As I was driving home from work today, I got behind a little old lady with a handicapped plate and a personalized license place - “PEST”. Four hours later, I’m still wondering what she her family situation is that she chose that license plate.
And the best license plate I have ever seen goes to the apparently clueless mother on the road yesterday - with the oh-so-appropriate personalized plate of “POO MOM”. I understand that it probably has something to do with Winnie the Pooh, but for the love of God, people, PROOFREAD before you send your info off to the DMV! I laughed for my entire ten-minute drive home.
My cousin, a doctor in Illinois has a Harley-Davidson motorcycle. He thought he’d get fancy and get some pesonalized plates. HDMD, Harley-Davidson Medical Doctor.
Illinois, where the font type is rather suspect, and of course motorcycle plates are small. The “D’s” look like “O’s”.
He said he didn’t feel quite right motoring into the HD reunion with plates that looked like they said “HOMO”.
Damn, Jeff Olsen beat me to it. That is the funniest license plate I’ve ever seen.
The strangest one I remember seeing personally was “PUBESMA” - I have no idea WTF it means, but it just sounds nasty. IIRC, the car was a convertible and the driver was a little old lady wearing a purple hat.
I saw a non-personalized on I-80 the other day that really startled me. It was a plate from CO, green with white letters, I think. The letters were EUC followed by 3 numbers that didn’t add to the humor, so I’ve quickly forgotten them. The funny part was the license renewal sticker was also green & placed very nicely in the bottom corner. I just don’t think the older couple realized that from a distance, the sticker made the “E” look like an “F”!
It took me a while (between other posts and stuff) to find it but… I only have a local copy, no site. I have a picture of a vanity plate, Washington State, 3M - TA3. You have to imagine what it would look like in your rear view mirror! :eek:
Someone who lived next door to my high school had plates reading EM ETIB. Not unfortunate, I guess, although a bunch of the letters would be backward even if the joke ‘worked.’
I saw one here in Tulsa that said “SHOM2ME”. Usually, the DMV is pretty vigilant and doesn’t allow anything suggestive, but I guess that one slipped by them.
The Smoking Gun has obtained some reallyfunnyletters from people who’ve written to the DVM to complain about “offensive” plates they’ve seen or from people who’ve written to defend the plates in question.
I still giggle over the plate one of my neighbours had in WI, she was heavily pregnant with her 5th child, the other 4 all appeared to be under 6 years old or so. While I am not 100% sure of the exact abbreviation now some years on (how many letters do you get in WI?) it was along the lines of RU SNGLE.
When I did work experience with the police last year I spent a day at a public event with the crime prevention squad. One of the things they do is set up a camera at the site entrance which automatically reads number plates as cars drive in, and checks them against the plates of stolen cars. However, for some reason it can’t read personalised number plates and kicked up a hell of a fuss if one turned up. Throughout the day a car with the plate PENi5 kept cruising by, repeatedly sending the automatic reader batshit and annoying the police. I laughed.
I remember reading a story about a guy who ordered vanity plates and when he got them, they had the most common four-letter word on them. He called the place, who told him that wouldn’t happen and to stop making crank calls. So he put them on his car and started driving. Got three blocks before a cop pulled him over.
The vanity plate place later said a disgrunted prisoner must have managed to sneak them by. I doubt the story is true.
I saw one last spring that said CATSASS. It was on a car being driven by a middle aged woman…I kind of think her name must have been something like Cathy, and she went by Cat and was a sassy kind of gal.