DMV Won't Let Jersey Girl Be A BIOCH

After previously approving a New Jersey motorist's personalized BIOCH license plates, a single complaint from a retired uptight cop has prompted the DMV to take the BIOCH back. Manville's Kim Romano was so shocked when her BIOCH plates were approved four years ago that she even called the DMV to make sure they knew the word was slang for "affluent Garden State housewife." Romano claims the DMV assured her they knew all about BIOCHes, supposedly telling her, "Congratulations, you're the first ‘bioch’ in New Jersey."

Romano tells NJ.com everyone now knows her as BIOCH, and when she goes to the bar, they all shout, "Li'l BIOCH is here." But now the DMV wants to take all that away from her, after a retired cop complained in a letter to the DMV, "I know that the MVC Special Plate Unit would not intentionally issue a set of NJ license plates with profanity on them. However, one of our NJ residents ‘got over’ by using slang terminology!"

On May 5th, the DMV sent Romano a letter recalling her plates. But as the newscaster in this priceless video (below) intones, "This BIOCH is NOT going down without a fight." And in Jersey BIOCH parlance, "fighting" means ordering new plates with that crushing universal comeback burn: "WHAEVER." Suck it, DMV! Enjoy the video below, and if you need a new ringtone, look no further than the 13 second mark, BIOCH.

New Jersey woman fights for her 'BIOCH' license plates

And back in 2007, the NY State DMV rejected "GETOSAMA" plates.

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By John Del Signore in News on May 19, 2010 10:39 AM

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NannyState

"Manville's Kim Romano was so shocked when her BIOCH plates were approved four years ago that she even called the DMV to make sure they knew the word was slang for "affluent Garden State housewife."

I learn so many neat things about NJ from this website! :p

robingee

Really. No one has ever heard of this in their entire lives except this woman.

sexisicilian

How 'bout "SADO" :))))))))))))))

Mordicai

A minced oath is not okay? Like...would heck or dang be alright?

Gothampc

Tell the retired cop that BIOCH stands for bio-chemist, which I'm sure Ms. Romano classified as.

Manitoba

Hope they don't take away my BRIOCHE plate.

NannyState

Whore.

HypocraticOath

Way to tell she has made poor life decisions: she drives a Sebring.

Also, her original plate idea: Big Kim

And what happened: They arrived misspelled

Kitty Graves

Classy Jersey ladies... Gotta love em

openheads

As opposed to all of the homophobic, racist, sexist, provincial & oh yea, "classy" New Yorkers you see post on this site.

ForrestWhitaker

What a bitch.

hotstepper

also, vanity plates are for attention-starved wanks without the creativity to find a productive way to express their faux-individuality.

Jen Chung

I like that there's a "special plate unit"—Law & Order: SPU on the way?

robingee

Let the moron have her retarded plates!

jibbly

"Talent" scouts at Bravo and MTV will soon engage in a fierce bidding war over this woman.

soxinthecity

Don't worry, once anyone sees the New Jersey plates, they will know that you are a bioch.

hotstepper

uh, 49 with kids? time to grow the fuck up bioch.

just saying

For once I gotta agree with hotstepper.

But this is so wrong on several levels. Why does a *49* year old woman even want a "bioch" license plate? And why would a retired cop care what people put on their vanity plates? Let the DMV worry about that. He needs to focus on more serious infractions to fret about.