ICBC lists vanity license plates that get rejected
Posted April 8, 2011 8:02 am.
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VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) – ICBC has released a list of all the banned vanity license plates over the last 20 years, targeting offensive, suggestive, political, religious, and Barbra Streisand-related messages.
You can’t be EZEE, LOVGOD or DEBDUZ. You can see why DEBDUZ might be suggestive, but apparently so is CHICKN!
AAS isn’t allowed because it could be considered offensive. The same goes for BFIIK. Really? What is offensive about BFIIK? We went to the streets of Vancouver to find out.
“Big Fat Ignorant… I don’t know what the last ‘I’ might be? I don’t want to say the other F-word but it could be Big F***ing Ignorant ‘I’ something. I don’t know,” says a confused Anthony.
Anne can’t figure it out either. “I don’t know. That’s the strangest thing. That would be very interesting to find out what that is.”
The Province newspaper reports BARBRA was also rejected. It happens to be the way Ms. Streisand spells it. “Now that’s offensive,” laughs Anne.
ICBC decided it just wasn’t in good taste. Click here to find a full list.
