Woman faces trial for fake testicles on truck

[cbdo2007]

Woman faces trial for fake testicles

By Harriet McLeod | Reuters – Thu, Jul 28, 2011

CHARLESTON, South Carolina (Reuters) - The police chief of a small South Carolina town will ask a jury to decide if a woman broke the state's obscenity laws by driving a pickup truck with plastic testicles hanging from the back.

Bonneau Police Chief Franco Fuda ticketed Virginia Tice, 65, in early July at a local convenience store after spying the adornment dangling from her truck.

South Carolina law considers a bumper sticker, decal or device indecent when it describes, in an offensive way as determined by contemporary community standards, "sexual acts, excretory functions, or parts of the human body."

The offense carries a maximum fine of $445 but no jail time, Fuda said.

http://news.yahoo.com/woman-faces-trial-fake-testicles-163136934.html

[onethatcares]

1. buford e pusser is alive and well in South Carolina I can see

maybe he's pissed because his are small.

Seriously though, those plastic nuts are stupid as hell but to merit a 445 dollar fine, I don't think so.

Didn't we have this discussion a while ago?

[Oceansaway]

2. truck nutz ?...nt

[formercia]

3. Feh!

Nothing like a Cop with Testicle envy.

Big Men with little Dicks.

[sammytko]

4. Shouldn't she have a dangling vagina?

Those things are ridiculous. I believe they are outlawed in some parts of Tx because they can obstruct the liscense plate.

[sammytko]

7. sorry, should have said "labia" besides, women's balls are inside!

otherwise known as ovaries.

[RC]

22. I have only seen them dangling from the trailer hitch.

[theoldman]

5. I have seen these in Texas.

They were hanging from the trailer hitch. I think they were taken off the market in our area due to obscenity laws.

[theHandpuppet]

34. Spotted a pickup here sporting a pair of those ugly things...

... dangling from the trailer hitch -- one that also sported a "Jesus is my Co-Pilot" bumper sticker. No lie.

[asjr]

6. Just when you think you have seen

and heard it all. . .

[daggahead]

8. What if they were supposed to depict bull testicles?

Should all male animals that still have testicles now wear pants?

This is ri-dick-ulous (I couldn't pass up the pun).

[Vinnie From Indy]

9. Spay and Neuter your trucks people!

"excretory functions" I guess the fifty million decals of the kid from the Calvin & Hobbes cartoon peeing on something get a pass.

[Curmudgeoness]

10. Put me on the jury. I hate those things and do find them vulgar.

I do not want to have to stare at a pair hanging on the car in front of me, and I would fine her. And hope that they confiscated the damned things.

OK, now I have said it, not only am I a curmudgeoness, I am also a prude.

[woodsprite]

13. I figure they display the IQ of the driver - 2 n/t

[Ilsa]

15. I think they are excessively ugly, but I'm glad I know

what I'm dealing with (around) when I see a truck like that.

[Curmudgeoness]

16. Good point. I do give them a wide berth just in case

they are insane and hostile as well as ignorant.

[Kurmudgeon]

26. I've got more respect for my truck than to hang gonads on it.

[femrap]

19. Shouldn't the 'law'

go after the manufacturer?? Where is the ACLU and its Freedom of Speech advocates?

I saw these balls once on a pick-up truck....I tied them in a knot.

In sum, if the driver had been a male, I bet the cop would have done NOTHING.

[theHandpuppet]

35. Well, you're not alone.

if that makes me a prude, so be it.

[Horse with no Name]

11. He'd have a field day here in Texas....n/t

[Lint Head]

12. South Carolina is a bigoted state. They never got over losing the

War Between the States. I was born there and left as soon as I was of age. Some people there wish there were still plantations with slaves to do the menial chores. Gone with the Wind is nostalgic to the right wing bigots who now run the state.

[Skip Intro]

32. Now wouldn't it take a bigot to judge everyone in an entire state by the actions of some?

Just saying...

[chrisa]

14. Truck Nutz are so stupid. They're something a 12 year old would laugh at.

But I don't think they should be against the law

[snappyturtle]

21. I think they're funny. Saw them in TX many times and I always had to chuckle.

People need to lighten up.

[Octafish]

17. Who amongst us has not been embarassed to drive behind truck nuts?

Doesn't mean we should limit free speech.



What would be next? Curtailing worship of Mammon?

[TheCowsCameHome]

18. At 65, it's probably her only hope.....

....because evidently she's one stupid fuck.

Anyone that dangles them out the back has bigger issues to address.

[KT2000]

20. Those are all over

the place in rural Washington. Have not heard about anyone being charged here. What about those naked women pics that are on the big rigs??

[RC]

23. Hey now, those are different...

As are the mud flaps with the chrome silhouettes.


That said, some people are too easily shocked. What is the problem anyway? Half the population has'em. So what?
We are such a insanely prudish country.

[KT2000]

29. Ah - the chrome

makes all the difference! :rofl:

There is no end to what people will get their knickers in a twist about. I think I am going to change my life goals from making the world a better place to being perpetually offended. More time for TV that way.

[saras]

33. It's not the CHROME, it's the GENDER that makes the difference

[KT2000]

37. But - but ----

the chrome makes it classy and eleeegant!

[Kurmudgeon]

24. She's at least guilty of false advertising....just sayin.

[Liberal_in_LA]

25. why would a 65 year old woman want those awful things hanging from her truck

shouldn't receive a ticket for it though.

[TheCowsCameHome]

39. Maybe her ex is wrapped around the rear axle.

[Rex]

27. Wow, don't ever come down to Texas...they swing from about

1 in 10 trucks! The fact that someone made the product and sold it, says a lot about Americans.

[ZombieHorde]

28. Truck nuts are tacky, but punishing someone for them is even more tacky.

Is that really the best way their State can spend that money? They probably could have bought their poorest school some new computers for the money spent on that trial.

Fucking absurd. It's just nuts.

(pun intended)

[Enrique]

30. you can have my Truck Nutz when you pry them from my cold dead fingers

:patriot:

[Obamanaut]

31. As opposed to genuine.....? nt

[JVS]

36. Give her the chair.

[RC]

38. So we all know what this thread is about