Does This Vanity Plate Offend You.

[Dat37tho]

The state is not prohibiting anyone from putting offensive messages on their car. They just aren't willing to, or required to, print it themselves. The 1st Amendment doesn't guarantee the right to have the state print and issue a license plate that says anything you want.

Pretty much this. It's a state issue at the core, not so much a Amendment one. Hence why some states are more lenient words/combinations while others are strict as hell. Some states just don't want to be seen with something even remotely offensive next to their beloved state name if they can help it. But like other guys said, kind of defeats the purpose if your allowed to slap a shitty bumper sticker on your car that says "***** Wagon" that's right next to the plate and the "My child didn't make the honor roll" sticker.
Guess its all relative per state

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[Norm Peterson]

As a car guy, it doesn't particularly offend me . . . even though I personally don't care for the style that people are using it to describe.

It'd be a whole lot different if I'd lost a family member or close friend to that particular crime. You'd never be able to make it inoffensive to me then. Might as well ask for HITNRUN.


Norm

 

[Souldriver]

mr. driver pony?

 

[King_V]

Mister Doctor Pony?
Nope, doesn't offend me.

"What's so offensive about Mr. Doctor Pony? I'm a horse veterinarian!"

Bahahaa! Oh, man, that's EXACTLY the same thing that occurred to me.

Anyhoo, I'm not particularly offended by it, but when it comes to the state, I guess they have to think about liability, they have to think about "Well why didn't someone say something when the customer ordered this, we might've prevented him/her from going on a killing spree" etc etc. Or that someone might go on a murder spree having read it and thought that the plate SPOKE to them in the voice of King George III and ordered them to kill, or . . well, who the hell knows.

Must be an interesting job, trying to decipher vanity plate applications at the DMV all day.

This makes me wonder if they get a LOT of people trying to get something offensive/idiotic/hilarious/absurd/whatever through the approval process...

 

[JollyWrench]

I don't even get it :lol:

 

[CommyO]

I'm from California and the laws here are horrendous but that plate can be offensive. For example "Murder" Pony. You don't want kids to see that. Better off getting something else.

 

[supersnake94]

Submit this one. I bet it would be approved by trebek!

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