Nonresidents willing to hide in car trunks to sneak onto Outer Banks.
Although there is a ban in place prohibiting nonresidents from being on the Outer Banks, out of state license plates are still common on Dare County roads. The lengths to which people will go to evade the checkpoints are remarkable, as Arabella Saunders writing for the Huffington Post, reports.
“On March 30, Joseph Bakersmith arrived home from work feeling angry and tired.
As a plumber and newly dubbed “essential worker,” he’d spent the day fixing people’s pipes while wearing a gas mask in an attempt to protect himself from the coronavirus sweeping the United States.
Bakersmith lives in Dare County, whose five Atlantic beach towns, Roanoke Island and Hatteras Island make up most of North Carolina’s Outer Banks.”
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