What could possibly be offensive about this license plate, you may be asking. I asked myself that question. I looked at it, scrutinized it, for a very long time. I couldn't figure it out.
Then it came to me.
Suffice it to say, you have to be Vin Diesel in order to see it:
The Texas Department of Motor Vehicles is revoking the personalized license plate issued to a Houston man, because it has now been deemed offensive.
“I had it for more than three years without any problem,” Safer Hassan said.
Hassan recently received an official letter from the state that said his Texas plate, “370H55V,” would be canceled within thirty days.
“People have no idea what that plate means. My closest friends don’t even know,” Hassan said. It is when the license plate is turned upside down that a curse word becomes more evident. The Texas DMV letter alludes to a similar plate that was recently reviewed and rejected.
I think it's clever, myself. Just the fact that it took anybody, much less the Texas DMV, over three years to "get it" ought to demonstrate that. And after all that time, shouldn't they just concede the matter? Unless they think that a Lamborghini spends most of its time flipped.
Maybe the particular DMV drone who noticed this had just been to the movies.
Exit question: Would Mr. Hassan's plate have been pulled if he drove a Gremlin?
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