# 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:** 178
**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:** [August 12, 2026, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/3541 "2026-08-12T23:58:22Z")
**JENFER** on a green Jeep. The driver was a woman, I’m assuming that other less-tortured spellings of Jennifer were already taken. ---
**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:** [August 13, 2026, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/3542 "2026-08-13T23:56:24Z")
Today it was **BZO CHI** on something black and unremarkable. No clue there. ---
**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:** [August 14, 2026, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/3543 "2026-08-14T03:48:10Z")
**QCUATRO** on an Audi crossover, presumably with the Quattro all wheel drive system. To steal @Dr.Girlfriend’s line, I assume all the less tortured spellings were taken. **I AM AI** on a Camry. Since it didn’t look like a self-driving Camry, and the driver did not appear to be a droid, I assume that’s a joke. Or maybe the driver is a programmer who works on AI systems. ---
**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:** [August 15, 2026, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/3544 "2026-08-15T00:05:50Z")
**2XRODEO** on a Bronco, appropriately enough. I guess this isn’t their first rodeo. ---
**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:** [August 15, 2026, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/3545 "2026-08-15T16:32:14Z")
**56 GRAD** on something unremarkable in the grocery store parking lot. ---
**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:** [August 15, 2026, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/3546 "2026-08-15T20:38:46Z")
License plate, **SHERIFF** , on a Stark County North Dakota Sheriff’s truck [![](https://i.imgur.com/YbNemL9.jpg) ](https://i.imgur.com/YbNemL9.jpg) ➜ [License plate, SHERIFF, on a Stark County North Dakota Sheriff’s truck - Album on Imgur](https://imgur.com/gallery/license-plate-sheriff-on-stark-county-north-dakota-sheriff-s-truck-kpR9H8F) ■ Hello from North Dakota. ---
**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:** [August 15, 2026, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/3547 "2026-08-15T21:03:19Z")
**MY03TOY** on an older Toyota Tacoma, presumably an '03. ---
**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:** [August 16, 2026, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/3548 "2026-08-16T04:23:46Z")
**XWIFE2** on a black Corvette. It had an Optimus Prime head graphic on the side and the driver looked like a white-haired 50-year old. ---
**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:** [August 16, 2026, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/3549 "2026-08-16T05:58:37Z")
Driver male or female? Plate probably means very different things depending on that detail. 🙂 ---
**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:** [August 16, 2026, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/3550 "2026-08-16T06:25:38Z")
Male. I meant to have that. ---
**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:** [August 16, 2026, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/3551 "2026-08-16T06:40:50Z")
Thanks. So I suppose his point is that as a single once-divorced guy, the Corvette is a better way to spend his money than on the second ex-wife he’d have otherwise surely burdened himself with. Or maybe he did get married twice, and the second now ex- was a sugar momma. ---
**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:** [August 16, 2026, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/3552 "2026-08-16T19:22:13Z")
**MINMADE** on a red Toyota truck. No clue on that one. ---
**Author:** ![icon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c6cbf5/32.png) [@icon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/icon)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2026, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/3553 "2026-08-17T10:29:14Z")
> [@WildaBeast](#): > > **I AM AI** on a Camry. Maybe they just like Palindromes and this one fits on the plate and they gave **ZER●** 1 thought of what it might mean in today’s world. Personally I hope that **D-STROY** does not have any nefarious intentions though it they do, they could end up in **ASKB4N** for doing so on the **HGWTSX** [2]. That is, if Harry Potter is real. > **2** > > The plate had a rail enthusiast design which is that of a steam engine, so it looks like the Hogwarts Express `//i\\` ---
**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:** [August 17, 2026, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/3554 "2026-08-17T16:40:25Z")
**LEADSAF** on a Chevy Equinox EV. “Lead safe” maybe? Is that “lead” as in the metal, or as in “leadership”? ---
**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:** [August 17, 2026, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/3555 "2026-08-17T23:47:45Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > So I suppose his point is that as a single once-divorced guy, the Corvette is a better way to spend his money than on the second ex-wife he’d have otherwise surely burdened himself with. I would guess this. We were dining and he parked to come in and pick up a phone order then left a minute later. He looked pretty full of himself. ---
**Author:** ![MonkeysBrother](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3ab097/32.png) [@MonkeysBrother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MonkeysBrother)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2026, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/3556 "2026-08-18T03:41:57Z")
The Force was strong on the freeway today… A Mustang with: **NT DROID**. The license plate frame said, “TRUST ME. I’M A JEDI” So… not a droid? Dunno. And **JEDI RIC** was driving a clean black econobox with gold wheels. In an unrelated sighting, a Honda Civic with **ORAGON3**. Dunno. (A quick search reveals that an oragon is a determined, feisty fighter in bikol slang. TIL that there’s a Austronesian language called Bikol.) Still not sure. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2026, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/3557 "2026-08-18T12:15:43Z")
**YUR-M4D** on a lowered baby blue BMW 3-series with some muffler modifications. ---
**Author:** ![Topologist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/topologist/32/3208_2.png) [@Topologist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Topologist)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2026, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/3558 "2026-08-18T17:22:01Z")
**NUM1BABA** on a BMW SUV. In the back window was a “Husky Grandma” sticker with a silhouette of an appropriate dog. I was behind her so didn’t get a look at the driver. Clearly a grandmother, presumably to more than the dog. Made me wonder: On her own now, or do they have his-and-hers SUVs? (Not unheard of in this area.) **NYC GAL** on another SUV, but seen on Long Island. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2026, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/3559 "2026-08-18T17:58:40Z")
**NICNAC8** on a Lexus NX350. I wonder where the other 7 knickknacks went. **MARIPO5A** - presumably Mariposa. On a Jeep with NY plates on Long Island. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2026, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/3560 "2026-08-18T18:01:29Z")
> [@Telemark](#): > > I wonder where the other 7 knickknacks went. Paddy whacked them. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965.md?page=177) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965.md?page=179)