Town poses nude in pothole protest
People in a small town in Western Canada are so
fed up with the rotten state of their main road that they came up with an
unusual form of protest — a calendar that shows them posing nude in the
potholes.
People in a small town in Western Canada are so fed
up with the rotten state of their main road that they came up with an unusual
form of protest — a calendar that shows them posing nude in the
potholes.
One inhabitant of Leader, Saskatchewan, is shown sitting in a canoe that is perched in a pothole. Another has his dignity preserved by a well-placed camera while a third man covers up with a strategic hubcap.
“The initial impression when people open the calendar for the first time is ‘Oh my God!’ It’s pretty dramatic,” said Wayne Elhard, the local member of the provincial legislature.
Leader, a town of just 1,000 in a largely farming area of southwest Saskatchewan, says it can’t afford to fix all its roads.
“The potholes are not small, one-foot diameter potholes. They are many feet across and sometimes they’re as deep as a foot deep and sometimes they will stretch for meters,” Elhard told CBC television on Wednesday.
The dude kept his hat on because he’s “sensitive” about his bald spot.
One inhabitant of Leader, Saskatchewan, is shown sitting in a canoe that is perched in a pothole. Another has his dignity preserved by a well-placed camera while a third man covers up with a strategic hubcap.
“The initial impression when people open the calendar for the first time is ‘Oh my God!’ It’s pretty dramatic,” said Wayne Elhard, the local member of the provincial legislature.
Leader, a town of just 1,000 in a largely farming area of southwest Saskatchewan, says it can’t afford to fix all its roads.
“The potholes are not small, one-foot diameter potholes. They are many feet across and sometimes they’re as deep as a foot deep and sometimes they will stretch for meters,” Elhard told CBC television on Wednesday.
The dude kept his hat on because he’s “sensitive” about his bald spot.
Posted: Thu - November 30, 2006 at 09:02 AM