I finally understand why Alabama bans vibrators.  It isn’t to prevent people from engaging in some mechanical love in the privacy of their own bedroom.  No sir.  The law is meant to protect us from the rare, but dangerous vibrator bandits.  Here is a penetrating story from the BBC.

A robber who held up a bookmaker’s shop in Leicester with his girlfriend’s vibrator has been jailed.
Nicki Jex, 27, of Braunstone, Leicester, hid the sex toy in a carrier bag pretending it was a gun, Leicester Crown Court heard.

The manager at Ladbrokes in Narborough Road handed over more than £600 in cash when he pointed it at her on 27 December 2006, the court heard.

On Monday, Jex, who pleaded guilty to robbery, was jailed for five years.

Sentencing him, Judge Philip Head said: “It’s right to record that you did not have a firearm but you pretended you had and intended that those you confronted believed that you did, and it must have been truly terrifying for them at the time.”

Imagine the terror of having someone wave a vibrator at you.

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