LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) – Nebraska is halting production of its new, widely mocked license plate after officials learned that the state icon depicted at the center wasn’t drawn accurately, officials announced Friday.
The license plate is supposed to show the Nebraska Sower, a statue of a man throwing seeds from atop the state Capitol. However, the governor’s office said the image on the plates used elements from a different artwork.
Since the design was unveiled last week, some people have called it boring. Others have joked that the way the man in the image is holding his grain satchel appears sexually suggestive.
Department of Motor Vehicles Director Rhonda Lahm said the state will redesign the plates to correctly depict the statue “so that production can resume in the near future.” The new plates will be issued starting in 2017 as part of Nebraska’s 150th birthday as a state.
The decision to halt production was first reported by the Omaha World-Herald.