A mum who was sick of her nosy neighbours 'spying on her' decided she would give them something to stare at.
She erected mannequins in her garden which she posed as drunks and accident victims to scare them.
Tammy Zuniga claims the curtain-twitchers next door would 'make her blood boil' with complaints about her painting in her garage without the door shut, and would even take photos of her at work.
Tired of 'resenting' them and eager to turn the tables on the 'busy-body neighbours', the 45-year-old nurse began erecting mannequins around her property in provocative positions just to 'see their reactions'.
Some mannequins were left in her car, and some were 'passed out' on a garden chair surrounded by empty beer bottles.
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In one of her most shocking stunts, Tammy left a mannequin dangling from her garage roof for an entire month - resulting in cars stopping in the street thinking someone was in need of help.
While she admits she could have 'way worse neighbours', she claims hers are simply 'incredibly nosey' and her provocative displays is her way of getting a laugh out of her situation.
Tammy, from Flint, Michigan, US, said: "The mannequins are a diversion for me - it stops me from getting irritated with my nosy neighbours. I just set up the poses and laugh.
"I used to really have a resentment [at them being nosy]. Now I just laugh, because I think 'I bet they're really wondering what's going on.'
"I try to keep a straight face through it all. I figure that if the neighbours think I'm crazy, they'll stop bothering me. It's worked for the most part.
"Neighbours don't really talk to me much anymore, which is kind of nice. They probably think I'm the weird mannequin lady now.
"I'd be out in my garden working on art projects and I would see blinds moving in windows. There would be pictures being taken.
"I paint garden art out in my garage, I'll make hundreds of statues. It's my hobby. They would take photos of me in my garage and then tell me I needed to paint with my door closed.
"I'm not painting with my door closed, I need to breathe. Now, I can't even be mad at them, because they've got to put up with me!
"I used to see them and my blood would boil. But now I'm looking out my window to see their reactions to my mannequins. I'm having so much fun with this."
Tammy has been staging the figures in unusual poses for around two years, and it's grabbing the attention of the locals - and her neighbours.
She said: "I've not seen any physical reaction to the mannequins yet. But the blinds have been moving a lot."
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