BONNEAU, S.C. (AP) - 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.
Virginia Tice of Bonneau was given a $445 ticket July 5 that accuses her of violating the state's obscene bumper sticker law.
Police Chief Franco Fuda asked for a jury trial, saying questions of obscenity should be determined by community standards.
Tice's attorney, Scott Bischoff, expects a trial next month. A relative said Tice didn't want to talk about the case before the trial.
She was ticketed after pulling into a gas station in her truck with big red fake testicles hanging from the trailer hitch.
Jul 27, 2011
Your basic Thia hooker turned Rhino horn smugler story
JOHANNESBURG - A smuggler paid Thai hookers to take poached rhino horns out of South Africa and into the lucrative Asian market, the Mail and Guardian reported Friday.
Thai national Chumlong Lemtongthai was arrested last week outside Johannesburg on suspicion of being part of a syndicate that sold at least 40 rhino horns.
The poached horns were taken to a taxidermist and made to look like hunting trophies, but to get around a lack of hunters, Lemtongthai found a creative solution.
He paid Thai hookers and strippers 5,000 rand ($740) each to pose as hunters and take the horns back to Thailand.
Lemtongthai reportedly made a profit of $8.9 million before he was caught.
Read more: AFP
Thai national Chumlong Lemtongthai was arrested last week outside Johannesburg on suspicion of being part of a syndicate that sold at least 40 rhino horns.
The poached horns were taken to a taxidermist and made to look like hunting trophies, but to get around a lack of hunters, Lemtongthai found a creative solution.
He paid Thai hookers and strippers 5,000 rand ($740) each to pose as hunters and take the horns back to Thailand.
Lemtongthai reportedly made a profit of $8.9 million before he was caught.
Read more: AFP
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