Oh the Irony: New Hampshire’s “Live Free or Die” License Plates Made By Prisoners

• firithlotiel
  April 9th, 2008 at 12:34 pm

  yeeeeah… we New Hampshirites rawk like that. Don’t all states have prisoners make their license plates? At least it gives them something to do…

• JoBo S
  April 9th, 2008 at 12:48 pm

  I think that most (if not all) prisons have a variety of jobs for the inmates. At least help them to contribute SOMETHING as my tax dollars pay for thier room and board.

• tabest
  April 9th, 2008 at 12:50 pm

  Well they’re definitely not free, lol.

• Ali S.
  April 9th, 2008 at 12:59 pm

  @ tabest

  ZING!!!

• Mr. Binky
  April 9th, 2008 at 1:22 pm

  Schizo?

• Mr. Binky
  April 9th, 2008 at 1:23 pm

  haha wrong post

• zantimisfit
  April 9th, 2008 at 1:24 pm

  I know your point is that the imprisoned workers see the “Live Free or Die” motto, but I thought people might be interested to know that NH prisoners make all kinds of wonderful things that you can buy at their store which is called “Corrections Creations.”
  http://www.nh.gov/nhdoc/nhci/c_creations/
  They make “candy dishes” out of license plates
  http://www.flickr.com/photos/marcn/8936597/

• sqirrrel
  April 9th, 2008 at 1:53 pm

  why, I live in concord new hampshire!

• Dietitian Max
  April 9th, 2008 at 1:54 pm

  It’s also hilarious that the famous old man on the mountain (the rock formation you see on the right-hand-side) of the license plate, which was apparently New Hampshire’s claim to fame, fell off the mountain a few years ago.
  He’s also on the state quarter.

• CheeseDuck
  April 9th, 2008 at 2:26 pm

  Man, I LOVE irony.

• Ray Fowler
  April 9th, 2008 at 3:09 pm

  Folk singer Bill Morrissey wrote a song called “Live Free or Die” on this very theme. You can listen to a snippet of it here (song #14): Rounder Records - Bill Morrissey

• ItsSelvo
  April 9th, 2008 at 3:11 pm

  Or die bloggin! Hella rad.

• clinton labombard
  April 9th, 2008 at 6:21 pm

  I’m offended by that license plate. It contains the word ‘log’, which is synonymous with ‘turd’. ‘be logging’ placed over the name of the beautiful state of New Hampshire obviously means ’shit on everybody in New Hampshire’ and that is patently meant to offend.

• empty-minded
  April 9th, 2008 at 7:29 pm

  What about the poor bastards making the vanity plates? Can you imagine being 30 years old and serving 15 to 25 and making a license plate for 2HOT?

• Chris
  April 9th, 2008 at 7:43 pm

  @Dietitian Max

  I went to see the Old Man on the Mountain a week after the rock formation crumbled. There was a big gathering on the I93 viewing spot, and numerous NH people were really sad and mourning the loss of this symbol.

  The Old Man is also on the NH highways signs.

• MarcN
  April 9th, 2008 at 8:20 pm

  If you find that amusing, check out this awesome “candy dish” from the “Arts & Crafts” store at the state prison in Penacook, NH:

  The clerk said the inmates can’t make smoking-related crafts, so that is why it is called a “Candy Dish”.

  -marc

• MarcN
  April 9th, 2008 at 8:21 pm

  okay, embedded images aren’t allowed. Here is the link to the photo:

  http://www.flickr.com/photos/marcn/8936597

• Plasmator Universi
  April 9th, 2008 at 9:06 pm

  Someone get on the phone and inform Alanis Morrisette that *this* is irony.

• TT
  April 10th, 2008 at 12:15 am

  Oh you Yanks are so uneducated:

  “VIVRE LIBRE OU MOURIR”

• TT
  April 10th, 2008 at 12:17 am

  Go to the Pantheon in Paris.

  You will see it there.

  Look it up.

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Pantheon

• fsmarch
  April 10th, 2008 at 10:04 am

  Don’t do the crime, if you can’t do the time.

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