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by kens
4711 days ago
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In 1986, Robert Barbour applied for a personalized plate. The DMV gives you three choices: he picked SAILING, BOATING. If he couldn't get those, he didn't want a personalized plate, so he put NO PLATE. Of course, he ended up with NO PLATE. Since that's what the police put as the license if a car doesn't have a plate, he ended up with 2500 tickets. Eventually the DMV told the police to write "NONE" instead of "NO PLATE" and said "We're just hoping that no one will come up with plates that say NONE." (Which would be ironic if the parent comment is accurate.) The article is pretty entertaining - it talks about him becoming semi-famous and getting pulled over because cops wanted their picture taken with him:
http://articles.latimes.com/1986-06-23/news/vw-20054_1_licen... The comp.risks article (where I originally read about this) is also amusing: http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/6.45.html |
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