What’s with the “WTF” plate number?
The letter combination “WTF” in a car’s plate number seems nothing for, maybe, most of the people; but for some who is quite liberated or shall we call “those who are aware of what are happening in the media and society”, these three letter combination means a lot. Yes, it’s the abbreviation of the vulgar word and expression “What The F**k”.
Some of the people, like those reported in the United States, find these words as offensive and degrades their reputation, especially for those who are working in schools and churches. They end up petitioning to change their plate number that was randomly assigned to their car. The authorities are also trying to wipe-out offensive plate numbers such as WTF to avoid any further issues. - newsinfo.inquirer.net/ breakingnews/world/ view/20080627-145059/ WTF-abbreviation-on-car-plates-makes-Americans-blush
However, for some, this is a precious collector’s item or something like a commemorative plate. For them, it’s an opportunity to own a limited plate with WTF letter combinations. For a three letter and three digit plate numbers (like in the Philippines), there would be 17,576,000 combinations; only around 1000 (or 0.0057%) of those combinations would have a letter combination of WTF. Therefore, it’s precious to own one of those plate numbers no matter how vulgar the three letters mean for some. In this website, nationalnumbers.co.uk /all/wtf/ number-plates.htm, a plate number with WTF letter combination is actually bided-out for up to £5017 or almost USD7,000; I don’t know, maybe I am wrong to say that they are bidding for the word that we are talking about or for some known organization with WTF abbreviation, like “World Taekwondo Federation“.
Filed in: Sports and Automotive
Local date: March, 2010