Boat GOAT

A man trolls City Hall:

Etienne Constable lives in Seaside, California. He has a boat parked in his driveway. But the local code enforcement folks told him in a strongly worded letter that large vehicles parked in driveways have to be hidden from view. They told him that he had to build a six-foot fence/structure to hide the boat. Now that rule just seems dumb and overly officious. You would think towns would have better things to do than that, especially in Gavin Newsom's state where they have so many issues but don't seem interested in dealing with them. But Constable managed to come up with a creative way of responding and letting them know what he thought, while nevertheless complying with the order. “I’m not a rule-breaker but I like to make a political statement as necessary as well as a humorous statement and a creative statement,” Constable told his local media. “I thought, ‘This is ridiculous,’ and my first reaction was to leave a nasty, nasty message at the city hall,” he told the Washington Post. “And then I thought, well, I might as well build a screen … I’ll do what they want, but I’m not going to do it their way.” So Constable built the fence and consulted with his neighbor, artist Hanif Panni, to paint a photorealistic mural of his ship on the fence that would visually look like the boat.

Good fences make good statements...