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Doesn't surprise me a bit. You have to wonder what the heck goes through their heads. Here is a conversation I overheard while waiting in line at the Bangor BMV facility.

The BMV goes by a number system and you sit while you wait for your number to be called to go forward to be assisted. I was seated in the front row which normally doesn't really allow you to hear a lot unless the customer is hard of hearing or just plain loud. A few numbers ahead of me a lovely lady in her 80's stepped up to be helped and was apparently hard of hearing. Even trying to mind your own business you could overhear her requesting a disability tag for her husband. The clerk shuffled papers and rather loudly told the lady that she needed a statement from her husband's doctor declaring his condition permanent. The lovely lady at this point became much louder and her voice began to actually crack when she said" What do you mean permanent? I just gave you the Doctors statement that he had his leg amputated. It's not like it will grow back!"

The poor lady left without a disability tag until she could come back with another statement from her husband's doctor.

Illegals yes, Mainers no.

I was in one day as well. I had thought I had lost my license, but did fortunately find it again. I asked how long before I would receive it, after all was just a duplicate and digitally computerized. The much helpful DMV lady said, the licenses are outsourced to Washington State (think that is correct-North West state etc) for its "creation". The time frame could be 3 weeks or longer. Another customer, hearing our conversation, spoke up about the "outsourcing". The DMV person then dropped her voice and said to us: "You would be surprised at all that gos on here."

Nice lady, think she was a Republican ;)

“The clerk shuffled papers and rather loudly told the lady that she needed a statement from her husband’s doctor declaring his condition permanent.”

We need an agency of 007s, licensed to kill, who wander the government offices of the nation looking for things like that.