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This just in from the Dept. of Bad Ideas: The nude dude ranch

12:38 PM Tue, Apr 21, 2009 |
Taylor
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I don't know about you guys, but I often dream about what I'd do if I won the lottery.

You know, really awesome, outlandish stuff like fill my swimming pool up with Cherry 7up, buy my very own cloak of invisibility and wear it to work just to freak out my boss, or even - dare I dream - pay off my student loans.

But my lotto-winning fantasies do not include hairy, naked people on horseback.
Then again, I'm not Tim Clements.

Clements hit a $3.3 million jackpot in - where else? - Florida back in 2004, the Associated Press reports.

Now he's apparently decided that farm livin' is the life for him. But not just any farm livin' will do. Clements wants his farm to be a "nude dude ranch," or, as my therapist likes to call it, "a very bad idea indeed."

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Hey, that looks fun! Now, imagine how mad he'd be if you tried to ride with no clothes...
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Clements and the co-owner of his ranch, David Jennings, believe their farm land is secluded enough for folks to run around in their you-know-what kickers and nothing else.

But they've run into two major roadblocks: Local zoning laws and a nudity ban in Hernando County.

(Darn.)

Clements says if he can't get the proper permits, CJ Ranch will still be open for his buddies who want to let it all hang out.

According to the ranch Web site, there's only one rule: You have to wear pants and boots to ride the horses.

Gross.




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