Tofu-Loving Maine Man’s Vanity License Plate Recalled For Being Hilariously Accidentally Vulgar

You can't just get anything as a vanity license plate. Hundreds of proposed vanity license plates are denied every years for various reasons - most of which are because they are vulgar or just inappropriate. You can check out some plates that Mass gave the ol' heave-ho-veto to down below.

Peter Starostecki loves tofu. Like loves loooovvvveeesss it. So much so that he wanted to profess his love publicly on his license plate. He decided to pay the extra fee for a vanity plate and his request was granted. Peter drove around Maine for a period of time, proudly displaying his "LUVTOFU" license plate. Harmless, right? Well... look at it again. "LUVTOFU" obviously represents "love tofu."

Maine drivers noticed something else - some laughed, some gasped at "LUVTOFU." Let's space those words differently: "love to f u." Get it now?

The state has reclaimed the accidentally vulgar plates and tofu-loving Peter ain't happy. He has filed multiple appeals but all have been rejected so far.

Vanity plates get me through the H-E-double-hockey-stick that is 495 traffic pretty frequently. I enjoy chuckling at fellow roadsters' creativity. But, as you may know or guess, many vanity plates are rejected by MassDOT for various reasons every year. Here are 15 vanity plates that have recently been rejected and will never see the blinding lights of the Tip O'Neil tunnel.

One guy filed multiple vanity plates - all with a common theme. And each time one was rejected, he came back with the next variation. What a waste of time. LOL
He started by requesting MLFLVR. Rejected. MLFS? Rejected. MLFMAN? Nope. The end.

Multiple people every year try to get the license plate PISSA. They all fall to the rejection fairies.

LMFAO - It's a no even if you're sexy and you know it.

MOIST - If you want that as your license plate you must just be a troll who loves to evoke cringe.

SHTBX - I would die laughing if I saw a rusty old car rocking that. I actually I want to drive a rusty old car and rock that.

MF. One guy in the past year even applied for the vanity plate BADMF. He was a kindergarten teacher.

You can't use the letters AZZ together either. It must have been that last guy's brother who recently tried to get the Massachusetts plate BADAZZ.

"Religion" was given as the reason for the rejection of the Mass vanity plate SATAN.

Not sure why these were rejected. I've never personally used any of these words in my regular vocabulary but they seem harmless unless I'm missing something: FLEEK, SLAY (I guess I can see that), and LITTY.

... the vanity plate FISHY. It got the hook.

REDRUM got denied due to violent undertones understandably.

Nope.

Rejected.

Nuh uh.

Someone actually requested that... and got the N-O.

Sorrrryyyyyy.

MASSSUX. The RMV obviously likes it here. Denied.