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A mum has been asking other parents for advice after her neighbours decorated their house for Christmas with a SEX DOLL.

Documenting her ordeal, including the awkward questions from the kids , she took to Mumsnet to ask what she could do about the x-rated inflatable.

Writing under the name 'reluctantpearlclutcher' she said: "We've got home today and they've [the neighbours] put their Christmas decs up. Relatively tasteful until you get to the back where their drive is (and where all our houses look, other than theirs).

"They've hung a sex doll on the side of their garage. Proper, inflatable stag do, mouth open, sex doll. It's wearing a Santa hat and has some tinsel on it.

"We all have kids. Relatively little ones. I don't want to spend the next month staring down Bunny Big-Gob as I get DC [darling child] into the car.



"As they have previously been entirely unwilling to engage in any sort of dialogue, AIBU [am I being unreasonable] to simply report them to the council at this point? Does it fall under indecency?!"

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Immediately other parents imagined the worst, with one saying: "Oh goodness, that would be so embarrassing! I can imagine my DDs [darling daughters] asking me, 'Mummy, why is that doll in their window?' Or 'Why doesn't that doll have any clothes on?' 'Why, Mummy, why??? "

AnnieAnoniMouse suggested: "Your kids are little. If they say anything, just say that the poor thing must be cold with no clothes on in this weather & that you don’t know why the neighbours would put the poor Dolly outside. They’re not going to know it’s a sex doll."

Pandapenguin said: "I see the funny side but honestly when children are looking out their windows seeing this: it isn’t funny. It’s just creepy. They must know that this will be seen by kids? So they are being deliberately disrespectful and want children to look at a sex doll?"

And another user joked: "Do you live in Brookside Close?"

Littlefrogletx thought the neighbours may have got the wrong end of the stick: "At least it's got a Santa hat on. Maybe they don't realise what it is."

Although there were many jokes and funny suggestions on how to deal with the situation (darts, melting it in various ways, putting a festive jumper on it), one user added: "Yeah, it's one of those things that is funny when it's happening to someone else.



"When it's your own kids having to see a sex doll every day, I imagine it's not so side splitting."

She kept the forum up to date with the saga, even adding pictures, and then came the inevitable questions from the children: "Guess what was the first question out of DC's [darling child] mouth this morning...?"

Many other mums wanted to know how she had explained away the naughty embellishment.

She said: "Went with a blend of recommendations from here: 'I don't really know - I think it's probably a joke, but I don't really understand it. A bit mean to leave her outside without any clothes on, isn't it?'



"DC [darling child] was typically then distracted by some toast..."