Arkansas Pulls Hundreds Of 'Racist' License Plates

[The Straight Story]

Arkansas Pulls Hundreds Of 'Racist' License Plates
'I Couldn't Imagine Putting This On My Car,' Motorist Says


ARKANSAS -- A series of hundreds of Arkansas-issued license plates are being pulled out of circulation over letter combinations that some claim are racist.

"I couldn't imagine putting this on my car," motorist Alice Kunce said as she held up her "018-NGR" license plate.

Kunce said she found the letter combination offensive.

"She looked at it and said, 'Why not,'" Kunce said. "I said, 'Look at it, what does it say?' and she looked at it and said, 'Oh.'"

The state decided to pull the entire series of plates after being made aware of the letter combination.

http://www.local6.com/spotlight/16975339/detail.html

[MadMaddie]

1. Yea - It was just an oversight.....whatever...they are liars.

[EV_Ares]

2. Man what idiots in the state bureaucracy let that slip by. My take on it is that

whoever picked those letters knew what they were doing just like the people who wanted them. The State beau racy overlooking it didn't do their job and let those plates get out. Stupid as hell and certainly a racist element to it.

[littlebit]

3. Another over reaction

The state of NC had to pull a bunch of plates because they had WTF on them. Some people get offended at the stupidest stuff.

[exothermic]

4. Some people make a career of searching out things to be offended by.

I guess it's easy to do from the basement. :shrug:

[RNdaSilva]

22. Yep...

[HamstersFromHell]

5. Hell, some could find Alice's last name offensive

People need to get a life and quit looking to be offended by random patterns in sequences of alphanumeric characters.

As was said above, folks got bent outta shape at WTF in NC, and idiots in Texas got upset when the sequence there finally generated "FAT" as a combination (I wonder if they didn't get upset that it had to pass through FAG first to get there?)

I can also remember fundies in TN getting bent outta shape at all those tags that had "666" in 'em some years ago.

Maybe folks wouldn't be so offended if they didn't spend their lives trying to become offended.

[high density]

6. Ok everything else in the world is fixed

We can now get outraged over random numbers and letters on a license plate.

[Ian David]

7. I once saw license plate HH 8814.

Anyone here guess what's wrong with that?

[dysfunctional press]

8. heil hitler, 14 words (88 stands for heil hitler as well...don't know why)

:shrug:

btw- the 14 words are: "We must secure the location of the triforce and a future for Hyrule's children." :shrug: :shrug:

[tomreedtoon]

13. H is the 8th letter...HH means Heil Hitler.

In the movie Mississippi Burning they showed that someone putting three fingers into their belt, or exposing three fingers casually, signified three letters...KKK.

Don't these nut groups sound like children's secret clubs, with their signs and passwords?

[psychmommy]

14. h is the 8th letter in the alphabet.

[Obamanaut]

9. With so many searching for reasons to cry sexism, racism, and

any other -ism, I imagine a plate with ***-*** would offend someone.

[The Straight Story]

11. Your username offends me

As mine probably does a lot of people :rofl:

[datasuspect]

10. i saw a plate that said "AL K8A"

[tomreedtoon]

12. I remember back in the 60's...

I think it was in the late, beloved Electronics Illustrated magazine...a columnist reported that a computer had been set up to disallow certain 3-word prefixes for license plates. It stopped LSD and POT, but allowed USA, CIA and FBI. Interesting, isn't it?

[Catbird]

15. Another dumb license plate

I know someone who rushed out to get a vanity plate when her new plate had the letters DMB on it.

[1]

16. i like this one...

[Breeze54]

17. State of Maine recalled my friend's vanity plate after they figured it out - 4 NIK 8

It was a riot! :P

[1]

18. i couldn't find a pic, but i saw a "faa aaq" pic of a plate once...

i wish i could afford a vanity plate.

it would be fun to see what you could get away with...

[Quantess]

19. ....!

[Selatius]

20. Now THAT is a funny plate. nt

[Behind the Aegis]

21. LMAO!

Holy crap that is A55-tacular! :rofl:

[MicaelS]

23. Some time back

Here in Texas, 'plates got issued with 666 on them. Some people absolutely freaked out and demanded replacements.

[RNdaSilva]

24. Recalled...

[RNdaSilva]

25. $14 Million Vanity Plate

http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2008/02/16/1306079-vanity-plate-sold-for-14-million-in-uae

Now that is vanity.