Vicroads snowflake offended at custom plate WEPN

[ESeriesKev]

https://7news.com.au/travel/victoria...oads-c-1111087

https://www.change.org/p/vicroads-re...r-peter-hansen

Please get some signatures on this people. Common sense needs to prevail and these precious snowflakes who specialise in manufactured outrage need to be told their whinging isn't welcome anymore.

[blueoval]

I saw this on FB. What a joke. People need to get offended by real problems in Australia and not be so dam soft.

[MercuryT]

I still don't understand what's even offensive about it.

Not greatly surprised though.

[Mulva]

Hey VicRoads, that's not a weapon...this is a weapon!



Signed the petition.

[Tickford.]

Signed.

As I understand it, Vicroads needs to receive 3 written complaints from the public about a number plate before it is deemed "offensive" and then request the plates be handed in and cancelled.

Signing an online petition is not going to do jack. Write a letter to Vicroads HQ and something may happen. It only takes 3 letters to remove a plate. How many letters will it take to re-instate a plate?

[cheap]

Not snowflakes, but bunch of assholes have been empowered to make ambient claims about any contrived issue. Victoria seems to be the epicentre of this type of behaviour!

There are 3 types of people ...

https://youtu.be/txG0XqZMrEE

[Franco Cozzo]

Lol thank **** I haven't put either of mine on my car yet because they're both offensive

[Citroënbender]

It’s worth noting that “SNOFLK” is unavailable.

[wodahs]

and i thought it was a representation of Welsh Entrepreneur of Porcelain gNomes

[Jastel]

ALL Victoria and Queensland plates are offensive according to the BLM cancel culture mob.
Due to who they are named after.

I wish it was the 1980's again...

[CoupeKing]

SOYBOY and FEMPIG, my next two plates. I'll even buy a wig for the latter.

[prktkljokr]

How stupid is vic roads, I could take offence to some of the street names, suburbs and towns, what are they going to do change them too, what a bunch of dim witted morons we have making rules for us, what are they that bored at vicroads they have nothing better to do than take a number plate off someone, even though in the English language it says nothing, WEPN could mean anything, could be the abbreviation of a business name.

Pretty sure a good lawyer would sort this out in a couple of hours.

I signed the petition vic road morons

[CyberWasp]

If only we could get a record of these authorities number plates so we could keep sending in 3 letters of complaint saying we find them offensive.
They would have to change their plates every week.

[Citroënbender]

They're either stupid, or speak no Spanish. "2MADRE" is available.

[ozpacman]

Apparently it's quite okay to have a football team named the Bombers though...

[marty351]

How about "Tu95's". Would sit well with the inner city soy sippers.

[wodahs]

in my line of work we use 20" shipping containers and on shipping company has their boxes with the pre fix "FCKU" (is that offencive) 1234567

[Citroënbender]

I will withdraw my offence at your company's product upon receipt of a gifted sample.

[wodahs]

Originally Posted by Citroënbender

I will withdraw my offence at your company's product upon receipt of a gifted sample.

i want a gifted sample too or i'll be offended

[aussiblue]

I am trying to find it now (with no success yet but I will keep looking) but I seem to recall some research some years ago, I think in the UK, that showed a link between personalised number plates with script that seemed to ''encourage dangerous driving, speeding and/or drink driving'' and related driving offences and, if so, this might be the rational for this decision. Perhaps if this is the case it is also justified although perhaps the "chicken and egg" situation does arise.

[GasoLane]

I think the (NSW) RTA got it right when they first brought them out. I believe they were then called 'Vanity Plates'.

[aussiblue]

And I'm inclined to agree with this opinion (below in quotes) as I find myself often using the W adjective to personal plate drivers who more often seem to be more the aggressive/ hooning/ tailgating/ and/or lane switching drivers. But that's probably why they and their ego chose the personalised plates rather than the plates influencing their behaviour. Yes there are some perfectly well behaved drivers with personalised plates but there does seem from my casual observation to be more bad drivers that have personalised plates. Still half as bad as the old Ute driver who followed me a few inches from my bumper while I maintained the speed limit the other day with "U Are The C**T" printed in reverse on his bonnet, and on another occasion I saw him switch at the last minute from the right lane to take a left lane exit he'd already passed on the Roe Freeway cutting across the painted island and forcing to cars to brake heavily. A road rage issue just waiting to happen.

https://skepticlawyer.com.au/2008/07...-numberplates/

I’ve noticed that there seems to be a general correlation between stupidity of personalised number plate and recklessness of driver. The more ridiculous the personalised number plate, generally, the more reckless the driver. So people who just have their initials on their number plates are usually pretty much like any other drivers, but someone who has a red number plate with SPRMAN* on it is pretty much guaranteed to be a hoon. I’ve noticed a number of trends in personalised number plates:

Young girls with pink number plates saying MISS21 (obviously a 21st birthday present) or BARBIE or something like that;
Cars with cartoon character name plates – for example, a yellow car with a number plate saying TWEETY;
Guys with some macho number plate, like ZOOMER, or FREEEK, or HANSUM (the cars tend to have spoilers, those little lights underneath and the low profile alloy wheels as well);
People of all sorts with incomprehensible personalised number plates, for example GFRICK (what the hell does that mean? why get a number plate that no one will understand?);
Business vans – for example, a van for a cleaning company with a number plate like CLEENA (this one I can understand, and have more sympathy for).

