Sunday, May 06, 2007

It's a great plate, but someone can't take what it's dishin' out.

(Photo by Steve McEnroe, Rapid City Journal photographer)

Thanks to Heather Moriah for providing today's chuckle. It comes from the state of South Dakota.

This is a picture of Heather with her personalized license plate, "MPEACHW". (Note it is on the back of her Prius....I think I'm really appreciating Heather Moriah now.)

Anyway, from the "J-Walk Blog" ("of stuff that may or may not interest you") comes the following:

Heather Moriah loves the personalized license plates on her silver Prius encouraging the impeachment of President George W. Bush.

But somebody doesn't agree. And that somebody complained to the state. Now, the South Dakota Division of Motor Vehicles is trying to recall the plates -- which read MPEACHW. And if Moriah doesn't turn them in voluntarily, the state might send law-enforcement officers to pick them up.

Some of the comments on that blog regarding Moriah's predicament that I thought were similarly amusing:

Remember, folks. Your license plate has to be okayed by literally every person in the world, since it only takes one complaint to make you lose it. ~Dave

This is South Dakota. I don't remember its exact population, but I think its something like 5. So, just to get along, everyone has to approve everyone else's license plate. ~WTF

What if the plate read CROWNGW? How many complaints would have been issued? ~Wendy

Gee whiz, she doesn't look like a single mother of six kids on welfare or a hippie or an immigrant or any of those other stereotypes that are supposed to represent the liberal left-winger; wonder how that can be? ~Mary

You can tell she's a liberal because she's driving a hybrid Prius. ~Mary

(NOTE: Sadly the comments shadowed CNN's Headline News anchor doing this story, degrading into an inevitable assault on Heather Moriah's politics because of her license plate and choice of automobiles. Others chose to attack Heather's appearance by implying she's masculine, thus explaining her provocation because she's likely a lesbian.)

Update: While South Dakota is reconsidering their decision, Heather plans to relocate to Pennsylvania soon, hence, "South Dakota can have their flippin' plates back." (Not her exact words, those were Dada's.) But she did say she would have fought this were she staying in state. Heather also said she will also consider a similar plate in Pennsylvania which, I suppose, shows her for the trouble maker she really is.

3 comments:

azgoddess said...

she's my kind of trouble-maker -- she rocks!!

Dada said...

az: I agree. I totally love this woman. BTW, I heard this morning the state of South Dakota has decided to let her keep those "awful" plates! Yay!

Psychomikeo said...

Gee it sure is nice of SD to "let" her have her FREE speech back.
Can we find out the name of the a$$hole that filed the complaint?