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What The ...? DMV Offers License Plate Fix

Free Replacement Offered For 'WTF' Tags
POSTED: 2:43 pm CDT June 25, 2008
UPDATED: 3:28 pm CDT June 25, 2008

Thanks to some text message-savvy grandchildren, North Carolina drivers whose license plates have the potentially offensive "WTF" letter combination can replace the tags for free.

The News & Observer of Raleigh reported Tuesday the state Division of Motor Vehicles has notified nearly 10,000 holders of license plates with the letter combination. Officials learned last year the common acronym stands for a vulgar phrase in e-mail and cell phone text messages.
The DMV recently realized the same letters appeared on the sample license plate on its own Web site. Officials are trying to remove the plate from the site.

"I can't believe it," DMV Commissioner Bill Gore told the newspaper on Monday when alerted to the situation. "Obviously, I didn't know it was there."

DMV officials got word of the plates last July when a 60-year-old technology teacher from Fayetteville complained about the plate after her teenage grandchildren clued her in.



It would definitely take a younger crowd to figure this one out. I don't know about you, but I go down the road trying to figure out license plates. It's like a game to my family and me. Some of the things we've come up with are too funny, it's a great way to pass the time when you're trying to get from one place to another.

My neighbor doesn't have a personalized plate, but hers does contain the letters DTZ and she is a bit of a ditz if you ask me. I have a personalized plate on my truck...a lot of people ask me about it too. (I guess they just can't figure it out!!) NTZMAMA ~ it stems from taking care of many kids over the last 10 years. You know, nutzy mama?!?

Some of those plates just keep me a-guessing and that's what I'll be doing when I absolutely have to head out on the road to get somewhere. I don't go out driving around much anymore with what gas is priced, $3.97 per gallon, but I still like to play the game when we're out for a walk.

Next time you're out and you don't think you've got anything else to do, start looking at those plates and see what you can come up with!!