Maybe Calvin isn’t obscene after all

One of the obscure traffic laws featured in your article, “8 S.C. driving laws — or lack thereof — you may not know about,” was the state’s ban on obscene bumper stickers, and the article cited as an example a sticker depicting a Calvin and Hobbes cartoon character urinating on the car or sports logo.

Something else you might not know is that a Cherokee County magistrate dismissed a ticket issued to a driver for such a sticker in 1998, specifically holding that the sticker did not meet the legal standard for obscenity.

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