Louisiana driver pulled over with expired 1997 license plate

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Andrew Giuliani yawns as his father Rudy speaks after he was sworn in as mayor of New York City in January 1994.
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The late Biggie Smalls is pictured rolling a cigar by his car on St. James Place in Brooklyn in 1995.
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Fashion model Stephanie Seymour kisses her boyfriend Axl Rose of the band Guns n' Roses at Rex nightclub in 1991.
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Devils Bobby Holik, left, and Martin Brodeur celebrate with the Stanley Cup after sweeping Red Wings in 1995.
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Woody Allen pictured with his adopted daughter Soon-Yi Previn at New York Knicks game in 1990. Soon-Yi was adopted from South Korea by Mia Farrow and Andre Previn. Previn and Allen made headlines in 1997 when they got married.
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Models Elle MacPherson, Claudia Schiffer and Naomi Campbell pictured in the kitchen of the Fashion Cafe in 1995.
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Daily News front page dated May 23, 1992 Headline: LONG ISLAND LOLITA 17-year-old high schooler arrested in attempted murder of lover's wife. "Police escort Amy Fisher, a student at Kennedy High School in Bellmore, L.I., after her arrest on charges stemming from the shooting of the wife of 38-year-old Joseph Buttafuoco."
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Prime Minister of Israel Yitzak Rabin and the former chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization Yasser Arafat arrive in New York City for the United Nations' 50th anniversary party in 1995.
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Violence in Crown Heights continued for a third night in August 1991 Rioting resulting in overturned cars, bottle- and stone-throwing by African-Americans and members of the Hasidic Jewish community.
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Tupac Shakur pictured outside criminal court in 1994.
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Firefighters and police officers stand near bodies of some of the 87 victims of a fire outside the Happy Land Social Club in the Bronx on Mar. 25, 1990. Julio Gonzalez, who confessed to starting the fire by dousing the entrance of the club with gasoline and tossing in a lit match after he had an argument with his girlfriend, was sentenced to 174 counts of murder, two counts for each of the victims. The patrons, most of whom were Honduran, were trapped on the second floor with no way to escape.
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A look inside the stairwell of City College gym where right people were crushed to death during a stampede of students trying to enter a rap celebrity basketball game on Dec. 29, 1991. "A low-budget, $500 security crew was no match for a surging crowd of 5,000 trying to squeeze into a college gym meant for 2,730."
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Daily News front page dated Nov. 16, 1995 Headline: CRY BABY NEWT'S TANTRUM: He closed down the government because Clinton made him sit at back of plane.
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Led Zeppelin performing at Atlantic Records' 40th Birthday party at Madison Square Garden in 1995.
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Howard Stern pictured announcing his plans to run for governor of New York in 1994.
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TWA flight 843 burns just off the runway on July 30, 1992, after attempting to take off. All 287 people on board escape the inferno at JFK.
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Comedian Jerry Lewis pictured in 1995. That year, Lewis made his Broadway debut, as a replacement cast member, in the revival of "Damn Yankees."
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Daily News Front page dated Feb. 27, 1993. Headline: NEW YORK'S DAY OF TERROR Trade Center bomb kills at least 5, wounds hundreds; link to Bosnia airlift feared. "A massive terrorist bomb ripped apart a World Trade Center garage where the Secret Service parks its cars yesterday and spread a fearsome carpet of death, injury and chaos across the heart of the nation's financial center."
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Donald Trump and his daughter Tiffany pictured at the Bunny Hop Benefit for Memorial Sloan-Kettering Pediatrics, held at FAO Schwarz, in 1995.
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Trans World Airlines TWA flight 843 from JFK Airport en route to San Francisco, Ca. crashed while trying to take off on July 30, 1992.
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The Golden Venture pictured on the rocks at Fort Tilden in Rockaway Beach in Queens in 1993. The 147-foot-long cargo ship smuggled 286 illegal aliens from China before running aground on the rocky shore on June 6, 1993.
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Shooting suspect Amy Fisher pictured as she leaves Nassau County Mineola Courthouse after her hearing in 1992.
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Friends and family of the 87 victims of the fire at the Happy Land Social Club mourn during a wake outside the Rivera Funeral Home in the Bronx in March 1990.
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Emergency Service Police Officer Wayne Saulner pictured in the New York Harbor after winning the lifesaving award from the Lifesaving Benelovent Association in 1990. Saulner made three water rescues, two within 24 hours.
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John Gotti has a laugh while sitting at the defense table with attorney Bruce Cutler in 1990. Gotti was on trial at Manhattan Supreme Court on charges of conspiracy and assault in the 1986 shooting of a carpenter's union official.
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Yankees Jim Abbott celebrated after pitching a no-hitter on Sept. 4, 1993 against the Cleveland Indians.
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Television crews scurry for safety inside Public School 167 while one crew member hides behind TV truck as the mob moves along Eastern Parkway hurling bottles during the Crown Heights riots in August 1991. Police Commissioner Lee Brown was inside the school.
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Daily News front page dated Mar. 6, 1992 Headline: SAMMY BULL: I'M A RAT Gravano says he's talking to turn his life around. "A score of wiseguys named Fat Georgie, Skinny Phil, Cowboy and Sally Dogs have been featured in mob turncoat Salvatore (Sammy Bull) Gravano's week-long song in Brooklyn Federal Court about mob mayhem."
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A Parks Department employee touches up the huge wall mural on a handball court by the late artist Keith Haring at 125th St. facing FDR Drive in 1990.
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James Brown and Rev. Al Sharpton pictured joking around before Brown's concert in Wingate Field in Crown Heights, Brooklyn on Aug. 9, 1993.
