And we pay these congressmen and women to come up with BS like this, lets do something about crime in Maryland, vs someone hanging a pair of balls from their traile hitch,damn, what is wrong with these congressmen and women?? dont they have better things to do??????
By pjpj2045 | Feb 22, 2007 7:41:52 PM | Request Removal
Rural chic? Doesnt your editor check for oxymorons? Heh, just kidding. Put the shotgun back on the rack. Please.
By mlbjorge | Feb 22, 2007 7:43:44 PM | Request Removal
The world is getting more and more rude and crude. Its not really immoral. Its just.... doesnt anyone have respect for others anymore, never mind themselves?
By jewel97 | Feb 22, 2007 7:50:48 PM | Request Removal
Save Our Balls!
By sempergrunt | Feb 22, 2007 8:00:28 PM | Request Removal
Let the boys have their fun. Ours is a vulgar society. Ive seen these on a truck parked at my building here in Northern Virginia. Men who display these things love NASCAR, Bud beer, and listen to Limbaugh. Their women have big hair. Lifes a joke. Ours is a vulgar society. Right now we have the dualing travesties of Anna Nicholes rotting body and were SO interested in Britneys shaved head. Mens testicles hanging from truck hitches is what we get. Let them have their fun. Ill take Shakespeare.
By quentin18 | Feb 22, 2007 8:05:16 PM | Request Removal
If they outlaw plastic bovine gonads, only criminals will have plastic bovine gonads!
By davechen | Feb 22, 2007 8:13:53 PM | Request Removal
The first time I saw this, they were hanging from the back of a truck driven by some woman. I figured they were a trophy from some hapless man she had emasculated.
By jmccas | Feb 22, 2007 8:18:48 PM | Request Removal
i just caught the headline and the synopsis *Symbols of Rural Chic Debated -- Md. bill would prohibit truckers from dangling outsized plastic testicles from hitches of pickups* and all i got to say is WTF!? how high AM i?
By nfbindc | Feb 22, 2007 8:19:45 PM | Request Removal
Clearly, fake balls hanging off trucks are ruining America. On a serious note, the fact that parents are calling and thanking this nut disturbs me. I promise you those same parents dont check what their kids read on the net or watch on tv, or what games they play or what music they listen to. Get real.
By janeway1 | Feb 22, 2007 8:36:44 PM | Request Removal
OK, Im laughing out loud here! I confess that I havent actually seen any of these beauties so to speak yet, but somehow I doubt that I, or any of the children of my acquaintance, will be scarred for life if theyre beheld. Does the good Delegate Myers actually believe that this fad will last long enough to make the law worth the effort? Even the silly but arguably noble Baby on board signs didnt last very long after they became a target of ridicule.
By bobsewell | Feb 22, 2007 8:55:03 PM | Request Removal
Took a lot of balls to run this story
By smokinmike | Feb 22, 2007 8:56:52 PM | Request Removal
quentin18, How exactly does what I watch, what I drink and What I listen to make me inferior to you? I watch NASCAR, sure its dumb, cars going around in circles but I enjoy it and that isnt hurting anyone. What do you watch? Opera? Ballet? Those dont hurt anyone either, but I fail to see how they are better then NASCAR. I drink Bud out of a can, its cheap, I like it, it is made in my state. Does your sipping a cosmo somehow elevate you above me? Are we not both still consuming alcohol? If we drink too much do we not both get intoxicated? As for Limbaugh, well, I dont listen to him either, but Im sure youd blanch at the country station presets on my radio, just as I would skip over your world music or indy rock or whatever you listen to. So we are different and have different tastes, how exactly does that make you better then me?
By runningman32 | Feb 22, 2007 8:57:42 PM | Request Removal
this idiot from western maryland is what the idiot voters of western maryland deserve.....they voted out the friggin SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE and elected a junior member of the minority party....hope these inbred suckers get what they deserve....should have their own balls hanging from their inbred pickups...idiots.
By californicationdude2001 | Feb 22, 2007 9:04:37 PM | Request Removal
Tasteless? Maybe. But worth spending this much time to violate baisc rights? I think not. We allow high school students to wear T-shirts labeling the President of the United States an international terrorist, but testicles? Oh my. Mustnt do that, dearee...
By gary2hs | Feb 22, 2007 9:14:18 PM | Request Removal
This causes me to recall a HS classmate whose father was the police chief in a samll town outside of Detroit, who successfully convinced the town council to pass an ordinance requiring all stores that sold diapers to cover the bottoms of the babies appearing on the outside of the boxes in which the diapers were packaged. True story...the town council reversed itself after Playboy and then other more mainstream media outlets covered the absurdity of the ordinance, the police chief and their own actions. This legislator needs professional help.
By paul | Feb 22, 2007 9:41:34 PM | Request Removal
i think those truck balls are hilarious. why ban them? gimme a break!
By dreadlock_goddess | Feb 22, 2007 9:46:57 PM | Request Removal
runningman32...we need sheeple like you. You are the folks who keep the lower and mid-range of the consumer economy chugging along, like so many NASCAR fans and Budweiser. Seriously, I agree with your message and while I do not understand how NASCAR can possibly be the fastest growing spectator event in the US, or how it is possibe to choke down a Bud [or a super girly Cosmo for that matter] without holding ones nose, or how anyone could listen to the predictable and simple dramas expressed through predictable and simple melodies in most country music without feeling simple and predictable, I do not believe your tastes are less valid than mine. Less refined and much less interesting, but certainly not less valid.
By paul | Feb 22, 2007 9:53:10 PM | Request Removal
By gary2hs | Feb 22, 2007 9:57:40 PM | Request Removal
Man, I love this country!!!! Hey, you know how we make fun of those dumb people who lived in the 18th century and made laws about marrying goats and how you cant walk your chicken on the left side of the road on Tuesdays? So.... think theyll be making fun of us in 200 years?
By freshfudge | Feb 22, 2007 10:16:17 PM | Request Removal
Interesting--there is a war going on, perhaps to be soon expanded. And people are getting worked up about some vulgarity. Tastless, yes. But that is one of the tradeoffs of living in a free society...
By karolus | Feb 22, 2007 10:59:58 PM | Request Removal
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