Monday, August 1, 2011

BALLS: VIRGINIA TICE CHARGED WITH OBSCENITY

BALLS
OKAY, so they're not in the best possible taste admittedly.
But in a fantastic waste of time and money Virginia Tice is heading to court for a jury trial over a ticket she was given for displaying big, plastic testicles on the back of her pickup truck.
The 65-year-old was reportedly fined a whopping $445, for the offending pair, after pulling into a convenience store near her home in Bonneau, SC.
Officers said that they violated the state's obscene bumper sticker law - even thought they're clearly not a sticker.  
Police Chief Franco Fuda asked for a jury trial, saying questions of obscenity should be determined by community standards.
According to Scott Bischoff, Tice's attorney, the trial will likely be next month.
He told KSEE: "She's such a sweet lady and she just says 'I don't want to pay the fine.' We'll let a jury decide whether this is really criminal behavior.
"I don't want to take away from the importance of free speech, but it's really comical."
Fuda said if the fake testicles were a free speech issue, "I don't know what they would be trying to express."

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