Serpased

Tightening the screws on "the real criminals" again.

Once busted, Speed was "very cooperative," Taylor said. "He pretty much told us how he did the whole operation."

Some laminate and a Kinko's was about all he needed, along with brake tags gathered at junkyards, Taylor said.

Speed told police he would charge $20 apiece for brake tags or $40 for the complete set, Taylor said. He said another man taught him, and police believe he may have had a partner.

"They were good brake tags. Pretty much all he did was get a real brake tag, go to Kinko's, make a good color copy, multiple color copies, cut them out and pasted the front and back. He had a gloss covering on top if it," Taylor said. "That would make it look very real if you didn't know what you were looking for."

As someone who drives a vehicle he can't afford to keep in brake-tag worthy condition and who frankly would argue that the whole brake tag concept is an odious rent collection scam in the first place, I say we need more people like this guy.

He's certainly more enterprising than someone else I know who drove around with a Monopoly "Park Place" deed scotch taped to the windshield for a few weeks, although admittedly nowhere near as awesome.