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RALEIGH -- 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.

10,000 plates have already been issued with this combination.

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.

A technology teacher had to consult with her grandchildren on this?

MarleysGh0st wrote:http://www.wxii12.com/news/16699280/detail.html

RALEIGH -- 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.

10,000 plates have already been issued with this combination.

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.

A technology teacher had to consult with her grandchildren on this?

She's probably a tattooed whore.

Here's Fanny! wrote:

MarleysGh0st wrote:http://www.wxii12.com/news/16699280/detail.html

RALEIGH -- 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.

10,000 plates have already been issued with this combination.

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.

A technology teacher had to consult with her grandchildren on this?

She's probably a tattooed whore.

A tattooed whore would probably know what WTF means.

I'll bet they still have plates starting with OMG.

Bob Juch wrote:I'll bet they still have plates starting with OMG.

But has anyone told that radio station what WGAS means?

Also, I noticed when I was out the other day that our series have gotten up to OMG and I figured we'd be getting to WTF pretty soon.

MarleysGh0st wrote:

Bob Juch wrote:I'll bet they still have plates starting with OMG.

But has anyone told that radio station what WGAS means?

They many know and may have intended that.

So, I just had a thought about this (which is why I signed back on in the first place, but I got sidetracked, ha!).

It occurred to me that this should be titled WTF, Cumberland County? since the person with the plate in question is in Fayetteville.

I just assumed that because in Colorado, plate series are designated to certain counties. But, from the quote Marley provided, it says drivers in all of North Carolina.

So, here's the question: Do most states issue license plates statewide rather than from each county? Or, if they are still issued by counties, the series are not exclusive to said county?

Here's Fanny! wrote:So, I just had a thought about this (which is why I signed back on in the first place, but I got sidetracked, ha!).

It occurred to me that this should be titled WTF, Cumberland County? since the person with the plate in question is in Fayetteville.

I just assumed that because in Colorado, plate series are designated to certain counties. But, from the quote Marley provided, it says drivers in all of North Carolina.

So, here's the question: Do most states issue license plates statewide rather than from each county? Or, if they are still issued by counties, the series are not exclusive to said county?

In Nebraska, as you may know as a neighbor, nearly all of the license plates start with a county number designation (with the number assigned based on county population at the time that the state decided to do the county number designation). So, Douglas County was 1, Lancaster County was 2, Sarpy County was 59, and Hooker County was 93. So, I used to have car plates that would have read 1- and then an alpha-numeric sequence.

However, in recent years, the counties covering the Omaha and Lincoln metropolitan areas (Douglas, Sarpy, and Lancaster) were going to run out of alphanumeric combinations. So, those three counties now have plates that start with a three letter combination and then 3-4 numbers (IIRC).

Here's Fanny! wrote:So, I just had a thought about this (which is why I signed back on in the first place, but I got sidetracked, ha!).

It occurred to me that this should be titled WTF, Cumberland County? since the person with the plate in question is in Fayetteville.

I just assumed that because in Colorado, plate series are designated to certain counties. But, from the quote Marley provided, it says drivers in all of North Carolina.

So, here's the question: Do most states issue license plates statewide rather than from each county? Or, if they are still issued by counties, the series are not exclusive to said county?

Must be a tattooed whore.

Yes, most states issue plates statewide. Idaho doesn't. Watch out for drivers with 2C plates.

Of course the states that don't have county designators ship the plates in batches to the various offices, so there is clumping.

Bob Juch wrote:

MarleysGh0st wrote:

Bob Juch wrote:I'll bet they still have plates starting with OMG.

But has anyone told that radio station what WGAS means?

They many know and may have intended that.

It's a Christian AM station. I doubt they intended it.

Appa23 wrote:

Here's Fanny! wrote:So, I just had a thought about this (which is why I signed back on in the first place, but I got sidetracked, ha!).

It occurred to me that this should be titled WTF, Cumberland County? since the person with the plate in question is in Fayetteville.

I just assumed that because in Colorado, plate series are designated to certain counties. But, from the quote Marley provided, it says drivers in all of North Carolina.

So, here's the question: Do most states issue license plates statewide rather than from each county? Or, if they are still issued by counties, the series are not exclusive to said county?

In Nebraska, as you may know as a neighbor, nearly all of the license plates start with a county number designation (with the number assigned based on county population at the time that the state decided to do the county number designation). So, Douglas County was 1, Lancaster County was 2, Sarpy County was 59, and Hooker County was 93. So, I used to have car plates that would have read 1- and then an alpha-numeric sequence.

However, in recent years, the counties covering the Omaha and Lincoln metropolitan areas (Douglas, Sarpy, and Lancaster) were going to run out of alphanumeric combinations. So, those three counties now have plates that start with a three letter combination and then 3-4 numbers (IIRC).

Actually Nebraska is one of the only other ones that I know about, since my brother lives there (I think his county is 38 ).

I think they might have changed around county numbers a few years ago, maybe when they decided to just issue stickers instead of new plates every year? I remember my brother bitching about something like that.

Bob Juch wrote:Yes, most states issue plates statewide. Idaho doesn't. Watch out for drivers with 2C plates.

Of course the states that don't have county designators ship the plates in batches to the various offices, so there is clumping.

That's very interesting to me, I would have bet it would be the other way round. Funny how one just assumes that everybody does it the same way because you do it that way.

Here's Fanny! wrote:

Appa23 wrote:

Here's Fanny! wrote:So, I just had a thought about this (which is why I signed back on in the first place, but I got sidetracked, ha!).

