
Every year, the Texas DMV receives thousands of requests for custom license plates. Every year, the Texas DMV also denies thousands of requests for custom license plates according to regulations. Good news for us, we get to see those rejected custom Texas license plates.
Many of the rejected Texas license plates had to deal with irresponsible driving attitudes, others were drug related or included some risqué numerical combinations. Some are just plain NSFW. Below we’ve listed some of our favorites, the favorites we could publish in any case. Spoiler: there were a lot of HAWK TUAH attempts.
THIS SUX
SHK&BKE
GO*OMG
LATR LSR
U MOVE
YR UGLY
R3DNCK
SRY COPS
GET BXCK
YOUR SLO
LITTLPP
MMMOVE
SUXASS
NASDBOY
FAKE ID
TOPLUSS
UPINYA
HI 247
PLZZZ GO
DESNUTS
FART CAR
BND VLLN
CAT HELL
CHKNBUTT
UR MOM2
DAMFINE
SNEK69
DOODEE
Y U MAAD
DAMM CAT
GO AHRND
DUK*IT
FKN*GOLF
G3TWY CAR
ICR33M
MF TONKA
FUG4Zi
K4BRON
2FUGLY
URANU5
DV@RCED
GILF
FUCADUC
H3LL Y3A
DNT GAF
HEY LMAO
ZOOOTED
AAA SHHI
DEYH8N
UBTRIPN*
SH1TKKR
B4SICAF
BHOLE
LOL CYA
EW PEPL
TACOMLF
BOLLOKS
ASSMAAN
BLK BETE
SKIBIDV
The DMV listed the rejected license plates by month. In June, you can clearly see when HAWK TUAH became a thing with 50 variations of the phrase submitted in that month alone. For laughs, we’ll include all those here:
H4WKTUA
HAK*TU
HAK&TUWA
HAUK 2AH
HAUK TUA
HAWK 2A
HAWK TO
HAWK-TOA
HUAK TUH
HUAK&TUA
HUK THUA
HWK&TUWA
HWK2AH
H4WKTUH
HAK2WA
HAUK 2
HUAK&TUH
HAW TUAH
HAWK2AA
HCK TUAH
HOCK2AA
HCK TUAH
HOCK2A
HUC TUAH
HWK 2A
HWKTAU
HWKTUA
H4WK 2UA
HAKTUA
HALK*TUA
HAWK 2IE
HAWK TWA
HAWK*7UA
HWAK-TUU
HWK 2UAH
HWK&2UH
HWKTU
HWKTUAA
HAK2UAH
HAUK*2UH
HAWK 2WA
HAWK TWO
HWK2AHH
HAUC@2A
HAWKTAH
HULTUA
HWK TUUA
HAK2A
HAUK 2Y
HUAK@TU
If you look at the full list – thousands people, thousands – of rejected Texas license plates you’ll see many plates that were clearly second tries and even third tries as previous requests were rejected.
According to the Texas DMV, custom Texas license plates are rejected according to the following criteria:
- sexual references
- vulgarity
- derogatory language toward a specific group of people
- gang references or illegal behavior, threats, violence or crime
- “direct of indirect negative instruction or command” to other drivers in relation to operating a motor vehicle
- drug references or references to being under the influence
- references to government positions or law enforcement
- combinations that could be difficult to read by law enforcement
If you’re looking to create your own vanity plate, you can do so here.
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