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Ohio motorists can't be 'UMH8ER'
Posted: 11.21.2011 at 1:11 PM
Kevin Kistner

Kevin is the Senior Producer at WNWO.

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Ohio rejecting many anti-Michigan license plates  / Ohio BMV
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COLUMBUS -- Ohio is putting the kibosh on any vanity license plate that takes the Buckeye-Wolverine rivalry to nasty heights.

The Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles has rejected plates such as  "KILBLU," "HATEMI" (HATE M-I) and "UMH8ER" (U-M HATER). 

The BMV says it bans any vanity plate that is lewd, rude or crude or expresses hatred toward a person or group.  It says requests for anti-Michigan plates start coming in at the beginning of football season.

The big game is this Saturday.

Read More: Columbus Dispatch 

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