It occurred to me that this should be titled WTF, Cumberland County? since the person with the plate in question is in Fayetteville.

I just assumed that because in Colorado, plate series are designated to certain counties. But, from the quote Marley provided, it says drivers in all of North Carolina.

So, here's the question: Do most states issue license plates statewide rather than from each county? Or, if they are still issued by counties, the series are not exclusive to said county?

In Nebraska, as you may know as a neighbor, nearly all of the license plates start with a county number designation (with the number assigned based on county population at the time that the state decided to do the county number designation). So, Douglas County was 1, Lancaster County was 2, Sarpy County was 59, and Hooker County was 93. So, I used to have car plates that would have read 1- and then an alpha-numeric sequence.

However, in recent years, the counties covering the Omaha and Lincoln metropolitan areas (Douglas, Sarpy, and Lancaster) were going to run out of alphanumeric combinations. So, those three counties now have plates that start with a three letter combination and then 3-4 numbers (IIRC).

Actually Nebraska is one of the only other ones that I know about, since my brother lives there (I think his county is 38 ).

I think they might have changed around county numbers a few years ago, maybe when they decided to just issue stickers instead of new plates every year? I remember my brother bitching about something like that.

38 is Furnas County, with the county seat in Beaver City.

(We have very risque names in Nebraska. Where else would you find Hooker County next to Cherry County? )

Appa23 wrote:38 is Furnas County, with the county seat in Beaver City.

(We have very risque names in Nebraska. Where else would you find Hooker County next to Cherry County? )

Not in Fayetteville, that's for sure.

Yes, that's his county. I can't remember what the change was that he was carping about.

Oklahoma used to issue plates with a County designations. Custer County was CS (or maybe CR). Washita was WS. Oklahoma County (where OK city is) had an X in one or both of the first two letter slots.

I think they discontinued the practice a while ago.

MarleysGh0st wrote:

Bob Juch wrote:I'll bet they still have plates starting with OMG.

But has anyone told that radio station what WGAS means?

Sorry, but we don't have any technology here that was invented after 1934....

Oops, time to put another disc on the phonograph....

I'll add my two Lincolns.....California is statewide and I would have thought that all states did it that way. When I was in Germany in 1972 a license plate with "MU" meant it was from Munich and other cities had similar designations. I don't know if that is still true since that was two countries ago.

AL uses county numbers alphabetically starting with the number 4,


1 - 3 -by population:


Birmingham is 1
Mobile is 2
Montgomery is 3

Illinois has been issuing plates the last few years, at least around here, with just random 7 digit numbers. I got my car 8 years ago, so my plate still has a letter followed by 6 numbers since they were in that phase from the mid 90's till the early part of this decade.

I remember when the plates used to be 2 or 3 letters followed by either 4 or 3 numbers. Always made license plate spotting more fun to see letters in the mix. Of course, we still have a buttload of vanity plates floating around, I believe at one time IL had more vanity plates than any other state....

lb13

littlebeast13 wrote:Illinois has been issuing plates the last few years, at least around here, with just random 7 digit numbers. I got my car 8 years ago, so my plate still has a letter followed by 6 numbers since they were in that phase from the mid 90's till the early part of this decade.

I remember when the plates used to be 2 or 3 letters followed by either 4 or 3 numbers. Always made license plate spotting more fun to see letters in the mix. Of course, we still have a buttload of vanity plates floating around, I believe at one time IL had more vanity plates than any other state....

lb13

Goes to show what I know, I thought you lived in Missouri. I've always thought that Illinois must have free vanity plates (or that you could pick your plate number) because the letters always seemed to spell out something, although I seem to remember more letters than just three.

Vanity plates are such a racket, I've never understood it. You can't see your plate, you're in your car! Colorado not only has vanity plates, they have 'designer plates' as well. It started out with just a 'blue denim' as an alternative to the "green and whites" and then they came out with a colour one with a purple mountain (I guess for purple mountain's majesty). I'm not sure if that one was specific to El Paso County since it depicts Pikes Peak.

Now there are plates for every damned thing! Firefighters, Respect Life, Cancer, bunches of others I can't recall right now, I even saw one in the Costco parking lot today that was orange and had "Bronco Country" on it! The only ones I think you have to qualify for are the Veteran, Purple Heart and the like, plus the Pioneer Plate (you have to have proof a relative lived here when Colorado became a state). Otherwise the only requirement is that you pony up the simoleons.

Here's Fanny! wrote:

littlebeast13 wrote:Illinois has been issuing plates the last few years, at least around here, with just random 7 digit numbers. I got my car 8 years ago, so my plate still has a letter followed by 6 numbers since they were in that phase from the mid 90's till the early part of this decade.

I remember when the plates used to be 2 or 3 letters followed by either 4 or 3 numbers. Always made license plate spotting more fun to see letters in the mix. Of course, we still have a buttload of vanity plates floating around, I believe at one time IL had more vanity plates than any other state....

lb13

Goes to show what I know, I thought you lived in Missouri. I've always thought that Illinois must have free vanity plates (or that you could pick your plate number) because the letters always seemed to spell out something, although I seem to remember more letters than just three.

The ones I remember from the cars we had when I was a kid started off with AG, ZGF, and ZTB, which don't come out to much of anything.

And I had a fun run as TBOTSMeister 5 years ago because nobody could figure out I was the Meister since one of the ETM questions confirmed that I lived east of the Mississippi....

lb13