Photo By Allen Wade

Pretty toilets, all in a row: a zoning protest in Anderson Township.

Having decided the Anderson Township Board of Zoning Appeals is full of crap, homeowners Robin Sutton and Allen Lade have started a "potty protest," using their yard as a forum. The couple had applied for a zoning variance to erect a 6-foot-high cedar privacy fence. Zoning staff recommended approval, but the board denied the request, saying the proposed fence would not fit well with the neighborhood.

On Aug. 5, the couple decorated their yard at the corner of Forest Lake and Lancelot avenues with 10 toilets and a sign saying, "Why can't I?" Some of the toilets merely contain flowers, but Mr. Potato Head and Snoopy are also part of the toilet tableau.

"We've gotten a lot of support," Sutton says. "Somebody brought over a sign saying, 'Art lovers honk.' We hear people honking all the time now."

But not all the neighbors are pleased. Zoning and health officials have been by, and Sutton is waiting to hear if they'll be forced to close the lid on their protest.

"We're not going to take it down until somebody forces us," she says. "I've been called 'white trash' by one neighbor. I don't care. If I'd do something like this, I obviously can take it."