Fri, 03 Aug 2007

Man Uses Mannequins In Pornographic Protest Against City

A classic - which reminds me of a (possibly apocryphal) local tale with an agricultural twist.

It seems that a farmer ended up owning several hundred acres behind a local office park development. The developers wanted to buy his land for more buildings, and the farmer wanted to sell it, but the local zoning board wanted to "preserve the agricultural character" of the area, never mind that it was now bisected by a six lane highway, dotted with strip malls and home to several multistory office and apartment blocks. So they refused the farmers request for a change in his zoning, and mandated that he retain his agricultural land.

The next month he put in a 250 acre "classic" hog operation - not a CAFO, but not quite what I'd call free range or pastured pork, either. The animals, all 1250 of them, were kept in portable sheds and pens across the pastures, and slopped every day. He built several large "wallows", areas kept more or less flooded for the porkers to cool off in, in between a strip mall and an office building. This created what used to be known in these parts as "fresh country air" - certainly not the industrial stench of a fully confined barn, but a pervasive aroma of, well, pig shit, anyway.

The zoning board came back at him offering a variance the next month. Rumor has it that he held out until the developers doubled their original offer, then bought a place out West, far from any city.

A disgruntled business man is displaying naked mannequins in his storefront window to protest against his city. He's angry and some of his neighbors are reacting to the displays.

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