Tim Clement is a 50-year-old lottery winner with a dream. He just wants to run a nude dude ranch on his secluded property. Is that so wrong? Yes, according to local policy in Brooksville, Florida.
After winning $3.3 million in the lottery in 2004, Clement was frequently hit up for money, even by people he didn't know. He closed down the day spa where he was a hairdresser and bought the 10-acre property in the woods.
Soon friends were asking when they could visit, and the onetime farm boy cooked up the dude ranch idea.
But he didn't get the right permits. Among other, more minor considerations affecting the operation of the ranch, the county forbids public nudity, even though neighboring Pasco county has several nudist properties.
"God blessed me with a gift,'' Clements said. "I just thought that
all I wanted to do was have a place to play and I was so far hidden, I
didn't even think about it.
"I just thought I was creating a cute little 10-acre dude ranch.''
If the proper paperwork doesn't come through, he might just close the b&b and go back to entertaining personal friends on the property.
However, as the CJ Dude Ranch website cautions, "Everyone must wear pants and boots to ride the horses." Do chaps count as pants?
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