You Had ONE JOB

I love me a good “you had ONE JOB” story. The state of Maryland has 800,000 people driving around, advertising a gambling website in the Philippines (for free). It’s on their state license plates, because the state apparently stopped paying for the domain. The Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration admitted their “War of 1812” license plates, has a URL that now points to an overseas gambling site. The domain is StarSpangled200.org, was originally affiliated with a nonprofit that raised money for bicentennial projects and events, and was the default plate in the state from 2012 to 2016. But they either stopped paying for the domain, or gave it up, and an opportunistic gambling website that has nothing to do with the American patriotism snagged it.