Posted on 08/04/2011 12:45:29 PM PDT by mandaladon
You can keep ObamaCare, the Commerce Clause, and the Tenth Amendment. As far as I’m concerned, truck nuts are the only constitutional game in town.
Threshold question: If it’s okay to ban these things as indecent symbols of American culture at its seediest, can we also ban The Waffle House?
On July 5, Virginia Tice, 65, from Bonneau, S.C. pulled her pickup truck into a local gas station with red, fake testicles dangling from the trailer hitch. The town’s police chief, Franco Fuda, pulled up and asked her to remove the plastic testicles.
When she refused, he wrote her a $445 ticket saying that she violated South Carolina’s obscene bumper sticker law.
The South Carolina code of laws reads, “a sticker, decal, emblem, or device is indecent … in a patently offensive way, as determined by contemporary community standards, sexual acts, excretory functions, or parts of the human body.”…
[Tice's lawyer] will argue whether these large, red, plastic testicles are “really an accurate depiction of a human body part.”
Believe it or not, this isn’t an easy legal question in the abstract. It’s difficult for a state to ban expression as “obscene” under Supreme Court precedent — and “indecent” and “obscene” aren’t the same thing — but the Court will give legislatures a bit of leeway so long as they’re not too aggressive. E.g., this famous case, in which a plurality of the Rehnquist Court found that a state could require strippers to wear pasties and G-strings in order to make them comply with a general ban on public nudity. If South Carolina demands that truck nuts be covered by truck jock straps, presumably they’re good to go.
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Mr. Possum Sheriff? Prove they aren’t intended to represent bull nuts.
I still find it hard to believe that grown men would put those on their truck - I guess that’s to take the place of real ones they don’t have..........
I favor public nudity bans.
I don’t think we have a right to display naked people in public, with the medical care exceptions.
Were I a judge/on a jury I think I’d put the truck nutz under that category.
Search for “Big Balls Airlines” on youtube.....a hoot!
Pruning shears will easily de-ball these things. Then toss them into the truck bed.
Take Back AMERICA! Restore The Constitution!
FUBO GTFO 2012 !
Context is everything. Just the nutz on the truck bumper is a problem. But, if you have the whole bull image on the side of your truck door, then it’s not a ‘crime’.
I think they’re pretty stupid.....but I wish I’d invented them.
Somethings are beyond redneck, and I consider myself as redneck, but not retired redneck. This nut things falls in with a mullet hair cut.http://www.killmydaynow.com/2011/01/funny-mullets-haircut-20-pics.html/
It made the sidebar so it must be important.
This is nuts.
First time I saw them it gave me a chuckle.
Don’t see them too often, I thought it was a fad that has already passed?
I have noticed that more often than not the driver is a woman, so what does that imply?
They are a humor novelty item, the ones sold in stores and on-line are just not that noticeable, most body piercing and tattoos are more visible and repulsive, but just try banning those!
Cop here needs to find some actual crime fighting to do.
Saw that - assumed it was her boyfriend's truck - even a lesbian wouldn't put fake nuts on her truck........
So Chief Fuda, do you cruise around in your prowl car and cite cattle ranchers because the testicles on their bulls can be seen by the public?
Just a small action on behalf of western civilization... $;-)
Yeppers.
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