brainzzz shortage: it's an epidemic, folks

*my mother lives here

State moves to ban fake testicles on vehicles
Fri Apr 25, 2008 12:03pm EDT
By Michael Peltier
TALLAHASSEE, Florida (Reuters) - Senate lawmakers in Florida have voted to ban the fake bull testicles that dangle from the trailer hitches of many trucks and cars throughout the state.
Republican Sen. Carey Baker, a gun shop owner from Eustis*, Florida, called the adornments offensive and proposed the ban. Motorists would be fined $60 for displaying the novelty items, which are known by brand names like "Truck Nutz" and resemble the south end of a bull moving north.
The Florida Senate voted last week to add the measure to a broader transportation bill, but it is not included in the House version.
In a spirited debate laced with double entendre, Senate lawmakers questioned whether the state should curtail freedom of expression in vehicle accessories.
Critics of the ban included the Senate Rules Chairman, Sen. Jim King, a Jacksonville Republican whose truck sported a pair until his wife protested.
The bill's sponsor doubted it would succeed.
"It's probably not going to make it through the process," Baker said on Thursday. "It won't be much of story in a few days."

Welcome to the Not Me Decade Where No One is Responsible.

Josh Hancock's father is suing not only the bar where he was drinking the night he killed himself, but also the company that owned the tow truck that his drunk ass ran into, the driver of the tow truck, and the driver of the car that the tow truck was assisting. So let's see, the bar offered to get him a cab and he refused, but it's the bar's fault he drove drunk? The owner of the car that stalled should have kept the car in good enough condition so that it wouldn't stall requiring a tow truck to stop, the tow truck driver should have put flares in the road because drunks can't be expecting to see the flashing lights of the tow truck, and done the job more quickly so that there would have been nothing for the drunk to crash into. I imagine they'll add the woman to whom he was talking on his cell phone to the lawsuit because she distracted him from driving. But what do you expect to happen when inbred Mississippians and lawyers collide.