Late last month I learned that the State of North Carolina apologized for the inadvertent printing of some 10,000 license plates that were adorned with the letters "WTF". It seemed that some automobile owners in the Tar Heel State were incensed that such a politically incorrect sentiment might have to be affixed to their cars.I'm betting that these offended North Carolinians drive a Prius.
The state has sent a letter to all 10,000 recipients of these plates that - should the owners desire - North Carolina will replace these profane plates at the state's expense.
Now today comes word from the State of Arkansas that they too have goofed. 981 newly-minted plates have the letters "NGR". Seems this aggregious error was brought to the state's attention by a one Miss Alice Kunce. Alice was presented with her new license plate this Tuesday (which you see to the left), and asked for another plate, as she felt the letters "NGR" were obviously racist.
Uh-huh. You've got a lot of free time on your hands now, don't you Alice?
The legislators in Arkansas saw fit to recall and destroy all 981 sets of plates. That's 1,962 plates in all. At a cost of $1.46 per plate that $2,864.52 the state paid for such silliness. That doesn't count the cost of reprinting the plates, nor sending out notices to the car owners, nor the cost incurred in wasted manhours, etc.
With the economies of most states in the shitter, should this really be a priority? OMG. I'd be ROTFL if this wasn't such a waste of time and money. IMHO.
FYI, humor-blogs.com will keep you ROTFL...go check 'em out.
3 comments:
Yea, I could give a rip about the WTF plates, but the NGR ones might be pushing it a little far - Granted, it is inmates that are building the plates, so they're probably getting a good kick out of the post-build inspectors failing miserably in their post-plate-inspection duties...
Welcome to the United States of the easily offended. Ouch, you hurt my feelings.
ROFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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