Posted on 10/14/2004 7:37:01 AM PDT by martin_fierro
Sponge Duck Toy Creates Buzz in Tennessee
Wed Oct 13,11:14 PM ET
SPRING HILL, Tenn. - Katherine Williams says the yellow ducky sponge she put on sale at a flea market is merely a child's toy. City officials say the vibrator inside makes it a sex toy.
But officials in this Nashville suburb backed off from citing Williams for violating the city's sexually oriented business ordinance because she had already taken down her display by the time police responded to complaints Saturday. Nearby vendors also refused to be witnesses in the case.
"We've declined to prosecute because of a lack of evidence," City Administrator Ken York said Tuesday.
Williams, whose Passions & Pleasures business sells lotions and adult novelties at in-home parties, described her product line as "PG-13" and said she got only two negative comments at the flea market.
"Nothing we do is nasty, unless you have a nasty mind," she said, turning a knob on the yellow ducky's tail to make the sponge vibrate. "My 3-year-old son loves to play with this duck in the bath. He puts it on his neck and on his head."
Williams said she'll be back at the flea market next year.
"If she does, she'll be cited into court," York said. "That duck is a sexual toy, and it was on display. That was a vibrator on display in public view."
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Can't believe Rush is talking about this post on his show right now!
You've got it bass ackwards. Nothing in the Constitution forbids every American from owning a vibrator.
Hahahaha. I think the Toyz 4 You in whatever red light district you have probably carries it.
Nothing in the Constitution prohibits the States from banninng them either.
Don't the penumbras and emanations from the Constitution guaranty every American the right to own a vibrator?
references the U.S. Constitution (else, why the capitalization, the lack of a state reference, and the reference to penumbras and emanations?).
I've seen one of those recently. At a party it was!
There has to be a joke in here about getting down off (or with) a duck.
Man to woman in bathtub..........whatcha doing honey ?
Drowning my duck !
Really?
Maybe he was just talking about this story -- or did he say something like, "Those FReepers are already all over this?"
Teresa Heinz has a Michael J Fox brand.........
OK I stand corrected. He was talking about the story at the same time I was reading it.
It was almost like Rush was reading the story to me.
He never mentioned FReepers.
"Penumbras and emanations" is taken from the U.S. Supreme court decision in Griswold v Connecticut where the Justice writing the decision opined that although the Constitution was silent on a person's 'right' to have birth control (over a state law prohibiting same) the 'penumbras and emanations' from the Constitution created such a right.
And of course, it was the Griswold case which created the so-called "right to privacy" that gave legal precedence for the later Roe v Wade decision.
I mean, it IS possible he was reading it on here.
I know he (used to) lurk here, and he did specifically mention a post of mine on here once.
But this story was also all over the newswires today & yesterday.
Ahh, yes.... the old nurting beak. I know it well.....
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