California Personalized License Plate Requests Flagged for Review 2015-2016

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BSTRDS 2ND BATTALION, 4TH MARINE REGIMENT MONIKER. BASTARDS vulgar, prejudice, hostile, insulting, or degrading

DOG PE DOG (FOR SNOOPY) PE (I'M A PROF ENGINEER) DOG PEE profane, obscene, or repulsive

LUXEOG NICK NAME FROM MOM OG, GANG REFERENCE vulgar, prejudice, hostile, insulting, or degrading

1ULV2H8 ONE YOU LOVE TO HATE ONE YOU LOVE TO HATE vulgar, prejudice, hostile, insulting, or degrading

GMUNEE G MONEY G, GANG REFERENCE vulgar, prejudice, hostile, insulting, or degrading

FRDSMKR FORD SMOKER SMOKER vulgar, prejudice, hostile, insulting, or degrading

JERZY88 88, GANG REFERENCE vulgar, prejudice, hostile, insulting, or degrading

FURMOVR THIS VEHICLE MOVES ANIMALS FROM ONE PLACE TO ANOTHER LOOKS LIKE FUR REMOVER.. ONE WHO WAXES FUR CAN BE A SEXUAL REFERENCE OR COULD PERTAIN TO A GROOMER vulgar, prejudice, hostile, insulting, or degrading

Right at the top of the list: octocat.

Good thing California is saving us from the sexual nature of GitHub's mascot.

The balls on the guy that straight up just asked for penis69 and put that as the description too.

What planet are these reviewers from?

Either it's a jobs program for lost causes that wouldn't be able to find a job anywhere else (TSA?), or an offshore boiler room right next to the tech support scam call centre. Either way doesn't bode well for quality.

I wonder if there's an explicit quota of rejections, or an implicit one ("look at how many dangerous plates we reject - what would you do without us?") that contributes to completely nonsensical rejections in addition to baseline stupidity?

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