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sl8

(16,245 posts)
Wed Mar 22, 2023, 11:16 AM Mar 2023

This Oregon shrub is NSFW, stops traffic in Portland suburb (updated with Youtube video)

https://www.oregonlive.com/living/2023/03/provocative-topiary-slows-tualatin-traffic.html

This Oregon shrub is NSFW, stops traffic in Portland suburb

Updated: Mar. 20, 2023, 11:58 a.m.|Published: Mar. 20, 2023, 7:00 a.m.

By Michael Alberty | For The Oregonian/OregonLive

My suburban neighborhood is home to a 12-foot-tall arborvitae shaped like a circumcised penis. Frankly, it’s the most exciting thing to happen in Tualatin since The Beatles spent the night at the old Sweetbrier Inn.

The impressive arborvitae, aka the “chub shrub,” is the brainchild of Lynn Stanek, a business owner who has lived in Tualatin, a Portland suburb, for 24 years. Stanek said she amused herself for at least 20 years by daydreaming about shaping her front yard shrub into phallic form. The dream became a reality on Aug. 28, 2021.

“I was out there trimming the thing with a 24-inch bar on my hedger thinking, ‘I’m 90% of the way there, why not today?’” Stanek said. Before going full-on chub shrub, Stanek polled her neighbors to see how they felt about having a penis tree pop up in their cul-de-sac.

Stanek’s immediate neighbors, Anthony and Natalie Ballas, thought it was a fine idea. Stanek said other neighbors seemed to think she was kidding. Still, nobody threw themselves in front of her trimmer, so she proceeded with her arboreal bris.

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This Oregon shrub is NSFW, stops traffic in Portland suburb (updated with Youtube video) (Original Post) sl8 Mar 2023 OP
"Provocative topiary"! Ocelot II Mar 2023 #1
Sounds like Raymond True Blue American Mar 2023 #2
I guess she doesn't have an hoa...... getagrip_already Mar 2023 #3
I see a mushroom. nt intrepidity Mar 2023 #4
One my drive to work, there was one house with a row... 3catwoman3 Mar 2023 #5
Responsible penis trees use condoms ;) nt localroger Mar 2023 #6

getagrip_already

(17,396 posts)
3. I guess she doesn't have an hoa......
Wed Mar 22, 2023, 11:32 AM
Mar 2023

The bitty bodies would throw her into stocks in the hoa culture da sac over that one.

3catwoman3

(25,378 posts)
5. One my drive to work, there was one house with a row...
Wed Mar 22, 2023, 01:14 PM
Mar 2023

…of at least 6 of these. Always looked rather odd, especially when wrapped in burlap for the winter.

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