A handwritten license plate that caught the eye of police in Benicia early Friday may have scored points for penmanship, but officers weren’t a bit surprised when a check of the number revealed that the car had been stolen.

About 1 a.m., an officer spotted the paper plate in the 5000 block of East Second Avenue and saw “this beautifully handwritten license plate on a car,” police said on social media.

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