US Number Plates Censors Worse Than Ours!
We have posted previously about censorship of number plates practiced by certain American authorities. We have also had a gentle dig at our friends from the DVLA when they have withheld certain sequences of characters from the normal issue series of registrations, supposedly because such sequences of characters might resemble offensive words etc.
Well, here's another example of personal number plates censorship from the USA. In Nevada a complaint was files against the car registration SEXRXRR. The complaint claimed that the number represented "sex, drugs and rock & roll". The committee responsible for ensuring that number plates don't warp the fragile personalities of Nevada's citizens agreed with the complainant and withdrew the registration from use.
SEXRXRR... "Sex, drugs and rock & roll"? Hang on, maybe if I narrow my eyes and kind of squint sideways... Nope, it still looks nothing like it.
Strewth, at least the DVLA number plates censor pick numbers that vaguely resemble the word. Very vaguely sometimes...
SEXRXRR? Nah.
posted by Regtransfers @ 16:14
2 Comments
2 Comments:
Split the number up as follows: SEX|RX|RR.
SEX is obvious and RR equalling Rock and Roll not much of a leap. Rx, in the USA at least, is short hand for a prescription.
They were probably right, therefore...
Interesting about the "RX", I didn't know that. It does throw a bit more light on their thinking.
Thanks for your comment, Chris.
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