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Kansas Weeds Out Profane Vanity Plates
UPI ^ | March. 11, 2013

Posted on 03/11/2013 6:06:11 PM PDT by nickcarraway

Kansas transportation officials said about 300 of the 61,000 applications for vanity plates are rejected each year.

The Kansas Department of Revenue's Division of Vehicles said its list of banned plates includes nearly 1,200 entries, including curse words, racial slurs, sexual references and slang terms, The Wichita Eagle reported Monday.

Donna Shelite, director of vehicles, said applicants will "go to all kinds of lengths" to attempt to circumvent the list, including using "ph" in the place of the letter "f" or using numbers in place of similarly shaped letters, such as a "5" to mean "s."

Shelite said officials sometimes need to search the Internet or consult with young people to decode the applications.

"There are some I don't understand," Shelite said.

Vanity plates, which can have as many as seven characters, cost $45 in addition to registration.


TOPICS: Extended News; Government; US: Kansas
KEYWORDS: 5h17; wtf
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To: headsonpikes; eldoradude; dfwgator

That’s not nice!

(slow kid had to carry the laptop to the bathroom mirror..lol)


21 posted on 03/11/2013 7:44:11 PM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: Fightin Whitey

“Eat Me,” backwards.


22 posted on 03/11/2013 7:44:27 PM PDT by RandallFlagg
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To: nickcarraway

I still have my old Megadeth plates from Texas and Colorado:
“MGADTH”

I tried to get, “MTLICA,” but it was rejected.
Guess I was trying to say something like, “Meat-Licker.”

Oh, well.

Think I’ll try, “NE1469”


23 posted on 03/11/2013 7:49:25 PM PDT by RandallFlagg
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To: nickcarraway
From what I get, she'd find mine even more offensive


24 posted on 03/11/2013 8:08:15 PM PDT by Kent C
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To: RandallFlagg

Don’t look in your mirror but it’s Bwarney Fwank ;)


25 posted on 03/11/2013 8:11:14 PM PDT by VRWCarea51
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To: dfwgator

Clever. ;>)


26 posted on 03/11/2013 8:14:21 PM PDT by Gator113 ( ~just keep livin~)
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To: nickcarraway

We kept telling my mom hers should be PB4UGO.


27 posted on 03/11/2013 8:46:26 PM PDT by Grammy
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To: dfwgator

Why is that a problem?


28 posted on 03/11/2013 8:53:43 PM PDT by Lord Azrael
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To: Lord Azrael

Because they show up on XBoxes and Wii’s when kids are trying to play games on them.


29 posted on 03/11/2013 8:54:51 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: nickcarraway

30 posted on 03/11/2013 9:53:01 PM PDT by Brandonmark (OWCM is The new American Minority! 11.06.12 - Day of Infamy!)
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To: Fightin Whitey
(slow kid had to carry the laptop to the bathroom mirror..lol)

You actually admitted that? LOL.

31 posted on 03/11/2013 10:36:21 PM PDT by SoldierDad (Proud dad of an Army Soldier who has survived 24 months of Combat deployment.)
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