Posted on 07/15/2026 1:09:28 PM PDT by DFG
A South Florida woman was surprised to receive a new license plate with her vehicle registration renewal that she feels carries an inappropriate message.
Pompano Beach resident Nancy Dello Stritto, who is almost 77 years old, opened her mail to find a license plate reading "SQZ A55." She told CBS News Miami that the plate, which can be interpreted to spell out a crude phrase, caused her to go "ballistic."
The plate has become a topic of conversation at her retirement community, where opinions are split.
While Dello Stritto is unhappy with the configuration, she noted that others, including her sons and their friends, have encouraged her to keep it. She said the current tally is 16-1 in favor of her keeping the plate.
It remains unclear how the plate was issued. Florida license plates have been manufactured at a state prison in North Florida for nearly a century before being distributed through county agencies. Dello Stritto's plate was mailed from the Broward County Property Tax Collector's office.
CBS News Miami contacted the office regarding the issue. An office manager confirmed that Broward County will replace a plate deemed offensive for free at their Plantation office.
For now, Dello Stritto plans to keep the plate, though she intends to notify the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles about it.
"I'm resigned to it; maybe it was destined for it to be on my car," she said, adding with a laugh, "I can handle it; maybe I'll even get some honks."
"I don't think a senior who is almost 77 will be driving around with a plate that has that to say," Dello Stritto said. "When I saw that, I went ballistic. I said, 'How could that pass inspection?'"
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Everyone in her retirement community knows that’s what you do when you’re halfway home from bingo and you’ve gotta go.
I would have loved to have a sequence like that on my license plate while I lived in Florida. But since I asked for an “In God We Trust” plate, maybe that wouldn’t have turned out well.
I can’t get that in Maryland, either, unless I specifically asked, and it didn’t run afoul of their regulations. The seven-digit plates had already gone out by the time I moved back up there.
Wonder who got GRB A55...David Letterman, maybe?
I think I see what she is saying, but I’ll not comment on it any more that.
A55 is the last 3 digits of my friend’s Ford 350. No big deal...
You’re a gentleman :-)
Most likely.
candid camera had a classic bit where folks came in for liscence plates to pick them up and they had things something like “I’ma Dunce” and “Felon” and “Failed Math” or whatever- it was pretty funny- most were shocked but polite about it lol
I was once assigned a license plate that read WET 069. I got a few honks over that.
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The greatest license plate in television history.
If you don’t believe me, watch any episode of “The Prisoner”
Confusing, though, as the last 2 paragraphs of this excerpt are contrafictory.
* contraditory
You guys beat me to it but, “great minds think alike”.
OMW! Still messed it up!
*contradictory
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Spot on. 👌
Florida gives you the automatic “O” in the middle of the plate.
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