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Man Forced To Shorten Fence Gets Revenge With Naked Mannequins
By David Moye
A man in Santa Rosa, California, forced to reduce the size of his fence got some payback on City Hall with the help of some naked mannequins.
Jason Windus had built a 6-
foot-tall fence to keep his two dogs in his
yard. “I put this fence together for my dogs so that they had a place to run,” Windus told San Francisco station KPIX-TV.
However, Windus was ordered to
cut his $9,000 fence in half after a neighbor filed a complaint with the city, claiming it obstructed the view of oncoming traffic for drivers at the intersec- tion, according to Oakland sta-
tion KTVU-TV.
The city agreed
and ordered Windus the alter- ation to the fence in half, which Windus said he didn’t consider fair. “As you drive through the neighborhood you’ll see that nobody else’s fence had to be cut down but mine,” he told
KTVU.
Windus said city officials said he would be fined $500 for every day the fence remained in its original condition.
“They made me freak out,” Windus told San Francisco station KGO-TV.
So he complied, but not without making his own kind of offbeat statement: Windus put a bunch of naked mannequins he was saving for the right occa- sion right there in his front yard.
“I couldn’t bring myself to throw them away. I was going to use them for target practice,” Windus told KGO.
Windus placed
four of the anatomically accurate man- nequins around a table while a female dummy stands with her arms over her head, according to The Santa Rosa Press- Democrat.
The dummy dis- play features a sign that
reads “Reserved seat for the nosey neighbor that complained about my fence to the city.”
So far, locals are enjoying the nakedly personal protest, Windus told KTVU.
“I wasn’t expect- ing any of this,” he said. “We’ve had like 50 peo- ple stop, taking pictures, telling me how great it is.”
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