Would you have figured this out?

[SzczerbiakManiac]

Some redneck in VA just got his personalized license plate revoked because it's coded hate speech. The plate read 14CV88. Do you see why it's a hate plate? I sure didn't. This article explains it (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/21/AR2010042105132.html?nav=hcmodule).

[Capt Jack]

I can honestly say, no, I would not

[CoasterMatt]

I know the 88 is code for Heil Hitler, in some circles (H = 8th letter of the alphabet)

[Alex]

I wouldn't have got it, but if someone pointed it out saying "that's code" I probably would have guessed white supremacy as I am familiar with the 1488 code. There's actually disagreement about where exactly the 88 comes from, but none of the options are inspiring.

[Kevy Baby]

Nope, I'm as ignorant about the code as the driver of the vehicle is about Islam:

"Everything I ever needed to know about Islam I learned on 9/11."

[alphabassettgrrl]

I would not have figured that out, no.

[scaeagles]

I wouldn't have. Who sits down and actually tries to hard enough to decipher such things?

[Morrigoon]

When you tell me it's hate speech, I can identify the 88 for the hitler/neonazi reference, but it's not something that would be obvious to me if I just saw it driving around. And I have no idea what the rest means (haven't seen the article, I'm guessing it says?)

[Cadaverous Pallor]

As the article says, the tip off is the vehicle itself.

http://www.cair.com/images/Heil-Hitler-License-Plate.jpg

[SzczerbiakManiac]

For those not inclined to read the article:
14: code for imprisoned white supremacist David Lane's 14-word motto, "We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children."
CV: Confederate veteran
88: the eighth letter of the alphabet, H, doubled to signify "Heil Hitler"

[Gemini Cricket]

http://www.cair.com/images/Heil-Hitler-License-Plate.jpg

The first thing that pops in to my head after I see something like this is that anyone that loud and angry is dealing with some self-hate.
AND in a handicapped stall! Well, this person better be limping at the very least...

[SzczerbiakManiac]

Perhaps in Virginia the mentally handicapped are allowed to park in those spots....

[€uroMeinke]

I thought about Mythbusters and the love of blowing things up - like the twin towers

[Strangler Lewis]

Well, it's a small world, but you wouldn't want to paint it. "14" is also used by the Norteño street gangs, because it represents the letter "n".

[flippyshark]

There are 88 keys on a piano, so I will now have to regard it as an instrument of hatred.

[Ghoulish Delight]

There are 88 keys on a piano, so I will now have to regard it as an instrument of hatred.
For the last year or so that I was forced to take lessons, it was.

[Strangler Lewis]

The Bechstein family were big Hitler supporters. That probably explains it.

[Morrigoon]

I cannot fathom spending the kind of money that guy spent on custom graphics for a vehicle....to put references to things I hate on it. But I guess people whose very being is oriented toward things they hate rather than things they love...

[€uroMeinke]

... like our country or our race ;)

[Morrigoon]

I love USC, but while dedicating my car to hating the bRuins sounds amusing... it's not something I'd spend 2 grand on a vinyl wrap for. Makes far more sense to spend that money saying positive things about SC.

[Strangler Lewis]

On the silver lining front, we should at least give the guy credit for not belieing that 9/11 was a conspiracy between the American government and the Jews.

[scaeagles]

It wasn't? Oh, man. Gotta rethink everything now.

[Capt Jack]

It wasn't? Oh, man. Gotta rethink everything now.

thats worth doing on occasion just for S&G