Wait, so it’s okay to have a MENGELE license plate if it slipped through the first time? Got it.
Don’t you know that Republicans have special dispensation to be asshats?
Blushes. Thank you for your kind words.
Honestly? I live totally pissed off at those assholes. The only reason I haven’t stroked out is because I have a kitten.
No they won’t. It’s a freedom of speech issue.
I reported the guy who had a big sign saying “Trump 2024 FUCK YOUR FEELINGS!” and that’s the answer I got. I have to drive down that street once a week, so I had a big car magnet made that says TRUMP LOST! FUCK YOUR FEELINGS! that I only put on my car a block before driving by their house.
Have I mentioned how pissed off I am 24/7/365 nowadays because of those assholes?
How about, “TRUMP: LOST THE POPULAR VOTE TO HILLARY IN 2016!”
Okay, hero 4th time this week.
I know, right? Nazis can’t catch a break.
Confession: It was me. I meant it to say MINGLE but I have terrible handwriting. Sorry!
We like our Nazis in uniform.
80 years now, and Nazis still can’t stand the left.
I suspect there are plenty of people whom I could pose the question, “Are you familiar with Josef Mengele?” and they’d just shrug at me. I realize the DMV clerk was an agent of the government, but it’s not like he or she approved the plate after the full weight of the government bore down to make that decision. There’s a good chance the clerk simply didn’t know any better and just approved it out of habit.
That’s a very polite and reasonable reply to an incredibly stupid assertion. You’re a better person than I, friend.
Oh, and D’anconia is a fucking moron, ftr.
This. Let’s face it, the DMV person who approved it had NO IDEA who Mengele was. S/He might have recognized the name “Hitler” if someone had requested it, but any of the other Big Names in the Third Reich? Not a freakin’ chance. In fact, if someone requested “Third Reich,” that probably would have been approved, too. People do not learn history in school any more.
I’ll go further and say that maybe the guy who ordered the plate didn’t know who Mengele was. Perhaps the name has some other connection for him. Perhaps it’s not even a name.
Though I agree that’s a bit of a reach…
I enjoyed the example in that article of the guy who thought he was being clever choosing ‘NULL’ for a license plate, thinking he wouldn’t be able to get any tickets since the database assigns ‘NULL’ to any license plates that are missing or unreaddable.
Instead, it backfired on him big time, and he got assigned ALL the ‘NULL’ tckets, a bill totaling $12,000.00 
That last license plate was rather cheesy.
While well documented, that one seems odd to me. Any license plate reader would pass that to the database in a string format. Thus they’d be looking for ‘NULL’
I don’t know every single database management system out there, but in the big ones the below two values do not match in any way:
NULL
‘NULL’
If missing license plates had NULL values in a field for thousands of records, SELECT * FROM TABLE WHERE FIELD = ‘NULL’ would return nothing. In fact NULL != NULL in this world. To find the actual NULL records, you’d have to use SELECT * FROM TABLE WHERE FIELD \color{red}IS NULL.
Anyway, we now return you back to our resident Nazi and his desire to collect all of the Schutzstaffel license plates that he can get past DMV workers.
Could be an urban legend. Wouldn’t be the first time an urban legend snuck its way into a ‘factual’ internet content article.
Not wishing to relativize the license plate in any way, it is nasty, obnoxious and tasteless, and probably on purpose so. But it made me ask myself what the reaction would be in the USA if a plate read TORQUEMADA. And it made me wonder how often newborns are named Adolf this days.
Mark Engele has kind of a warped sense of humor, and can be a bit of an asshole.
For a bit, I actually thought “maybe he meant Mengelev” but ran out of letters. But then I realized I was thinking of Mendeleev, father of the Periodic Table.