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Really, You Won't Allow This License Plate?

By John Mesirow

Juice devotees know that Sweden really is Big Brother when it comes to names. Apparently that applies to license plates too.

Check this out from The Local: Officials with Sweden?s Road Administration (Vägverket) have denied a driver?s request for a licence place with what at first glance appears to be a completely innocent combination of characters.

Recently, the agency received a request from an individual who wanted a licence plate reading X32IARO.

Despite no obviously offensive reference in the desired combination, Vägverket nonetheless rejected the application.

?It looks like something completely different when seen through a rear-view mirror, and on the road, many end up reading things through the rear-view mirror,? said Vägverket spokesperson Mikael Andersson to the Svenska Dagbladet newspaper.

When read in reverse, as it would be seen through a rear-view mirror, X32IARO suddenly appears as ORALSEX.

So?

Andersson explained that the agency has no specific set of rules for how applications are reviewed and that the hidden meaning of seemingly harmless set of letters and numbers just happened to be uncovered by a Vägverket employee reviewing the application.

Give that man a ... kick in the arse!

?It?s not like we have a checklist for how we check the applications, but it requires a certain degree of creativity to discover inappropriate words,? said Andersson.

So nice to see someone take pride in their work ...efilateg...

Full post as published by Legal Juice on November 03, 2008 (boomark / email).