FOMO, CUGAR and LATINA: The vanity plates the RMV rejected in 2022
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The Registry of Motor Vehicles rejected nearly 900 requests for customized "vanity" license plates last year for being too vulgar, hostile or hard to understand, according to a database published by the Cape Cod Times.
Driving the news: As of July 1 this information is no longer available for public release because of a new driver's license law, a MassDOT spokesperson told Axios.
- That's even though the law's sponsor says it wasn't intended to affect vanity plates.
Details: Vanity plates must begin with two letters and can't be over six characters.
- There's a $50 vanity plate fee, and it costs $20 to swap the registration.
Here are some of our favorite RMV outtakes from 2022:
BALLS
- "Such combination is vulgar in that it is in poor taste or is degrading or is considered a profanity, including a swear or curse word, not usually displayed in the community for general viewing," according to the RMV.
BEWBZ
- The "significance/Meaning of the Plate is Missing or Incomplete," per the RMV, which clearly didn't say it out loud.
- At least you get your $70 fee back when the RMV doesn't get it.
PRNHB, BOIBYE, DAMN and BIERME
- These were also rejected for "missing or incomplete" meaning, apparently. But IYKYK, amiright?
YUCK
- The RMV says the word "yuck" could be considered "an expression of contempt, ridicule, or superiority of a race, religion, deity, ethnic heritage, gender, sexual orientation, disability, or political affiliation."
VAG69
- Rejected for obscenity, "that it refers to a sexual body part" or sex act. Ok, yeah, that checks out.
SLOWAF, SMUT, SHTBOX, FOMO
- Rejected for: "profanity"
- You're not going to get the "AF'' past the RMV's censors. LOUDAF didn't make the cut either.
- But why not FOMO? Does the RMV think the F stands for something more profane than "fear"?
REDRUM and MURDER
- Rejected for being an expression of "fighting words" that could lead to violence.
COUGR, COGAR and CUGAR
- RMV deemed these to be "in poor taste."
LATINA
- This one's a head scratcher, but the RMV says it's because the significance of the plate or meaning is incomplete.