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Watch what you put on trailer hitches
AP via Tri City Herald ^ | January 15th, 2008 | BOB LEWIS

Posted on 01/16/2008 12:00:50 PM PST by llevrok

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) It's one thing to dangle fuzzy dice from a rear view mirror, but decorating a trailer hitch with a large pair of rubber testicles might be a bit much in Virginia.

State Del. Lionel Spruill introduced a bill Tuesday to ban displaying replicas of human genitalia on vehicles, calling it a safety issue because it could distract other drivers.

Under his measure, displaying the ornamentation on a motor vehicle would be a misdemeanor punishable by a maximum fine of $250.

He said the idea came from a constituent whose young daughter spotted an example of the trail hitch adornment and asked her father to explain it.

"'I didn't know what to tell her,'" Spruill said the constituent told him before Spruill vowed to stop such displays.

"I said, 'Sir, I'm going to be a laughingstock, but I'm going to do it,'" he said.

The Virginia General Assembly has some experience with offbeat bills. Three years ago, it drew widespread attention with an unsuccessful effort to outlaw baggy pants worn so low they expose underwear.

Spruill, 61, said the indignity of the "droopy drawers" debate wouldn't deter him. He said he won't hesitate to bring a set of $24.95 trailer testicles with him for a legislative show-and-tell.

"I'm going to do it," Spruill told a handful of reporters after Tuesday's House session adjourned. "I'm going to bring them out here and show them to you till they tell me to stop."


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1 posted on 01/16/2008 12:00:53 PM PST by llevrok
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To: najida; martin_fierro

Ping


2 posted on 01/16/2008 12:02:27 PM PST by llevrok (Drink your beer, damnit! There are sober people in Africa!)
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To: llevrok

In before the “rear ended” posts


3 posted on 01/16/2008 12:02:38 PM PST by freedomlover (Make sure you're in love - before you move in the heavy stuff)
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To: llevrok
Oh nuts, you just had to post this in News/Activism? :)
4 posted on 01/16/2008 12:04:30 PM PST by jdm (A Hunter Thompson ticket would be suicide.)
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To: llevrok

It’s for the children... Seriously, come on, what’s next, pants on doggies so that kids might not see testicles on animals? Come on.


5 posted on 01/16/2008 12:04:41 PM PST by kingu (Fred08 - The Constitution is the value I'm voting for. What value are you voting for?)
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To: llevrok
State Del. Lionel Spruill introduced a bill Tuesday to ban displaying replicas of human genitalia on vehicles, calling it a safety issue because it could distract other drivers.

Anyone who puts these on his trucks should get ticketed for being a moron.

What Einstein came up with this stupid idea. To me shows a person with a very low I.Q.


6 posted on 01/16/2008 12:11:20 PM PST by MotleyGirl70 (Dear GOP, Conservatism works every time it’s tried. Sincerely, MotleyGirl70~~~Go Packers!~~~)
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To: kingu

Have you actually seen this? I doubt it. It is over the line.


7 posted on 01/16/2008 12:14:38 PM PST by return to sender
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He said the idea came from a constituent whose young daughter spotted an example of the trail hitch adornment and asked her father to explain it.

"'I didn't know what to tell her,'" Spruill said the constituent told him before Spruill vowed to stop such displays.

Reminds me of the joke about an irate wife who castrated her husband while driving down the road ... and threw his "member" out the window

A man and his daughter were following and when the "member" hit their windshield, the girl asked her father what had happened.

When he explained that they had hit a bird she replied "that bird sure had a big d__k."

8 posted on 01/16/2008 12:35:38 PM PST by tx_eggman ("Believing without loving turns the best of creeds into a weapon of oppression" Eugene Peterson)
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Omilord.

Everygood ole boy between here and St. Mary’s has one....

Like every other trucker has nekkid girl mudflaps.


9 posted on 01/16/2008 12:38:01 PM PST by najida (Will....will.... will....Heck, will do almost anything for Butter Pecan.)
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To: llevrok
ban displaying replicas of human genitalia

I only mine were that big...

10 posted on 01/16/2008 12:38:14 PM PST by aomagrat (Gun owners who vote for democrats are too stupid to own guns.)
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it could distract other drivers

The sight of testicles doesn't distract me. Rep. Spruill's mileage may vary.

11 posted on 01/16/2008 12:39:45 PM PST by steve-b (Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense. --RAH)
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To: MotleyGirl70

What Einstein came up with this stupid idea.

http://www.trucknutz.com/

(I’ll bet this “einstein” is doing pretty well, his site has been up for prolly 8 - 10 years IIRC)


12 posted on 01/16/2008 12:40:29 PM PST by Nervous Tick (Retire Ron Paul! Support Chris Peden (www.chrispeden.org))
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>> The sight of testicles doesn’t distract me. Rep. Spruill’s mileage may vary.

I wonder which hitch cover would be more distracting — TruckNutz, or a rubber replica of Rep. Spruill’s head, swinging from a noose. I bet he doesn’t think to ban those!


13 posted on 01/16/2008 12:42:39 PM PST by Nervous Tick (Retire Ron Paul! Support Chris Peden (www.chrispeden.org))
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To: llevrok

Does this have anything to do with a lockbox?


14 posted on 01/16/2008 12:43:14 PM PST by WinMod70
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To: najida
Like every other trucker has nekkid girl mudflaps.

I like those mud flaps, but for safety reasons. At night, they "twinkle" with headlights shining on the chrome. Better than plastic reflectors.

Make those dangely downs out of chrome and you'd really have something!

15 posted on 01/16/2008 12:43:36 PM PST by llevrok (Drink your beer, damnit! There are sober people in Africa!)
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These things are silly and tasteless, but no more distracting than bumper stickers, license plate frames, or assorted crap in the back window. Mr. Spruill needs a pay cut if he’s got enough state time on his hands for this bill.


16 posted on 01/16/2008 12:45:43 PM PST by Huntress (The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility.--Admiral Sir John Arbuthnot Fisher)
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To: tx_eggman

lol


17 posted on 01/16/2008 12:49:39 PM PST by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: llevrok

” I didn’t know what to tell her,’” Spruill said”

So much for government funded sex education programs.


18 posted on 01/16/2008 12:51:12 PM PST by dblshot
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Oh I’ve seen those dangly things out of chrome, brass, red, black... you name it....

On trucks they look cool.

However, I saw a pair on a little itty bitty station wagonie car....it looked kinda pitiful.


19 posted on 01/16/2008 12:53:10 PM PST by najida (Will....will.... will....Heck, will do almost anything for Butter Pecan.)
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To: Nervous Tick
First and last time I saw one of those was a couple months.

I'm sure "Einstein" is making a fine living off his hanging nut sack.

20 posted on 01/16/2008 12:53:50 PM PST by MotleyGirl70 (Dear GOP, Conservatism works every time it’s tried. Sincerely, MotleyGirl70~~~Go Packers!~~~)
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