Poor Texans.

[ABSTRUSE]

Obscenity Charge Vs. Texas Woman Dropped

CLEBURNE, Texas - An obscenity charge has been dropped against a woman who received nationwide attention when she was arrested for selling two sex toys to undercover police officers posing as a couple.



A judge dismissed the case against Joanne Webb, Johnson County Attorney Bill Moore said Friday in a statement. He said he asked the judge for the dismissal to prevent wasting county resources, but didn't say when the dismissal occurred.


No one answered the phone at Moore's office Saturday morning.


Webb, a former fifth-grade teacher, started selling erotic toys and other adult products last year. The Passion Parties Inc. consultant hosts what she calls Tupperware-type parties for suburban housewives who feel more comfortable buying marital aids in a private home than at an adult bookstore or on the Internet.


Webb was arrested Nov. 13, about a month after the undercover officers approached her at her husband's business in Burleson, about 10 miles south of Fort Worth, and bought two products. Had she been convicted of violating Texas' obscenity law, she could have been sentenced to a year in jail.


Webb's attorney, BeAnn Sisemore, said she and her client are pleased with the dismissal.


"We knew that it was a possibility, but we weren't contacted," she told the Cleburne Times-Review for its Sunday edition.


According to the state's obscenity code, an obscene device is a simulated sexual organ or an item designed to stimulate the genitals. Adult stores get around the law by posting signs that say "sold only as novelties."


Moore said a pending federal lawsuit filed by Sisemore would determine the constitutionality of the obscenity statute Webb was accused of violating.

 

[doormouse]

You can't be serious!!!! LOL

I bet they have a huge demand for phallic shaped candles then

 

[destinie21]

oh the horror the horror

 

[cloudy]

hmmm.....I need to get some more of those "novelties"

 

[lucky-E-leven]

I know it's stupid news, but the majority of news coming out of here is normally so morbid that I'm pleased as punch that this dildo biz is all it was.

~lucky

Thanks A.

 

[Lisa Denton]

Obscenity Charge Vs. Texas Woman Dropped

CLEBURNE, Texas - An obscenity charge has been dropped against a woman who received nationwide attention when she was arrested for selling two sex toys to undercover police officers posing as a couple.



A judge dismissed the case against Joanne Webb, Johnson County Attorney Bill Moore said Friday in a statement. He said he asked the judge for the dismissal to prevent wasting county resources, but didn't say when the dismissal occurred.


No one answered the phone at Moore's office Saturday morning.


Webb, a former fifth-grade teacher, started selling erotic toys and other adult products last year. The Passion Parties Inc. consultant hosts what she calls Tupperware-type parties for suburban housewives who feel more comfortable buying marital aids in a private home than at an adult bookstore or on the Internet.


Webb was arrested Nov. 13, about a month after the undercover officers approached her at her husband's business in Burleson, about 10 miles south of Fort Worth, and bought two products. Had she been convicted of violating Texas' obscenity law, she could have been sentenced to a year in jail.


Webb's attorney, BeAnn Sisemore, said she and her client are pleased with the dismissal.


"We knew that it was a possibility, but we weren't contacted," she told the Cleburne Times-Review for its Sunday edition.


According to the state's obscenity code, an obscene device is a simulated sexual organ or an item designed to stimulate the genitals. Adult stores get around the law by posting signs that say "sold only as novelties."


Moore said a pending federal lawsuit filed by Sisemore would determine the constitutionality of the obscenity statute Webb was accused of violating.

Abs you anti-texas tramp, kiss,smooch, we have all kinds of stupid laws. You can't spit on the shady side of the street in downtown Dallas, well you can, but there's a law says you can't. You can walk into any adult bookstore with the sign "sold only as novelties" and buy any kind of sex toy you can imagine and quite a few you can't imagine. That lady was operating out of her husband's business and forgot to put up the novelties sign. Some soccer mom with an attitude and no butt plug probably complained and the whole thing got blown out of proportion. The news tonight showed her walking out of the court with the stupid charges dropped.
We don't all ride horses and say "yehaw" and some Texans actually may be as intelligent as you are, though most of us don't walk around with a cigar hanging out of our mouths looking all elegant. You can kiss my butt, your lips are the best sex toy this Texan has ever seen. Love ya.

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

... According to the state's obscenity code, an obscene device is a simulated sexual organ...

We all know that the largest sex organ is the brain, so now it begins to make sense.

Somebody, please take the law into their own hands, and send a brain substitute to Crawford, and another to DC, immediately.

 

[lucky-E-leven]

We all know that the largest sex organ is the brain, so now it begins to make sense.

Somebody, please take the law into their own hands, and send a brain substitute to Crawford, and another to DC, immediately.

Hey!

Where've you been? Glad you're back!

I was fifteen miles from the Crawford Ranch earlier in the week. I'll be going back in a week or two. Mind if I deliver that brain substitute myself? Shouldn't be too hard to find one. Hell, my cat's brain would be a step up at this point.

~lucky

 

[Lord DragonsWing]

Talk about obscure laws!!!!!!!!!!!! I was told a couple months ago that here in Alabama, maybe Cloudy can veryify this, that it's illegal to drive down the road without the lanterns burning on the front of your car. lmao. Damn, the way I drive the candles would go out before I left the parking lot. lol

 

[rgraham666]

Of all the laws humans have legislated out of nothing, blasphemy is the most amazing, with obscenity and indecent exposure fighting it out for second and third place.

Robert A. Heinlein

 

[cloudy]

Talk about obscure laws!!!!!!!!!!!! I was told a couple months ago that here in Alabama, maybe Cloudy can veryify this, that it's illegal to drive down the road without the lanterns burning on the front of your car. lmao. Damn, the way I drive the candles would go out before I left the parking lot. lol

Found this one: It is legal to drive the wrong way down a one-way street if you have a lantern attached to the front of your automobile.

