A cabaret show unearthed a moment that was as hilarious as it was hard to believe: in Mexico, a man got his face tattooed Unique population master code (CURP), but they wrote it wrong…
The unusual story was told by the protagonist himself in the midst of a comedy show Roberto Andradebetter known as “uncle Robert”.
He was part of a series of people showing off their unfortunate tattoos and recounting the reasons why those designs got on their skin.
In the middle of the show, the man said he had his license plate number tattooed by security after being hit while riding his bike. He wanted them to recognize him more easily. The funny thing is that both he and the tattoo artist unwittingly boycotted the shortcut…
Instead of writing the number 0206 on his skin, the tattoo artist marked 0602.
What is CURP?
According to the blog Tienda Nube, it is the Unique Population Registry Code, a code made up of 18-digit numbers and letters used by various institutions, public or private, to identify residents of Mexico, Mexicans or foreigners.
The CURP works in Mexico in a similar way to the National Identity Document (DNI) number in Argentina. It is used for almost all procedures in a public or private institution.
It is used, for example, both in credit applications and when entering a job. It can be processed, downloaded and corrected.
The key has 18 characters and is composed in a very curious way.
In this order, its first characters are as follows: first letter of the first surname, first vowel of the first surname, first letter of the second surname, first letter of the first name, date of birth without spaces in order of year (month and day), letter of sex or gender.
And the following are: two letters corresponding to the state of birth, first internal consonant of the first surname, first internal consonant of the second surname, first internal consonant of the given name, digits from 0 to 9 for dates of birth up to the year 1999 and from A to Z for birth dates since 2000 and check digit.
Source: Clarin
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