Virginia's DMV Does Not Approve of Hilarious Cannibalism

Yet another reason to hate the Department of Motor Vehicles: Virginia's DMV has reportedly revoked a man's custom "Kids First" license plate emblazoned with the letters EATTHE. 

Funny! And likely harmless: The plate had apparently been in circulation for several years with no reported adverse effects. But as Jalopnik explains, someone seems to have gotten the idea that the "plate was advocating something beyond hilarious cannibalism." Whole sad, humorless story here.

Comments

[Aresen]

Personally, I find American children a little fatty for my taste.

[Dagny T.]

I was surprised to hear they'd chosen a BC town for this show about Canadian fatties. Have you seen those beefy Prairie girls?

[Aresen]

Beefy prairie girls all drive 18 wheelers on Highway 2 and the TCH.

Too tough.

[Episiarch]

"They're all pink on the inside."

[fish]

You should try the "free range" children.

[Hugh Akston]

Don't you need that fat to sustain you through the lean winters when all you have to eat is Molson and Kraft Dinner?

[wylie]

Anyone else misread "Molson" as "Olson"?

Whoops, is my cannibal showing?

[wylie]

Double whoops, Olsen, not Olson.

[dunphy]

this should only apply to the irish children, right?

and fwiw, this is the DMV. if they were supposed to have a a sense of humour, they would have been issued one...

[wylie]

Their humor license is still being processed.

[Corduroy]

I've seen that plate for years. I'm going to miss it. I think I64SUX is still on the road.

Bureaucrats - no sense of humor... bastards

[wylie]

Just more proof that jobs with power should go to people who don't want them....like, i dunno, comedians.

Two Birds With One Joke.

[Frank Koza]

Oh, I do hate to defend them, but bureaucrats have to deal with lots of the humourless public at large. Some of them at DMV are probably laughing their asses off about this, but can't do it publicly.

[Almanian]

So the Corvette with the SMEGMA plate is probably in their sites, as well...

[Almanian]

Somewhat related, I still LOL thinking about the Porsche 911 with the bumper sticker "My Other Car is a Porsche".

LOL!

[wylie]

*2nd'ed LOL*

[Episiarch]

I hate vanity plates, but I will admit that I'd take that one if offered. I'd also take "ASSMAN", but that goes without saying.

[JW]

C'mon, Rectal already told us it was DICKLESS.

My loathing for my current home state might inspire me to try and get 1SH1T0N.

[Episiarch]

"REC-TAL" would be pretty funny, I have to admit.

[The Bearded Hobbit]

6ULDV8

... Hobbit

[Professor Grumbly Trousers]

3M TA3...

[Barely Suppressed Rage]

I actually saw that plate in the Richmond area a few months back. When I came up behind the car and saw the plate 3M TA3, I was trying to figure out what the hell that meant.

Then I passed it and looked in my rearview mirror.

I'm wondering how long before DMV catches on to that and revokes his plates.

[Professor Grumbly Trousers]

Subversive license plates are one of the little joys in life.

[Combaticus]

I remember reading about that one back in...geez, was it OMNI?

[Al Dorman]

Vicious and unfunny. And certainly not libertarian.

[Jonathan Swift]

I have a modest proposal for you.

[horsewithnonick]

The plate was likely inspired in the first place by the bloody handprints in the graphics...

[Jeff P]

What wine goes best with children?

[Azathoth]

One nevers serves wine with children, they whine enough on their own.

[?]

What wine goes best with children?

Fat Bastard.

hiyo

[wylie]

He makes wine now? I've been more (MUCH MORE) than satisfied with his gravy and lard products.

[Ted S.]

Oh yes, there's such a thing as "Fat Bastard" wine.

[Veen Deen]

Kids are great as long as you boil them first!

http://www.anon-web-tools.edu.tc

[BakedPenguin]

Florida used to have an orange in the middle of its plates (it might still, I'm too lazy to check). There was a famous plate A55 RGY. With the round orange in the middle, it looked like "ASS ORGY".

I knew someone who claimed his friend had a vanity plate with "PHA-Q" on it. I never saw, and can not corroborate.

[The Bearded Hobbit]

"QQQQ"

... Hobbit

[Evil Red Scandi]

I saw a picture of the PHA-Q plate, but I can't say if it was photoshopped or not.

I did see a middle-aged guy in a red Ferrari with the plate SXL DV8 (in Los Angeles).

[Hugh Akston]

My favorite vanity plate:

http://www.coolpl8z.com/view-plate.php?id=2786

[Binky]

The kicker is: The guy's name is David Eatthe.

[Jay]

Children are not on the Michelle Obama diet(TM). I blame her for snitching.

[Some Guy]

There's a guy in town with the plate FKWIT. I read it as fuckwit. That's convenient, since the person is exactly that. None the less, I'm stunned that the plate made it past the DMV.

[Rimfax]

They live in my neighborhood. I feel special.

[Christina]

Excuse me, but I still think I had the best license plate ever: BORT.

Sadly, it too was lost, but because I was driving around with expired registration and in the meantime someone else took it.

[Christina]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vihYeWip4g

[d3athp3nguin]

I remember living near a house with an old, rusty pickup truck with a license plate that read "DIRTBAG." Whoever drove that truck must have been awesome.

[Me Too]

Since we're on the subject, I knew a guy from Missoula named Ray who ordered the plate: RAYTARD. That was his nickname. He got pulled over for speeding one day and the road cop commented on his insensitivity. Responded Ray: "DISRAYBLED wouldn't fit."

[Combaticus]

My first true laugh of the day. Thanks.

[Wind Rider]

What, nobody has mentioned the famous "CTHULU" VA 'Kids First' Plate?

Probably still out there cause most people are too dumb to get it.

[Van]

Can easily switch to

MOLEST
FINGER
DIDDLE
BEATDA
SELLDA
CORNHL
ENSLAV
TAXTHE
DRAFT

[Sean L.]

Also,
KICKS
BEATS
SMACKS
HITS
STABS

Basically any nasty verb. By adding an 's' it implies Virginia is the one doing it.