# Got Nuts? Uh, Truck Nuts **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 3, 2011, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-nuts-uh-truck-nuts/591286 "2011-08-03T05:19:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-nuts-uh-truck-nuts/591286/1 "2011-08-03T05:19:00Z")
I’ve seen these in the stores. The silver ones are pretty cool. I wouldn’t want them on my truck, but don’t mind if others display them. You have to look close to recognize what they are. The flesh colored ones, are a bit too risque IMHO. Not sure if I’d ban them. People should use their own common sense of decency. You can have fun without being downright vulgar. There’s no need for kids to see that. Course kids see them anyway if you have pets. My chihuahua always licks his nads whether we got company or not. 😛 > **[Hanging of 'Truck Nuts' Grows into a Free Speech Debate](https://www.foxnews.com/us/hanging-of-truck-nuts-grows-into-a-free-speech-debate)** > > Truck nuts, fake plastic bull testicles that drivers hang on the back of their pickups have been around for years. Some find them funny, while others find them offensive, prompting least three states to ban them -- unsuccessfully. > **[SC woman going to court over 'truck nuts' - WWAYTV3](https://www.wwaytv3.com/sc-woman-going-to-court-over-truck-nuts/)** > > A Berkeley County woman will get a jury trial for a ticket she was given by police for displaying big plastic testicles on the back of her pickup truck. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21825_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-nuts-uh-truck-nuts/591286/2 "2011-08-03T13:50:22Z")
I think these are proof that some people will buy anything. They don’t offend me, but I wouldn’t want them on my truck. Obviously I’m not the target demographic. I’m not amused by farts either… ---
**Author:** ![PeskiPiksi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e495f1/32.png) [@PeskiPiksi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PeskiPiksi)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-nuts-uh-truck-nuts/591286/3 "2011-08-03T14:37:54Z")
Ugh, so tacky! ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-nuts-uh-truck-nuts/591286/4 "2011-08-03T16:25:29Z")
They are tacky. I wouldn’t want them either. Maybe if I was in college. But, I’ve grown up a lot since my college days. I don’t agree with the cop that ticketed that lady in the news story. I’ve seen far worse stuff on T Shirts. You see those T shirts in the malls, restaurants etc. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-nuts-uh-truck-nuts/591286/5 "2011-08-03T16:29:57Z")
I think putting hanging testicles on your vehicle is a good idea - it lets the rest of us know exactly who we’re dealing with. ---
**Author:** ![jonesj2205](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecc23a/32.png) [@jonesj2205](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jonesj2205)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-nuts-uh-truck-nuts/591286/6 "2011-08-03T17:05:52Z")
They’re tacky, I’d never get one and the cop is an idiot who’s going to lose this case big time. ---
**Author:** ![VitrolicBump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a587f6/32.png) [@VitrolicBump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VitrolicBump)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-nuts-uh-truck-nuts/591286/7 "2011-08-03T17:20:48Z")
Very tacky and I don’t want to see a pair of giant wrinkeled testicles dangling anywhere. They are not aestheically pleasing. I agree with **FairyChatMom** though; at least we know who we are dealing with. Ugh. Great, this picture is going to be stuck in my head. I want to throw up now. lol ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-nuts-uh-truck-nuts/591286/8 "2011-08-03T17:24:20Z")
Am I the only one who wonders what is the un-conscious motivation for putting these on a truck that the owner then ‘rides’ is? ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-nuts-uh-truck-nuts/591286/9 "2011-08-03T17:30:25Z")
Un-conscious? ---
**Author:** ![emmaliminal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7bcc69/32.png) [@emmaliminal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emmaliminal)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-nuts-uh-truck-nuts/591286/10 "2011-08-03T18:01:58Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > … There’s no need for kids to see that. Course kids see them anyway if you have pets… Or if they live in a neighborhood with other people who have pets, or farm animals. Or if they are boys, or have little brothers in diapers, or if they babysit, or… wait a minute, pretty much most kids are going to know what nads look like! Why is anyone worried about kids seeing plastic ones, again? ---
**Author:** ![SnakesCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@SnakesCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnakesCatLady)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-nuts-uh-truck-nuts/591286/11 "2011-08-03T18:04:46Z")
I would not have them on my vehicle, and I would not ride in a vehicle that had them. I’m all about the spay/neuter, don’tchaknow? ---
**Author:** ![Feyrat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/fbc32d/32.png) [@Feyrat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Feyrat)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-nuts-uh-truck-nuts/591286/12 "2011-08-03T19:11:50Z")
My kids wouldn’t see any nads on my dogs or cats. If your pet isn’t a purebred, show-winning, health-checked animal, snip it. It’s got no right to those things. 😛 As for the truck dangles? Yeah, tacky, gross, and a good display of the maturity/insecurity of the driver, IMO. ---
**Author:** ![tumbleddown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@tumbleddown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tumbleddown)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-nuts-uh-truck-nuts/591286/13 "2011-08-03T19:34:16Z")
Dangling faux testicles from your bumper is a perfect way to inform the world that you have no education, no taste, no refinement and no dignity. Of course, if you even think about buying them, chances are that everyone who knows you already knows about your clueless, tasteless, tacky, crude self anyway. Edited to note: I don’t think it’s any coincidence that people with truck nuts are always the ones flicking cigarette butts out the window, blaring music and/or Rush Limbaugh at inappropriate volumes, driving very aggressively or otherwise proving their inability to recognize that they are part of a decent society in other ways. ---
**Author:** ![pullin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c57346/32.png) [@pullin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pullin)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2011, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-nuts-uh-truck-nuts/591286/14 "2011-08-04T01:50:11Z")
A clueless but well-intentioned relative bought a “pair” of these for my dad last Christmas. He (and I) puzzled over what to do with them, and we finally decided to put them on our [4-wheeler](http://www.google.com/imgres?q=yamaha+rhino&hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&biw=1016&bih=513&gbv=2&tbm=isch&tbnid=UCJhTLNCUt_R8M:&imgrefurl=http://www.rc-trucks.org/yamaha-rhino.htm&docid=omwrp4UTx3DKqM&w=400&h=308&ei=k_k5Tpn-Ns-_tgeOwMn6Ag&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=178&vpy=146&dur=330&hovh=159&hovw=206&tx=161&ty=67&page=1&tbnh=159&tbnw=206&start=0&ndsp=6&ved=1t:429,r:0,s:0)\*. At least they’re only seen at deer camp. Hopefully the denizens there have a more favorable view of them. 😛 \*link included in case the term is unfamiliar to non-USians. ---
**Author:** ![Claire\_Beauchamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ec9cab/32.png) [@Claire\_Beauchamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Claire_Beauchamp)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2011, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-nuts-uh-truck-nuts/591286/15 "2011-08-04T01:53:55Z")
Oh god I hate those things. I love real testicles and what they are attached to, but I think these things – silver or not – are just repulsive and a sign that I would never, ever want to know the owner of the vehicle in any way whatsoever. And no, you don’t have to get “pretty close” to know what they are. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2011, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-nuts-uh-truck-nuts/591286/16 "2011-08-04T02:55:25Z")
Maybe the officer wanted to write her a ticket for violation of good taste, but that was the best he could do? 😉 I haven’t seen all that many of them around here, thank god. Blech.