沙特禁不雅車牌 USA首當(dāng)其中

　　沙特阿拉伯一直嚴(yán)禁使用帶有冒犯意思的車牌字母組合，“SEX“、 “ASS”，以及與其宗教教義嚴(yán)重背離的酒類消費(fèi)場(chǎng)所“BAR“均在禁用之列，而“USA”這個(gè)字母組合竟然位居禁用列表首位。沙特推出這一政策是因?yàn)橛行┸囍髟谶x擇個(gè)性化車牌時(shí)，特意選擇像“BAD“、“NUT”等有冒犯意思的字母組合。據(jù)稱，負(fù)責(zé)個(gè)性化車牌管理的有關(guān)部門已經(jīng)公布了九個(gè)禁用的字母組合，要求所有分支機(jī)構(gòu)不再派發(fā)包含這些組合的車牌，之前已經(jīng)派發(fā)的則要求更換。

　　Saudi Arabia has banned auto licence tags whose Arabic characters spell out offensive words when romanised, with the list of banned combinations including "USA", Al-Watan newspaper reported Sunday.

　　Saudi plates normally have three Arabic characters and three numbers, but the growing fashion is for auto owners also to display a version using the Latin alphabet and some buyers of personalised "vanity plates" deliberately choose Arabic letters which turn into words like "SEX", "ASS" and "NUT".

　　The authorities in charge of issuing vanity plates have released a list of nine prohibited three-letter combinations, and ordered all branches to stop renewing plates that include them, according to Watan.

　　On the list are combinations like "BUT," "BAD" and "BAR" -- the latter presumably a problem because it suggests alcohol, which is strictly prohibited in the conservative Islamic kingdom.

　　But first on the list, for unexplained reasons, is the combination "USA".

　　Some 90,000 plates with the prohibited letter combinations are being replaced, Watan said.

　　Vanity plates are fashionable with wealthy and young Saudis, and auctions of special combinations have brought in as much a six million riyals (1.6 million dollars) for one plate, the newspaper reported.