Maine Begins Recalling Express License Plates

Y’know the CA DMV Bot account, on what’s left of Twitter? It posts actual self-importance license plate requests made within the state of California, together with the shopper’s rationalization for his or her textual content — and the DMV’s response. It’s an extremely enjoyable account, the place you possibly can look via folks’s totally regular requests (“FISH”) and the DMV’s cause for denying them (“SEXUAL CONNOTATIONS”). Now, it appears somebody could have to spin up an analogous account for Maine.

See, just a few years again, the state all however eradicated any guidelines for self-importance plate textual content. Any swears, slurs, or shock worth that you can pack into seven characters was honest sport. Nevertheless it appears these unmoderated days are coming to an finish, in keeping with AP Information, and it’s all because of complaints from Maine residents. Somebody simply needed to go and get the plate “FUCK YOU,” and break it for the remainder of us.

The state estimates that 400 specific license plates will likely be recalled, with paperwork already within the mail to a few of these house owners. The new guidelines ban license plates that particularly assault religions or ethnic teams, comprise obscene language or intercourse references, or simply look too much like official authorities plates. Removed from California strict, certain, however the guidelines will nonetheless put a damper on probably the most enthusiastic Mainers.

In fact, banning ethnic slurs and specific requires violence on a license plate is an goal good. A little bit of moderation goes a good distance in direction of making the world a greater place to exist in, and having no guidelines in any respect can rapidly flip a public discussion board bitter. Let’s simply hope that Maine doesn’t go too strict on its self-importance plate denials — nobody wants to begin banning the names of foods.