Swanky. I've never seen this or even heard of this before...it is a riot!
Posted on 04/17/2008 8:00:20 AM PDT by Brandonmark
If only those were just hanging chads they were talking about on the Senate floor Wednesday afternoon.
Republican Sen. Carey Baker of Eustis proposed an amendment to a transportation bill that would have cracked down on an increasingly popular accoutrement on trucks: hanging sacks - dubbed “truck nutz” — that very realistically resemble male genitalia.
His proposal is to make it a violation worthy of a $60 non-moving violation to have the testicular feature on your car, which are most commonly found hanging down from the trailer hitches of pickup trucks.
It’s just like the state’s existing regulations against obscenity on bumper stickers, Baker said.
But Sen. Jim King, a Republican from Jacksonville, protested that his district is really into the reproductive-organ display.
“There are some people in my district that would display bull testicles that are brass or whatever,” he said. “It’s an expression of just truckiness.”
“In my part of the country those things are very popular — you find them on pickup trucks and muscle trucks all the time,” he added.
And what about a display of an off-color Calvin and Hobbes cartoon that might feature urination? Sen. Dave Aronberg of Greenacres queried. Would that also have to go? Republican Sen. Evelyn Lynn of Ormond Beach said Baker’s measure was a little much.
“This seems to me to be a morality ticket and that doesn’t seem to me to be germane, does it?” she asked.
Baker retorted: “I guess morality, like prostitution?”
The discussion ended up getting cut short, with the entire bill getting postponed.
Indeed ... nice to know all of Florida’s major problems are apparently solved for the legislature to delve into minutiea like this.
That’s just nuts.
So having fake balls hanging from the rear axle of a truck as a joke is morally equivalent to prostitution. Where in the hell do they find these idiots?
As an old “swab jockey” who always reffered to his ship as a her, I still refer to my pick-up as a female. That being the case, I damn sure don’t want any “truck nutz” on her.
A Delegate (Dem, I think) in Chesapeake, Virginia tried this. His bill dies a quiet death, and folks still see him as a laughingstock.
Well, they look silly on a Prius.
Swanky. I've never seen this or even heard of this before...it is a riot!
“It’s an expression of just truckiness.”
I’d call it an expression of redneckiness, but certainly not something that needs to be regulated.
Classy stuff there for a young buck to put on his ride. I’ll bet the babes really go for it.
/s
These idiots grew up in a time when one could be arrested and fined for using the "F" word in public.
Our culture is changing and they are having a tough time acclimating.
I resigned myself to it long ago!
Jeez. Just when I think I have men figured out...
What would possess someone to put this on a truck?
You could paint a little bikini on them and call them "truck boobz". :p
PIC (phallic inadequacy compensator)
I only see them on dualie pickup trucks, and most often the driver is wearing a stetson.
It’s a livestock thang.
More stupid than offensive.
“What would possess someone to put this on a truck?”
One word, redneck.
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