Want to express yourself on your license plate in Virginia? THNK AGN
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Vehicles wait during a traffic jam along a major thoroughfare in Beijing August 10, 2007. The Chinese capital will hold a test drill for keeping cars off the road during its 2008 Olympic Games, a crucial hurdle for the city beset by pollution and traffic jams, officials announced on Friday. Between Aug. 17 and 20, about 1.3 million of the city's 3 million vehicles will be ordered off the streets each day depending on whether licence plates end in an odd or even number. REUTERS/Claro Cortes IV (CHINA)
Think you can express a sense of humor by personalizing a license plate, however you please and saying whatever you like?
THNK AGN.
In 2013, the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles rejected enough vanity plate requests to fill 506 single-spaced pages, a response to a Freedom of Information Act request by MuckRock user and Loudoun County resident Andrew Mickert revealed.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}What kind of vile vanity plates did the DMV reject? They range from “ACDCN01” to “ADDICT1” to “AM4PLAY” to “BBYMAKR” to “BOOTY4U,” to name just a few.
Some of the rejected plates were clearly explicit, but others baffled MuckRock reporter George LeVines, who published the fascinating find for the website, which serves as an open-government facilitator and publisher of citizen-generated FOIA requests.
“Some of the acronyms, I have no idea,” LeVines told Watchdog.org. “Are they gang-related or sex humor that I just don’t understand? I have no idea. But that definitely is a big question, is what in the world is transpiring? Who is going through these applications and saying no?”
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