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I debated as to whether or not to put this in the other news category but it is just so stupid I put it here.

Oregon: BEND -- A Bend woman is facing possible legal action for hanging her laundry out to dry.

Susan Taylor, who lives in the upscale Awbrey Butte neighborhood, says she's trying to do the right thing for the planet by stringing up her family's clothes. But in doing so she's violating rules meant to keep up appearances in her subdivision, which means she might become a martyr in the so-called right-to-dry movement.

The trouble began last spring after Taylor, 55, decided to do her part to address global warming by stringing up her family's clothes between the pines behind their 2,400-square-foot house.

"This is the right thing to do with what's going on with our climate," said the part-time nurse, standing beside her Toyota hybrid sedan.

But neighbors soon complained.

In June, Taylor got a letter from the neighborhood's developer, Bend Brooks Resources Corp., saying she was violating Awbrey Butte's covenants, conditions and restrictions.


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