From The Washington Post, 2/23/07:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/22/AR2007022201426.html
By Lisa Rein
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, February 23, 2007; Page B03
Maryland Del. LeRoy E. Myers Jr. to truckers: If you've got 'em, you
don't need to flaunt 'em.
As the General Assembly debates global warming and the death penalty,
Myers (R-Washington) has something else on his mind:
the outsized plastic testicles that truckers dangle from the trailer
hitches of their pickups.
To some truckers, they are manly expressions of rural chic.
But Myers, who says his Western Maryland district is brimming with
giant fakes on the roadways, calls them vulgar and immoral -- and
filed legislation this week to outlaw them.
"People are making a joke out of it," Myers said yesterday.
"But I think it's a pretty serious problem. You have body parts
hanging from the hitches of cars. We've crossed a line."
His bill would prohibit motorists from displaying anything resembling
or depicting "anatomically correct" or "less than completely and
opaquely covered" human or animal genitals, human buttocks or female
breasts.
The offense would carry a penalty.
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Republicans don't seem to have too many important things to do with
their time, do they.
Harry
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