And this one is just pathetic.

Armando Florido said he is about as respectable as you can get — he's been a Houston police officer for 24 years, and has owned and operated Italian restaurants, Fornos of Italy, for 17.

Proud of his eateries, he put vanity plates reading "FORNOS" on his Hummer two years ago. He ordered a second set of plates this year reading "FORNO 1" for a Plymouth Prowler.

The plates are in, and he's even paid for them. But a clerk at the Harris County Tax Assessor-Collector's office told him this week that she could not give them to him.

"She told me she couldn't release them because a TxDOT committee found them obscene," said Florido, a sergeant, on Friday.

Last week, we saw some bureaucrat in New York put the kibosh on "GETOSAMA". Around the country, there have been disputes over plates offering variations of "JN316". I even remember one (many years ago) in Illinois where the state denied a musician "JAZZME" because "jazz" could be interpreted as a sexual reference.

Good grief! Give the guy his plates.

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