In all humor Washington D.C. man, Danny White decided to get a vanity license plate, reading, ‘NO TAGS’. Clearly this was a prank, but now the joke’s is on him. He has received tickets worth over $20,000.

White’s prank started about 25 years ago and he was “just having fun!” He also said how “D.C. don’t get the joke. They don’t get it.”

You must be thinking, how did Danny end up getting all these tickets? Well, each time a car without a proper identification is cited for violation, a DMV employee enters ‘No Tags’ into their paperwork. Since Danny’s vanity plate is registered with the District of Columbia’s DMV, his name and vehicle appear in the computer’s system whenever ‘No Tags’ violation is entered. These notices of fines are then mailed to White’s residence.

This is not the first time that a vanity tag issue has occurred. In fact these issue have a long standing history of their own. White is hardly alone in facing such glitches and wrong tickets. In 2006, the Los Angeles Times reported on California driver Nick Vautier, who apparently got into trouble over his personalized license plate, which simply contained his initials, “NV.” Unfortunately, “NV” is also the California DMV’s code for when a vehicle’s plates are “Not Visible.”

“I started to get random parking tickets from Los Angeles, where my car has never been…For every type of car. Except a Mazda. Which is what I drive.” – Vautier.

Vautier eventually gave up his vanity plate. But White refuses to give his plate, until or unless the DMV pays for the change.

White drives a Chevrolet Avalanche truck. So, when he receives a ticket citing a non Chevy vehicle, he simply goes and gets them dismissed. But White still has to pay if the ticket is for a Chevy. “I've got enough tickets here to plaster my whole car," he told NBC4. "It had to be $20,000 in tickets. Over $20,000.”

Since occurrences of tickets for “NO TAGS” are very common, thus every 2 months White has to take time off from work to get the matter sorted. The backlog of other people’s tickets prevent him from renewing his license or registration. And yet, he refuses to pay for changing his vanity plate.

White approached NBC4 with his problem, which then launched an investigation with the Washington D.C. DMV. While the DMV is yet to resolve the problem, DMV Director Lucinda Babers has told all the stations that she’s considering simply revoking White’s vanity tags, along with other ‘confusing’ plates, to avoid any future mishaps. In the meantime, Babers has told the ticket writers to collect the last six digits of a vehicle’s VIN instead of “NO TAGS.”

Maybe then, the DMV should have not assigned these confusing vanity tags in the first place.

(PHOTOS): Daily Mail