A clerk at the District of Columbia Courts Marriage Bureau may want to go back to school, or even try Google when it comes to remembering the 50 states.
Gavin Clarkson went to the office with his fiancee to apply for a marriage license on Nov. 20. But the couple had a slight issue. The unidentified clerk wouldn’t accept Clarkson’s driver’s license from New Mexico as proof of identity, the Las Cruces Sun News reported. The clerk pressed Clarkson for a passport, saying that he was a foreign citizen, the clerk saying, according to Clarkson, “My supervisor says we cannot accept international driver’s licenses. Do you have a New Mexico passport?”
He said that while the clerk seemed to believe that New Mexico wasn’t a state, and asked for a passport, those also waiting in line found the situation funny.
Clarkson, who is running for New Mexico’s secretary of state, went to Facebook to share his story.LINK /
Gavin Clarkson went to the office with his fiancee to apply for a marriage license on Nov. 20. But the couple had a slight issue. The unidentified clerk wouldn’t accept Clarkson’s driver’s license from New Mexico as proof of identity, the Las Cruces Sun News reported. The clerk pressed Clarkson for a passport, saying that he was a foreign citizen, the clerk saying, according to Clarkson, “My supervisor says we cannot accept international driver’s licenses. Do you have a New Mexico passport?”
He said that while the clerk seemed to believe that New Mexico wasn’t a state, and asked for a passport, those also waiting in line found the situation funny.
Clarkson, who is running for New Mexico’s secretary of state, went to Facebook to share his story.LINK /
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Posted on 11/30/18 at 9:20 am to BowDownToLSU
A representative of the D.C. courts system confirmed the clerk’s misinformation.
“We understand that a clerk in our Marriage Bureau made a mistake regarding New Mexico’s 106-year history as a state. We very much regret the error and the slight delay it caused a New Mexico resident in applying for a D.C. marriage license,” Leah Gurowitz, director of media and public relations for D.C.
“We understand that a clerk in our Marriage Bureau made a mistake regarding New Mexico’s 106-year history as a state. We very much regret the error and the slight delay it caused a New Mexico resident in applying for a D.C. marriage license,” Leah Gurowitz, director of media and public relations for D.C.
Posted on 11/30/18 at 9:23 am to BowDownToLSU
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slight delay it caused a New Mexico resident in applying for a D.C. marriage license
wonder if ole baw changed his mind during the delay?
Posted on 11/30/18 at 9:23 am to BowDownToLSU
The incompetence of our government never ceases to amaze.
Wonder how "New Mexico isn't a state" voted.
Wonder how "New Mexico isn't a state" voted.
Posted on 11/30/18 at 9:24 am to BowDownToLSU
Posted on 11/30/18 at 9:24 am to CoachMoorGut
Original story from the Las Crucas Sun Times
what makes this even more funny... is that the incident happened in Washington, D.C.
what makes this even more funny... is that the incident happened in Washington, D.C.
Posted on 11/30/18 at 9:25 am to BowDownToLSU
Further proof of how dumb Americans are about their surroundings.
When Bugs Bunny always talked about not taking that left turn in Albuquerque, did they think he was in a foreign country or something??
When Bugs Bunny always talked about not taking that left turn in Albuquerque, did they think he was in a foreign country or something??
Posted on 11/30/18 at 9:25 am to BowDownToLSU
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“My supervisor says we cannot accept international driver’s licenses
They were running 2 deep at idiocy.
#DeepBench
Posted on 11/30/18 at 9:25 am to BowDownToLSU
Anyone want to bet they get the shite trolled out of them by New Mexico?
Posted on 11/30/18 at 9:25 am to BowDownToLSU
Bitch must have never watched breaking bad
Posted on 11/30/18 at 9:27 am to Wtodd
Maybe he was trying to give the man another second to change his mind.
Posted on 11/30/18 at 9:29 am to Green Chili Tiger
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My supervisor says we cannot accept international driver’s licenses
Posted on 11/30/18 at 9:31 am to BowDownToLSU
Only state to have "USA" on the license plate so dumb people like this clerk don't get confused.
Posted on 11/30/18 at 9:34 am to BowDownToLSU
Something similar happened when the Olympics were in Atlanta. New Mexico residents trying to purchase tickets(via phone) to events where told they had to call the international number.
Posted on 11/30/18 at 9:35 am to GetCocky11
Was in a bar in a shite hole town in southern NM and a drunk Mexican guy yelled at me that we were “in his country” and that we stole it from them. I told him he was historically accurate on the second part. Pissed him off more that I was agreeing with him.
Posted on 11/30/18 at 9:36 am to BowDownToLSU
DC office culcha falls somewhere between Baton Ruuuge and Jackson, Ms.
This post was edited on 11/30/18 at 9:40 am
Posted on 11/30/18 at 9:37 am to BowDownToLSU
It goes the other way too. Every now and then there's a story about some dummy who thinks DC is a foreign country.
I realize some people think it is politically, but actually most people here DGAF about politics and just go to work each day like anyone else.
I realize some people think it is politically, but actually most people here DGAF about politics and just go to work each day like anyone else.
Posted on 11/30/18 at 9:38 am to BowDownToLSU
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New Mexico
Heisenberg's territory.
Posted on 11/30/18 at 10:02 am to GetCocky11
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Only state to have "USA" on the license plate so dumb people like this clerk don't get confused.
Wrong!
Posted on 11/30/18 at 10:03 am to HollyWoodCole
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Wrong!
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