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The New Hampshire Supreme Court recently struck down a law that restricts potentially offensive vanity license plates. According to Seacoast Online:
In a unanimous decision, the state Supreme Court agreed with the arguments of David Montenegro, who wanted the vanity plate reading "COPSLIE" to protest what he calls government corruption.
State law prohibits vanity plates that "a reasonable person would find offensive to good taste." But the New Hampshire Civil Liberties Union argued that the law is unconstitutionally vague and gives too much discretion to a person behind a Department of Motor Vehicles counter.
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(Score: 2, Interesting) by AndyTheAbsurd on Friday May 09 2014, @02:35PM
Years ago, someone in the part of the upstate NY that I lived in has "MWMWMWMW" as their vanity plate (on a white BMW or other relatively high-end car, IIRC). This was before the days of automated plate readers being common, so I'm guessing that they just did it so that cops would have a hard time getting it correct on tickets...in which case it probably would have been better to randomize the order rather than just alternate Ms and Ws.
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