A man in Brazil, Heitor Márcio Schiave dressed as a woman just so he could help his mother pass a driving test
According to the reports, Heitor’s mother had already failed the test, three times, hence his resolve was to deceive authorities by disguising herself as his mother.
The elderly woman, Maria Schiavo, who had already taken the test three times, arrived at the venue two hours late on her fourth attempt.
Schiavo, who resides in the small town of Novo Mutum Paraná in the Brazilian Amazon arrived when the other candidates had already completed their attempts at parallel parking, and examiners were about to take them out on the road.
However, it was her son that had shown up for the test instead of her, and Aline Mendonça, a driving test examiner for 12 years, was fast to sense it.
“I sensed a certain nervousness from the school’s owner,” driving test examiner Aline Mendonça, 38, was quoted by the Guardian as saying. “He said, “We have a problem.”
Mendonça couldn’t believe what she saw. “It was a guy with a long cutfit, heavily made up. It did not look like a woman,” she said.
She explained that the man was carrying a handbag, and wore a long skirt, a floral top, earrings, and a stuffed bra.
“He had even painted his nails. “I couldn’t believe it,” Mendonça said. “It was surreal.“
She told a colleague to tell the police, asked “Dona Maria” for her ID, and let the impostor start the parking test, while they patiently waited for the cops.
When the police arrived, “Dona Maria” got out of the car and walked away but the police soon caught up. Under the makeup was Maria’s son, Heitor Márcio Schiavo, 43, a mechanic.
He was arrested for fraudulent misrepresentation, said the officer who arrested him. “He said he was doing the driving test for his mother- and his mother did not know,” the officer said.
According to the G1 news site, which first reported the story, Schiavo has since been released. Police said he will probably face a fine.
“We got a lot of criticism – ‘Oh the son did it for the love of the mother.’ But what if there was an accident or someone died?” Mendonça said. “You have to earn your pass-the driving test is serious.”
“Judging by his performance in the parking test, it was unlikely Heitor Marcio would have secured a license for his mother,” she added.