This is one of the odder stories of the day.
Kenny Tessel, owner of a Reading, Ohio barbeque restaurant thought of a clever way to combat a drop in business.
He bought a busty lifelike mannequin, dressed it in a bikini, and put it in his front window. Voila! Business started busting out all over.
“She has done it,” Tessel said about the mannequin he’s named Barbie Q. “She has made people stop. I know that sounds crazy and it’s hard to believe.”
Unfortunately, the city’s busybodies have complained about Barbie’s body. Yes, they’re offended by a mannequin in a bikini. Tessel was forced to appear before Reading’s Design Review Board to get a permit for Barbie. The board ruled that the well-endowed mannequin could stay, but that she’d also have to stay “covered up.”
This is truly a case where the cover-up is worse than the crime.
Soruce: NBC New York