I wonder if anyone has done a statistical analysis of personalised number plate drivers and traffic violations? Do personalised number plate drivers have a greater amount of speeding tickets than the rest of us, or is it just my imagination that there is a correlation between personalised number plates and stupid driving habits? My husband was theorising that personalised number plates stick in the memory more, and thus, it’s easier to remember hoons with personalised number plates than those without. But even taking into account that effect, I still think there is some kind of correlation.

If there is a correlation between personalised number plates and reckless driving, why would this be so? Perhaps it’s something to do with pride in one’s car and in one’s driving skills – a person with a personalised number plate is more likely to put extra care into his or her car, and perhaps to think that they have driving skills and capabilities beyond that of the average bear.

and it pointed me to what was probably the research I was trying to find:

A commenter has pointed out that a psychological study has actually concluded that people who personalise their car (with personal number plates, stickers and the like) are more likely to be aggressive on the road.

So I’m not delusional.

Drivers who individualize their cars using bumper stickers, window decals and personalized license plates, the researchers hypothesized, see their cars in the same way as they see their homes and bedrooms — as deeply personal space, or primary territory.

Unlike any environment our evolutionary ancestors might have confronted, driving a car simultaneously places people in both private territory — their cars — and public territory — the road. Drivers who personalize their cars with bumper stickers and other markers of private territory, the researchers argue, forget when they are on the road that they are in public territory because the immediate cues surrounding them tell them that they are in a deeply private space.

“If you are in a vehicle that you identify as a primary territory, you would defend that against other people whom you perceive as being disrespectful of your space,” Bell [one of the researchers] added. “What you ignore is that you are on a public roadway — you lose sight of the fact you are in a public area and you don’t own the road.”

and https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dy...T2008061502199 and this related study from QUT in Queensland; https://eprints.qut.edu.au/9416/

[Silver Ghia]

Originally Posted by aussiblue

And I'm inclined to agree with this opinion (below in quotes) as I find myself often using the W adjective to personal plate drivers who more often seem to be more the aggressive/ hooning/ tailgating/ and/or lane switching drivers. But that's probably why they and their ego chose the personalised plates rather than the plates influencing their behaviour. Yes there are some perfectly well behaved drivers with personalised plates but there does seem from my casual observation to be more bad drivers that have personalised plates. Still half as bad as the old Ute driver who followed me a few inches from my bumper while I maintained the speed limit the other day with "U Are The C**T" printed in reverse on his bonnet, and on another occasion I saw him switch at the last minute from the right lane to take a left lane exit he'd already passed on the Roe Freeway cutting across the painted island and forcing to cars to brake heavily. A road rage issue just waiting to happen.

https://skepticlawyer.com.au/2008/07...-numberplates/



and it pointed me to what was probably the research I was trying to find:



and https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dy...T2008061502199 and this related study from QUT in Queensland; https://eprints.qut.edu.au/9416/

But conclusions to these researches are only generalisations, it doesnt mean that every driver will drive accordingly. Too often these days people and authorities are too ready to put certain groups of people into pidgeon holes regardless of the fact that everyone is different. The fact that this owner has had the subject plates on his car for 10 years, and the photos of him and his car, give an impression he is a responsible driver as well as a motoring enthusiast, a group who's ages range from teens to over 80 years from all walks of life, regardless of whether they are business owners, lawyers, doctors, architects, builders, police officers, plumbers, pensioners etc. I know this personally as a member of a car club which the members average age is over 70.

Most these days seem to take notice more of what is perceived, not what is the fact.

[Itsme]

This what happens when you have leftards in position of power! NWO at its best rewriting history and telling you how to live.

[Electrolyte Burns]

Just someone looking for their 15 minutes of fame.

[gutza]

Not sure if it's Urban Legend or true ......

After a bit of time and a number of people at the Rego place, wondering why someone would want and pay for an innocuous Personalised Plate. They refused.

Plate : 6ULDV8

[Citroënbender]

An acquaintance has a far more risque plate to do with pursuits of the flesh, he’s amazed it hasn’t been recalled.

Would the snowflakes be offended by “WLM2”?

[kaniSS]

Sick and bloody tired of these snowflakes, Karen's and Greenies.

[Yellow_Festiva]

Originally Posted by prktkljokr

Pretty sure a good lawyer would sort this out in a couple of hours.



I signed the petition vic road morons

Not sure how it works in Victoria, in NSW you don't own the plates, just ask permission to lease them at an annual cost.

Should the owner (Vic roads / RMS etc) want them back they can break the lease and take back the plates they own at any time.

It is disgusting that they have been removed. It should be put to public opinion before a couple of complaints are seriously entertained.

2-3 complaints will get it removed, I bet 10,000 votes for it to be reinstated will fall on deaf ears.

What a bloody joke...

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[Mulva]

I must have lived a very sheltered life as I have to admit to not "getting" many of the plates suggested in here.

Did hear a story a while ago about a plate someone had gotten away with for a long time that seemed inoffensive enough when viewed the right-way-around but was quite different when viewed in reverse through rear-view mirror...but frustratingly cannot recall what it was