OT: What the?!! Number plate recall

cozza · 06-26-2008, 01:55 AM

Officials offer recall of offensive "WTF" plates

Motoring officials in North Carolina are doing their best to clean up the mean streets of America by offering drivers the chance to trade in number plates that bear the potentially offensive letter combination "WTF".

According to the state's Division of Motor Vehicles, almost 10,000 people have been driving around —possibly for years— with WTF licence plates.

But the government department only recently learned the letters were a common acronym for the vulgar phrase "What the f***?", the News & Observer of Raleigh newspaper reports.

The discovery was made by a 60-year-old teacher, whose grandchildren had clued her in to the hidden message in her number plate.

The shocked grandmother complained to the motoring agency, prompting the mass recall.

But is seems the Division of Motor vehicles has not done as thorough a job in cleaning up its own communications.
The department was shocked to discover this week the same letters appeared on the agency's own website in the form of a sample personalised plate.

"I can't believe it," DMV Commissioner Bill Gore told the newspaper when he heard about the online glitch. "Obviously, I didn't know it was there."

aedeau · 06-26-2008, 02:03 AM

WTF?!?

jksgoh · 06-26-2008, 02:33 AM

saw "phucit" on a plate... duno how the hell it got through

cozza · 06-26-2008, 02:51 AM

Plates issues in Victoria within the past few weeks have been WLA-###, so it's only a matter of time before WTF plates are potentially issued here! OMG!

xa-coupe · 06-26-2008, 02:54 AM

I have a friend with a naughty word in another language on his VW ... and have seen a couple of others that translated are not nice. You would think people would have more to worry about than 'WTF' number plates !

professor · 06-26-2008, 03:11 AM

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Originally Posted by xa-coupe

I have a friend with a naughty word in another language on his VW ... and have seen a couple of others that translated are not nice. You would think people would have more to worry about than 'WTF' number plates !

i second that. i have seen one that is a LEVEL 1 swear word spelled out perfectly by a russian and he was mighty pleased about it too. it would offend a russian speakers to the core (we have quite a few here) whereas wtf is almost amusing!

qship · 06-26-2008, 03:21 AM

I suppose my dreams of owning "farcue" number plates are a pipe dream

AussieRacer · 06-26-2008, 05:45 AM

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Originally Posted by jksgoh

saw "phucit" on a plate... duno how the hell it got through

I must be a bit slow or too old...

cozza · 06-26-2008, 06:36 AM

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Originally Posted by AussieRacer

I must be a bit slow or too old...

Slow indeed! Now, pardon my french... "Fuck it".

taiheung · 06-26-2008, 06:36 PM

My 52 year old mother has XTA-51E on hers, though it could be a state of mind more than a drug - it is to suit her business's name.

cozza · 06-26-2008, 06:53 PM

Interesting. What line of business is she in?

taiheung · 06-26-2008, 07:19 PM

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Originally Posted by cozza

Interesting. What line of business is she in?

Interior Design! Her company's abbreviated name is LSD

turbomg · 06-26-2008, 08:08 PM

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cozza · 06-26-2008, 08:30 PM

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http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=587189

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xa-coupe Wannabe 6 Rep 268 Posts Drives: Join Date: Jun 2008 iTrader: (0)	I have a friend with a naughty word in another language on his VW ... and have seen a couple of others that translated are not nice. You would think people would have more to worry about than 'WTF' number plates !
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