Hey, do you know the number on your license plate? I do. but apparently, not everyone does. Specifically, not my brother.

Yesterday morning he got pulled over, the officer had him sitting in the car for ages, two more police cars come up, then the 3 officers approach him, guns out, have him get out of the car, hands on the roof, frisk him, handcuff him. His car has plates from a stolen car. My brother pays no attention to this, so he had no idea! All he can say (which is the truth, and all he knows about this particular matter) is that they are the plates the registry gave him, when he got the car a few years back.

So with his permission, they get his registration out of his glove box, and show him the plates don't match his registration. "Oh well, then DMV messed up when they gave them to me. How do I fix that?"

Takes a Sergeant to come over from HQ, he finally believes brother is clueless, hasn't any idea his plates were switched back in June when the other car was stolen. They have him follow one of them to the police station. They remove the plates, and give him a report, so he won't get stopped, driving w/ no plates. And he goes to another city's police dept., they have the stolen car, with his plates. He eventually gets his plates, which (he grumbles) he had to put on himself.

Only my brother! Let me say, Dad and I were busting with laughter as he's telling us this; which only made matters worse!