stephanie
02-21-2007, 11:14 PM
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by ANDREW SCHOTZ andrews@herald-mail.com
ANNAPOLIS - Washington County Sheriff's deputy Matthew Bragunier figures that he sees, at least once a day, fake bull genitals flopping from the hitches of pickup trucks.
They're only a toy, but they're also unpleasant to look at, said Bragunier, worried what his 2-year-old girl might think someday.
"My daughter's going to see this," he said. "She's going to ask what this is. I don't want to be put in that spot. I don't think I ever want to be in that spot."
Del. LeRoy E. Myers Jr., R-Washington/Allegany, agreed.
This week, he filed a bill for Maryland to ban the toys and others like them.
The bill prohibits any "model, sign, sticker or other item" that shows uncovered human or animal genitals, as well as human buttocks or female breasts, from motor vehicles.
Myers sees his bill as a legislative public service.
"We're there to clean up the air ...," he said, referring to major bills proposed this session. "What about our minds and eyes of our young people?"
That's not how Pamela Campbell views the fake bull genitals that she sells.
"Most people get a good smile out of it," she said. "It's not harmful."
Campbell, whose business is in Bullhead City, Ariz., said she was raised on a farm; anatomy was a lesson learned early and openly. She wondered why parents can't talk to their children about the facts of life.
"Do we have to neuter all dogs that walk by us?" she asked. "Where does it stop?" :eek:
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by ANDREW SCHOTZ andrews@herald-mail.com
ANNAPOLIS - Washington County Sheriff's deputy Matthew Bragunier figures that he sees, at least once a day, fake bull genitals flopping from the hitches of pickup trucks.
They're only a toy, but they're also unpleasant to look at, said Bragunier, worried what his 2-year-old girl might think someday.
"My daughter's going to see this," he said. "She's going to ask what this is. I don't want to be put in that spot. I don't think I ever want to be in that spot."
Del. LeRoy E. Myers Jr., R-Washington/Allegany, agreed.
This week, he filed a bill for Maryland to ban the toys and others like them.
The bill prohibits any "model, sign, sticker or other item" that shows uncovered human or animal genitals, as well as human buttocks or female breasts, from motor vehicles.
Myers sees his bill as a legislative public service.
"We're there to clean up the air ...," he said, referring to major bills proposed this session. "What about our minds and eyes of our young people?"
That's not how Pamela Campbell views the fake bull genitals that she sells.
"Most people get a good smile out of it," she said. "It's not harmful."
Campbell, whose business is in Bullhead City, Ariz., said she was raised on a farm; anatomy was a lesson learned early and openly. She wondered why parents can't talk to their children about the facts of life.
"Do we have to neuter all dogs that walk by us?" she asked. "Where does it stop?" :eek:
The rest..................http://www.herald-mail.com/?module=displaystory&story_id=159259&format=html