Officials offer to replace plates with ‘WTF' over text acronym
RALEIGH (Winston-Salem Journal) - Thanks to some text message-savvy grandchildren, North Carolina drivers whose license plates have the potentially offensive "WTF" letter combination can replace the plates for free.
The N.C. Division of Motor Vehicles has notified nearly 10,000 holders of license plates with the letter combination. Officials learned last year that 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 that 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."
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.
A 60-year-old technology teacher from Fayetteville complained about the plate last July after her teenage grandchildren clued her in.
The N.C. Division of Motor Vehicles has notified nearly 10,000 holders of license plates with the letter combination. Officials learned last year that 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 that 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."
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.
A 60-year-old technology teacher from Fayetteville complained about the plate last July after her teenage grandchildren clued her in.
posted by BP News Bureau | 1:30 PM
2 Comments:
Well, what do you know? Bureaucrats being stupid. Imagine that.
Why would anyone care if their tag has WTF on it? Anyone who's so hypersensitive to need it changed should be made to pay for it. Personally, if they would've given me WTF, I'd want to keep it; it's kind of cool. On that note, I wonder if they'd still let you buy a 'WTF' personalized plate?
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