Behold, one of the greatest excuses ever given for a traffic violation. The speaker is Celty from Du

Behold, one of the greatest excuses ever given for a traffic violation.

The speaker is Celty from Durarara, who is a headless horsewoman riding a spectral shadow horse…except that horses aren’t very practical on the streets of Tokyo, so she had her horse familiar take the form of a spectral shadow motorcycle instead.

Everyone thinks that the jet-black silent motorcycle is PRETTY SPOOPY at first, but eventually people start asking questions about whether it’s really SAFE to drive a motorcycle made of shadows and do you have a motorcycle license even?

One day Celty just gets fed up and says:

この子（こ）は馬（うま）だからヘッドライトもナンバーもありません
This is a horse, so he doesn’t have headlights or plates.

• この this
• 子（こ） child （この子 “this kid” works sort of like an endearment term for “this one”. Definitely treating the motorcycle as something alive.)
• は (comes after the topic of the sentence)
• 馬（うま） horse
• だ is
• ～から  because~
• ヘッドライト headlight(s)
• も and, also
• ナンバー license plate (short for ナンバープレイト “number plate”)
• ありません isn’t, doesn’t exist

…and has the motorcycle transform back into a HUGE GHOST HORSE which just BLOWS THEIR MINDS

until traffic cop Kinnosuke Kuzuhara (bless his unnecessarily badass heart) takes one look at the situation, doesn’t even blink at suddenly seeing a horse instead of a motorcycle, and just goes “HORSES HAVE TRAFFIC LAWS TOO AND YOU ARE BREAKING THEM” and a high-speed chase ensues.