This driver’s not the sharpest crayon in the box.

A New York motorist was busted for hand-drawing his car’s registration and inspection papers with magic marker and crayons in what looks like a kindergarten art project gone wrong.

Gregory Cawley, 50, of Lafayette got a little too creative with the paperwork he displayed in the windshield of his Jeep, according to New York State Police — who first noticed his license plates were fishy Thursday.


  Gregory Cawley, 50, of Lafayette, NY, is accused of using markers and crayons to recreate vehicle registration papers for his car. New York State Police Gregory Cawley, 50, of Lafayette, NY, is accused of using markers and crayons to recreate vehicle registration papers for his car. New York State Police

  New York State Police took to Facebook to warn drivers that “arts and crafts supplies do not count as valid documentation.”
 New York State Police took to Facebook to warn drivers that “arts and crafts supplies do not count as valid documentation.”

Police ran his plates and saw that they allegedly belonged to a 2011 Chevrolet Express, prompting them to pull Cawley over.

During the stop, cops noticed that the sloppily penned vehicle papers “appeared to be hand drawn using a mix of pen, marker, and crayon with an impressive amount of confidence,” the cops wrote in a Facebook post

“As a friendly reminder, arts and crafts supplies do not count as valid documentation.”

Cawley was ticketed for operating a motor vehicle without inspection, operating an unregistered vehicle, improper plates and other citations, according to a police spokeswoman.

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