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Michigan has banned more than 26,000 vehicle license plates
(Detroit Free Press) You can't be 2KINKY or 2SEXUL, 2LEWD or an 0LDFART. And you better not brag that you're FASTNH0T or admit that you HADAFEW.
These are just a handful of the 26,634 vehicle license plates as of mid-July that have made the Michigan Secretary of State's "bad word file," a list of prohibited license plates meant to make the roads a little less lewd and crude. No, PH0NSEX or J0Y0FSEX either.
The list, a combination of words, letters, numbers or both, is so long that it covers 606 pages and gets new additions almost by the day. (The number 0 sometimes is used in place of the letter O, while the letter I and the number 1 can both be used.) .............(more)
https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2024/08/13/michigan-banned-license-plates/74461282007/
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...was "XQZEME" on a BMW in a very upper-class town--right after it had rear-ended another car on a main street.
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