Lawyer explains why you shouldn't drive around with "truck nuts"

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Obscenity vs free speech debates
In 2007, Maryland legislator LeRoy E. Myers Jr. proposed prohibiting motorists from "displaying anything resembling or depicting 'anatomically correct' or 'less than completely and opaquely covered' human or animal genitals, human buttocks or female breasts".[2] He said fake testicles were "vulgar and immoral," and said his proposal was requested by an offended resident.[2] In Virginia in 2008, Delegate Lionell Spruill proposed Bill HB 1452 to prohibit truck owners from displaying or otherwise equipping their vehicles with devices resembling human genitalia.[4][5] In April 2008, the Florida Senate voted for a $60 fine for displaying truck nuts, but it did not pass the House.[6]

In 2011, a 65-year-old South Carolina woman was ticketed by the town's police chief for obscenity displaying truck nuts on her pickup.[7][8][9][10] The case, originating in Bonneau, S.C. (population approximately 480), was pending jury trial on her $445 traffic ticket. The case was continued three times and no new trial date was set.[11] According to the Above the Law legal analysis blog, the ban was discussed in the ABA Journal and presented constitutional freedom of speech questions.[12] The stated position of the Honolulu Police Department in 2013 from their city corporation counsel's office concerning obscene bumper stickers is, "It may be tasteless but it's protected as free speech."[13]

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In 2011, a 65-year-old South Carolina woman was ticketed by the town's police chief for obscenity displaying truck nuts on her pickup

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Grandma with truck nuts.

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He said fake testicles were "vulgar and immoral,"

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