Philly Today: No, You Cannot Have “FUBIDEN” as Your PA Vanity Plate

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No, You Can’t Have “FUBIDEN” As Your Pennsylvania Self-importance License Plate

For a charge, you may apply to PennDOT to get a type of vainness license plates. However you may’t simply have it say something. The foundations are fairly clear. Really, they couldn’t be clearer: Nothing lewd, obscene, vulgar, profane, or lascivious, to make use of the phrases set forth by PennDOT. Nothing remotely sexual. Need a license plate that reads ILUVPOOP? You’ll be able to’t. Nothing about “excretory capabilities.” No racial slurs. You’ll be able to learn all the foundations right here.

PennDOT has workers who vet the plates utilizing an web acronym dictionary and a slang dictionary. They’ll additionally take your request and course of it via language translators, must you try and throw some French curse phrases their method. Oh, they usually additionally will learn your requested plate backwards. They’re additionally looking out for purposes that attempt to sneak in numbers for letters, the best way center schoolers used to do with that calculator computation that led to, nicely, one thing resembling BOOBLESS.

Naturally, folks being folks, PennDOT rejects a ton of vainness plate purposes. The media outlet Metropolis & State Pennsylvania took a take a look at some current rejections in a brand new report, they usually undoubtedly gave me a superb chuckle. Among the many rejected vainness plates: FUBIDEN, ELOH55A (bear in mind what I stated about studying backwards and quantity substitutions), and FLA5HME. I personally just like the ELOH55A try finest.

And since there’s no such factor as an unique concept, I plunged into the profane pool of prohibited plates method again in 2017. Some extra notable ones from my analysis: ASSMAN, VEGANAF, and HOLYCRP. (C’mon, PennDOT. We are able to’t have HOLYCRP? Unsurprisingly, you’re no enjoyable.) I got here up with greater than 300 rejected plates. In some circumstances, I’ve actually no clue what these individuals are attempting to say. Although my youngsters in all probability do.

Scorching Canine Battle at Phillies Recreation Results in Fan Ejections

I by no means thought I’d be utilizing the phrase “scorching canine combat” in a narrative. However right here we’re. On Tuesday night time, the Phillies performed the Marlins at Residents Financial institution Park. We misplaced. However the large story, apparently, was a fairly epic (a phrase I don’t use usually) meals combat involving scads of scorching canines, Tuesday being Greenback Canine Evening. Followers have been throwing scorching canines far and wide within the stands. Safety ejected some. I’m attempting to consider a superb Each day Information headline for his or her entrance web page. Frank Fracas? Meh. The Each day Mail (sure this information made it to the opposite facet of the pond) really did fairly nicely with “Weiner Warfare!” After all, if a bunch of teenagers began throwing a whole bunch of scorching canines in Heart Metropolis, we’d deploy the SWAT crew.

Talking of Philly Teenagers …

The Inquirer asks (and solutions) an excellent query: “The place Is a Philadelphia Teenager Presupposed to Hold Out?”

Say Goodbye to “Eyewitness Information”

For many years, CBS 3’s information protection has operated with the branding “Eyewitness Information.” However the station says that instances have modified. As an alternative of the hit-it-and-quit-it, get-in-and-get-out, if-it-bleeds-it-leads method that has been “Eyewitness Information,” the station says it needs to current tales in a extra considerate and contextualized method. The rebranding additionally consists of new graphics and such.

This video provides you a really feel of what their new vibe is:

Free Espresso at Wawa

I might be remiss if I didn’t inform you that Wawa is giving freely free espresso (any measurement!) at present in honor of the corporate’s 59th birthday.

By the Numbers

$0.12: Did it simply value extra to refill your gasoline tank? That’s as a result of the typical gasoline value in Pennsylvania simply went up by this a lot within the final week.

$451,431.11: Quantity two ladies of their 20s allegedly stole from the West Chester physician they labored for. Prosecutors say they laundered the funds via PayPal and used the cash for tanning salons, tattoos, and hairstyling, amongst different much less primping-oriented issues.

100: Variety of 360-degree surveillance cameras the town is putting in outdoors 14 rec facilities across the metropolis, selecting the places primarily based on gun violence information from these neighborhoods.

$1,716: Minimal value of a courtside ticket to this Saturday’s first Sixers playoff sport at Wells Fargo Heart. They go as much as $6,000 every. Don’t fear: It’s also possible to get into the sport for 70 bucks.

Philly Sports activities Desk contributor Sandy Hingston is on break this week. And, subsequently, so is the Sports activities Desk.