New Zealand's worst personalised licence plates revealed

Reddit users speculating the owner of this car "must work in customer service".
Reddit users speculating the owner of this car "must work in customer service". Photo credit: Cablefish79/Reddit

Debate is raging online about which number plates are among the country's best and worst.

Reddit users have been busy over the last few days posting photos of their favourites - and not-so-favourites - to the online forum.

The flurry of images appears to have started when someone posted a photo of a personalised number plate with the word "UWU" written on it.

UWU, someone in the comments section helpfully explained, is a term that anime fans use as a "type of smiley face".

From there, the other Reddit users started posting strange, funny or offensive licence plates they had seen around the country.

The number plates' themes ranged from toilet humour, to niche computer game references to, well, more toilet humour.

One popular plate read "IH8PPL", with Reddit users speculating the owner "must work in customer service".

The owner of "TURD5" seems to have picked the perfect plate to advertise their emergency drain unblocking service.

"SH1TTA" also made an appearance, as did crowd favourite "GET69".

Not everyone on the thread was enjoying the pictures though.

"F****ing hell, this is the 26th licence plate post in 21 hours," wrote one user. "Give it a rest".