What happened to zie top one?

So... basically, when you drop your car off to ship to the US, it has to be clean. I hit up the recommended car wash near the shipping station... It was one of those track/conveyor style ones. Well, since the front plate was only stuck on with double sided tape (that was coming a bit loose), the car wash pulled the plate right off. Once my car came out of the wash I was like, "uhhhh, i think your car wash maybe stole my front license plate." After about 10 minutes of waiting, one of the workers came out with it looking like that. It apparently got mangled in the track system or something, haha. Not a scratch on the car so I just stuck it inside and got it back like so.

Natural patina from the motherland!