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Watch what you hang from trailer hitches
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| 1/15/08
| BOB LEWIS
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."
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: bigpair; brassones; bumpernuts; pair; vageneralassembly
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
Makes you wonder, if you back into something, does your truck fold over in pain?
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posted on
01/15/2008 5:02:42 PM PST
by
ElkGroveDan
(I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired of all the politics in politics.)
To: ElkGroveDan
42
posted on
01/15/2008 5:05:35 PM PST
by
Thumper1960
(Unleash the Dogs of War as a Minority, or perish as a party.)
To: ElkGroveDan
"When Congress makes a joke it becomes a law and when Congress makes a law it becomes a joke."Will Rogers
As true today as then, if not moreso.
43
posted on
01/15/2008 5:19:05 PM PST
by
hadit2here
("Most men would rather die than think. Many do." - Bertrand Russell)
To: ElkGroveDan
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.
They're not replicas of human genitalia, you dildo. They're supposed to be bull testicles. I guess someone representing Virginia would be a little squeamish.
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posted on
01/15/2008 5:24:03 PM PST
by
aruanan
To: ElkGroveDan
"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."
His underwear or his testicles?
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posted on
01/15/2008 5:25:09 PM PST
by
aruanan
To: Bookwoman
Whats next? All dogs wear underwear?
How about these:
video here
46
posted on
01/15/2008 5:34:42 PM PST
by
gitmo
(From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.)
To: ElkGroveDan
Figures that some congressman that has none is banning everyone else from having some..
To: digger48
The bumper nutz are on the trucks, but the pricks are in office.
48
posted on
01/15/2008 7:13:37 PM PST
by
billhilly
(I was republican when republican wasn't cool. (With an apology to Barbara Mandrell.))
To: ElkGroveDan
Does this mean all Hillary 08 posters have to come down now ?:o)
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posted on
01/15/2008 7:15:41 PM PST
by
Squantos
(Be polite. Be professional. But, have a plan to kill everyone you meet. ©)
To: weegee
There is no difference between dice and a "sack" Remind me never to shoot craps with you.
To: NonValueAdded; hiredhand; wardaddy
My license plate of 3M TA3 gets me in hot water when a state trooper sees it in his rear view mirror.......
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posted on
01/15/2008 7:17:57 PM PST
by
Squantos
(Be polite. Be professional. But, have a plan to kill everyone you meet. ©)
To: Squantos
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posted on
01/15/2008 7:53:59 PM PST
by
hiredhand
(My kitty disappeared. NOT the rifle!)
To: ElkGroveDan
I thought the post would be about democRATs. Titles can be deceiving.
5.56mm
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posted on
01/15/2008 7:55:24 PM PST
by
M Kehoe
To: ElkGroveDan
“Gays” might get too excited at the sight of those things?
Cause rear enders?
Wanna car jack YOU?
Honestly, this is nuts!
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posted on
01/15/2008 9:28:46 PM PST
by
nmh
(Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God) .)
To: TheThirdRuffian
(But I sure bet Huckabee would be for this bill.)
He’d go NUTS over it.
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posted on
01/15/2008 9:29:46 PM PST
by
nmh
(Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God) .)
To: digger48
What’s next, phallic shaped sun visors?
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posted on
01/15/2008 9:31:05 PM PST
by
nmh
(Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God) .)
To: ElkGroveDan
My truck must be a female, because the hitch only has a receiver.
To: nmh
Whats next, phallic shaped sun visors?How about this? (NSFW)
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posted on
01/15/2008 9:37:25 PM PST
by
FreedomCalls
(Texas: "We close at five.")
To: Squantos
I love those balls...
my Mississippi flag stirs em up good enuf...the pc crowd
not to mention my molon labe or pro-life tags
my wife’s Dixie Girl gets em going too
what I really want is that Continental Soldier holding the AR-15 graphic we all used to use blown up on the rear window of a blacked out window of the crew cab.....ATF will love that one
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posted on
01/15/2008 9:42:17 PM PST
by
wardaddy
(i'm in a Dylan mood again)
To: ElkGroveDan
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posted on
01/16/2008 5:15:57 AM PST
by
IronKros
(The pig put foot. Grunt. Foot in what? ketchup)
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