The video revolution is here

Boxing Day stumper

Any ideas on this one? In one of the many big-box parking lots in White Marsh.

fearsome on the road

On the NJ turnpike:


And on a green Ford minivan in Baltimore:

VHICKL parked here

Sleuth and dear friend MP in Richmond, Va., spotted this one this weekend:

VHICKL

It was parked right in front of a newsroom, where, ostensibly, wordsmiths are employed.

Welcome to Balto

Jwer sent me an e-mail with these spottings:

- PQQDLES on the MD plates of some generic luxury sedan or other
- BALTO on some giant burgundy pimptacular Cadillac coupe. Like, from the 70's. Parked on the block of Cathedral right south of the Meyerhoff.

Anyway, presumably the second is relatively easy to spot in the area ... seriously, that car was like 20' long.

"C" is for

That's good enough for me, on the NJ turnpike.

flavors of being

Spotted several weekends apart. These folks should meet up:

(please excuse the sadly outdated NYS plates in the vanity plate generator.)

just 4U

This one is straightforward:


This one is not:


And then there was the truck with Virginia plates that read


with an unidentified image in the corner. I tailed it for a long time through the rain on Interstate 95 in Cecil County. Was it an owl? A cat? Oh, a horse. Right.

Trogdor, the burninator!

Yessssss. Seen in the Whole Foods garage at Harbor East.

one more South Asian name

or perhaps this driver, spotted on northbound Interstate 95, is just headed back from the temple.

conditions of life

So I practiced some extremely unsafe driving practices this week with a disappointingly low yield of quality images, so we'll have to rely on a vanity plate generator.



oh, and a HANDICAPPED plate that read




I say, "!"

plates as political speech

So a retired New York police officer has filed a federal complaint to keep his GETOSAMA plates.

See the plates and a follow-up at Newsday, which reveals that the Nassau County branch of the New York Civil Liberties Union has already defended a similar ban on MPEACHW.

supporting municipal lines

or perhaps enjoying underground spaces?


I got cut off as I was tailing this one for the shot, but it was okay, because that license plate was