Listen: if you want to hang out with a mannequin or a wooden dummy instead of a real person, no one is going to stop you from being your best Lars and the Real Girl self. Just don’t expect the police to count your inanimate friend as a passenger when you’re in the carpool lane. [More]
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Guy Accused Of Stealing $1K Worth Of $2K Mannequin From Adult Novelty Shop
By 8.26.16
While we’ve seen our fair share of break-ins and burglaries, this one might take the cake for specificity: a pricey mannequin was rendered legless in Ohio recently, after a guy allegedly broke into an adult novelty shop and boosted the top half of the $2,000 figure. [More]
Upscale Lingerie Store Removes Mannequin With Visible Ribs After Passersby Complain
By 5.14.14
Most of us don’t have the proportions of the mannequins posing artfully in store windows, but windows shoppers walking past one upscale New York City lingerie store were a bit shocked to see that one dummy was so thin, its fake ribs were showing through its fake skin. The store has since pulled the mannequin and apologized. [More]
Mannequins Take Jobs Away From Hard-Working American Sign-Spinners
By 10.17.13
Sign-spinning isn’t a prestigious or particularly interesting job, but you do get to people-watch and earn an honest living. And standing on a street corner twirling a sign to get people’s attention is the kind of real-life job that can’t ever be outsourced or done by some kind of machine. Right? Nope. Meet the sign-twirling mannequin industry. [More]
Dear Advertisers: Putting Mannequins On Top Of Billboards Is A Bad Idea
By 7.10.13
Following decades of near-constant exposure to billboards, American highway drivers have become so inured to the messages that most of these mammoth ads carry, which is why we understand that some advertisers need to come up with creative ways to draw attention to their billboards. But here’s one clever way that should never have happened in the first place: Perching a mannequin on top of one of these roadside signs. [More]
Long-Armed Mannequin Scares People At Old Navy
By 11.24.10
Chad saw this mannequin at a Kansas Old Navy. His freakishly long left arm would be the ideal genetic mutation for Black Friday, allowing one to reach products on shelves from a great distance. [More]
Barbecue Restaurant Mannequin May Need A New Career
By 5.15.09
Modeling is a tough business, but the career of Barbe Q, restaurant spokesmodel, may end prematurely. She’s up against not Tyra Banks, but the Reading, Ohio city review board.
Big Titty Mannequins
By 11.7.06
Mannequins are disturbing enough, but do we really need to give them size D breasts?
