Somehow, ROB FORD was allowed.

  • Somehow, “ROB FORD” was allowed.

Thousands of Ohioans submit requests to the Ohio BMV each year to personalize their license plates. The vast majority of those are approved and Mom slaps a new plate on her car and gleefully drives around while letting everyone know that she is “NO 1 MOM,” for example.

And then there are folks who submit requests for vanity license plates like the ones below — the ones that fit as much outright vulgar, racist and plain old hateful speech into seven characters one could possibly dream.

The Special Plates Review Committee, a seven-member board that includes folks from high up on the BMV chain as well as customer service associates, takes a look at each submission and, sometimes with the help of the internet, decides if it’s suitable for public road consumption. A lot of times they don’t even need the internet — there’s a database with previously rejected plates and word combinations that is continually updated.

And if you’ve ever wondered to what depths of juvenile jokes and depraved linguistic insults Ohio drivers would like to dip, you have to look pretty low.

Every once in awhile we like to file a public records request for rejected plates to explore those low lows. Below, the complete list of 225 rejected plates, courtesy of the BMV, from June 2013 – April 2014. Do enjoy.

S2GOTS
SODITT
1BLACKI
STR OK ME
BD4SS
SWONER
CUMMIN
DSHZNT
BLKMAIL
CRNHLIO
SHTHEAD
HAULA55
HONKEY
FKRZ FST
PPL SUCK
ASS KIKR
1LODIME
SHIDDY
Z4CHA55
KXXKKX
KKXXKXX
DAYUMIT
BUMPAZ
SPERM
69 DP
FAPWAGN
GOINHAM
TUTT 420
FST AZ HL
DESI 420
HRDNTZ
MS81TCH
MYNUT
BIFC2
BADSOB
CACA KNG
CRAZYMF
FAPR
FAPTRON
CHOOT UM
BOOTLGG
XXKXKX
FNCOOL
1 BD BISH
BAD DUPA
FHU Q
OHHFAWK
STFO
MFCRAZY
XKXXX
LMAO MX5
KLLR NUT
FAP 2 DIS
FN3PUTT
OOGER
PSYOP8R
PG MO THN
SMEG POT
DROOLY
JOOD
BDA5 LEX
BLYA
OFUXGVN
RICERH8
BA MNSCH
RUSTYAF
WHOOD3Y
BMFH 3X
FYMF
HEBE
HRY MORY
JDMASFK
FSTSHT
BMFSG
BMFRR
CANDIAZ
POP N TGS
POMOFOE
AXEMRDR
KKXKXKK
SEA PEE A
BSBROWN
MMM VAG
WTF
IH8UFM
FKAKTA
THEISH
50 XXXXX
KLL ZMBZ
FCQ 2
KIZZ MY
FREYREY
SLOWAF
XKXKXXK
HAZE
XXKKXXK
MRTRD
1 B A TA
2 HORNY
H01YSHT
HOE TRN
OL FART
2INJUNS
DA FUH
MIJUNKK
KD8LND (Am Radio)
CRAPBOX
TYM4RUG
KXXKXKK
BUX K A
FST MF
DRJISIN
IRUG
USTURDS
MS BONE
PHUKET1
PHUKET2
EAT SMOG
WTF TUCK
ARGOFY
DATAZZ
HWY2H3L
MLF HNTR
1IHS HO
DVSGILF
GRINDN
KIK ASH
PHKHOLE
IM A PYRO
EFF UM
JUUGIN
HWKMNKE
TRAPWGN
DZ NTZ 1
SHARTED
FUHCUE
MAY Q WET
COOTER
ECSTAZY
UKS2BU
BILLY HO
FAST AF
NO RM 4BS
4 TATA
YO BITCH
HMMR777
M3RDE2U
FUKT
STALK N
DTF
D4T4SS
F PSTNS
FYHN
1 BMF Z
HELYEAH
FNAUSA
BL FN MRY
PSY SLYR
CHACH
MSRACKS
1BA CADI
KD8SPC (Am Radio)
B A GTO
DILLIGF
MSSASS
DILF
IMDASHT
DAFEIJI
LT1 LMAO
CREMEE 1
BRNIBCH
HBICBSS
WA8MAT (AM Radio)
HONKEY 1
RICEATR
KKXKXKX
MI BLOZ
PUSGETR
CSTACY
SAT CONG
EFFURV8
DILLIGD
BQQB5
CANIB3L
4TMFW
PHXCKS
THE COCK
CR DMNT
SCOPARE
5MFERS
LOFASZ
KKXXXKX
S1T1F1U
MILFLVR
FEK
EFN MINT
BSDM RPH
NOFXGVN
WANK
DO N ME 1
1BADFKR
BADD ASS
KXXK
ASHOLE
SP8NKM3
JU GURL
XXKXX
NOFSGVN
KK KAR
FTW 1
XESLARO
BDAZBNZ
BAD A S63
CHACH1
GUNRNNR
AYFKM
XXKKXX
BRNRICE
ETABUSH
LGBNAF
SNOTDOC
YA BISH
WHITRSH
BTCH2
BTCHN1
BOOGR

This article appears in May 7-13, 2014.

Vince Grzegorek has been with Scene since 2007 and editor-in-chief since 2012. He previously worked at Discount Drug Mart and Texas Roadhouse.

9 replies on “The 225 Vanity License Plates the Ohio BMV Has Rejected Since June 2013”

  2. When you did the same story three years ago, there 75 rejections in six months…so 225 in ten months means the number of rejections has almost doubled in just three years…WTF? Are people in Ohio making that many more stupid requests? Or is the BMV just getting more persnickety?

    About twenty years ago, OHIO Magazine ran a list of roughly 200 “banned words and phrases” that were forbidden on the blue-and-white “Heart of it all” plates…that’s right…just 200…total…and now there are dozens banned EACH MONTH? Ridiculous.

    I can understand why they might ban KKK or H8MICH (or anything else with “H8” in it), but I am a diehard supporter of a non-Ohio MLB team and when I asked for a six-letter vanity plate with FAN included, it was “No dice.”

    Why? Because…FAN refers to the rear end of the human anatomy…the “fanny”…go figure. I am not making this up. They were dead serious. It was even mentioned in the OHIO Magazine story…”fan” means…”fanny”…and “fanny” means “ass”…for real…and this is straight from the lips of those wonderful bureaucrats who actually use “Urban Dictionary” as their Reject Bible.

    Have you ever actually looked up anything on that site? It’s pretty much a sick joke…yet the BMV swears by it. No wonder folks swear AT them. Jeebus H. Chrysler.

    Yet, for years afterward, all over Northeast Ohio, I saw letter-number combinations beginning with KIK and KYK. That’s the pretzel logic of Columbus, and our wonderful BMV, folks…

    Chuckles the Clown

  3. If they didn’t ban these plates and approved one, how quick do you think they’d get sued by someone who was offended by one of those plates?

  5. I for one am glad we don’t have anyone driving around with BOOGR on their license plate. Just think of the kids! Once they see that, they’ll be ruined for life.

  6. The funniest part is they reject these, and yet MASS PRODUCED the ones that start with FUP and FN _____

  7. After seeing STFU PLZ, I felt obligated to call and ask if anyone at the BMV knew what “stfu” meant. I have also seen both QQQQ and QQQQ II (Roman numeral 2). I guess they don’t catch them all.

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