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A three-alarm fire raged at 66-43 Grand Ave. in Maspeth, Queens on Feb. 25, 1992. Lt. Thomas Williams of Rescue Co. 4 fell to his death through a window while fighting the fire.
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Comedian Chris Farley, right, of the TV show "Saturday Night Live," makes a surprise appearance before the House Republican Conference on April 4, 1995, in Washington, D.C. With the real Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich at his side, he delivered his Gingrich impersonation.
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A crime scene pictured outside the Today Show studio where an employee was killed in 1994. "A North Carolina yarn salesman barred from entering the chic, glassed-in, ground-floor studios of NBC-TV's 'Today' show fatally shot a stagehand with an AK-47 assault rifle on Aug. 31 in front of a horrified throng of rush-hour passersby."
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The late Chris Farley, left, and David Spade are pictured promoting their movie "Tommy Boy" at Planet Hollywood in 1995.
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Businesswoman Leona Helmsley, nicknamed "Queen of Mean," pictured at home in the Park Lane Hotel in 1990. In 1992 Helmsley reported to prison for tax evasion and served 19 months. Upon her death, Helmsley left a good chunk of her fortune to her Maltese dog, Trouble.
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Emergency Service Cops pictured training on the Brooklyn Bridge Cables in 1995.
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Farrah Fawcett and co-star Gene Wilder pictured on set of the romantic film comedy "Funny About Love," directed by Leonard Nimoy, in 1990.
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Abner Louima, 30, pictured in his Coney Island Hospital bed. He was in critical condition after he was sexually assaulted by two cops in the bathroom of the 70th Precinct in 1997.
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Yankees' owner George Steinbrenner pictured about to go on the field prior to the start of a game in 1995.
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Justin Volpe, rightm accused of sodomizing Abner Louima, leaves Brooklyn court after a hearing with his attorney Edwin Schulman in 1999.
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Women are pictured leaving the scene of the World Trade Center bombing on Feb. 26, 1993.
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Singer-songwriter Carly Simon pictured being interviewed by the Daily News about her new book and album in 1991.
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The New Jersey Devils lift the Stanley Cup in triumph after beating the Detroit Red Wings four games straight in 1995.
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Adam Graves (far left) and Captain Mark Messier (sunglasses), with Ranger teammates, ride through the Canyon of Heroes raising the Stanley Cup during a parade in honor of the New York Rangers who defeated the Vancouver Canucks in Game 7 of the Stanley Cup finals in 1994.
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Daily News front page dated June 9, 1999 Headline: IT'S NOT OVER "Louima vows: As another cop is convicted and three acquitted in torture case."
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Daily News front page dated March 26, 1990 Headline: AGONY "City grieves for 87 killed; Bronx arson suspect held."
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Joe DiMaggio, Phil Rizzuto and Rudy Giuliani pictured together at Yankee Stadium on Aug. 9, 1994, during Rizzuto's Hall of Fame induction ceremony.
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Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and wife Donna Hanover join their children, Andrew and Caroline, for a family ballgame on the lawn of Gracie Mansion in 1994.
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Joey Buttafuoco pictured outside his home in July 1992. Buttafuoco was entangled in the trial of his under-aged lover and the shooting of his wife two months earlier.
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Police investigate a car parked at 82nd St. and 13th Ave. in which two reputed mobsters, one named Gregory Scarpa, was taken to the hospital on Dec. 19, 1992. "Gregory Scarpa Sr., the ailing mob captain who has outlasted rivals' bullets and the deadly AIDS virus, survived his latest ambush. The 64-year-old reputed Colombo crime family capo was shot in the left eye in an early morning hail of gunfire in Brooklyn that left two others seriously wounded."
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A look inside the World Trade Center bombing in 1993. The terrorist attack occurred on Feb. 26, 1993, when a truck bomb detonated below the North Tower. Six people died and more than 1,000 were injured.
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Cuban President Fidel Castro gives a speech at the UN General Assembly in New York on Oct. 22, 1995. Castro demanded the end of the U.S. blockade against Cuba, saying it was killing men, women and children "like silent atomic bombs."
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Club owner Hilly Kristal pictured in front of CBGB, the iconic New York City club, in 1995. CBGB opened in 1973 and featured musicians like The Ramones, Talking Heads, Patti Smith and Blondie.
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Captain Mark Messier receives the Stanley Cup after the Rangers defeated the Vancouver Canucks 3-2 in game 7 of the Stanley Cup finals at the Garden in 1994.
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A woman choking on the smoke is being helped from the scene of the World Trade Center bombing on Feb. 26, 1993.
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Bill Cosby pictured as he is leaving Madison Square Garden for the Colgate Women's Games in 1990.
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John Gotti, center, with a smile on his face, older brother Peter Gotti, right, and John (Jackie Nose) D'Amico pictured leaving Manhattan Supreme Court in 1990, where he is on trial for charges of conspiracy and assault in the 1986 shooting of a carpenter's union official.

PUBLISHED: March 5, 2020 at 11:18 a.m. | UPDATED: March 6, 2020 at 12:36 a.m.

Don’t put off until tomorrow what you can do… 23 years later?

A Louisiana resident appears to have broken a procrastination record — or just brazenly used an old license plate — after police said the driver was caught with a tag that expired in September 1997.

“We Can’t Make This Stuff Up!” police wrote in a baffling Facebook post last weekend.

The traffic stop happened last Thursday in Slidell, just north of New Orleans.

The city’s police department also posted a photo of the plate, suggesting the officer was in disbelief with the unusual find.

“For those of you who like to ‘switch tags,’ at least give us a good challenge and don’t use a license plate that is over 20-years-old and expired back in 1997!” police said.

The driver’s response? A hectic life, apparently.

“Sorry, officer. I’ve been busy lately and totally forgot to renew my vehicle registration,” the unidentified person reportedly said. “I will take care of it as soon as I get home!”