# Custom Licence Plates — Seen in the Wild **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 11, 2023, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965 "2023-11-11T02:25:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 101
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2025, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/2001 "2025-11-11T23:30:04Z")
IMNAOMI i hope the driver is named Naomi. Otherwise, i got nothing. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Girlfriend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.girlfriend/32/193_2.png) [@Dr.Girlfriend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Girlfriend)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2025, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/2002 "2025-11-12T00:43:02Z")
**YAKUB** - probably someone’s name but I couldn’t see the driver. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2025, 9:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/2003 "2025-11-12T09:02:48Z")
**C L VIE** C’est La Vie! ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2025, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/2004 "2025-11-12T12:09:43Z")
Somebody someplace needs to get **C L GRR** to go with it. ---
**Author:** ![icon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c6cbf5/32.png) [@icon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/icon)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2025, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/2005 "2025-11-12T13:33:52Z")
Somehow I doubt it really was **JON␣WICK** ’s car that I saw last night. `//i\\` ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2025, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/2006 "2025-11-12T14:49:38Z")
Saw two this morning - A Miami Heat basketball team booster plate with a Miami Heat license plate frame on a nondescript car w no stickers, etc. Those plates hold 5 characters and this one read **TBAI**. I have no idea. - A fairly new fairly high end BMW with **ERTAT**. “ER” might be “emergency room” as in hospital, but otherwise I got nuthin’. Anyone have any ideas? ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2025, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/2007 "2025-11-12T14:56:33Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Anyone have any ideas Could be ‘Treat and Turf’-a callous expression for do something to them then refer them to somewhere else to be someone elses’s problem. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2025, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/2008 "2025-11-12T18:12:22Z")
On a nondescript Grand Caravan: **PNCCSY** No clue. On an F-250 actually carrying tools and goods in the bed: **OHHDADY** On the frame: _Daddy’s money / But I’m Daddy_. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2025, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/2009 "2025-11-12T19:12:34Z")
Is that phrase used more in the context of - EDs providing (in the most economically wasteful manner possible) routine PCP / urgent care to the indigent and / or uninsured? - the ED’s real mission is to fix what they can, stabilize what they can’t, or lose the patient trying. IOW in two hours flat, either send the patient upstairs for admission, downstairs to the morgue, or out the front door to home. Whichever way it goes, it’s not the ED folks’ problem after that. Big difference in the tenor of those two usages. Rough-hewn gallows humor applies to a lot of high stress high stakes jobs. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2025, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/2010 "2025-11-12T22:48:11Z")
**HZZY FIT** on a Honda Fit. Nice one! ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Girlfriend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.girlfriend/32/193_2.png) [@Dr.Girlfriend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Girlfriend)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2025, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/2011 "2025-11-13T00:56:08Z")
I saw a very rare two-fer today- on the same car! I was sitting at a four-way stop on my way home and the car to my left in the intersection had a front license plate. It caught my eye because a) Indiana doesn’t have front license plates and b) it was an old style of plate. It said **NOHITTR**. I wouldn’t have mentioned it here because that probably doesn’t count but when the car turned into the intersection I saw the rear plate said **ACPTGOD**. A very religious baseball player? I dunno… Also this morning I saw **EPIC2027**. Someone has high hopes for the future I guess. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2025, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/2012 "2025-11-13T01:02:03Z")
This afternoon, I saw a car with Illinois’ White Sox commemorative plates, with **RDSOX** – a reference, of course, to the Boston Red Sox. What was even more interesting was that the owner had covered up the White Sox logo on the plate (see the sample picture below) with a sticker featuring the Red Sox logo – however, the Red Sox logo sticker was _also_ white-on-black, which was undoubtedly chosen to both match the color scheme of the plate, as well as to not call too much attention to the likely-illegal addition of the sticker. [![](https://i.redd.it/does-anyone-know-how-this-person-removed-the-white-sox-logo-v0-w4p81l1hbbxe1.jpg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=863671614e634ec7df0905b122b66981a80a2115) ](https://i.redd.it/does-anyone-know-how-this-person-removed-the-white-sox-logo-v0-w4p81l1hbbxe1.jpg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=863671614e634ec7df0905b122b66981a80a2115) ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2025, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/2013 "2025-11-13T18:02:48Z")
Scored a few today, but mostly uninteresting: - **WWF⎵⎵PB** on a snazzy F-type Jaguar. I couldn’t see the driver through the dark tint, but perhaps a retired World Wrestling Federation performer or exec with initials PB? - **JDBAGO** on a generic car. Somebody named e.g. James D. Bago-something-or-other? - **GRATU** on a police booster plate that holds 5 characters. Nondescript car. Another partial last name? - **SYBAS** on a shiny jacked up pickup truck with the 5-character surfing booster plate. No clue. - **AARONS2** on a family wagon. Evidently the owner is named “Aaron”. ---
**Author:** ![icon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c6cbf5/32.png) [@icon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/icon)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2025, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/2014 "2025-11-13T18:19:06Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > **WWF⎵⎵PB** on a snazzy F-type Jaguar. I couldn’t see the driver through the dark tint, but perhaps a retired World Wrestling Federation performer or exec with initials PB? Not if they started performing after 2002 when WWF was renamed WWE because of a dispute with the World Wildlife Fund. I am old enough that I would associate WWF with, as we called it sometimes, wrasling, but absent other clues it could be something else entirely. `//i\\` ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2025, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/2015 "2025-11-13T18:20:38Z")
**EXCAPED** on a Ford Escape. Couple of possibilities on that one. Maybe formerly Batman? ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2025, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/2016 "2025-11-13T18:22:49Z")
I forgot to post yesterday, I spotted **WHAT DUH** in the company parking lot. Or maybe it was spelled **WAT DUH**. It’s not fresh in my mind anymore. I think the other way is too many characters. ---
**Author:** ![icon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c6cbf5/32.png) [@icon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/icon)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2025, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/2017 "2025-11-13T18:26:23Z")
The first one could be correct. Space is often not exactly counted as a character, so if the maximum is 7, the maximum with one space is also 7 `//i\\` ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2025, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/2018 "2025-11-13T18:30:16Z")
> [@icon](#): > > I am old enough that I would associate WWF with, as we called it sometimes, wrasling, but absent other clues it could be something else entirely. You and me both. “WWE” never really stuck with me as a good name for the McMahon sleaze-empire. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2025, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/2019 "2025-11-13T18:34:57Z")
**BOGOTA** ; Bogotá Colombia [[Album] Bogotá Colombia ![](https://i.imgur.com/ReLUMNM.jpeg?fb "Bogotá Colombia") ](https://imgur.com/gallery/fSKh6L4) Because of the Darien Gap in northern Colombia, which is impossible to drive or ride through, the owner had to have shipped his motorcycle to California. This looks like a legitimate license plate. But still I’m skeptical. ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2025, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/2020 "2025-11-13T18:36:28Z")
> [@icon](#): > > The first one could be correct. Space is often not exactly counted as a character, so if the maximum is 7, the maximum with one space is also 7 Yeah, I think you’re right. There definitely was a space, and the first spelling is way I remember it, but then I second guessed myself. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965.md?page=100) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965.md?page=102)