A nearly 77-year-old South Florida woman drew viral attention on Wednesday after a license plate she believed carried an inappropriate message was mailed to her Pompano Beach home.The plate Nancy Dello Stritto received from the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles (DMV) read, "SQZ A55.""I can handle it if I get a few honks here and there.Actually, being over 70, I might like a few honks," Dello Stritto said, according to 10 Tampa Bay News.Dello Stritto, who will turn 77 next month, said she did not request the plate, which can be interpreted as spelling out a crude phrase.
She initially objected to driving through her retirement community with the tag attached to her vehicle."I don’t think a woman that lives in a senior community that’s going to be 77 years old next month will be driving around with what this plate has to say," Dello Stritto said, according to Fox 8 Live.Pompano Beach resident Nancy Dello Stritto received a Florida license plate reading "SQZ A55" with her vehicle registration renewal.(Getty Images)FLORIDA FISHERMAN USES SPEARGUN TO HOLD OFF THREE ATTACKING SHARKS DURING DESTIN DIVEDello Stritto also told CBS News Miami that she was stunned when she opened the envelope and saw the new plate."When I saw that, I went ballistic.
I said, ‘How could that pass inspection?’" she said.The plate quickly became a subject of discussion among Dello Stritto’s relatives, friends and neighbors.She said her sons and their friends encouraged her to keep it, with the informal tally reaching 16-1 in favor of putting it on her car.Dello Stritto also showed the plate to an 89-year-old neighbor and explained that it was supposed to remain on her vehicle for the next decade.Dello Stritto said she went "ballistic" after realizing her newly issued license plate could be interpreted as a crude phrase.
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