Important: Does the First Amendment protect “truck nuts”?

Hot Air ^ | 4 Aug 2011 | Allahpundit

[mandaladon]

The question is, is the current statute too aggressive by providing for an outright prohibition? Law prof and First Amendment expert Eugene Volokh says yep, the law’s dead on arrival. The problem isn’t the “contemporary community standards” element of the statute — presumably truck testicles are A-OK with South Carolina juries — but the fact that it doesn’t meet the Supreme Court’s test for obscenity.................That's a nutty question!

[null and void]

Mr. Possum Sheriff? Prove they aren’t intended to represent bull nuts.

[Psalm 73]

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..........

[Persevero]

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.

[Gaffer]

Search for “Big Balls Airlines” on youtube.....a hoot!

[Travis McGee]

Pruning shears will easily de-ball these things. Then toss them into the truck bed.

[mandaladon]

Obama could use these..................

[The Sons of Liberty]

If Virginia has to remove her "truck nuts", maybe she could mail them to Boehner, he could use a set.

Take Back AMERICA! Restore The Constitution!
FUBO GTFO 2012 !

[Palter]

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’.

[JoeDetweiler]

I think they’re pretty stupid.....but I wish I’d invented them.

[org.whodat]

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/

[CharlyFord]

[Clint N. Suhks]

It made the sidebar so it must be important.

[matthew fuller]

"On July 5, Virginia Tice, 65, from Bonneau, S.C. pulled HER pickup truck into a local gas station "

[Gator113]

This is nuts.

[Loyal Sedition]

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.

[Psalm 73]

"...HER pickup truck..."

Saw that - assumed it was her boyfriend's truck - even a lesbian wouldn't put fake nuts on her truck........

[Enterprise]

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?

[Joe Brower]

Heh. The edge I keep on my handy Benchmade goes through these things like butter. Then I set 'em on the driver's side of the windshield.

Just a small action on behalf of western civilization... $;-)

[Travis McGee]

Yeppers.