Published: August 01, 2011
Op-Ed Contributor
Old Lady Faces Trial For Plastic Testicles
By Robert Paul Reyes
"The police chief of a small South Carolina town will ask a jury to decide if a woman (Virginia Tice) broke the state's obscenity laws by driving a pickup truck with plastic testicles hanging from the back." Reuters
Elderly people should have a special dispensation to indulge in all types of eccentric behavior. If a young friend of mine drove a truck with plastic testicles hanging from the back, I would admonish him for his lack of class. But if the old lady who lives next door to me did the same thing, I would simply smile and say "interesting decoration, Ma'am."
Usually I tailgate an old lady who is going about ten miles under the speed limit, but if she had plastic gonads hanging in her car, I would protectively clutch my family jewels and give her a wide berth.
It's a shame that a police officer felt compelled to issue Tice a ticket, he needs to get on the ball and go after real threats to public safety like speeders and drunk drivers.
If there are no women in the jury the old bat may end up behind bars for the rest of her life.
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Robert Paul Reyes is a NewsBlaze writer on Politics, Pop Culture and Pointless Pontificating. Contact him by writing to NewsBlaze.
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