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A Seaside, Calif., man was reprimanded by the city and ordered to build a fence to hide his boat from his neighbors. In response, he painted a spitting image of the vessel on the 6-foot wooden slats.

Fishing boats often hide their signals on the edge of Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) boundaries, where countries have the right to exploit the resources within 200 nautical miles off their shoreline.

But the puckish way he did it — hiring his artist neighbor to paint a realistic mural of the same exact boat on his fence — has brought him viral attention.

Etienne Constable was told to build a 6-foot fence to hide the boat from view of his neighbors — but he got an image of the boat painted on the fence.

A man responded to a city letter ordering him to build a fence in front of his boat by having a mural of the boat painted on the fence.

When local officials required Etienne Constable to hide his boat behind a fence, he had an artist, Hanif Panni, paint the boat on the fence.

As It Happens6:33The city made him hide his boat, so his neighbour painted a mural of it on a fence When Seaside, Calif., resident Etienne Constable got a letter from the city telling him to cover ...

A California man who was ordered to keep his boat out of sight has had the last laugh, by commissioning an artist to paint a realistic image of it on the fence that obscures it.

A man responded to a city letter ordering him to build a fence in front of his boat by having a mural of the boat painted on the fence.