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Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Vietnamese Community Upset Over "Fuck Your Mother" License Plate

Posted By on Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 7:48 AM

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Everyone has those days at work where you're there but not "there." As a result, your work product becomes something like a joke. Or in the DMV's case, a your mom joke. 

Such is the case with the DMV in San Jose, which unwittingly let slip this super offensive Vietnamese phrase onto a San Jose license plate. 

CBS News spotted the nasty plate and using its Vietnamese-speaking reporters learned that the foreign phrase was the forbidden words you'd not want to utter at your friend's Thanksgiving dinner (hint: it has to do with having adult relations with your mother). 

After confronting the driver of said plate, he responded that it actually meant "I love your mother." Knowing the truth and wanting to prove it, CBS went around to a handful of Vietnamese residents in San Jose and showed them the words on the license plate. 

Here was their reaction: 



As you can see, the DMV isn't laughing. 


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Erin Sherbert was the Online News Editor for SF Weekly from 2010 to 2015. She's a Texas native and has a closet full of cowboy boots to prove it.

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