DMV accidentally 許すs driver to 'EAT THE KIDS FIRST' by 認可するing a cheeky license plate

By Meghan Keneally
Updated: 20:23 BST, 20 September 2011

The Department of モーター 乗り物s is known around the country as the least fun 官僚主義, where errands tend to take hours and 訪問者s are 定期的に met with disgruntled 労働者s.

The Virginia DMV is no e xception.

Naughty: the 初めの license plates were みなすd 不快な／攻撃 and banned

One man created やめる a circus in 2008 when his personalized license plate was 取り消すd by the Virginia DMV because it （一定の）期間d out 'EAT THE KIDS FIRST'. The 演劇 has 攻撃する，衝突する the roads again, since one driver spotted some Virginia plates, playing on the same joke, that finagled its way past the DMV's 注目する，もくろむs.

By 代用品，人ing a 'T' for a '7', the driver of a blue Mustang was able to get away with plates that read 'EA7 THE KIDS FIRST'.

After the thought of eating the kids ruffled some feathers, other plates popped up that 示唆するd 'SLAP' as a viable 代案／選択肢.

Like all 明言する／公表するs, Virginia uses vanity license plates as a way to raise money for charity.

によれば a 2007 国家の 熟考する／考慮する done by the American 協会 of モーター 乗り物 行政官／管理者s, there are 9.7 million 乗り物s with personalized plates roaming the roads of every 明言する／公表する and the 地区 of Columbia.

The plates cost between $10 and $15, and have a $25 年次の 登録 料金, $15 of which goes to the sponsored charity.

The 初めの jokester, Garth Yeaman, つまずくd upon a charity plate that has a picture of a child's red 手渡す print and has the words 'Kids First' 名簿（に載せる）／表（にあげる）d on the 底（に届く）.

代案／選択肢s: other personalized plates are いっそう少なく 議論の的になる

'I was really bored and like any 20-year-old male I surf the Internet and I was on the DMV website and there's this place where you can through all the possible plates,' Yeaman said. 'I thought 'I can do something funny with this plate'.'

Unfortunately, the DMV didn't find the joke やめる so much hilarious as 不快な／攻撃.

They sent Yeaman a letter 需要・要求するing the plates 支援する because 'some people 最初 見解（をとる） the plate, 'the 見通し of cannibalism of children conjures a truly horrible image. Others may 見解（をとる） the message as 存在 "vulgar in nature,' associated "eat the kids" with oral sex.'

Yeaman, who is training to become certified as a maths teacher, thought that their reaction was absurd.

'They thought I was 容赦するing cannibalism, like the actual cooking and eating of children,' Yeaman said.?

After he lost the 事例／患者, Yeaman returned the 不快な／攻撃 plates. After having several other humorous 選択s 否定するd, he now rides his 1994 Miata around with plates that call out the police, reading 'OHNO5OH'.

No word yet on the 身元 of the 最新の prankster, but hopefully he is taking the same light-hearted approach to the message.