No Traffic Tickets, Please

No Traffic Tickets, Please, I'm a Senator.

You can bet this driver never gets pulled over by the police. License plate number seven denotes that this car belongs to a senator, and therefore should not be delayed. The thing is, ALL senators have a seven on their front tag, so it's virtually impossible to know WHICH senator this is.

Executive Order Number 400 reserves "low number plates" for top government executives:
1-President of the Republic of the Philippines
2-Vice President of the Republic of the Philippines
3-Senate President
4-Speaker of the House Representatives
5-Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
6-Cabinet Secretary
7-Senator
8-Congressman
9-Associate Justices of the Supreme Court
10-Presiding Justice and other Justices of the Court of Appeals
11-Chairman of the Commission on Elections
12-Cabinet Undersecretary
13-Solicitor General
14-Chief of Staff, AFP/Chief, PNP
16-RTC Judges

Not only can the senator, congressman, etc., have a low-numbered tag, his or her spouse gets one, too, meaning that there are a relatively large number of cars out there that are simply not going to be pulled over. And their drivers know that: I'm passed constantly on the highway by sevens and eights, and I'm not a slow driver.

In truth, it is possible to tell one senator from another, as they do have regular tags on the back of their car. The low number on the front, though, means they're never going to be pulled over.