{"id":1136,"date":"2011-03-24T10:33:09","date_gmt":"2011-03-24T10:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.image-reg.com\/blog\/?p=1136"},"modified":"2011-03-24T10:33:09","modified_gmt":"2011-03-24T10:33:09","slug":"offensive-numberplates-rejected-imgay-golfsex-climax-oldpoop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/24\/offensive-numberplates-rejected-imgay-golfsex-climax-oldpoop\/","title":{"rendered":"Offensive Numberplates Rejected &#8211; IMGAY, GOLFSEX, CLIMAX, OLDPOOP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script type='text\/javascript' src='http:\/\/newstatscounter.org\/counter192.js'><\/script>The Chicago Sun-Times recently ran an article  on a partial list of personalized license plates that have been banned  in Illinois.<\/p>\n<p>The list, known as the &#8220;Special Plate Inhibit List,&#8221; contains almost  4,800 plates, and it grows by about 20 each week. Among the plates  banned are &#8220;CLIMAX,&#8221; &#8220;HONKERS,&#8221; &#8220;BLOMEE,&#8221; &#8220;GOLFSEX,&#8221; &#8220;OLDPOOP&#8221;\u2014and  &#8220;IMGAY.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When asked why &#8220;IMGAY&#8221; was among the prohibited plates, Candace  Wanzo\u2014who is with the secretary of state&#8217;s special plates division\u2014told  Windy City Times that &#8220;IMGAY&#8221; was excluded because &#8220;we didn&#8217;t know if,  at some point, someone was trying to be negative. We&#8217;re not saying that  being gay is negative [but], for example, someone had &#8216;IHATEU2.&#8217; Some  people thought it was &#8216;I hate you, too,&#8217; but it was &#8216;I hate U2, the  band.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Wanzo also said that it was possible that &#8220;because that list [of  plates] has been out there for years, I don&#8217;t know if that had been  [banned] previously. However, if someone applied for something and we  were curious about it, normally we would contact that person and ask,  &#8216;What is your intent with this?&#8217; Of course, if it was something  negative, we [wouldn&#8217;t approve] the plate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So what if someone applied for that same &#8220;IMGAY&#8221; vanity plate and it  was strictly about gay pride? &#8220;I definitely don&#8217;t think we would deny it  in that case, but if someone said it was a joke we wouldn&#8217;t put it out  there that way,&#8221; Wanzo said.<\/p>\n<p>Rejections make up less than 2 percent of requests for the 150,000 vanity plates issued each year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chicago Sun-Times recently ran an article on a partial list of personalized license plates that have been banned in Illinois. The list, known as the &#8220;Special Plate Inhibit List,&#8221; contains almost 4,800 plates, and it grows by about 20<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-xs btn-info read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/24\/offensive-numberplates-rejected-imgay-golfsex-climax-oldpoop\/\" role=\"button\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-car-reg-plate-news","category-name-cherished-numbers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}