RESULT IS ABOUT WHAT YOU WOULD EXPECT

If you’re over the age of 15, you have probably spent more than enough time in one of our fine Department of Motor Vehicles offices. Time spent in one of these bureaucratic hellholes is roughly equivalent to having a root canal while watching paint dry. Except the dentist only works for three minutes at a time between taking 30 minute breaks, and the paint is an unGodly puke green color.

So I guess you won’t be shocked to learn that this pillar of efficiency and competency was hit Friday by that evil Y2LeapDay computer virus.

According to Beth Parks with the DMV, computers went down because of a glitch with recognizing the date of February 29th.

The DMV offices are almost back to normal. There are three things they still can’t do. They can’t issue CDL’s, clear suspensions or issue a driver’s record. [WIS]

Something else they can’t do: plan ahead. But to their credit, they had the automated announcement thing that says “now serving S385 at window number B” back up and running over and over and over and over again in no time.

And there’s only really one way the SCDMV can properly commemorate “The day we temporarily killed the computers”: create a new license plate. Once they get their computers running again so they can make the design, of course.

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