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Published Jun. 26, 2008
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DMV Offers 10,000 Replacement License Plates
Thursday , June 26, 2008 RALEIGH, N.C. —
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.
But this week, the DMV officials got another surprise when they learned the same letters appeared on the agency's own Web site on a sample personalized plate."I can't believe it," DMV Commissioner Bill Gore said Monday when told about the online glitch. "Obviously, I didn't know it was there."
Officials are working to remove the sample plate.The "WTF-5505" used on the Web site's sample plate was the first random letter combination available when DMV switched from blue- to red-lettered plates, officials said.
DMV spokeswoman Marge Howell received a sample plate WTF-5506 to use as a prop for news stories about the switch.
A 60-year-old technology teacher from Fayetteville complained about the plate last July after her teenage grandchildren clued her in.
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June 26, 2008 2:40 p.m.
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June 26, 2008 9:24 a.m.
Actually I said it differently, but that's the censored version...
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June 26, 2008 9:24 a.m.
I’ve got a personalized tag. Pretty much means what it says.
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June 26, 2008 9:23 a.m.
I remember years ago when the license plates that started with "H" came out, I had a health teacher say that she thought it was so funny that there were all these people driving around all happy with plates that started with "HPV", more than likely not knowing what HPV stands for....
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June 26, 2008 9:23 a.m.
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June 26, 2008 9:20 a.m.
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June 26, 2008 9:12 a.m.
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June 26, 2008 9:09 a.m.
You want to see some wicked ones ----- travel through VA.
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June 26, 2008 9:06 a.m.
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