Bill would ban vehicle vulgarity (Maryland)

[deadparrot]

ANNAPOLIS - Washington County Sheriff's deputy Matthew Bragunier figures that he sees, at least once a day, fake bull genitals flopping from the hitches of pickup trucks.

They're only a toy, but they're also unpleasant to look at, said Bragunier, worried what his 2-year-old girl might think someday.

"My daughter's going to see this," he said. "She's going to ask what this is. I don't want to be put in that spot. I don't think I ever want to be in that spot."

Del. LeRoy E. Myers Jr., R-Washington/Allegany, agreed.

http://www.herald-mail.com/?module=displaystory&story_id=159259&format=html

[itsmesgd]

1. will "W" stickers count as vulgarity?

I could get behind that law.

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

2. Lord Knows, Not Like 2 Yr Olds Ever Go To Zoos Or Farms Or Anything, Where Balls Hang Rampant LOL

[brettdale]

10. do you think the religious right will get to the point where

They would want to put clothes on animals at the zoo?

[ikojo]

13. Yeah, I guess this guy keeps his two year

old away from the monkey house and the baboons when they are in heat.

I am tired of people thinking the world has to conform to what THEY think is proper for a TODDLER! Oy vey! The kid will not be two forever, but if he doesn't let her mature she may be two emotionally forever.

[hobbit709]

3. While I think they are stupid and disgusting

is the deputy never going let his daughter see unneutered animals?

[Ian David]

9. Didn't someone pass a law that male horses have to wear pants?

I tried to google it, but all I can find are links to bestiality sites and "Neil Horsley" coming up.

edited to add: I found it!

A Fountain Inn, South Carolina, law once required horses to wear pants at all times. But carriage horses in Charleston, South Carolina, were required to wear diapers.
http://www.xmission.com/~emailbox/loonylaws.htm

[Ian David]

4. I want a tailpipe that looks like an erect penis, if it'll piss-off Republickers.

Then again, it would piss-off EVERYBODY, wouldn't it?

[AlCzervik]

5. Fake balls and "W" stickers help point out the idiots, i find them helpful

they're kind of like their own punishment.

[Warpy]

6. Oh, gawd, I just think of them as asshole indicators

along with Confederate flag stickers.

I wish instead of banning things so that they could go through life without ever being offended by anything, these moron legislators should be tackling tough issues such as a failed health care system and below subsistence wages.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

7. Oh, lord.

If you can handle stupid plastic testicles, stay off the road, jackass.

[Kutjara]

8. I will be a serious blow to the sales prospects of the new...

...Ford Felch.

[Turbineguy]

11. My 7 year old son wanted to know

what a "Call 1-800-EAT-SHIT" bumpersticker was all about.

I told him it was the phone number of the driver's favorite restaurant.

[Taxloss]

12. The text of the bill made me chuckle:

"A person may not display on a motor vehicle any model, sign, sticker, or other item that depicts or resembles anatomically correct, less than completely and opaquely covered, human or animal genitals, human buttocks, or human female breasts."

Does Garfield count?

[ikojo]

14. What about the various representations of

Calvin peeing on a Ford logo, Osama bin Laden or anything else?

[TahitiNut]

18. I guess it depends on what "anatomically correct" means ...

[Taxloss]

20. Oh, the courts, police and media will have so much FUN!

It's not as if there's anything important they might be doing.

[TahitiNut]

15. I guess that prohibits the "Mooning" window 'decorations.'

[Taxloss]

16. They should really be a Federal offence, IMHO. n/t

[leftyclimber]

17. So you may display on a motor vehicle

any blah blah blah that depicts or resembles anatomically INcorrect versions of said body parts?

[karlrschneider]

23. Uh, so baboon mammaries are A-OK with him?

:eyes:

[Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel]

26. Oh man!!

Da you think these count?

[Fresh_Start]

19. Include hummers in the ban

they are vulgar in more ways than one

[eppur_se_muova]

31. Beat me to it! Yeah, let's hope his daughter doesn't ask ...

where the name came from.

[Scout1071]

21. I'm glad.

I think they are vulgar. I've been stuck in traffic behind a giant truck with those things hanging pretty much in my face. I don't think it's funny....I think it's crude and I would be glad to see them gone. I sure as hell wouldn't want my 6 and 4 year old niece and nephew in the car asking me about them.

[Raine]

22. Disgusting stuff

why does anyone want to advertise their stupidity by having such crap displayed anyway. x( Some people seem to be terminally immature.

[Selteri]

24. There are already some laws like that around the country.

That being said, most are moworded less vaugly, in some ways it sounds almost like cops with have cart-blanch to pull anyone over because 'I thought it looked like..." even though it could be a Garfield or something else. Heck, technically someone could be pulled over off the picture of the right angled profile in a woman in a fleshy-colored bathing suit.

[Ignacio Upton]

25. Yay! More Nanny-Statism!

:sarcasm:

[madinmaryland]

27. I guess that means no more Plumbers Crack!!1!!

:scared:

[kestrel91316]

28. Oh, good, so they'll ban Hummers and Suburbans!

[KamaAina]

29. MD can now retaliate for the signs saying "Radar Detectors Illegal in Virginia"

with signs twice as big on the other side of the bridge reading "Plastic Testicles ILLEGAL in Maryland"! :eyes:

[PDJane]

30. They're dumb and crass........

but making them illegal isn't much better.

I'd like to outlaw stupidity too, but it won't work, and making it a capital offence seems a bit extreme.