Man puts up naked mannequins in his yard to retaliate against neighbor who complained his fence was too high

Kristine Solomon
Jason Windus’s naked ‘garden party’ is quite the spectacle in his California neighborhood. (Photo: Courtesy of ABC7)
Jason Windus’s naked ‘garden party’ is quite the spectacle in his California neighborhood. (Photo: Courtesy of ABC7)

A man who received a zoning violation from the city of Santa Rosa, Calif. after a neighbor complained that his fence that was too high decided to respond to the notice by trimming the fence down to the required height — then displaying a naked mannequin ‘garden party’ on his front lawn.

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Good fences apparently don’t make good neighbors for Jason Windus, who said he received the violation after a meddling neighbor reported his 6-foot fence for blocking a suburban corner and obstructing visibility for drivers at the intersection, according to ABC 6. Windus told the station that the notice warned him he’d be fined every day until the fence was taken down.

“It is very serious,” he told the station. “They made me freak out.”

Windus decided to recruit a friend, who arrived with a big saw to cut down the fence to a respectable height. It’s now in accordance with the city’s code but too short to contain Windus’s two dogs. So the professional mover staged his own silent protest by grabbing an ominous-looking mannequin assortment he had lying around from one of his moving jobs and arranging the dolls to look like they’re having a casual, clothing-optional get-together on some wicker lawn furniture.

“I guess the average person would get angry and cop resentment?” Windus said. “I throw a naked party in my yard.”

He explained that the anonymous neighbor’s complaint felt like a violation in and of itself.

“They wanted me to tear down my fence to see inside my yard,” he said. “And now they get to.”

It turns out Windus’s fence height may not have technically been legal, but the life-sized dummies are, according to ABC 6. He even cheekily censored some of the mannequins’ private areas.

“The main parts are covered,” one passing neighbor, Valerie Palmer, noted.

But the racy garden party is not an exclusive one. Windus made sure to extend an invite to the nosy neighbor who reported him by providing an extra perch beside the motionless guests along with a sign that reads, “Reserved seat for the nosy neighbor that complained about my fence to the city.”

So far, the whistleblower has not RSVPed and remains unidentified.

But others in the area are getting a kick out of the unconventional outdoor decor, and some give Windus a thumbs-up as they drive by.

“I love it. I think it’s hilarious. More power to him,” one neighbor told an NBC affiliate in the Bay Area of the mannequin display.

“Makes the place more interesting,” a local resident told ABC 6. Another passing neighbor called the local ordinance “a dumb law.” The garden party has been going on for four days and counting — and so far, no one has complained.

Windus’s only regret now is that his two dogs, including his big mastiff, won’t have a place to run now.

“He’s not gonna get that now, and that’s sad,” he said.

In the meantime he’s finding humor in a situation that’s out of his control, and notes that he has no idea when he’ll take the display down, or whether he’ll even add to it.

He joked to NBC, “I was thinking of putting a barbecue out here next.”

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