CALGARY -- Children have been exposed to a woman "wiggling her breasts" and yelling "whoopee" on their street.
Seniors in a quiet Trenton, Ont., neighborhood are so turned off they won't sit on their front lawns.
And Heather Genereaux, 38, a hard-working single mom who never had a run-in with the law, now has a criminal record for assault. But thank goodness her neighbor, Jennifer Fitzgibbon, 23, can exercise her lawful freedom to strut topless!
And strut she does - washing the car, doing yard work, whenever and wherever the mood hits her.
Genereaux admits she finally lost it - over the topless thing and because their relationship had long before disintegrated - and got into a brawl with Fitzgibbon. It left her with a black eye, a suspended sentence and 18 months probation. Tuesday she plead guilty to charges stemming from the June 3 incident.
"I'm totally disgusted. I wanted to plead guilty and get it over with. I'm a single mom. I don't have a lot of money to pay a lawyer," Genereaux said over the phone yesterday.
Genereaux says three weeks ago she was painting a table in her backyard when Fitzgibbon - who was wearing a top - asked her about how she liked the idea of her going topless. A shouting match ensued and the brawl began.
Witnesses - three friends of Fitzgibbon's - claimed Genereaux leapt over the hedge and attacked. She says she walked over to her.
"My daughter asked me if I had my Wonder Woman outfit on. The hedges are six feet high. I'm five-foot-two and weigh 107 pounds."
"I kicked at the air. She grabbed my leg and we proceeded to fight. Unfortunately, the only witnesses I had were my two dogs. Her friends held me to keep us apart and she kicked me in the face and chest."
Genereaux says Fitzgibbon has turned the feud between the former friends into a topless issue.
Still, she admits she was "shocked" at the court's decision and disgusted there are no regulations attached to the topless law.
"I'm not a prude. Fine - at a beach, in the privacy of your backyard but not in front of children. If a man tried to expose himself he wouldn't get away with it."
Yesterday, Fitzgibbon insisted she has done nothing wrong. Does she still plan to strut topless? "Yes, I do." And yes, she has since the brawl.
Genereaux says on June 13, her 19-year-old daughter picked up her 10-year-old son to take him to do his paper route. That's when Fitzgibbon walked to the driveway "wiggled her breasts and screamed 'whoopee.'
"When a woman stands at the end of the driveway, lifts her top and shakes her breasts at my children, I get upset. I told my son most normal people wouldn't do this," says Genereaux. She reported the incident to police because she calls it "indecent exposure."
Police told her there's nothing they can do.
Neighbor Dan Jesty, says his wife and kids - aged six and nine - saw the June 13 incident.
"I was appalled. To me, she's an exhibitionist to expose herself to kids."
All who pushed to allow Ontario women topless freedom must be so proud of what they have accomplished.