Ara Tripp, file photo \nSEATTLE - She was, apparently, quite the guy until a sex change operation. And the woman who jammed traffic and forced a power outage with a topless electrical tower dance in Seattle Wednesday says she planned the stunt for weeks - as an anti-discrimination protest.
38-year-old Ara Tripp says she wanted to protest discrimination against women and laws which let men but not women take off their shirts in public, says the Associated Press.
She says she'll plead guilty to charges of criminal trespass and indecent exposure, though each carries a maximum year in jail and $5,000 fine. "It's pretty obvious," the AP quotes Tripp as saying.
She's free on $690 bail and has a court date 22 September.
She even commented on what her wife - she was married while still a man - would say when returning from out of town, having disapproved of the stunt plan. "She's not going to be happy. I'm going to be grounded."
Seattle City Lights cut power to the tower while she performed to keep her from being cooked by some 120,000 volts of electricity going from electrical lines through the tower. That cost 5,000 power customers electricity, while the stunt caused a traffic paralysis in the morning.
