Comments on: Prohibited license plates

By: legotech

legotech — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 20:42:00 +0000

Always drives me nuts that the God Squad can have whatever Jebus crap they want on their plate but they can complain about 666 being on a plate and get them pulled statewide.

I saw 2tenSS driving around a VERY Jewish part of LA and reported it for saying Toten SS and got told by the DMV to go pound sand.

By: snagglepuss

snagglepuss — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 16:45:00 +0000

It’s all yours. Enjoy, until The Church Lady snitches on you.

By: manybellsdown

manybellsdown — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 15:06:00 +0000

A most unfortunate plate spotted in Pasadena, CA:
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By: manybellsdown

manybellsdown — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 15:03:00 +0000

I love the convoluted explanations some of them give as to why their plate should be allowed. ”RUNOVAU” doesn’t mean “run over you”! It means my name is Roger and I run a Chevy Nova car club at my university! Anyone can see that!

By: Dlo Burns

Dlo Burns — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 06:57:00 +0000

You should of just fucx’d it.

By: Dlo Burns

Dlo Burns — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 06:56:00 +0000

Really, the Fillmore-Beaver are is quite nice.

By: Dlo Burns

Dlo Burns — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 06:52:00 +0000

All Time HEIST is just promoting a degenerate thieving lifestyle.

By: Dlo Burns

Dlo Burns — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 06:40:00 +0000

See that’s the thing about Utah, people try to make fun of it for something, but you can just point somewhere in the south and find a bigger example (ie liquor laws, Utah has never had a dry county, and PA’s buying system is more bureaucratically frustrating).

By: elix

elix — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 06:16:00 +0000

The Utah DMV shouldn’t be giving beavers licenses to drive anyway.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 04:52:00 +0000

I’ve always wondered if there’s a Toyota Previa owner somewhere with a license plate that reads PLACENTA.

By: Donald Petersen

Donald Petersen — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 04:21:00 +0000

I mentioned a few months ago, and I still find it unbelievable upon reviewing several states’ worth of banned plates, that with all the misspellings of people’s naughty bits, there’s still a Porsche driving around Sherman Oaks with PUDENDA on its plates.

By: Lithi

Lithi — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 03:25:00 +0000

Censors can be a pretty demented lot, no?

By: jimbuck

jimbuck — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 02:35:00 +0000

Many years ago, I was working on an implementation of a system in Mexico. It’s been awhile so bear with me. Tax IDs in Mexico are alphanumeric and partially based on ones maternal and paternal last name — grabbing some letters for each and stringing them together. But if those 4 letters when strung together form a “bad” word the 4th letter is replaced with an X. Apparently there are no bad words that end in X.

Needless to say, as a developer, getting a list of Spanish, English, and Spanglish bad words and having to put them in a database (no way in hell was I going to hard code this) was the highlight of the project.

Oh, and yeah the list didn’t make sense.

By: pjcamp

pjcamp — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 02:34:00 +0000

“BOINGER, I regret to report, is banned in Arizona.”

Well who would want to do that in Arizona anyway?

By: DimeSpin

DimeSpin — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 02:20:00 +0000

“BEAVERS” is banned in Utah, even though we have a city in Utah called Beaver, which is in Beaver County. I guess the plural makes it naughty.

By: cellocgw

cellocgw — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 01:42:00 +0000

on the bright side, “YRASI9″ doesn’t even show up on a Google search.

By: Symbiote

Symbiote — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 00:09:00 +0000

There’s much less flexibility in the UK, as the number has to conform to the pattern — although the old patters are OK.

I see “2 AT” most mornings (parked). I’m sure that’s supposed to be “twat”.

By: adonai

adonai — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 00:06:00 +0000

This one has been spotted around Melbourne, Australia for some years now…

By: perchecreek

perchecreek — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 22:03:00 +0000

PDFWTF ?

By: snagglepuss

snagglepuss — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 21:46:00 +0000

You’re absolutely correct. As was discussed several months ago here on BB, my plates read “YRASI9″. Then some touchhole bitched about them to the SoS Driver’s Services, and they promptly sent me a letter informing me that they were suspending my plates. At least they didn’t charge me for the new ones, which read “CENSRD”

By: ARMed_Pirate

ARMed_Pirate — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 21:31:00 +0000

My wife new a straight-laced woman who was did _not_ like the state-assigned non-personalized license plate she received from the CA DMV: “4FKN007″. Ironically, she had a very hard time convincing the DMV that it was potentially offensive and needed replacing. (Yes, most of us would have loved this.)

By: Michael Smith

Michael Smith — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 21:11:00 +0000

A plate I saw in Melbourne: VIOLNT shouldn’t have been allowed, IMHO.

By: toobigtofail

toobigtofail — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 20:44:00 +0000

Utah’s only 10MB. Arkansas is 54MB!

By: duncancreamer

duncancreamer — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 19:45:00 +0000

pan ocho?

By: duncancreamer

duncancreamer — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 19:44:00 +0000

Way to make it personal, America.

By: dr_ultimately

dr_ultimately — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 19:44:00 +0000

“What’s a boinger?”

By: nixiebunny

nixiebunny — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 19:29:00 +0000

Frank Zappa had some song lyrics censored from We’re Only In It For the Money that were in a similar vein to “eat the kids first” being considered sexual. The lyric:

I still remember Momma with her apron and her pad
Feeding all the boys at Ed’s cafe

The censors apparently thought that the waitress’ order pad was a sanitary napkin and she was feeding the boys her monthly flow.

By: Abdul Alhazred

Abdul Alhazred — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 19:23:00 +0000

I’ve seen this one in New Mexico:

BREAD – 8

The key is to translate it into Spanish. :)

By: ando bobando

ando bobando — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 19:21:00 +0000

I believe that in general, these lists are not meant to be exhaustive. It’s a list of all the plates that were submitted and then subsequently rejected. The states with the more ridiculous lists just have the more ridiculous populations. Obviously scandalous terms aren’t missing, they’re just never requested in the first place – because, duh.

By: Andy Reilly

Andy Reilly — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 18:52:00 +0000

WA’s plates are (according to their website) reviewed by certain employees of DOL. Here they’ll stop any that have character look-alikes. A friend who lived in Idaho had the plate F1REMAN because FIREMAN was already taken. He moved to WA and they denied it. I can understand though, people reading the plate of a hit-and-run or other criminal are going to see the word rather than the actual spelling.