Legislator wants to ban “truck nutz”

These things are ridiculous, but a ban? Seriously?

“People are making a joke out of it,” [Maryland delegate LeRoy] 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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A hunter could still throw a freshly killed and uncovered deer in the back of his pickup, though, because the deer’s body parts would be real, Myers said.

We can all recognize that Myers is semi-crazy (the man referenced deer balls in a serious manner), but I asked myself if I’d feel the same way if a female legislator was protesting plastic breasts hanging from bumpers. And I have to say, while I would in all likelihood find them distasteful, I wouldn’t be interested in passing legislation to ban them. As Meredith Curtis of the Maryland American Civil Liberties Union said, “The solution to speech we don’t like is more speech.”
Plus, this is one of those items that serves to warn you away from guys that you probably don’t want to be dating anyway.