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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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Today is what happened to yesterday.
(Score: 2) by Reziac on Saturday May 10 2014, @04:38AM
I read license plates, custom or not. But I'm a compulsive reader of anything in sight. Cereal boxes. Toilet paper labels. Hairy's posts. ;)
And they're frequently amusing... my local fave is a sports car with "NOWHERE" on the plate, which could reference the middle of nowhere (Montana) or going nowhere fast.
My fave in Los Angeles was one I managed to be behind during rush hour several times (not even at the same time of day, but always in the same area) -- and it was a chance plate, as I knew cuz I'd seen others in the sequence, and they don't issue vanities that could confuse the existing sequences. It read: "2SPY007"
And one day I saw actor Thom Bray on the freeway. You might remember him as the geek in RIPTIDE, which aired immediately after THE A-TEAM. What did his plate read? "B-TEAM"
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.