In other important news
I almost spat out my coffee when I found this story from Virginia in the back pages of the newspaper.
State legislator Lionel Spruill introduced a bill last week to ban displaying replicas of human genitalia on vehicles, calling it a safety issue because it could distract other drivers.
I do believe that takes the prize for the most whimsically inane piece of legislation I've ever seen.
He said the idea came from a constituent whose young daughter spotted an example of the trail hitch adornment and asked her father to explain it.
"`I didn't know what to tell her,'" Spruill said the constituent told him before Spruill vowed to stop such displays.
Heaven forbid that Virginians should have to explain basic anatomy to their children. We can't have that now, can we?
What cracked me up was thinking about the conversation that must have occurred between Spruill and the poor lawyer in the legislative drafting department.
Spruill: I want to ban those dangly-whatsits on trucks!
Lawyer: Ban what?
Spruill: You know, those, um, things. That people hang from their trailer hitches.
Lawyer: Well first of all we're going to have to come up with a legal definition of dangly-whatsits. Can you explain what they are?
Spruill: No! I don't want to have to explain them. That's the point!
The article concludes with the following quote:
[Spruill] said he won't hesitate to bring a set of $24.95 trailer testicles with him for a legislative show-and-tell.
"I'm going to do it," Spruill told reporters. "I'm going to bring them out here and show them to you till they tell me to stop."
If I were a trailer testicle manufacturer, I'd be making a hefty donation to Delegate Spruill this year. You just can't buy that kind of publicity.
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