*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."
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When me and Sarge were going to the Cubs game a couple of weeks ago there was a truck in front of us with these things. We were stopped behind it at a light and I says to Sarge, "are those balls hanging down from the trailer hitch." "I reckon they are," he says back. Then a couple of blocks later the truck honked its horn and we realized that everytime we had gone under a viaduct and thought a train was blowing its whisle over head we were wrong. It was that troglodyte blowing its train whistle horn.
Git'r'done.
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