Is the word “oink” which appeared on an Indiana police officer’s vanity license plate offensive to good taste and decency?” Well, it’s not offensive to the Greenwood officer, Rodney Vawter, but apparently, it must be offensive to someone at the Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles. Vawter had his license plate for three years before the agency revoked it. And stopped selling vanity plates.
That prompted a law suit by Vawter and the American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana, which they won. Marion County Judge James Osborn said the BMV had no formal regulation in place for evaluating the content of vanity plates and ordered it to create standards. But the bureau is appealing to the Indiana Supreme Court, reports the Associated Press, which said it could all result in the Indiana Legislature getting rid of vanity plates.
We hope not.
“Oink” is hardly offensive to most of us, and it, like most other vanity license plates, is fun to read.
Create some guidelines that make sense, if you must, but keep the plates.
In the meantime, maybe the person who found “Oink” to be offensive (but not “oinks”) should consider a plate that reads “Mickey Mouse.”
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