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"Toilet Garden Transplanted
GRAND RAPIDS, Minn. (AP) — Skunk Hollow's "Toilet Town" is safe, thanks to a friendly neighbor who agreed to host the garden of petunias planted inside toilet bowls.
Lee Jackson was ordered to move the offending flowers because they were on city property in Grand Rapid's Skunk Hollow neighborhood.
So Dorothy Scherf, 70, told Jackson he could move his unorthodox garden onto her front yard.
"He's a good neighbor," Scherf said, "and I was just trying to be a good neighbor."
Jackson, 59, along with a half-dozen other men, moved about 40 toilet bowls to Scherf's lawn and put 10 on his own property late Wednesday.
He put a sign reading, "Toilet Town has moved to a secret location" where the flower garden once stood.
"We really put a stick in City Hall's rear end," Jackson said. "I'm probably going to have some super repercussions when the authorities see that sign."
City Hall didn't play along, responding matter-of-factly that Jackson had done all they asked.
Grand Rapids police commander Jim Martinetto said they removed the sign, because it, too, was on city property. He also said he was tired of answering questions about Jackson and suggested the press find some real news." |
