Dutch Name 'Obscene,' Unworthy of Car Plate

Thank heavens for state officials protecting us from number plates with exotic family names. Brave civil servants out West have just dealt a quadruple blow to a cabal of allegedly filthy-minded foreigners.

UDINK is a no-go for personalized plates in the state of Oregon. That's news to the Udink family, whose request for the vanity tags UDINK4 was rejected by state officials. They already have UDINK-1, -2 and -3. Not only has the latest request been turned down, the state has ordered the other three sets of plates returned. State officials say the word DINK has several derogatory meanings. But not to Mike and Shelly Udink. They say Udink is a common Dutch last name, and note they got their first personalized plates seven years ago.

Udink is indeed a fairly common name in the Netherlands. For instance, it would surely come as a surprise to Dutch Christian conservative leader Berend-Jan Udink (a staunch seventies-era defender of god, queen, and country) that his last name is such an unpardonable affront in Oregon.

Comments

[pistoffnick]

Of course the solution to this silliness is to get rid of license plates. Or to make your own.

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You can see Mike Udink tell his story in a video on the www.thedailycourier.com Scroll down to the videos and look for the one that says DMV.