And my personal favorite: It is illegal to wear a fake moustache that causes laughter in church.

 

[ABSTRUSE]

Re: Re: Poor Texans.

Abs you anti-texas tramp, kiss,smooch, we have all kinds of stupid laws. You can't spit on the shady side of the street in downtown Dallas, well you can, but there's a law says you can't. You can walk into any adult bookstore with the sign "sold only as novelties" and buy any kind of sex toy you can imagine and quite a few you can't imagine. That lady was operating out of her husband's business and forgot to put up the novelties sign. Some soccer mom with an attitude and no butt plug probably complained and the whole thing got blown out of proportion. The news tonight showed her walking out of the court with the stupid charges dropped.
We don't all ride horses and say "yehaw" and some Texans actually may be as intelligent as you are, though most of us don't walk around with a cigar hanging out of our mouths looking all elegant. You can kiss my butt, your lips are the best sex toy this Texan has ever seen. Love ya.

Oh honey, I'm not anti-texas, I love my friends in Texas. In fact I find Texas to be quite...colorful.
I fact in never missed an episode of "Dallas" and all the best crime shows always have a story about murdering nutcases in Texas.

I'm not sure if they have good cigars though.

 

[cynter]

texas

texas born and raised. actually i like texas. colorful history. incredible mix of cultures. can not beat the food. or the music. still..got some weirdos in austin. eh..i blame the republicans more than them being texans. but then i blame the republicans for almost everything.

 

[Lisa Denton]

Re: Re: Re: Poor Texans.

Oh honey, I'm not anti-texas, I love my friends in Texas. In fact I find Texas to be quite...colorful.
I fact in never missed an episode of "Dallas" and all the best crime shows always have a story about murdering nutcases in Texas.

I'm not sure if they have good cigars though.

Dallas? Wasn't that on back in the sixties? (Lisa runs away really, really fast) Nutcases? Yes I'm here and kill people with my bad jokes.
And Abs!!!!!!! We have the best cigars, but you can't use em as sex toys. Have a cigar Abs love, think of me when you fire that puppy up.

 

[ABSTRUSE]

Re: Re: Re: Re: Poor Texans.

Dallas? Wasn't that on back in the sixties? (Lisa runs away really, really fast) Nutcases? Yes I'm here and kill people with my bad jokes.
And Abs!!!!!!! We have the best cigars, but you can't use em as sex toys. Have a cigar Abs love, think of me when you fire that puppy up.

I may be old but I can still shoot fast.

Sorry sweets, but there's no way I'd have a cigar with those skinny skanks, they lack my finesse.

 

[Lisa Denton]

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Poor Texans.

I may be old but I can still shoot fast.

Sorry sweets, but there's no way I'd have a cigar with those skinny skanks, they lack my finesse.

I'm sooooooooory Abs, I was bad, please forgive me?



Do you really shoot fast? (Lisa runs away really fast holding her butt)

 

[ABSTRUSE]

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Poor Texans.

I'm sooooooooory Abs, I was bad, please forgive me?



Do you really shoot fast? (Lisa runs away really fast holding her butt)

I shoot fast, I just don't see that well.

 

[vargas111]

This looks like a triumph for "due process."

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

UPDATE

Woman Who Sold Sex Toy Has Charges Dropped

By Jon Herskovitz
Tue Jul 20, 2004


. . . Texas law allows for the sale of sexual toys as long as they are billed as novelties. But when a person markets the items in a direct manner that shows how they are used in sex, it is considered criminal obscenity. . .


[Full Text Here]

Ahh! Now I understand.

It is not somebody making money selling sex toys that is the trouble in Texas.

It is anyone passing information or providing education that is the trouble.

That fits right in with Bush's "Sex Education" programs, and complements his "No Student Left Behind" only in reverse.

In this case, they wanted the people to know what they intended, so the title isn't ironical.

The title is LEAVE THOSE MOTHERS BEHIND!

Now, I understand!

 

[Svenskaflicka]

So, if she was selling butt plugs, and Bush wants you to leave mothers' behinds...

Nope. I still don't get it. I'll use the Blonde Clause for this one.

 

[Remec]

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Poor Texans.

I shoot fast, I just don't see that well.

Use a shotgun, you don't have to aim as much...although, you lose out on range...

 

[MrNexx]

Even the "novelties" sign isn't proof against it in Texas, I'm afraid. my wife and I were looking into buying her a silver bullet after her old one died, and it turns out that some judicial districts, you can't sell such "personal massagers", even as novelties. It couldn't be bought in one section of town, due to the local magistrate, but it could only 10 miles away.

 

[Guest]

Hola, Mr. Nexx. I'd forgotten what this thread was about and I read your post, particularly the bit about getting another "silver bullet" for your wife and I thought of an actual silver bullet like for a gun. You know, given that Remec and Abby just talked about shooting, and you're from Texas, etc. (not that you'd care but it made me laugh so I thought I'd say hello).

Perdita

 

[Lisa Denton]

Hola, Mr. Nexx. I'd forgotten what this thread was about and I read your post, particularly the bit about getting another "silver bullet" for your wife and I thought of an actual silver bullet like for a gun. You know, given that Remec and Abby just talked about shooting, and you're from Texas, etc. (not that you'd care but it made me laugh so I thought I'd say hello).

Perdita

Its o.k. perdita, I laughed too and it was my butt everybody was talking about shooting.
Svenskaflicka, I loved the butt plug and mothers behinds remark.