Virginia battles indecent trucks
January 16th, 2008 at 04:14pm cicada
Tragically, the epidemic of hanging artificial genitalia from truck hitches has spread, prompting still more state legislation, this time in Virginia (as I posted in 2007, Maryland already tried to ban them).
We are a really bizarre species to find this sort of thing amusing, aren’t we? I’m at a loss whether to be exasperated that artificial body parts are seen as so horrible and indecent they must be banned, or to be exasperated that people think putting artificial body parts on machinery is funny. Trucks don’t even reproduce sexually. Duh.
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1. David | January 16th, 2008 at 5:59 pm
How bizarre! I’ve not noticed any such truck ornamentation down here in Australia. That said, we have more than our fair share of offensive vehicle ornamentation.
2. Jane | January 16th, 2008 at 11:01 pm
So, here in Idaho, those very large pickup trucks are sometimes referred to as “compensation” trucks. So, what does it say about the driver of a truck who feels the need to embellish a truck with testicles?
3. Hungry Hyaena | January 17th, 2008 at 1:18 pm
I thought all transport vehicles were “female,” anyway. Does this mean the trucks are hermaphrodites? Interesting choice for the owners to make, that.
4. Wunx~ | January 17th, 2008 at 2:12 pm
I’ve never seen a truck with sex organs, of either gender, attached. Of course if someone tried it here in Land o’ Mormon they’d probably get thrown under the jail.
My personal thought is: we all run around naked under our clothes 7/24 anyway, so what’s the big deal? It isn’t the particular body parts that provoke moral turpitude, it’s societal and individual attitudes towards those parts. Just look to the middle east for an excessive demonstration of that.
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