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Ohio Town Outraged By Zombie Jesus Nativity Scene On Man’s Lawn

For Today in Outrage we go to Sycamore Township, Ohio where resident Jason Dixon created a Halloween- Christmas mashup that was sure to offend somebody.  Nobody show the good people of Sycamore a screening of The Nightmare Before Christmas.

It’s not yet Thanksgiving and already people are getting pissed over Nativity scenes. Using props left over from his haunted house, Dixon built a Christmas Nativity scene on his front lawn replacing the baby Jesus with a little zombie. I think he is getting the Christmas story mixed up with Easter.

These men might have gotten so wise from eating all those brains. Dixon says that he wanted to make a nativity scene so he worked with what he had. Luckily for fans of zombies, he had plenty of the undead to make a ghoulish Christmas story that would be more fitting on an episode of The Walking Dead.

This is awesome! If I lived anywhere near Ohio I'd go see this.

Town officials are claiming that he is breaking ordinances that prevent him from building a structure on his front lawn that takes up more than 35 percent of the area. Dixon says that he is sure if it wasn’t for the Zombie Jesus, they wouldn’t be bothering him with this.

So, let's do some estimation:

Looking at the photo of the guy’s yard, and assuming the “fence” he built around the structure was made with 2x4s (which have an actual width of 3.5”) and the spaces between each board are roughly equal to the width of the adjacent 2x4s, then the “fenced” area is about 16’ wide by about 17’ deep. The nativity structure appears (again, by estimation) to be about 8’x8’, or 64 square feet.

Estimating off the photo, there appears to be about five or six feet of yard between the back of the nativity and the path to his front door. Likewise for the space to the left and to the front of the nativity. To the right there is a lot more yard space, so let’s approximate about 12 feet.

That means that his yard space is approximately 33’ wide by 27’ deep for a total of 891 square feet. The approximately 8’x8’ structure would then represent about 7% of his yard space. If you round down on the yard space to 800SF and up on the structure to 10’x10’, that still only represents 11.8% of his yard. Round again to 700 SF and a 12’x12’ structure, that’s 20.6%. If you assume the built structure includes fenced in area and approximate that fenced in area as 17’x17’, and my conservative estimates on the square footage of his yard (which is surely larger than what is shown in the provided photo, though perhaps not by much) which we’ll call 850SF, then the built structure represents 34% of his yard. And that’s not including his front walk, the area of yard to the right of his front walk extending back to the fence, or driveway in the total area calculation.

If the city ordinances limit built structures says you cannot have built structures that take up 35% of the area, then he’s surely within those limits.

[The original reporting on the story is from
http://www.fox19.com/story/27675701/deer...vity-scene
The nativity scene itself was erected last year, 2014]