Happy Valley not happy over naked gardener
Picture this: you live in a typical neighborhood in the Portland area. You’re out gardening in your backyard one weekend when you notice your neighbor gardening as well. You happen to especially notice your neighbor is gardening naked! What do you do? Tell him to put some clothes on? Call the cops? Forget about it?
That’s the issue in Happy Valley right now, according to The Oregonian. A man by the name of Steven J. Howatt likes to garden in the nude. His neighbors are quite unhappy about it and the city is considering passing an ordinance which would “outlaw nudity visible from public locations.” They plan to hold a public forum on it tomorrow night.
A kicker on all of this is that it may not technically be illegal to garden in the buff here in Oregon, reports KGW. Howatt himself seems not to like the proposed idea as well as those neighbors who’ve not addressed him directly about concerns over his naked gardening habits.
I could jump all over this and make bad jokes referencing vegetables and body parts, but I think we all have enough imagination to do that without wasting digital ink.
Sounds like Mr. Howatt or the neighbors (or both!) just need to learn how to act like adults and figure out a compromise.
Maybe if we all got a little less uptight about our bodies and took the time to teach our children well about what is sexual and what is natural, this might not be an issue?
Got his address? I bet he could use some help around the yard. I’m staying away from the weed wacker though.
D’oh! Double posting a weed wacker joke. :*(
At least it reminds me of Anderson talking about “wacking it in the tool shed”.
I hope for his neighbor’s sake there’s not any particular reason they call it “Happy Valley”.
Who would want to garden in the nude? What about the bugs, twigs and various other things that can scratch and poke?
How are they able to see him so well? Perhaps hed needs a good fence? Anybody remember Home Improvement and the neighbor where you never saw his face?
Why are the neighbors so upset about this? Who made the human body anyway? Didn’t God carefully design the male body out of the dust of the ground? Who are we to say that what God designed is indecent or obscene? If Michelangelo were alive today and was standing next to his statue of David, and you walked up and told him the statue was obscene, wouldn’t he be offended? How do you think God feels about us saying the human body is indecent or obscene? I agree with the Oregon law that says there is nothing wrong with nonsexual nudity. Leave Steve alone.
OMG
If the dude wants to go buck naked in his own back yard let him!!
Those neighbors should learn to mind there own business and quit peeking into peoples back yards, what are these people down in happy valley a bunch of peeping toms??
Hate to have his neighbors as ours! Peeking into our yard and/or windows if they get a chance…..geesh!
Happy Valley the home of peeping toms…..
Man, I’d love to live in a neighborhood where the worst thing happening is some guy playing in the rough in his buff. I’m too busy dodging bullets and rabid dogs to worry about whether or not some neighbor’s wearing clothes or not… good grief.
MRSROADRUNNER: He was not just gardening in his back yard. He was alse nude gardening in his _front_ yard. He was also going out to his mailbox in the nude.
Oh Noes! Lord save us from the evil that is the human wang. If he hasn’t acted improperly in any other way, no big deal.
And the Think of The Children types can get over themselves. My kid would likely just laugh. And maybe ask why I never let him out of the house nekkid.
Things that make you go hmmm…
I personally have gone out in a controlled enviroment in the buff, knowing darn well no one
else would ever see me. I have played truth or dare and streaked down the street in the middle of the night.(Streak= 70’s fad for running around naked in public) just to clarify for all y’all young kids.
BUTT, and that’s a big but, when someone forces unwanted nudity upon you, and it is offensive, and you need to protect the area which you call your range of radar. Call the cops. Doesn’t matter if he/she is planting radishes in their backyard, or changing the oil in the car in the front yard. The cops can document it and explain the usefuleness of clothes. Otherwise lewd and lasciviousness may apply…