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.
I’m from Saskatchewan and have driven on that road. Believe me, its bad, passed two cars with flats through that stretch.
It seems these nude calendars are a bit of a trend in Saskatchewan. There is an article at http://www.cbc.ca/canada/saskatchewan/story/2006/11/30/nude-calendars.html
That lists several nude calendars featuring Saskatchewan residents compiled in the past couple of years used for charity money raising.
Also to clarify on this calendar from Leader, Saskatchewan, The potholes in question are in the about 80 miles of the main Provincial Highway connecting Leader to the rest of the world. This is not a local town council problem it is a Highway operated by the Provincial Governement that is in disrepair due to Provincial budget cuts and lack of priority by the much larger Provincial Governemt. Last year the Ambulance company that serves the area stopped using that Highway in favor of much longer routes because the Highway was damaging it’s Ambulances and was too rough for patients with fractures and other medical conditions to travel on..
So, when is John and his crew going to do CrankyGeeks nude?
I dare ya. I double dare ya. I triple dare ya.
#4: Probably when we finish our diets, grow back our hair, etc. As Jerry Pournelle would say, Real Soon Now.
You think the people of Saskatchewan care about dieting and hair loss?
I triple dog dare ya!