
Police in the US state of New Jersey have ordered a family to cover up their snow sculpture of the famous nude Venus de Milo after a neighbour complained.
Eliza Gonzalez sculpted the snow-woman with her son and daughter on her front lawn in Rahway following a snowstorm.
Many people praised their creation, but a police officer told them a neighbour had found it too risque, she said.
When given the option of covering the sculpture up or knocking it down, she dressed it in a bikini top and sarong.
"We didn't want to have any problem with the police so we covered it up," Ms Gonzalez told the AFP news agency.
But she now thinks the snowy Venus looks "more objectified and sexualised" than it did before the authorities intervened.
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Let's see if I can find more stories about ridiculous cultural standards and the dumbing down of America....
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Nope. That one will suffice. It proves to me that the archaic statement, "I don't know much about art, but I know what I like" is still the cultural standard. Ignorance rules.
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As for the bagels? I ate two, toasted dark, with gobs of ersatz cream cheese slathered all over them. I'm beginning to like the ersatz fat foods. Even non-fat sour cream is beginning to appear in my recipes.