There are a lot of things that don’t belong outside. Pets, children, refrigerators, books, and household electronics are just a few things that come to mind.

But mannequins? Though not originally intended for the great outdoors, they can make for wonderful lawn accoutrement. From fending off burglars to protesting nosy neighbors, they have more uses than just modeling clothes.

Here are 10 recent instances of homeowners who have come up with innovative and, at times, disruptive ways of incorporating mannequins onto their lawns.

To piss neighbors off:

A few months ago, when a Santa Rosa man was forced to lower the height of his brand new fence after neighbors complained about it being too tall, he sought retaliation by arranging a quintet of naked mannequins outdoors. Jason Windus, who runs a moving company, obtained the male and female mannequins from an old haul-away job and he kept them in storage because he knew he’d find a use for them someday.

Windus originally erected the 6-foot tall fence around his corner lot property so that his big dogs could run around the yard without being able to escape. But an anonymous neighbor took umbrage with its tall height and reported it.

The city sided with the neighbor, citing its tall stature as a potential risk to drivers by blocking on-coming cross traffic from around the corner. They gave Windus two options: either chop the fence to half its height or move it back 15 feet closer to the home. He chose the former.

“You want me to cut my fence down?” Windus told CBS affiliate, KPIX 5. “Now you get to see what’s behind the fence.”

He placed the mannequins — some of which lacked arms and even bodies, being just a head — on his lawn, seating them in wicker chairs around a patio table, and positioning their heads so that they gazed out at the street, staring down Windus’ turncoat neighbors. One of them even wore an old military helmet, with Windus joking that he was keeping guard over the other outdoor mannequins.

But not everyone loved his free peep show. Within days of placing the dummies in his yard, a thief stole two of them.

“It was just a little joke,” Windus told the publication. “A lot of people would get very angry about having to cut their fence down. I throw a naked party in my yard!”