{"id":14355,"date":"2016-07-26T09:00:18","date_gmt":"2016-07-26T13:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=14355"},"modified":"2016-07-26T06:46:44","modified_gmt":"2016-07-26T10:46:44","slug":"the-other-side-of-custom-license-plates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2016\/the-other-side-of-custom-license-plates\/","title":{"rendered":"The Other Side Of Custom License Plates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/072616_1044_TheOtherSid1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Neil Connor wrote about the unfortunate experience of one custom license plate owner:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;8&#8221; is considered a lucky number by many in China, and one motorist in the country shelled out \u00a3113,000 on a license plate with five 8s on it.<\/li>\n<li>He then put it on a truck that was worth \u00a33,000 \u2013 thus the car was worth about 2% of its license plate number.<\/li>\n<li>But while the police are used to seeing custom license plates on high end cars, when they saw it on the truck they assumed it was a fake plate and started pulling the driver over.<\/li>\n<li>On the first day alone the truck-owner was pulled over eight times \u2013 he spent more time pulled over than he did driving.<\/li>\n<li>To compound the problem crowds would gather to take photos of the lucky license plate making it even more difficult for the truck to get back on the road.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2016\/06\/29\/china-driver-splurges-100000-on-lucky-number-plate---then-stoppe\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2016\/06\/29\/china-driver-splurges-100000-on-lucky-number-plate---then-stoppe\/\">The Telegraph<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neil Connor wrote about the unfortunate experience of one custom license plate owner: &#8220;8&#8221; is considered a lucky number by many in China, and one motorist in the country shelled out \u00a3113,000 on a license plate with five 8s on it. He then put it on a truck that was worth \u00a33,000 \u2013 thus the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14354,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/072616_1044_TheOtherSid1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14355"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14359,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14355\/revisions\/14359"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}