{"id":7473,"date":"2011-01-29T00:07:28","date_gmt":"2011-01-29T04:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=7473"},"modified":"2011-01-28T12:19:41","modified_gmt":"2011-01-28T16:19:41","slug":"inappropriate-license-plates-virginia-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/01\/29\/inappropriate-license-plates-virginia-style\/","title":{"rendered":"Inappropriate license plates, Virginia style"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jason Ciastko send a link to this <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/blogs\/capital-land\/2011\/01\/eat-kids-first-not-virginia\" target=\"_blank\">article<\/a>. You can see why the Virginia authorities decided to recall the license plate (but you&#8217;re probably wrong):<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; padding: 0px 0px 0px 10px\" src=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/VA_inappropriate_license_plate.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"VA_inappropriate_license_plate\" width=\"300\" height=\"218\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7474\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/VA_inappropriate_license_plate.jpg 300w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/VA_inappropriate_license_plate-150x109.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>A Virginia motorist has apparently had to return their vanity license plate after the Department of Motor Vehicles decided it was too lewd for public roadways.<\/p>\n<p>According to the user-generated news website Reddit, the DMV revoked a special-issue \u201cKids First\u201d Virginia plate with the personalized license plate \u201cEATTHE\u201d to spell out the phrase, well, you know\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Full story, including the sad bureaucratic recall procedure, <a href=\"http:\/\/jalopnik.com\/5727846\/i-fought-the-dmv-to-keep-the-worlds-greatest-license-plate\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Most reactions were like the one from a mom in a minivan plastered with pro-Christian bumper stickers who chased him down.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I thought she was going to yell at me and tell me I&#8217;m going straight to hell, but she and her kids found it absolutely hilarious and she took pics of it with her kids next to the plate,&#8221; said Yeaman. &#8220;I learned my lesson on judging people before they speak.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, the Virginia DMV didn&#8217;t talk to him before they judged him offensive and sent him a letter requesting the plates back immediately. With his brother&#8217;s encouragement, Yeaman requested a hearing with a mediator to keep the plates, which he didn&#8217;t find offensive.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>H\/T to Craig Zeni for the <em>Jalopnik<\/em> link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jason Ciastko send a link to this article. You can see why the Virginia authorities decided to recall the license plate (but you&#8217;re probably wrong): A Virginia motorist has apparently had to return their vanity license plate after the Department of Motor Vehicles decided it was too lewd for public roadways. According to the user-generated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,57,13],"tags":[111,393],"class_list":["post-7473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bureaucracy","category-humour","category-usa","tag-cars","tag-virginia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-1Wx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7473"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7481,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7473\/revisions\/7481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}