Results tagged “vanityplate”

The Nassau County Highway Patrol saw a number of cars street-racing on the Long Island Expressway at speeds of over 100 mph, "weaving across several lanes of traffic," according to Newsday. The police chased the drivers, and when they pulled them over, one of the drivers--Anil Isaac of Queens-- had the vanity license plate "HEYOFFCR"! Isaac, along with brothers Ziad and Riad Mohamed and Rajesh Prashaud, were arrested and charged with reckless endangerment and reckless driving. They apparently claimed they had been drag racing on Route 231; their cars, a BMW, Nissan, and Infiniti were impounded.

The strange case of the plucky former NYPD officer Arno Herwerth (who is from Long Island, natch) and his GETOSAMA license plate has gotten even stranger. This time the man with “Kill Bin Laden” crudely painted on his American flag themed minivan and a habit of attending Smithtown board meetings in a chicken suit has rejected the offer of the DMV allowing him to keep his plates, since they would not pay his legal fees.

Arno Herwerth, the Long Island man who the DMV rejected his GETOSAMA vanity plate, then sued them now wants to have a 9-11 commemorative license plate available to the Empire State’s motorists – something several other states have for their drivers. However, in New York then Governor George Elmer Patkai vetoed the idea in 2006 and put the brakes on any new optional license plates thanks to a pro-life groups suing states, including New...

There are 9.3 million vanity license plates in the United States, but every now and then there is one person whose choice of to proclaim on his/her plates causes some problems. Typically, the problematic plate is weeded out thanks to the DMV’s “blue list”of banned letter and number combinations ranging from the obvious, like GOD, NYPD and POL1CE, to the less so, like 3M TA3. Still the NY State DMV’s online plate lookup allows for...