Tired of your farmer's tan?

[Molalla1]

NEWPORT, Maine (AP) _ One woman wants to mow her lawn topless. Her neighbor doesn’t like it. Solution: Let the voters decide.
With a vote Tuesday of 775-283, Newport residents nixed plans for an ordinance to punish women for displaying their breasts in public.
It all boiled over on Martin Stream Road a few months ago. Desiree Davis, who is in her 30s, wanted to cut the grass without a shirt. Her neighbor, Mary Thompson, called authorities and complained. Topless lawn mowing, she said, was indecent.
Besides, she warned, passing motorists might get distracted and cause an accident.
The law in Maine prohibits the display of genitalia or the committing of sexual acts in public. But Town Manager Kenneth Knight noted that breasts are not genitalia, and lawn mowing not a sexual act. No crime here, he reasoned.
So Thompson launched a petition drive to have the town’s Board of Selectmen craft a law to stop topless lawn-mowing women. She rounded up 125 signatures to get the matter on Tuesday’s ballot.
In the meantime, Shirley Davis, Desiree’s mother, had a company design and print T-shirts for ``official members″ of the fictitious Topless Lawn Mowers Club. More than 100 sold in the first week. Two downtown businesses selling them have placed orders for more.
Davis says her daughter doesn’t plan on changing her mowing habits for next summer.
`She likes a nice tan,″ Davis says, ``and I have a large lawn.″

:laughing: . . . Time for trip to Maine . . .

 

[Steppenwolfe]

NEWPORT, Maine (AP) _ One woman wants to mow her lawn topless. Her neighbor doesn稚 like it. Solution: Let the voters decide.
With a vote Tuesday of 775-283, Newport residents nixed plans for an ordinance to punish women for displaying their breasts in public.
It all boiled over on Martin Stream Road a few months ago. Desiree Davis, who is in her 30s, wanted to cut the grass without a shirt. Her neighbor, Mary Thompson, called authorities and complained. Topless lawn mowing, she said, was indecent.
Besides, she warned, passing motorists might get distracted and cause an accident.
The law in Maine prohibits the display of genitalia or the committing of sexual acts in public. But Town Manager Kenneth Knight noted that breasts are not genitalia, and lawn mowing not a sexual act. No crime here, he reasoned.
So Thompson launched a petition drive to have the town痴 Board of Selectmen craft a law to stop topless lawn-mowing women. She rounded up 125 signatures to get the matter on Tuesday痴 ballot.
In the meantime, Shirley Davis, Desiree痴 mother, had a company design and print T-shirts for ``official members″ of the fictitious Topless Lawn Mowers Club. More than 100 sold in the first week. Two downtown businesses selling them have placed orders for more.
Davis says her daughter doesn稚 plan on changing her mowing habits for next summer.
`She likes a nice tan,″ Davis says, ``and I have a large lawn.″

I can fix this problem right now... Pass a bare breast tax of say, $1000.00; then if you want to mow bare breasted, pay the tax and be on your way. Instead of the old tax and spend, it will be a tax and tan... :thumbsup:

 

[2LaneCruzer]

I can fix this problem right now... Pass a bare breast tax of say, $1000.00; then if you want to mow bare breasted, pay the tax and be on your way. Instead of the old tax and spend, it will be a tax and tan... :thumbsup:

You could pay the tax, easy, by charging $5.00 admission fee...

 

[Molalla1]

You could pay the tax, easy, by charging $5.00 admission fee...

Yep depending on the mower, probably make money . . :laughing:

 

[Diggin It]

Perhaps Mary was jealous? Wonder which is a more decent view?

 

[4570Man]

I wonder if the caller was less endowed and jealous or of the mower was ugly?

 

[Molalla1]

What's the saying here?
"Pictures or it didn't happen."

:thumbsup: :laughing: . . .

 

[bcp]

This article has a photo.

Wisconsin Woman Arrested After Mowing Lawn Topless: Police - NBC Chicago

But the mowing is not why she was arrested.

Bruce

 

[bunyip]

A very revealing photo, should we report it?
I only hope she makes a clean breast of it when she appears in court and if there are two charges does she get a pair of briefs?

 

[Norm W]

The vocal music teacher at our school was doing a song about "Farmer Tan". The students didn't have a clue what she was talking about. I happened to be walking by and she called me into the room and asked me to roll up my sleeves. I told her she could have explained to concept as "Work induced tan lines" as opposed to "Recreational induced Tan lines" such as caused by a swimsuit.