IT'S A BEAUTIFUL DAY IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD...

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A California man who was forced to shorten his fence over a neighbor’s complaints got the perfect revenge — by setting up a garden party of nude mannequins that is now in full view of the next-door home.

 

Jason Windus of Santa Rosa said he built the tall fence to keep his dogs in his yard, but after a neighbor complained, the city forced him to reduce the height or face a fine, KTVU FOX 2 reported.

 

Windus chopped it to the maximum 36 inches, and then set up five naked mannequins — with some standing and others seated on chairs in his yard.

 

“I don’t know who it is and I’m sure they’re not going to come forward,” Windus told the news outlet of the protesting neighbor.

“And even if they do, this is just a statement for them — maybe mind your own business a little bit.”

 

Windus, the owner of a moving company, had amassed the mannequins after he cleaned out a clothing store.

“I couldn’t bring myself to throw them away. I was going to use them for target practice,” Windus said of the mannequins, according to ABC 7.

 

Windus set up the in-the-buff, life-size dolls around a table with a mannequin’s severed head on it in the yard and put up a sign that reads: “Reserved seat for the nosey neighbor that complained about my fence to the city.”

 

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

 

He told KTVU that his display is “all fun and games” and that he’s “trying to be light with what’s going on.”

Some of Windus’ other neighbors got a kick out of the mannequin set-up.

 

“Makes the place more interesting,” one told ABC 7.

 

 

Owner of famed ‘Flintstone’ house sued over how ugly it is

 

Yabba dabba don’t — be so tacky!

 

The wealthy owner of a “Flintstones”-style home in California is being sued by her neighbors, who say the sprawling abode is a hideous nuisance.

 

Residents living near the cavelike $3 million Bay Area pad — which was inspired by the cartoon — say they aren’t having “a gay old time” because new additions to the property have made it extra-ugly, according to a lawsuit, cited by the San Francisco Chronicle.

 

“[it] creates a highly visible eyesore and is out of keeping with community standards,” the suit claims, according to the Chronicle.

 

The abode, in the affluent town of Hillsborough, is owned by businesswoman and former newspaper publisher Florence Fang — who neighbors say outfitted the property with several tacky renovations, such as metal dinosaurs and a sign that declares, “Yabba Dabba Doo.”

 

Those property changes created “safety hazards that required immediate correction to protect visitors to the property,” the lawsuit notes, according to the paper.

 

Fang has already received three stop orders from the Hillsborough Building Department in past years and has been fined for her “landscaping” additions, according to the San Mateo Daily Journal.

 

She didn’t return requests for comment. But her grandson, Sean Fang, said in a statement that she “will fight to save the Flintstone House.”

 

“I think the dinosaurs are beautiful,” he said. “They make everyone smile and should stay.”

 

The home was designed in the 1970s by architect William Nicholson by spraying concrete onto a mesh frame.