Prosecutor: Marine license plate offensive

[unhappycamper]

Prosecutor: Marine license plate offensive
By Dan Lamothe - Staff writer
Posted : Tuesday Apr 22, 2008 6:14:35 EDT

If you ask Abbe Rifkin, former Sgt. Stewart Tabares has way too much on his plate. Rifkin, a prosecutor in Miami-Dade County, filed a complaint with the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles objecting to the four-letter word on Tabares’ vanity license plate.

The plate features the Marine Corps’ eagle, globe and anchor and four letters that begin and end with “T” and are commonly known as vulgar slang for female genitalia. But it’s also jokingly used by Marines as an acronym for “Tactical Wire Assault Team” or “The War Against Terrorism.”

Rifkin, 51, who has prosecuted everyone from O.J. Simpson to drug cartels, is offended.

“To put it on a Marine Corps license plate, when he had to know that it was offensive to women, dishonors the plate and dishonors the Corps,” Rifkin said.

She saw the plate while stuck behind Tabares’ Mitsubishi Raider in traffic. Shocked, she snapped a photo with her cell phone camera and called the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to lodge a complaint.


Rest of article at: http://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/2008/04/marine_plate_042108w/

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. I'm surprised that Florida didn't screen the vanity plate

I know I've read here of folks who were denied plates that referred to peace or to Bush in a negative way--some even quite obscure.