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A pair of identical twin brothers in China who had been sharing the same
driver’s license for 20 years recently got bused by police after one of
them started going bald.
According to Chinese media, the two brothers, surnamed Yan, had been
sharing a driver’s license without any issues until 2017, when the
younger brother’s permit was suspended for driving under the influence
of alcohol. That didn’t turn out to be too much of an issue, because
they continued sharing the other brother’s license, until it too got
suspended, also for drunk driving.Luckily, by the time that happened,
the younger Yan had gotten his driving license back, so the pair
continued sharing that one. It was the perfect scenario, whenever one of
the identical twins happened to have his driver’s license revoked, they
still had another one to fall back on. Then one of them started going
bald…
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The two twins’ trick was recently busted by police in their home town of
Jiamusi, China’s Heilongjiang province, after one of them was pulled
over on suspicion of driving with a revoked license. The man pretended
to be his twin brother and handed the officers his driver’s license, as
he usually did. Only this time, things didn’t go according to plan.
Despite looking exactly like the man in the license photo, the
impersonator couldn’t fool the police database, which showed the police
that he had a twin and that they weren’t that identical anymore.
While checking the police database, traffic officers noticed that one of
the brothers had a full head of hair, while the other had started to go
bald. The man they had stopped was wearing a hat, and when they asked
him to take it off, they could tell he was the wrong Yan. Confronted
with the evidence, the man confessed to impersonating his brother, and
added that they had both been doing it for two decades.
“I have been using the same driver’s licence with my younger brother for
20 years,” the man can be heard saying in a Pear video that recently
went viral. “We are twins, so we look very alike.”
Well, they used to, until one of them started balding. According to
Chinese sources, the driver was fined 2,000 yuan and remained under
investigation.
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