Topless, yellow thong & pink glove-clad Colorado resident fights... for her right ... to GARRRRR-den

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Topless gardening: A human right or wrong?
Neighbors’ complaints prompt rule change; thong-clad couple vows to fight

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35960364/ns/us_news-life/

updated 3:22 a.m. PT, Sat., March. 20, 2010

BOULDER, Colo. - A woman gardening wearing only a yellow thong and pink gloves has brought neighborhood complaints and new rules from a housing authority in Colorado.

Boulder Housing Partners plans to amend its rules so that tenants cover up when they're outside.

Several passers-by told Boulder police earlier this week that 52-year-old Catharine Pierce was topless while tending to her yard. Last year, she was threatened with eviction for gardening wearing only pasties and a thong.

Police responding to Wednesday's reports decided Pierce wasn't breaking any laws.

Robert Pierce said he'll fight changes that would keep his wife from gardening outside topless, which is legal under state and city law.

"They're making a big mistake," he said.

Boulder Housing Partners Executive Director Betsey Martens didn't return a phone call Friday seeking details on how covered residents would have to be.

She told the Daily Camera newspaper that people have complained for years about the couple often going outside wearing only thong underwear.

[panader0]

1. Maybe it's because she's 52............

[uppityperson]

10. what's wrong with being 52?

[Stinky The Clown]

12. Whut??

What does her age have to do with it?

[BrklynLiberal]

2. Why the pasties?

[berni_mccoy]

3. Yep, this thread is useless without a pic.

[WillyT]

7. Here Ya Go !!!

Link: http://www.zimbio.com/Catharine+Pierce/articles/qLzhq_mR-Mm/Catharine+Pierce+Topless+Gardener+Picture

:shrug:

[MineralMan]

4. Somewhere, there's a 13-year-old girl saying,

"GRANDMA!" and rolling her eyes.

[Arctic Dave]

5. Madame Silverspurs?

Inquiring minds want to know.

[NV Whino]

6. So, they gonna make the guys cover up their naked pot bellys too?

[Cleita]

9. And their manboobs. I wish! I can't imagine wanting to garden like that.

Just pruning in the sun and peeling the creepy crawlies and flying ones off of you, keeps me pretty fully covered while I garden.

[Warren DeMontague]

8. For the love of God, they MADE ME LOOK!

Seriously. Don't these neighbors have anything better to do?

[Warpy]

11. Oh, hell, YOU GO, GRANNY!!

The fact that she's still got somebody who wants to look at her pink bits is really something.

I'd be tempted to tell her neighbors to put their eyes back in their heads and plant some shrubbery or build a spite fence if they're that offended.

I have a friend who gardens in a t-shirt and nothing else. She lives out in the boonies and tells any peepers in the neighborhood to just have a blast, it's comfortable in hot weather.

[eShirl]

13. +1