Happy Tax Protester Day!

[Demosthenes]

May 31st is the annual anniversary of Lady Godiva's infamous naked ride through town which took place roughly 950 years ago. The Saxon Lady was a teenager at the time, and she complained mightily to her elderly Danish Lord husband that the tax rates imposed on his tenants in the town of Coventry were too high. Her husband told her that if she rode naked through town, he'd cut the taxes (can't you just hear the old fart snickering at the challenge.) But she did it, so he honored his word about cutting taxes and died shortly thereafter.

They just don't make tax protesters like they used to.

The legend later grew to include a nifty story about a guy named Tom. During her famous nekkid ride, the townspeople were forbidden to go or look outside. One perv cut a hole in his wall so he could watch the nudie girl on horseback, thus the expression "Peeping Tom."

These days, the investigators just read your email and go through your trash which does far less damage to the walls of your home.