By Eden Derby
Friday, November 06, 2009 at 6:42 p.m.
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KIRKSVILLE, MO --
When Joyce Cassity walked into the Kirkville License Bureau to get her new license plates, she came out with quite a surprise.
Joyce wanted to make sure her new plates did not have an x because she was rear-ended twice with plates that had an x in the license number. There certainly wasn't an x, but the new plates spelled out something more offensive: WE2 HOR.
“I got in the car, did a double take at the license plate and saw what it said, and I thought oh no, and when my daughter saw it she said, there's no way I’ll ride in the car if those plates are on your car, and I can imagine some of the comments and laughs it would get,” said Cassity.
Joyce was told she'd have to pay $12 for new plates, which she was more than willing to do. But there were so many complaints about that sequence of letters around the state, that she got a new set of plates for free.
