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Post by Stu on Mar 24, 2017 16:56:37 GMT -5
Nova Scotia man Lorne Grabher was raised to be proud of his German heritage and last name. So proud, in fact, that for his father’s birthday in 1991, he gifted him a vanity plate reading “GRABHER” that would be used by three generations of Grabhers. Now, 16 years later, the Registrar of Motor Vehicles has terminated the plate, though I can’t imagine why. “Where does the province of Nova Scotia and this government have a person with that kind of power to discriminate against my name?” questioned Grabher in an interview with CTV Atlantic. In a letter Grabher received last December, Janice Harland, the Registrar of Motor Vehicles’s director of road safety, wrote, “While I recognize this plate was issued as your last name, the public cannot be expected to know this and can misinterpret it as a socially unacceptable slogan.” What, PRAY TELL, is “socially unacceptable” about a strong German name like GRABHER? I, personally, do not get it. First they come for Lorne and next the Nova Scotia Registrar of Motor Vehicles will be going after other distinguished family names like Pinchcock, Powerbottom, and Nomeansyes. Grabher is currently considering legal action to reclaim his custom plates and we, the staff of JIZZYBALL, wish him well. jezebel.com/man-named-grabher-just-wants-his-customized-grabher-lic-1793618805?utm_campaign=socialfow_jezebel_twitter&utm_source=jezebel_twitter&utm_medium=socialflowHalf the fun is reading the article's comments. People are giving other examples of silly license plates.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 24, 2017 19:20:18 GMT -5
I hardly know her.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 24, 2017 20:23:03 GMT -5
I had a German highschool teacher named Mr. Grab. We would make jokes he's going to Grab her or get grabbed. Today I learned that's an actual German lastname Grabher
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Post by Andy Martin on Mar 24, 2017 20:43:00 GMT -5
I had a German highschool teacher named Mr. Grab. We would make jokes he's going to Grab her or get grabbed. Today I learned that's an actual German lastname Grabher My social studies teacher in grade 9 was actually a Mrs. Grabner-Ibsen, who was a Canadian who had gone back and forth between east and west Germany during the eighties.
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Post by Capt Lunatic on Mar 25, 2017 7:05:39 GMT -5
Grabher went on to say "This is absurd! The DMV are acting like a bunch of my uncles!"
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Post by Magnus the Magnificent on Mar 25, 2017 7:58:40 GMT -5
Well, at least his last name isnt Fuchs.
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Post by Hawk Hart on Mar 25, 2017 16:25:07 GMT -5
I know a dude named Richard Grabher, he goes by Dick. That is 10000% true.
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Post by ISO Mid Thigh Pull on Mar 25, 2017 16:25:59 GMT -5
I'm changing my last name to Powerbottom.
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