I've been following this story in my hometown for nearly a year now. As someone who is prone to bug bites and sunburns, all I can say is "ouch":
Catharine Pierce is an avid gardener. But unlike many others, she prefers to garden in the nude. Well, actually not entirely nude: she wears a yellow thong, and pink gloves.
The housing authority where she lives threatened to evict her and her husband over the barrage of complaints it received last summer from the neighbors, including mothers who fear that local teenage boys have become far too preoccupied with gardening.
But evicting disruptive tenants proved to be harder than it looked. Despite the complaints, even calls to the police, turns out being nude is not a crime in this Colorado mountain town. After months of negotiations with the couple failed to resolve the complaints or halt the frequent visits by law enforcement, the landlord's only hope was for the city council to beef up its nudity rulings. The council was torn. Isn't it discriminatory to allow men to take off their shirts in public, but not women? read more...
For more see on this story, see Landlord Struggles to Evict Tenants for Over-Exposure.
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