A risqué license plate is turning heads - and it wasn’t on purpose. Here’s what it says

POMPANO BEACH, Fla. (WFOR) - A Florida woman was not happy with the license plate she recently received.

The letters and numbers she received have a risqué message, and the plate has become a topic of conversation at her retirement community, where opinions are split.

“And I didn’t know I was getting a plate,” Nancy Dello Stritto said.

When Stritto went to collect her mail, she got quite the surprise. She found a new license plate with her vehicle registration renewal.

“And I looked at it and I said I don’t think so,” she said.

The plate reads “SQZ A55,” but from a distance those 55s can be read as “SS.”

“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,” Stritto said.

The plate has become the talk around her retirement community, especially among the men.

Florida license plates have been made at a state prison in north Florida for almost a century. They are then funneled through county agencies.

Stritto’s plate was mailed from the Broward property tax collector’s office.

WFOR went there to try to help Stritto get answers. While no one wanted to speak on camera, office officials said anyone who is unhappy with a plate can turn it in for another one for free.

“I’m kind of resigning to it and I figured maybe it was just destined to be on my car,” Stritto said.

For now, she is keeping the plate although she is planning to let the state know about it.

She said she will see the reaction when she goes public with her new license plate.

“I can handle it if I get a few honks here and there. Actually, being over 70, I might like a few honks,” Stritto said.

An office manager confirmed that Broward County will replace a plate deemed offensive for free.