License Plates Day (25 April)

"How many people recognize the day isn't at all clear."
Not me, anyway.
Crystal briefly discusses prohibitions on words not permitted on personalized ("vanity") plates. There have been a couple of cases here recently -- one involving "NUTSAX" and one, amazingly, "KAREN". The latter was actually the car owner's name, but since the name "Karen" has been weaponized to denote a particular type of annoying person, someone felt obliged to complain that it was offensive -- actually a stereotypically "Karen"ish thing to do. The NZ Transport Agency, who deal with these matters, apparently have no linguistic clues at all, judging by the fact that they took this seriously even for a minute.