In Chinese culture, the number “8” is considered one of the luckiest numbers. The pronunciation of this number in Chinese closely resembles the words for “prosperity” and “wealth”. However, a man from Zhenzhou, central China, bought a new car to sell fruit. Then he decided to spend a huge amount – one million yuan (equivalent to 145,000 USD) to buy a lucky number plate with 5 8’s for his new car. However, the first time he rode this car out, he was arrested by the traffic police eight times. The reason for his arrest was because the police thought he was using a fake license plate, to get a beautiful license plate like this, the owner of the car had to spend a huge amount of money – something that a mere fruit seller would have. cannot buy.
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