Posted on 01/15/2008 3:31:30 PM PST by ElkGroveDan
RICHMOND, Va. - 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."
And indeed you are...in addition to being a absurdly prudish, nannystate, fool.
The Nanny State has gone NUTS
lol, I wish this was all we had to worry about in this country. We’d be a lot better off. :)
It is disgusting but at least the truck has chosen a gender. The only thing worse is a Kerry-Edwards sticker. Now that is obscene.
Uh-oh. I've seen these and they are bull balls. Guess they will be exempt. Also seen em on bulls.
Well they can smb. He could have told her it was the bulldogs backside and hoped it was a Mac Truck.
Trailer hitch testicles are IMHO are tasteless and without any redeeming factors. They aren’t funny. With that said, I don’t see how they could be any more distracting than bumper stickers, and banning bumper stickers isn’t a slippery slope I want to go on.
Nothin’s “wrong with” them, except that they make you look like a puerile, pubescent “Beavis-and-Butthead” type, who hasn’t matured enough not to laugh out loud at your own flatulence.
“He-heh. He said ‘flatulence’. He-heh.”
If that’s how you want to be perceived, have at it, but don’t go around thinkin’ you’ll get any respect. People will take one look at the butt end of your rig, and blow you off as a persistent adolescent.
I don’t know about y’all, but I grew up in Virginia, and lived there again for two of the past three years (2005-06) and never saw any of these things. Maybe it’s some crazy Tidewater thing, but I damn sure never saw any around Richmond or back up near Lynchburg where I grew up. Weird.
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They’re all over here in Wisconsin. The testicles too. My worry would be a Hillary/Gore sticker on a truck along with a camel toe hitch and no testicles.
These things are digusting, but none of the government’s business.
What a waste of tax money.
(But I sure bet Huckabee would be for this bill.)
I just lost my appetite!
What the heck does that mean?
I've never gotten a ticket for anything. OTOH I have a brother who likes to shout to the world from his bumpers. He's forever 'splainin his self to the man.
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