One night last week, at around 1 a.m., the mannequins at Naked City, one of my favorite over-priced clothing stores on Hawthorne, were rudely awakened when a drunk man smashed the front window with a trash can lid and crawled through the hole. He then wrestled one of the mannequins to the floor and—according to an employee—raped her.

According to Matt Stanger, retail associate, the cops arrived to find the man still rolling around with her in the middle of the floor. The other mannequins were keening with horror, waving their arms like indignant sirens.

“I’m kind of mad about it,” Stanger said with sad tenderness. “Because I put her together and I wear these little white gloves when I dress her, and I painted her lips with model kit paint.”

“So she’s your favorite mannequin, huh?” I asked him.

“I guess she’s everyone’s favorite mannequin.”

-Jennifer Furniss

(Photo from bloling on Flickr.)