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03-02-2007, 10:15 PM
Topless wife photo ends man's pole protest
BERLIN (Reuters) - A German man who spent 10 days in a self-made box atop a 72-foot-tall pole to protest a looming jail term was lured off his perch by his wife -- who sent up a topless picture of herself in his lunch box.
Fred Gregor, 45, was bidding to have his 15-month conviction for fraud overturned by squatting in his tiny cubicle atop a converted television mast. He told Reuters in a telephone interview last week that he wanted a new trial.
His wife Susanne, 25, backed his protest until the former stripper and mother of their five children decided she had had enough.
fascinating, absolutely fascinating (http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070302/od_nm/germany_protest_topless_dc;_ylt=ArFinUWvDYy8RCAuOk 8IrDcEtbAF)
BERLIN (Reuters) - A German man who spent 10 days in a self-made box atop a 72-foot-tall pole to protest a looming jail term was lured off his perch by his wife -- who sent up a topless picture of herself in his lunch box.
Fred Gregor, 45, was bidding to have his 15-month conviction for fraud overturned by squatting in his tiny cubicle atop a converted television mast. He told Reuters in a telephone interview last week that he wanted a new trial.
His wife Susanne, 25, backed his protest until the former stripper and mother of their five children decided she had had enough.
fascinating, absolutely fascinating (http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070302/od_nm/germany_protest_topless_dc;_ylt=ArFinUWvDYy8RCAuOk 8IrDcEtbAF)