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Maybe he just hadn’t had enough time to get a new one yet.

On Monday morning, at about 11:45 a.m., an officer from the Hyogo Prefectural Police was out on patrol in the town of Shiso. While driving around the city’s Yamazakicho neighborhood, he spotted a motorist driving a kei car, Japan’s class of ultra-compact cars, who wasn’t wearing a seatbelt (thắt dây an toàn).

The officer pulled the car over, and the driver identified (tự nhận) himself as Toshiyuki Ishibashi, a resident of Himeji. But while it’s standard procedure for the police to ask to see your driver’s license during a traffic stop (dừng đi lại), Ishibashi was unable to show his, since he doesn’t have a license (bằng lái). He used to have one, though, as he told the officer “My license was revoked around the time I was 20, and I haven’t gotten a new one since.”

It might seem strange that Ishibashi can’t remember something as significant as when his license was taken away. But hey, you have to give the guy some slack (chểnh mảng) for not remembering all the nitty gritty (cứng cỏi) details, since it happened around 60 years ago.

Yes, Ishibashi is now 82 years old, and has apparently been driving around license-less for the past six decades. When the officer who pulled Ishibashi’s car over learned that he was operating it on public roads without a license, he placed the octogenarian (người thọ 80 tuổi) scofflaw (lách luật) under arrest on the spot.