Virginia to ban ... testicles?

Apparently, for $24.95 somewhere (and I really don't want to know where), you can purchase a set of large, anatomically correct testicles to hang on your trailer hitch.

If Virginia Delegate Lionel Spruill has his way, you'll have to put your balls back in your trunk.

Under his measure, displaying the ornamentation on a motor vehicle would be a misdemeanor punishable by a maximum fine of $250.

He said the idea came from a constituent whose young daughter spotted an example of the trail hitch adornment and asked her father to explain it.

"'I didn't know what to tell her,"' Spruill said the constituent told him before Spruill vowed to stop such displays.

"I said, 'Sir, I'm going to be a laughingstock, but I'm going to do it,"' he said.

Last year (like Wilmington), Virginia contemplated a state law banning "droopy drawers."

OK--stipulating that dangling plastic replica human genitalia from your hitch is tacky--but fining people for being tacky is a potentially endless exercise, not to mention a serious government infringement on our rights.

Not to mention the fact that I'd much rather have the Virginia State Police out looking for drunk drivers and bank robbers.

Comments

a most peculiar nature said…

For future reference, the best place to buy fake testicles for your family vehicle is a Bullhead City, AZ company called BullsBalls.com.

(http://www.bullsballs.com/)

January 16, 2008 at 1:01 PM

Brian Shields said…

LMAO Shirley!

I asked my wife, because she despises those with a fury I have yet to face, and she said it may be because they are considered 'indecent.' Then she stated some 'what will we tell the children' argument.. and all that.

I countered with "why not make horses wear diapers then?" and she promptly told me that line of reasoning was ridiculous.

January 16, 2008 at 8:34 PM

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