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As far as DMVs go, none has proven more prudish than the censors in the Old Dominion. The Virginia DMV has previously rejected the "world's greatest license plate" on the grounds it promoted child canabilism. They even accused a mom of being a sex pervert. But a "NSTY HOE"? Apparently, that's no big deal. More »
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Last night's Super Bowl was less a victory for the Giants of New York and more a triumph of schadenfreude in the form of a Patriots loss. Should you be a Giants fan or merely desire to remind everyone Tom Brady failed, again, you can get a Giants victory-themed license plate for just $60. More »
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Fie, fie on government and its sticky DNA of red tape! Thank the stars the New York Department of Motor Vehicles is cutting some freedom holes in its bureaucratic wet blanket by dropping the vision test from license renewals. Can you see me now? More »
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Today, the California DMV released the following list of 100 banned license plates. The list, accumulated over the past few years, has some obvious offenders. Others, like "3MTA3," are a little trickier to decode. How many of them can you translate? More »
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Someone, somewhere made the mistake of giving Bill Caswell a license. Now that he's got to take the written portion again to renew his license, the DMV will soon realize what chaos they've invited. More »
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After yesterday's video of a new record for fastest lap around Manhattan, Alex Roy, the former record holder, provided us with this list of 151 moving violations — for 857 theoretical points — he claims he would have received had he been caught in 2001. That's enough to have his license suspended almost 78 times. More »
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The Virginia DMV loves to hand out vanity license plates and then freak out and take them away. Remember EAT THE Kids First? Now the DMV's trying to pull the plates from a mom who just loves her two daughters. More »
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This is Garth Yeaman, the 30-year-old who valiantly struggled to keep the world's greatest license plate from being destroyed by Virginia's humorless bureaucracy. He lost the battle, but he's not giving up the war. We interviewed him. Here's his story. More »
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Yesterday's story of one man's unsuccessful fight to keep the world's greatest license plate inspired others with more successful attempts to achieve humor send us their plates. Here are 12 other funny plates that slipped by the DMV. Solidarity. More »
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A man in possession of the world's greatest license plate has lost his battle with the Virginia DMV, who ridiculously claim it encourages oral sex with kids instead of just cannibalism. Here's their predictably unfunny response to the funny plate. More »
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A 34-year-old who just passed his driving test crashed into a state driver license center in western Pennsylvania. The accident happened Wednesday afternoon as the man was trying to leave the parking lot. Seriously. [AP] More »
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When Ashley Lineberger renewed her license she was surprised to find the replacement listed her street address as "EAT ASS." After informing the Florida DMV she doesn't live on "EAT ASS" they tried to charge her for a new one. More »
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Spend just a few minutes driving on congested New York City streets, and you'll immediately see some of the world's worst driving. GMAC's fifth National Drivers Test reveals just how horrible — along with news drivers nationwide are getting worse. More »
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Illinois continues to push President Obama as a full-time celebrity with commemorative license plates with a curiously short lifetime. More »
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We've featured some pretty wild vanity plates in the past, but now we've compiled a gallery of the best 50 to slip past the DMV. We're still waiting for one that says CRPCLIPS. Anyone? More »
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A victim of car theft in Washington DC is being pestered by a collection agency to pay up on an 18-month-old parking ticket written while the car was on it's leave of absence from its rightful owner. Steve Steinberg has vowed never to pay the $205 fine and is wondering why the car didn't come up as stolen when the ticket was being written — a fair question if you ask us. Of course the local officials are blaming the fine on Steinberg's lack of action on the ticket, but of course that doesn't stand up when the old boy waves a fist full of letters he sent to the DMV on the subject. [WUSA9] More »
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Apparently the North Carolina DMV is unfamiliar with the darker corners of the internet because they've let a whopper of a plate slip through the screening process. If you've ever seen what this plate is referring to, may God have mercy on your soul. There are just some things you can't unsee. We're sure the proud new owner of this plate will have a lot of splainin' to do when the first net savvy cop pulls him over for some form of public indecency. More »
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Convicted on 29 misdemeanor charges, including 19 counts of annoying or molesting a child under the age of 18, eight counts of sexual battery and two counts of battery (which all occurred in a two-week period), Calvin Hoang Cat of San Jose is looking at two years in prison for grabbing young women's breasts during the parallel parking section of their driver's test. Cat claims the fondling was brought on by fear of being in a car driven by another person. We're wondering if he wasn't all hepped up on Twinkies at the time. More »
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