Cops order Tiger King fans to remove ‘honk if you hate Carole Baskin’ sign from outside their home
A MUM who loves hit series Tiger King so much she erected a giant ‘honk if you hate that b****h Carole Baskin’ sign outside her house was stunned when cops demanded she take it down.
More than 100 drivers had sounded their horns outside 30-year-old Jazmin Page’s Gloucestershire home – until police intervened.
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Jazmin had binge-watched Netflix’s series about outlandish zookeeper Joe Exotic – and afterwards suggested to husband Liam that they make a sign to ‘put a smile on people’s faces’ during the coronavirus lockdown.
And once their two children were in bed on Wednesday night, the couple, who live in Gloucester, put up a huge waterproof sign urging people to beep if they hated animal rights activist Carole Baskin.
The pair were amazed when around a hundred cars sounded their horns over the following two days – with one woman even causing a traffic jam when she slowed to shout support.
But on Saturday, Jazmin said the family had an unexpected visit from police who had received complaints and said the sign was a section five public order offence.
The offence bans anyone from displaying a sign which is threatening or abusive.
Jazmin said: “We literally did it to put a smile on people’s faces and it worked for a while, but obviously someone wasn’t too happy.
“We watched Tiger King and found it hilarious that there are people in the world like that – with their guns and everything.
“I don’t know how I got the idea for the sign. I just said to my husband, ‘Wouldn’t it be funny if we put up a sign outside our house?’
“We decided to do it to make people laugh as they drove past.
“People beeped their horns load of times – about 100 times in two days.
“My eight-year-old kept asking, ‘Who’s Carole Baskin?’ I just replied, ‘Don’t you worry’.”
After their five-and-a-half-hour binge-watching session, Jazmin printed off a huge placard while Liam nailed together a wooden grame to mount it on, before sellotaping the sign to waterproof it.
Jazmin said: “Every time we watched an episode I was like, ‘Oh my god, I need to know what happens next.’
“You have to watch more. It’s completely unbelievable.”
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Police reportedly ordered the couple to take the sign down after getting two complaints.
One white van driver went past ‘beeping continuously’ before shouting: “F*** that b***h Carole Baskin”, while another stopped her car to look at the sign, leading to a queue, Jazmin said.
Tiger King is one of Netflix’s most-watched documentary programmes.
In the series, Baskin wanders around in a flower crowd while an army of volunteers shovel big cat excrement.
Her second husband, Don Lewis, went missing one night in 1997. He has never been found and in 2002 was declared legally dead.
The case remains open.
Gloucestershire Police were contacted for comment.
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