Subdeacon Joe Posted July 28, 2011 Share Posted July 28, 2011 Good Grief! Someone must be really insecure. I wonder what he would have thought of a small purse made from a bulls scrotum? I knew a lady at Ren Faire who had a belt pouch made from one. Loved to try to make guys cringe telling them about it. And one traditional muzzle loader who used one for, you got it, a ball pouch. 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. "This is certainly not a staple of my ticket writing in Bonneau," the police chief told Reuters on Wednesday. The Charleston law firm Savage & Savage will represent Tice for free, attorney Scott Bischoff said. The trial had been scheduled for next week but was delayed because the defendant will be out of town. "She's such a sweet lady and she just says 'I don't want to pay the fine.' We'll let a jury decide whether this is really criminal behavior. I don't want to take away from the importance of free speech, but it's really comical," he said. Lawmakers in some states have sought to ban the colorful plastic or rubber devices that go by brand names such as Bulls Balls and Truck Nutz. Fuda said if the fake testicles were a free speech issue, "I don't know what they would be trying to express." "I went to (a) few websites that said, excuse the expression, 'show your nuts,'" he said. "I didn't see anywhere it said support your local proctologist or farmer." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Scatterbrain Posted July 28, 2011 Share Posted July 28, 2011 "I went to (a) few websites that said, excuse the expression, 'show your nuts,'" he said. "I didn't see anywhere it said support your local proctologist or farmer." ??? He may want to find a different proctologist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spanish Bit Bobb Posted July 28, 2011 Share Posted July 28, 2011 souns like she cood use a nut sack. http://www.pickupspecialties.com/Truck_Nuts/Your-Nutz/nut_sacks.htm had some on my dually...I thin that's what sealed the deal when I sold it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allie Mo, SASS No. 25217 Posted July 28, 2011 Share Posted July 28, 2011 There is no way to legislate against tacky taste. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 Posted July 28, 2011 Share Posted July 28, 2011 Looks to me like an od on ENZYTE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boss Hoss Fly #63711 Posted July 28, 2011 Share Posted July 28, 2011 Told the wife she cud make a thimble holder outta mine WEN I'M GONE --- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yellowhouse Sam # 25171 Posted July 28, 2011 Share Posted July 28, 2011 Dang near every kid around here with a pickup has chrome ones hanging from their trailer hitch. Doesn't offend me anywhere near "pants on the ground". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpo Posted July 28, 2011 Share Posted July 28, 2011 I got a simple definition of obscene. If you don't want to have to explain it to your little kid, it's obscene. Bumper stickers. **** happens, and "How's my driving? Call 1-800-EAT-****" They are obscene. I don't want my 6-year-old, who is just learning to read, reading that out loud and turning to me and saying, "Daddy, what's **** ?" I don't want her pointing to a set of plastic balls hanging from the back of a truck, or a plastic penis some jerk in a gay-pride parade is wearing as a fake nose, and asking "What's that?" Does it offend me? No it don't. I'm old. I don't care. Do I want little kids seeing it? No I don't. That's why it's obscene. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boss Hoss Fly #63711 Posted July 29, 2011 Share Posted July 29, 2011 Dang near every kid around here with a pickup has chrome ones hanging from their trailer hitch. Doesn't offend me anywhere near "pants on the ground". That be a dam fact------------------- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rex M Rugers #6621 Posted July 29, 2011 Share Posted July 29, 2011 That be a dam fact------------------- +2 Rex Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mean Matt McCord, SASS #24683 Posted July 29, 2011 Share Posted July 29, 2011 I got a simple definition of obscene. If you don't want to have to explain it to your little kid, it's obscene. Bumper stickers. **** happens, and "How's my driving? Call 1-800-EAT-****" They are obscene. I don't want my 6-year-old, who is just learning to read, reading that out loud and turning to me and saying, "Daddy, what's **** ?" I don't want her pointing to a set of plastic balls hanging from the back of a truck, or a plastic penis some jerk in a gay-pride parade is wearing as a fake nose, and asking "What's that?" Does it offend me? No it don't. I'm old. I don't care. Do I want little kids seeing it? No I don't. That's why it's obscene. Alpo, you just reminded me of a story. When I was a little boy, my dad's favorite word when he was disgusted with something was s***. Being 6 years old, I didn't know what the word meant from Adam;s housecat, but something told me it wasn't a "nice word," judging from how and when my dad (who was my little-boy idol at the time) used it. So one day, my curiousity got the better of me, and I asked him, "Daddy, why do you say s*** all the time?" Right in front of his boss and his boss' family. To say that I got torn a new one when we got home that night is an understatement. Now, here is the really funny part about that little foot-in-mouth experience: I remember just like it occurred yesterday that afterwards, when my dad was angry about something, s*** suddenly became "shoot." And he didn't say another cuss word in front of me until I was 17. I confirmed it years later that after they put me to bad that night, my mom chewed him out about his language. True story. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yukon Charley, SASS Life #14739 Posted July 29, 2011 Share Posted July 29, 2011 That federal gov't place where I used to work gives out a retirement gift of a TEXAS Longhorn statue & the Longhorn happens to be a fully intact bull. Well, some of the "ladies" at work thought the intactness was offensive & complained about it to the brass. So now when you retire, you can order a Longhorn "with" or "without." