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.
Ding Dong! We have a winner!
You be BAD!
Dittos. I wonder what they are thinking, that people are going to go, “Whoa, he’s got some really big ole balls hanging from his truck, he’s probably got bigguns his own self!” LOL.
Not if you put a swollen arse-hole above them. Then they look downright natural on a Prius.
Faux nuts for folks who don’t have any real ones, sounds about right.
I tried hanging a pancreas from my hitch but nobody recognized it.
Be thankful a female analog to “truck nuts” is not available.
Stupid. Stupid thing to hang on a truck. Stupid idea to outlaw it.
Pretty stupid looking, really, but we certainly do not need a new law to address them. Dumbest ones I saw recently were hanging on the back end of a late model Mustang...
Could be worse: at least there are no “short n’ curlies.”
Thank God and Gillette they’re gone.
Only when I was grown up did I realize what was going on there. My parents, god bless them, never said a thing LOL!
Feminists have “The Vagina Monologues”; truckers have “The Testicle Dialogues”. Seems fair...
There's an image out there on the internet of a VW hood painted accordingly, but I can't seem to find it right now.
Hanging genitalia from your truck or profane bumper stickers or other adult oriented material for ALL to see is irresponsible. Self control is needed, not legislation however. It's just another stupid fad, like all the variations of Calvin urinating on everything.
What... you put gas in your vehicle by osmosis?
I generally exercise my option to consider the driver a moron and give an appropriate wide berth.
Also, seems the article could have been more specific that this truck accoutrement is designed to look like the scrotal sac of a bull, rather than the male human. It seems that should be obvious but then...
Old joke warning...(turn on Scottish burr accent)
An American took his Scottish friend to a baseball game and was explaining the rules about when the batter hits the ball, he runs to first base to avoid a throw that would put him out. The Scotsman liked this and was quite boisterous with each hit: "Run, laddie, run!!!"
As the pitcher tired in the later innings, a batter got to four balls and proceeded to take his base at a walk. The Scotsman bellowed, "Run, laddie, run!!" His American companion told him the batter could walk because he had four balls. The Scotsman smiled and yelled, "Walk with pride, laddie, walk with pride!"
Hey, I take offense to that statement. My neck is sufficiently red and I have no Truck Nutz on my truck.
Wife won’t let me.
A need for attention and cheap laughs. Nothing more, nothing less.
Hah!
I probably fall in the redneck category myself, but I don’t have the Truck Nutz either.
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