Not so much the license plate alone, but the whole situation was stupid…
This is maybe two months after the New Jersey Turnpike police got majorly outed for racial profiling. I’m driving down the NJ Turnpike, and a car goes flying past me a at least 100 mph. New model Lexus or something fairly expensive, young black man driving, way over the speed limit, with a license plate that said “COCOKISS”. IIRC, the license plate was from Florida, which always garners some extra attention due to the local gun-running sources. I couldn’t beleive anyone had the balls to want to get pulled over that badly.
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I was driving down a rural road in Maine, and many of the houses had nice little mailbox plates out front with the family name on them. “The Hendersons”, etc… I passed one that said simply “1337”, and it took me several seconds to realize that this was their real address.
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Urgh, these people have more money than sense. Here in Queensland, customised license plates (up to six letters) start at around $2000. Lotta money. And still, you see idiots driving BMW Z3s with a plate that says… you guessed it, “BMWZ3”.
Now, the thing that shits me is… the car COMES WITH A LABEL ON IT ALREADY! You got a thing that says BMW Z3 as part of the whole car package! The manufacturers put it on there, all special and beautiful and polished up nice and shiny. Part of the joy of owning a BMW Z3 is that it is proudly emblazoned as such at the factory. Everyone knows it’s a Z3!
It’s as if the owner wants to say, “Look at me, look at me, look at me! I have a BMW Z3! Can you not see it is a BMW Z3? It says so on the back! With shiny metallic logos and stickers and things! But just in case you’re too stupid to see that it’s a BMW Z3, look at my license plate! Look! Look! Look!” :rolleyes:
And of course, when they trade it in for… oh, I dunno, a Z4, they’re going to have to fork out another TWO THOUSAND FUCKING DOLLARS for a plate that will undoubtedly say, “BMWZ4”.
This reminds me of high school, when best friend and I were deciding what was the best license plate to go un-noticed by the cops or whatnot. She was going to get vanity plates no matter what, so she wanted to decide what would be on them.
I jokingly said ZYZYZZY would be a great inconspicuous plate. “No cop would remember that! They’ll be all ZYZY? ZZZZ? YZYZYZ?” I was kidding, but I should have known better…
Through the second half of high school, my best friend drove a huge ass old white Caddy, with ZYZYZZY plates. Of course all the cops knew that car. :rolleyes: :smack: Every administrator at the school knew that car.
As a bit of karma, I got random plates that consist of only one letter and 3 numbers repeated throughout. So i’m sure all of the police know my plates by now, too.
Years ago my son was looking for plates on the RTA site but everything he could think of that was outlandish was already taken. I recall him saying, “Even 2GAY4U is in use.”
Well I just checked and it’s available again Who would have given that plate up?
Can I nominate a smartest license plate I’ve ever seen. I saw one that read “ATG TAA” (start codon and stop codon in DNA), and I still wish I had found out who the driver was to see if he was some great geneticist or something.
Well, especially when a UNIX-literate car thief could argue at that point, “Hey, it told me it was an “all-access” car!”
Yeah, I know, farfetched, but honestly, why would anyone say their car is “open permissions”? Oh, wait. He was trying to say he was all-access, wasn’t he? Way to look desperate, dude!
“I’ll do anyone, anytime, anywhere!”
Yikes.
Um…color me stupid and all that, but I’m not getting it.
ex-en tricks?
Exin tricks?
Ex-en-T-Rex?
Ten enter nine?
Ex-enter-ix?
Aaaaaagh. Of course. Thanks, Hamadryad and TellMeI’mNotCrazy. That’s the problem with being a good speller - I was SAYING it right, but not VISUALIZING it right.
You gotta have a plate. If you have NO PLATE, you’re just asking for trouble…
I can’t stand vanity plates, and I’d never get them. Virginia and North Carolina drive me nuts because they’re cheap there, causing scads of people to get them. It’s bizarre that they allow people to have punctuation marks on them. If they ever allow those stupid smileys, I’m going to have to start going on vigilante license plate raids. Hell, there probably are emoticons on license plates. I’ve no doubt some genius has a colon followed by a closing parenthesis in some state that allows them.
The coolest plate I’ve ever seen was one I saw in two different states, once in Ohio and once in Iowa. The plate simply said 1. If I were ever to get a vanity plate, it would be that. Or 0, if I could. Or any single digit. I’ve seen plates in both New York and New Jersey that read 1, as well, but they were accompanied with something that said they were members of the State Senate or the State Supreme Court or something, which implies that those states reserve the low numbers for special designations. Nothing about the Ohio or Iowa plates implied that 1 meant anything apart from someone wanting to have a plate that read that way.
When I get a car again, I’d try to get 0O0O0O0O or something like that. Slightly off topic: when I lived in Jersey City, I noticed that they had the 200 telephone exchange there. I looked into changing my telephone number to (201) 200-0000, which would have given me the lowest telephone number in North America and the Caribbean, but that number is apparently in use. For what, I don’t know; if you call it, it just rings and rings and then hangs up.
This guy I work with said his dad retired to a farm and bought a pickup truck which he emblazoned with the plates EIEIO, which I’ll confess is pretty clever.
It’s not a plate, but from the “What the hell are you trying to tell people” department, there is a Jeep Wrangler in the parking lot at my job with a large sticker across the windshield that says, in four-inch-high red letters, HOT JEEP CHICK WANTED. I suppose there might be women this appeals to, but I have to wonder if the owner of the Jeep has met many human females away from the context of porn websites. And what happens when the driver gets said Hot Jeep Chick? Remove the sticker? Rearrange the letters into A COCK JETTED WHEN HIP?
