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Watch what you hang from trailer hitches
AP via Yahoo ^ | 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: Squantos
These guys pro'ly had a pair hanging off the back of their van:
'Cloned' vehicles used for illegal operations ... "In another case, a vehicle posing as a border patrol van was found to be holding 31 illegal immigrants inside."

61 posted on 01/16/2008 2:40:30 PM PST by NonValueAdded (Fred Dalton Thompson for President)
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To: Squantos

***My license plate of 3M TA3 gets me in hot water when a state trooper sees it in his rear view mirror.......***

My wife’s nephew has a corvette with a license plate COP TZR.


62 posted on 01/16/2008 10:54:30 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Only infidel blood can quench Muslim thirst-- Abdul-Jalil Nazeer al-Karouri)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

LOL !!


63 posted on 01/17/2008 2:44:03 PM PST by Squantos (Be polite. Be professional. But, have a plan to kill everyone you meet. ©)
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