Dirty Driving!

[Prime Muscle]

What's next -- no sex while driving?

 

FROM USATODAY -- Monday, March 29, 2004:

 

X-rated DVDs in vehicles spark outcry

By Charisse Jones, USA TODAY

 

Kathy Holden was trailing a Humvee through Memphis one day when she saw an X-rated film playing on a screen inside the sport-utility vehicle.

 

As a growing number of motorists outfit their cars with DVD players, "dirty driving"could become more common as a distraction for drivers or as viewable for passengers - as well as passersby.

 

Some lawmakers are concerned that a convenience geared to entertain restless tots with cartoons is being used to play X-rated fare.

 

"I was very shocked and surprised," says Holden, 41, of Olive Branch, Miss., who still has a difficult time talking about what she saw about 18 months ago. "I just could not believe that people had the audacity to do that."

 

Last month, a man in Schenectady, N.Y., was arrested for allegedly playing an X-rated film called Chocolate Foam inside his 1994 Mercedes. The movie was playing on a screen in the passenger-side visor, as well as on screens in the back of the headrests, police said.

 

No state specifically prohibits pornography being played on a screen in a car, says Matt Sundeen of the National Conference of State Legislatures.

 

But the Tennessee state Senate passed a bill last year that would prohibit playing an "obscene" film on a screen visible to other drivers. The bill is before the state House.

 

In Flint, Mich., a councilwoman wants to introduce a measure that would fine a driver $500 for playing X-rated movies on the road. "I think it's the responsibility of the driver of the vehicle whether they're viewing this or not," says Councilwoman Carolyn Sims. "You should have the right to ride down the streets and not be subjected to this pornography."

 

Thirty-eight states have laws saying that a TV cannot be visible to the driver, though some allow exceptions for navigation screens or law enforcement, Sundeen says. But with the advent of DVD players, legislators have begun to address newer technology and what is being watched.

 

No exact numbers are available on how many cars have DVD players, because they are usually installed after a car is bought.

 

Tennessee state Sen. Mark Norris, who introduced the bill last year, says: "We have a criminal statute that deals with prohibitions on showing obscene movies, but I don't think anyone ever anticipated the situation where folks would turn their automobile into projection booths."

 

In Schenectady, Andre Gainey, 35, was charged with public display of offensive sexual material and operating a vehicle equipped with a TV in the driver's view. He was stopped after a detective allegedly spotted a porn film playing on his car's screens.

 

Holden, the mother of three teenagers, says something needs to be done: "You have no idea who the driver is next to you, and obviously these people don't care."

[JamesK840]

>"I was very shocked and surprised," says Holden, 41, of Olive

>Branch, Miss., who still has a difficult time talking about

>what she saw about 18 months ago. "I just could not believe

>that people had the audacity to do that."

 

Yep, I feel that exact same way about Humvee drivers too! There's a part of me cheering the current price of gas!

 

[+ deej]

>Yep, I feel that exact same way about Humvee drivers too!

>There's a part of me cheering the current price of gas!

 

ROFL! Me too.

 

This whole subject of porn on in-car DVD systems MUST be covered by public indecency laws.

 

When I was a kid, we had a drive-in theater in town that started showing "those" movies late at night. Understand, in the (flat) midwest, you can see those screens for miles and miles. I still remember the firestorm of public reaction.

 

The more things change..... :+