Rejected License Plates

[Max Rockatansky]

Came across this in my Facebook newsfeed today regarding rejected California license plates:

https://www.lamag.com/citythinkblog/rejected-vanity-plates/

ONW2BYB was my personal favorite given the brazen application explanation.  Any other examples of rejected license plates?

[hotdogPi]

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[Max Rockatansky]

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Swapped out to the site URL instead of the Facebook one. 

[abefroman329]

GOVTSUX, allegedly, possibly in Illinois.

[Takumi]

For "DICKOUT"
"Applicant Explanation: Celebration of my son moving out of the house"

[1995hoo]

Maybe 20 to 25 years ago the Washington Post had an article about a woman in Maryland whose plate had been issued but was then revoked. The combination? CUNTESS. She claimed it meant "Countess," like the title of nobility (a count's wife), and that she simply had to omit one letter due to the space limitation. I don't think anyone believed that and I was very surprised they ever issued it in the first place.

[Takumi]

I remember seeing a plate locally that said "UDAM RYT"  around 2000. My dad knew the owner, who apparently knew someone that worked for DMV.

[Mr. Matté]

NJ from a 2012 OPRA request

Some more that were specifically allowed due to those dammned 8thiests

[NE2]

Since when is monkey a euphemism for vagina? Excuse me while I go spank my monkey.

[US 89]

Fox 13 published a whole list of rejected Utah vanity plates going back 5 years.

From sex to hate speech, here's the list of rejected vanity plates in Utah

[jp the roadgeek]

Here's a few that were rejected in CT:

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5014541-License-Plates-Edited-Web.html#document/p1

[Big John]

Rejected plates in Wisconsin.  Unfortunately they make you click for each one.
https://www.tmj4.com/homepage-gallery/75-rejected-rejected-wisconsin-personalized-license-plates#id68
And FIB is in there.

[oscar]

In one locally-famous case, somebody got Virginia DMV to issue a specialty plate, with EATTHE custom text preceding "Kids First" on the bottom line. Alas, later the DMV humorlessly revoked the tag.

[Throckmorton]

   
One that didn't get rejected in Missouri was, "12 HUNG."   
   
I saw this years ago on a late model Corvette. Maybe today it wouldn't be issued.   
   
I read somewhere that, "3M TA3." is banned in most states.   
   
   

[1995hoo]

In one locally-famous case, somebody got Virginia DMV to issue a specialty plate, with EATTHE custom text preceding "Kids First" on the bottom line. Alas, later the DMV humorlessly revoked the tag.

Yet the guy in Alexandria who has the "Kids First"  plate with the message "PDOFIL"  appears still to have it. I have no idea why anyone would want to put that message on a license plate.

I was behind a car that had "MRCAFYA"  a year or two ago.

[Scott5114]

I still think the best one that got through was a Florida regular issue plate.

[Brandon]

   
One that didn't get rejected in Missouri was, "12 HUNG."   

That makes me think of a jury.

[cjk374]

Rejected plates in Wisconsin.  Unfortunately they make you click for each one.
https://www.tmj4.com/homepage-gallery/75-rejected-rejected-wisconsin-personalized-license-plates#id68
And FIB is in there.

I found a big list of WI plates of rejected & accepted plates:

https://madison.com/wsj/news/local/it-s-ok-to-be-naked-but-most-body-parts/article_32120660-6d01-564a-8f88-95c2b5a3add3.html

I don't understand what half of the rejected plates mean. Does this mean I am old?

[hotdogPi]

FIB rejected... I would think that Wisconsin would want something anti-Illinois.

[Brandon]

FIB rejected... I would think that Wisconsin would want something anti-Illinois.

They know what it means.  On the other hand, I saw an Illinois plate that was "NO FIB" .

[Truvelo]

Our government also bans certain plates. Here's some examples.
BA57 ARD
J1 HAD
TE57 CLE

[1995hoo]

I read somewhere, I think the Washington Post, that Virginia's DMV uses the California DMV's list of banned combinations because California allows more characters per plate than Virginia does. It's not perfect, though, because of people who use the plate itself to add to the message. That sometimes slips through, like a guy who used the split-V UVA plate (it has the "V-Virginia"  logo on the left) to use the preprinted "V"  together with "AGINAS"  to spell a euphemism for a part of the female anatomy. Apparently the DMV doesn't factor in the plate itself–similar to the infamous Florida plate where the orange made it look like "ASSORGY."

[TheHighwayMan3561]

MN had a controversy a few years ago because someone got one through that appeared to be a statement meant to target a particular religious group. His were revoked and triggered a subsequent review of all previously issued vanity plates resulting in 39 more sets being cancelled as a result.

[CNGL-Leudimin]

Sweden uses a XXX ### plate system, and they have several banned letter combinations. These include several words, including bad words. The one that caught my eyes was ETA, due to the now-defunct Basque terrorist group.

[ErmineNotyours]

A few years ago, Washington added a fourth digit and has started going through the alphabet again starting with AAA0000, all scrunched together.  I wonder if they issued the ANU5### series, because nobody wants to see a big ANU5 on their rear end bumper.