Missouri calls itself the "Show Me" state, but there's only so much one woman was allowed to show at a water park.

When Madelyn Sheaffer went to the Adventure Oasis Water Park in Independence, Mo., on Tuesday, the last thing she expected was that her bathing suit would cause fireworks.

Sheaffer, 43, said after she got into the pool with her niece and nephew, two teenage employees approached her and told her to put on shorts because her bottoms were too small.

A supervisor backed up their decree by saying she needed to cover up or leave the park.

“I just felt like I was singled out,” Sheaffer told KSHB-TV. “I felt like it was both age and body discrimination and I felt like I could look around me and I could see a handful of other girls half my age, wearing the same size swimming suit and not being singled out and told to put on clothes or leave.”

Sheaffer then asked that the water park officials call the police to have her removed so that she could file a complaint against the park. On her Facebook page, she wrote that the officers who showed up sympathized with her plight:

"We can't actually say anything," they said as we walked outside, (as it is a city owned park), ..but I hope from the expressions on our face you can tell how we feel," They were compassionate. They too, thought it was ridiculous.
Officials at the Adventure Oasis Water Park had no comment about the incident preferring to have the Independence, Mo., City Manager handle press inquiries since the park is on city land.

The City Manager was unavailable, but an assistant said that "the facility made the call and we rely on their judgment."

Sheaffer is not the only person fighting for her freedoms around July 4.

Last week, Mike McKeown protested being kicked out of a bar because the owners didn't like his many tattoos, particularly the one on his neck reading "I Love Strippers."

McKeown said he would have put on a shirt, but wants the bar's alleged rules against extreme tattoos to be applied to everyone.

I have MANY years of experience in trying to appreciate steaming piles of dogshit.

I would cover for SHARK, Drop In, Dave in Champaign, my Mom, and Urlacher's Missing Neck. After that, the list gets pretty thin. There are a few people about whom I would definitely fabricate charges.

I Am that Family Member that Always Seeks Attention and Want a Date.

I have MANY years of experience in trying to appreciate steaming piles of dogshit.

Exactly

I would cover for SHARK, Drop In, Dave in Champaign, my Mom, and Urlacher's Missing Neck. After that, the list gets pretty thin. There are a few people about whom I would definitely fabricate charges.

“I just felt like I was singled out,” Sheaffer told KSHB-TV. “I felt like it was both age and body discrimination"

And guys ain't no better. If you have anywhere from a slight to a mega beer belly, put a shirt on you disgusting nasty ***.

Probably wouldn't.

What's as bad as the beer belly is the hairy chest and back.

Here is a pic off of her "MySpace" page:

I would

Here is a pic off of her "MySpace" page:

That picture was probably taken ten years ago.

My MySpace profile picture is of my ultrasound.

The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.

I would