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Exclusive | Hochul lets Long Island grandpa keep his pee-themed license plate in win for dad jokes

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Exclusive | Hochul lets Long Island grandpa keep his pee-themed license plate in win for dad jokes

He feels like No. 1.

Gov. Kathy Hochul spared a Long Island granddad’s pee-themed license plate from getting flushed down the toilet after the DMV had revoked the tags.

Motorist Seth Bykofsky, 69, had asked the Democratic governor to step in to pardon his vanity plate PB4WEGO and Hochul answered the call Tuesday afternoon — hours after a web report by The Post on the plea.

Gov. Kathy Hochul has stepped in to allow Long Island grandpa Seth Bykofsky to keep his pee-themed license plate. Courtesy of Seth Bykofsky
Hochul called Bykofsky to let him know she personally found his license plate “hilarious” and supports the message behind it. Courtesy of Kathy Hochul

“It’s a relief — in so many ways,” Bykofsky told The Post. “We can all safely now pee before we go here in New York.”

Hochul personally called the West Hempstead man on Tuesday just to say urine luck after he had spent weeks petitioning to hold onto his plates that promote hitting the facilities prior to buckling in.

“I loved it,” she told Bykofsky of his “hilarious” message, according to a recording of the video call.

“I think everybody should be reminded to pee before you go…I support the effort wholeheartedly.”

The granddad had sported the license plates for more than five years before the DMV sent a letter in January saying they had to go.

Bykofsky said the plate was inspired by all of the times he had to remind his children and grandchildren to use the bathroom before leaving home. Courtesy of Seth Bykofsky
The Department of Motor Vehicles sent Bykofsky a letter in January telling him his plate has been determined to be inappropriate. Courtesy of Seth Bykofsky

The letter stated that a recent review found the message to be too inappropriate for street use and ordered him to destroy the tags.

The grandad complied by getting them off the road, but was planning to hang the plates as bathroom decor if his appeal failed.

After weeks of gridlock with the DMV, he then personally appealed to Hochul.

Bykofsky said he should get the same treatment as New Hampshire resident Wendy Auger, whose own PB4WEGO plates were pardoned by former Gov. Chris Sununu in 2019.

In the end, Hochul said New York didn’t think PB4WEGO had to go.

“It was very heartwarming and good to know that the government stands up for our rights, not only under the First Amendment, but to laugh, to laugh at ourselves, and to laugh at others,” Bykofsky said.

“It was very much appreciated that the governor intervened.”

The dad-joke king said he had driven through at least 15 states with the message and said no one was ever offended by it.

Police even pulled him over once to get a laugh, he said.

The West Hempstead grandfather has had the PB4WEGO plate for five years. Courtesy of Seth Bykofsky

He adopted the phrase after a long wait for availability as a callback to all the times he had to tell his two daughters, and later his grandkids, to empty their tanks before hitting the road.

“They learned well from their grandpa,” Hochul said on the phone.

As fate would have it, Bykofsky left his car in Florida while in New York this week, and he eagerly awaits putting back the now-famous slogan early next week in the Sunshine State.

“I think it’ll be magnificent, because we’ll probably get more recognition on the roadways,” Bykofsky said. “Everybody will be looking and honking and say, ‘hey, it’s the guy who pees before we go!’”

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