Fred Gregor, a 45-year old lathe operator from Germany, decided to move into a box he built on top of a pole to protest his pending jail term.

He had been convicted of fraud and sentenced to 15 months in prison and apparently in Germany, if you come up with a ridiculous enough form of protest they’ll actually change a court’s ruling. Either that, or he was just a nut.

Unfortunately we’ll never know if the protest would have worked, because he only lasted 10 days. He didn’t come down because he got bored (he had installed a radio antenna), and he didn’t run out of food or water, because his wife had been sending it up to him. He came down because his libido got the best of him after his wife sent up a topless photo of herself in his lunch box.

It’s a damn shame too, because I’m sure that living in a tiny box on top of a pole with no plumbing, heating or air conditioning would have been far better than living in a tiny cell in a prison.

Source: Reuters. Posted on Humor-Blogs.com

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