You Can Have My Truck Nuts When You Pry Them From My Cold, Dead Bumper

Oct. 27 2008, Published 7:07 a.m. ET

Remember back in January when we warned you about the threat posed to truck nuts by our nation's attention-seeking state pols? Well, the powder-coated, drop-forged aluminum automotive decorations shaped to resemble the human scrotum are still under fire: the Florida senate passed a motion that would "make displaying bull genitalia reproductions on a vehicle subject to a $60 fine, moving violations and points against a driver license." Will the legacy of truck-testicle discrimination in this country never be put to rest? You people had better get out there and vote this fall, or we're going to be living in a country where a fella can't hang a pair of metal nads off the old Dodge Ram without the fuzz chasing him down and ripping his sack off. So don't say you weren't warned.

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