I just found this in Snopes’ new “wierd news” section.
a guy in Wisconsin received the license plate number 666 KEN. And his name is Ken!
He plans to get it changed, so that people won’t think he’s a Satanist or something.
I bet if he had kept it no-one would have cut him off in traffic. EVER.
I’ve got “KGB” and a type of Russian tank for my plate.
No, you can’t have it.
Probably Ken Lay.
Picture? Please?
My first license plate was RBZ 666.
That’s OK, I have 666 my social.
Here in New South Wales, the plates (used to, before they ran out of combinations), start at AAA - 000 up to ZZZ - 999. About fifteen years ago, they were going through the PO*-*** series, and one woman got POO-*** on her nice new BMW. I’d have loved it, but being a society matron, she stormed into the RTA (like your DOT) office and demanded to have the plate changed. She was told that couldn’t be done without a good reason, so she started screaming to see a senior manager, and in the end, they told her that a new plate would be allocated to her, if POO-*** offended her so much.
By this time the allocation of numberplates had crept forward through the cycle…
They gave her POX-***
Heh.
I’ve got DUH. I like it now, but was really annoyed for a week or two.
Now I’m just afraid of getting my picture snapped by a newspaper after sliding in to the ditch or something. That byline would write itself.
I’ve posted this in another thread a few months ago: my father once saw an Ontario license plate that read “ATAN 666”. And I’m certain that it was assigned randomly, since newer Ontario license plates have this format (4 letters - 3 numbers, with the first letter being an ‘A’).