74 y/o Has Her Decade-Old Vanity Tags Pulled for "Profanity"

Overpaid Slacker · 08-04-2006, 09:11 AM

Well, she could use her surname instead....

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- A woman in Columbus may lose her long-time vanity license plate because the state now says it's obscene.
Pat Niple (NY'-puhl) has had a plate with the letters N-W-T-F. She says they're short for "Northwood Tree Farm," a Christmas tree business she and her late husband owned.

But the 74-year-old recently got a letter from the Bureau of Motor Vehicles saying the personalized plate violates the agency's standards against profanity.

At a BMV office, Niple says she was told the letters are an abbreviation popular online. She says a clerk whispered it stands for a phrase beginning with, "Now what the."

Niple plans to appeal. In the meantime, she's got temporary tags.

God bless our governments, there to look out for us when and how (they determine) we need it most.

JP

onewhippedpuppy · 08-04-2006, 09:23 AM

She's too old to drive anyway.

nostatic · nostatic's Garage

my ex had plates:

HEY 4Q

had them for a couple years before some jerk in the bay area called dmv and complained...I argued she liked billiards but they didn't buy it.

rouxroux · 08-04-2006, 09:28 AM

And some has been started by a few of my fellow Corvair owners that have "FNADER" in a couple of states.

Jared at Pelican Parts · 08-04-2006, 09:39 AM

VaSteve · 08-04-2006, 09:52 AM

There is a guy around me that has a plate that reads "OMG WTF".

Overpaid Slacker · 08-04-2006, 09:56 AM

Steve -- a guy has those plates? Is there a little rainbow sticker on the bumper next to it?

JP

VaSteve · 08-04-2006, 10:12 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Overpaid Slacker
Steve -- a guy has those plates? Is there a little rainbow sticker on the bumper next to it?

JP

I only saw the front. It was an old Oldmobile and the driver was a big fat 20 something guy. Think comic book guy from the simpsons but a little younger.

Porsche-O-Phile · Porsche-O-Phile's Garage

Of course this one made it past the censors in Florida. . . Then again, this IS Flori-duh we're talking about here. . .

gaijindabe · 08-04-2006, 10:22 AM

A good article in the WSJ about this years ago.. Guys in prison stamping out plates caught a few acronyms that the DMV was not aware of.

speeder · speeder's Garage

Quote:

Originally posted by Porsche-O-Phile
Of course this one made it past the censors in Florida. . . Then again, this IS Flori-duh we're talking about here. . .

Now everyone here knows that I can have a juvenile sense of humor, but that's freaking hilarious to me. That could change me from road-rage to horse-laughing in .06 seconds.

RANDY P · RANDY P's Garage

In WA state, spotted years ago -

"FOUFCFK"

I've got a picture in an old hotrod mag years ago with a blown mustang that had "THIS HO" on the plate..

artplumber · 08-04-2006, 07:12 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Porsche-O-Phile
Of course this one made it past the censors in Florida. . . Then again, this IS Flori-duh we're talking about here. . .

I don't think it's a personalized plate. Just one in the series. The licenses currently format:

letter number number space letter letter letter (avoiding the ever-expanding Cali way)

M.D. Holloway · 08-04-2006, 08:33 PM

Saw a Bently once with the tag YRU NVS - took me about a minute or two to get it then I spent the next few hours wondering why he cared if I was?

legion · 08-04-2006, 08:41 PM

My personal favorite:

3M TA3

Makes more sense if you glance at the plate in your rearview mirror....

jdm61 · 08-04-2006, 09:23 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by artplumber
I don't think it's a personalized plate. Just one in the series. The licenses currently format:

letter number number space letter letter letter (avoiding the ever-expanding Cali way)

It is a standard plate.......Flori-duh, eh? Leave to someone from the left coast to see a simple series of letters and numbers and turn it into homo-erotic toilet humor...LMAO