(Los Angeles, CA) — The California Department of Motor Vehicles was ready to revoke a personalized license plate that was interpreted as antisemitic, but now it seems it wasn’t offensive at all. The license plate, seen on a Tesla Cybertruck in Culver City last week, read “LOLOCT7.” DMV officials believed it meant LOL as in “laugh out loud” and OCT 7, as in October 7th, 2023, the day of the Hamas attack on Israel. But, the son of the Cybertruck’s owner says the license plate is being misread and misinterpreted. The son says “Lolo” means “grandfather” in Tagalog, CT is short for Cybertruck and seven represents the owner’s seven grandchildren.
The son put out a statement asking for Californians to leave his father alone “We have great empathy for anyone who has experienced any hatred,” “And we would really appreciate, in turn, for anyone that’s seeing this or hearing this to have any empathy toward our family because we had no ill intent for anything.”
