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A South Carolina woman will face a jury trial over a $445 ticket written to her after a police chief deemed the red truck testicles hanging off her vehicle violated a state obscenity law.

Virginia Tice, 65, was issued the ticket earlier this month after her truck was pulled over by Bonneau Police Department Chief Franco Fuda who saw the popular adornment known as “Truck Nutz” or “Bulls Balls” hanging from her 2004 Dodge.

Her violation was recorded by the chief as “Obscene Bumber Sticker” which falls under a state law involving displays that community standards deem “patently offensive” and include “sexual acts, excretory functions, or parts of the human body."

According to a court clerk a trial will be scheduled for late August. It will allow Tice’s peers to determine what the community standard is when it comes to dangling novelty balls off the back of one’s truck.

A Florida woman arrested yesterday for allegedly threatening to kill to her boyfriend offered up an explanation for her actions that won’t generate too much sympathy from anyone who remembers 20th century history.

According to a Manatee County Sheriff’s Office report, Melitta Hanneman, 55, explained that “she is German and as a German person it is part of her culture to confront an adversary.” In this case her “adversary”--a man she dates and shares a home with--called cops fearing she would follow through on the threat made in front of five witnesses.

Hanneman, pictured in the mug shot at right, remains jailed on the misdemeanor charge.

An Indiana man has been charged with three counts of felony criminal recklessness for allegedly firing a gun over the head of his girlfriend after she declined his marriage proposal.

Police responded to a call of shots fired at the home of Robert Kleman last Sunday where he claimed the gun was accidentally discharged by his friend “Eric the Invader” after it was dropped on the floor. Kleman, 29, pictured in the mug shot above, subsequently blamed two other individuals, one named “Chris” and the other named “Cricket” with firing the errant shot.

But according to a probable cause affidavit filed in Superior Court, Kleman’s girlfriend told Hobart Police Department officers a different story. Kristin Jasinski told cops that she was lying on the couch when Kleman arrived home and asked her to marry him. When she declined his proposal he became enraged and started throwing things and “then pulled out his gun, pointed it over her head and a shot was fired going through her wall.”

Interestingly, Jasinski’s Facebook page features a photo of the couple and she lists her relationship status as “engaged.”

During a motel room beating administered by three attackers, a South Carolina man was struck in the head by a Bible and told by one of his assailants that he needed to read the Good Book.

The bizarre incident Sunday resulted in the arrest of the trio as well as the 19-year-old victim’s girlfriend, who had traveled with her boyfriend to the Myrtle Beach motel, where the couple “had sex multiple times.”

For some reason, after the victim fell asleep, Alexandria Marie Penatzer, 18, allegedly allowed three men into the room, where they beat and robbed the victim. According to a Myrtle Beach Police Department report, one of the attackers, Levi Wells, hit the victim on the head with a thrown Bible “and told him that he need to read it.”

The 18-year-old Wells (pictured below right) and two other men were charged with burglary, armed robbery, and kidnapping. Penatzer, below left, was charged with assault and battery, and acting as an accessory both before and after the commission of a felony.

The ruckus at the Holiday South Motel does not appear to be an isolated incident, according to recent reviews on Trip Advisor, where one traveler noted in a July 1 post that, “The first morning that we were there the police showed up along with agents with these ak47 looking guns.” Another visitor reported that her family’s room was broken into on successive June nights, and that her car was stolen.

The man who pied Rupert Murdoch today during the media baron’s Parliament testimony is Jonathan May-Bowles, a comedian, of sorts, who uses the alias “Johnnie Marbles.”

Prior to attacking Murdoch, “Marbles”--pictured above--made Twitter posts suggesting that he was present in the London hearing room. He also reportedly called Murdoch a “greedy billionaire” as he hit the 80-year-old with a plate of what appeared to be shaving cream.