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Maine’s vanity plate free-for-all is at an end. The state’s review process for custom license plates was effectively ended in 2015, after which residents could — and did — put nearly any- thing on the tags, including profanities.
Oh, The Vanity, Profanity Of License Plates
which have been denied. Secretary of State Shenna Bellows said vehicle owners can still express themselves, but that they should do so with bumper stickers, not
Cuticle Emergency
telling you, this whole time, not one single apology from them. ... This is pretty much my bread and butter.”
state-issued tags.
“We have a public inter-
A Jeep plowed into the storefront of Guilty Plea- surez Dezzert Cafe on March 3, shattering windows and destroying merchandise, according to CTV News To- ronto. Thankfully, the bakery — owned by siblings Tanvir and Simran Bawa — was not yet open for the day, and no one was inside.
Simran added the bak- ery had sustained “serious structural damage,” but that their insurance provider was requiring the shop to stay open for the time being — despite the shattered glass and a front door that doesn’t fully open.
Lawmakers have now had enough: The state is reestab- lishing a review process and recalling hundreds of “inap- propriate” plates, NBC Bos- ton reported.
est in keeping phrases and words that are profane or may incite violence off the roadways,” she said.
But resident Peter Staros- tecki wants to know: What’s inappropriate about soy products? The state recalled his plate, “LUVTOFU,” be- cause it “could’ ve been seen as a reference to sex instead of admiration for bean curd,” as NBC put it.
A Peruvian man, 26-year- old Julio Cesar Bermejo, is being detained in Puno after police discovered a mummi- fied human in his possession, People reported.
And That’s A Wrap
ILLUSTRATION BY MARK GALACGAC
his friends; it had been in his family for decades. He said he named the remains “Juan- ita” and it was his “spiritual girlfriend.” However, offi-
Cocaine Cat
A wild cat that was cap- tured in Cincinnati tested positive for exposure to co- caine, NPR reports. In events only recently made public, a big cat named Amiry es- caped from his owner’s car during a police stop in Jan- uary. Soon after, local dog wardens started getting calls about a possible leopard
Starostecki is one of 13 motorists to appeal their plates’ recall so far, all of
Officers approached three men drinking in a park on Feb. 25 and noticed the re- mains inside a cooler deliv- ery bag. Bermejo told them that he had brought the mummy to the park to show
cials say the mummy is ac- tually that of a 45-year-old man, and they’ ve turned it over to Peru’s Ministry of Culture.
Tanvir told CTV that he spoke to the driver: “I was like, ‘Are you OK?’ ... and she’s just giggling. She’s like, ‘Yeah, I’m fine.’”
In other Weird reports:
Tanvir rushed to the scene after getting a frantic call from the pair’s mother, while his sister got the news from a worker at KC’s Nails and Beauty Shoppe, the nail sa- lon next door. The employee told Simran that the driver was inside KC’s, getting her nails done.
“It’s not been the most pleasant time,” she said.
The Mummy
His sister added, “I’m
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