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah Bob #35998 Posted July 29, 2011 Share Posted July 29, 2011 What a ridiculous waste of taxpayers' money! Bonneau Police Chief Franco Fuda needs to focus on his job! What's next, pants for the rodeo bulls? Goat trousers? And let's not even talk about horses! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yellowhouse Sam # 25171 Posted July 29, 2011 Share Posted July 29, 2011 What a ridiculous waste of taxpayers' money! Bonneau Police Chief Franco Fuda needs to focus on his job! What's next, pants for the rodeo bulls? Goat trousers? And let's not even talk about horses! Yep, them studs and geldings do like to air their equipment for all the world to see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Woodrow Cahill, SASS # 54363 Posted July 29, 2011 Share Posted July 29, 2011 Doesn't seem like a very practical thing to have hanging off the back of your truck. It would make more sense to have one hanging off the bumper of a Chrysler Cialis ... or whatever that convertible is ... that you see all the old duffers driving. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah Bob #35998 Posted July 29, 2011 Share Posted July 29, 2011 Doesn't seem like a very practical thing to have hanging off the back of your truck. It would make more sense to have one hanging off the bumper of a Chrysler Cialis ... or whatever that convertible is ... that you see all the old duffers driving. Hell no it ain't practical. Just funny! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 Posted July 29, 2011 Share Posted July 29, 2011 Fer some reason this brings to mind Kat's article in the last Chronicle... where she sez that not only were women not even s'posed to let so much as an ankle be glimpsed, but that folks actually put covers on table legs! Dang, but the sense of "decency" does evolve, don't it? And by the way... I was thinkin' the same as Allie. And a few others, of course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah Bob #35998 Posted July 29, 2011 Share Posted July 29, 2011 Fer some reason this brings to mind Kat's article in the last Chronicle... where she sez that not only were women not even s'posed to let so much as an ankle be glimpsed, but that folks actually put covers on table legs! Dang, but the sense of "decency" does evolve, don't it? And by the way... I was thinkin' the same as Allie. And a few others, of course. They wouldn't even say leg or arms. They were limbs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah Bob #35998 Posted July 29, 2011 Share Posted July 29, 2011 Fer some reason this brings to mind Kat's article in the last Chronicle... where she sez that not only were women not even s'posed to let so much as an ankle be glimpsed, but that folks actually put covers on table legs! Dang, but the sense of "decency" does evolve, don't it? And by the way... I was thinkin' the same as Allie. And a few others, of course. They wouldn't even say leg or arms. They were limbs. And way back in the day they wouldn't have had to hang bullnutz on their wagons. There were plenty of natcheral ones hangin out all over! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 Posted July 29, 2011 Share Posted July 29, 2011 They wouldn't even say leg or arms. They were limbs. And way back in the day they wouldn't have had to hang bullnutz on their wagons. There were plenty of natcheral ones hangin out all over! Come to think of it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdeacon Joe Posted July 29, 2011 Author Share Posted July 29, 2011 Dang, but the sense of "decency" does evolve, don't it? Yep, things do change: Tuscaloosa Independent Monitor, Saturday, Feb. 18, 1860, page 1, col. 5 -- GIRLS, DON’T DO IT – There is a practice, quite prevalent among young ladies of the present day, which we are old fashioned enough to consider improper. We allude to their giving daguerreotypes of themselves to young men who are merely acquaintances. We consider it indelicate in the highest degree. We are astonished that any young girl should hold herself as cheap as this. With an accepted lover it is of course all right. Even in this case the likeness should be returned if the engagement should by any misunderstanding cease. If this little paragraph should meet the eye of any young girl about to give her daguerreotype to a gentleman acquaintance, let her know that the remarks made by young men when together, concerning what is perhaps on her part but a piece of ignorance or imprudence, would if she heard them, cause her cheeks to crimson with shame and anger. “Were it a sister of ours,” we have often said, with a flashing eye – were it a sister of ours! But that not being the case, we give this advice to anybody’s sister who needs it, with our best bow, and most anxious desire that she should at all times preserve her dignity and self-respect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062 Posted July 29, 2011 Share Posted July 29, 2011 ..... maybe it's an indication of the OXEN power of their vehicle .... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aunt Jen Posted July 30, 2011 Share Posted July 30, 2011 Yes. I think they need to lighten up. And to think, in this day and age, they're spending tax dollars to fight that humor? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Woodrow Cahill, SASS # 54363 Posted July 30, 2011 Share Posted July 30, 2011 Yes. I think they need to lighten up. And to think, in this day and age, they're spending tax dollars to fight that humor? Yer right Jen. They should be busting little girls for operating lemonade stands instead. Oh wait ... some other knuckleheads have already done that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant Smokepole #29248L Posted July 31, 2011 Share Posted July 31, 2011 That's just nuts.......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah Bob #35998 Posted July 31, 2011 Share Posted July 31, 2011 I guess they don't have any testicle festivals in NC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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