73-year old driver has her personlized plates revoked.

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From http://www.newsnet5.com/automotive/9628955/detail.html

Woman's 10-Year-Old Plate Now Called Obscene
She Owned Christmas Tree Farm With Late Husband

POSTED: 10:49 am EDT August 4, 2006

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- A Central Ohio woman said she has had the same license plate on her car for more than a decade, but now the state is calling her personalized plate obscene.

Pat Niple turned 74 years old on Tuesday. She normally ordered her license plates and renewal stickers by mail. But this year, the Bureau of Motor Vehicles returned her check, accompanied by a letter.

"The letter stated that I could no longer have my license plate, which was NWTF," she said.

Niple's personalized plates are NWTF, an abbreviation of Northwood Tree Farm -- a business she owned with her late husband. It also means something else, officials said.

"Apparently, the young people use it on the computer," she said.

Niple went to a BMV office to get some answers. A clerk had to whisper what the acronym means to some people.

"Now what the ?- and the last word begins with an f," Niple said. "I said, 'You got to be kidding me.'"

BMV officials said they have a set of standards that includes no profanity or obscene language. So, Niple has to use a temporary tag until her new, acceptable plates arrive.

A BMV representative said Niple can appeal to the registrar by writing a letter explaining what the acronym means to her. Officials will then make a decision based on her plea.

Niple said she plans to appeal and that she will at least keep the plates and frame them in memory of the business her family once owned.

"My kids are sort of laughing at it because they're like, 'Now what has Mom done again?' I think they think I'm mischievous or something," she said.
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I've never actually seen NWTF used all that often... :confused:
 
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*sigh*
It didn't take a rocket scientist to figure out what kind of response would be like here.

 
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WTF!!!!!!

That is pretty lame. I should try to put that on my license plate just to show them!! *shakes fist at computer monitor*
 
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Apparently the Bureau of Motor Vehicles workers are more 1337 than us. I'd never heard of NWTF until I read this.
 
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I've never heard someone use NWTF. That's too bad, though. Hope she comes up with another way to show her Northwood Tree Farm pride.
 
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Originally posted by: VanTheMan
Apparently the Bureau of Motor Vehicles workers are more 1337 than us. I'd never heard of NWTF until I read this.
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lol. i didn't realize the N would make me think of WTF any differently. funny how the brain works. stupid me. cognitive scientists: 1 - me: 0
 
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The article has it wrong. They are revoking her plate because it contains the letter N, which is used by the younger generation as an abbreviation for racial slurs, the part of the breast that Janet Jackson used in her terrorist attack on america and a new street drug called "nuggets".
 
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lame, i hope she wins her appeal.

Fart cans, large SUVs w/ crappy drivers, mis-aligned High intensity lamps, improperly damped trunks w/ subs are more obscene.
 
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I really hope that she wins the appeal.
For 10 years, BMV had no problem with it, and now all of a sudden they think it's obscene.

There's something missing in this logic.
 
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Originally posted by: VanTheMan
Apparently the Bureau of Motor Vehicles workers are more 1337 than us. I'd never heard of NWTF until I read this.
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Me either. *shrugs*
 
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