Sensible Erection | Underwear, Mountain Of Sand Angers Neighbors

Monday, 8 March 2010

Underwear, Mountain Of Sand Angers Neighbors

quote [ A home in Volusia County is sparking outrage Friday. A homeowner has strung up women's underwear and built mountains of sand in the back and neighbors are desperate for help. The homeowner, Robert Hodges, calls himself "Prince Mongo". He claims to be from the planet Zambodia and is 333 years old. Hodges says he is here to save the world: "I have a spaceship coming that's going to carry 333 spirits, 333,000 spirits from earth." ]

I, for one, welcome our Zambodian saviors.

Prince Mongo's MySpace:

Hello spirits! I am Prince Mongo, the ambassador of the planet Zambodia. I came to Earth 333 years ago from the planet Zambodia. I am here on a mission, and that mission is to save a group of Earthlings.

Yes, Earth is self-destructing. People don't realize how much I have already helped them. I use my energies to divert disasters like earthquakes, tornados, and hurricanes.

When the time is right, we will be calling on you all and you will enter the spaceship and leave earth. It won't be stopping on any paystations on the moon. You will be going straight to the planet Zambodia where you will live a life of freedom, no sickness, no politics, and nothing but glory and happiness.

Prince Mongo is also active in politics, having run for the Mayor of Memphis five times and currently running for Senate (I'm not sure if in any particular district/state or if just in general):

His Princely Manor in Memphis burned down last year. Plot by anti-Zambodian terrorists? Likely.

Also: Demon Erection by Motherhead Bug, also from Zambodia.

[politics] [by Ankylosaur@10:48pmGMT] [+10 WTF]

Comments

jaxtraw said @ 11:01pm GMT on 8th Mar
Well clearly, somebody needs to stop these evil people who paint their homes "bright colours" and hang up underwear before society collapses.

Naruki said @ 1:48am GMT on 9th Mar
Funny, I thought you'd be on the side of the free market. Deliberately trashing someone's ability to sell their property would seem to be an offense worthy of some slight state control.

I guess I'm still confusing you with donnie, or maybe with a different libertarian. Nevermind.

jaxtraw said @ 2:06am GMT on 9th Mar
It's his property, he can do what he wants on it. In Utero.

arctan said @ 6:35pm GMT on 10th Mar
The fact that stuff you do on "your property" can directly affect other people's property without their permission or consent would seem to indicate something problematic about that definition of "property".

tbt10f said @ 6:12am GMT on 9th Mar
As long as he isn't burning tires or picking people off from the top of his belltower with a rifle he isn't damaging the worth of his neighbors property. His neighbors had the choice of buying a lot with covenants in place or to pick some cookie-cutter gated community to live. I happen to live in a free-fire county area and am glad to see neighbors with chickens on one street, a man who runs a well kept salvage yard on the next and a gravel pit across the main road.

Anyone who buys property with the intent to sell it later on at a profit rather than to live there or develop it needs their head examined, especially in light of what speculation in the real estate market has done to prices in the last 2 decades.

Good fences make great neighbors. Enuf said.

Naruki said @ 11:30am GMT on 9th Mar
I'm guessing you aren't very ... You know, I'm trying to think of a polite way to say this, but nothing is coming. The best I can say is that you certainly aren't making a compelling argument.

Sean said @ 1:43am GMT on 14th Mar
You're unusual in your acceptance of your neighbors.

I bought my house with the intent of selling it. It's big enough for mu wife and I. Once we have a child we'll get a bigger place.

That place will have a bigger yard and more rooms. Later, when the child is gone and it's time to retire, I won't want to pay to heat the big house, or mow the big yard, since I'll be an old man. I'll sell again.

I don't care about profiteering. But if some jackass neighbor turned their house into an eyesore, fewer people would want to live in my house - the demand for my house would have gone down. And as something's value is determined by supply/demand presently, my house would be worth less.

papango said @ 1:48am GMT on 14th Mar
Did someone promise you your house would be worth more? Maybe you should take it up with them if things change.

sanepride said @ 11:05pm GMT on 8th Mar
Mongo only pawn in game of life.

blackpsypher said @ 11:43pm GMT on 8th Mar
It's TWUE! It's TWUE!

lilmookieesquire said @ 11:07pm GMT on 8th Mar

taeyn said @ 11:55pm GMT on 8th Mar
This guy is pretty awesome.

mwoody said @ 12:04am GMT on 9th Mar [Score:1 Interesting]
I fully understand these homeowners' worries. A neighbor who's obviously batshit insane can tank their property values, doing permanent damage to the average family's highest-value investment. But I've also seen the evils of overactive HOAs and nosy neighbors and, sadly, I'm forced to call that the far greater evil.

Short version: it's his house; he can do what he wants, so long as he's got the permits. Sorry, neighbors (truly).

Ankylosaur said @ 12:19am GMT on 9th Mar
Stephen Hawking and high-FPS destruction:

ComposerNate said @ 2:02am GMT on 9th Mar

Tirade said @ 4:16am GMT on 9th Mar
... wait, so which side's the crazy one? The weirdo, or the people who are trying to take legal action against somebody because he's a weirdo?

ckfahrenheit said @ 6:59am GMT on 9th Mar
weirdo is fine
selfish, disruptive, attention-whoring troll is not cool.

alienhall said @ 4:46am GMT on 9th Mar [Score:1 Insightful]
I think we can really just blame this on the kick-ass shades. I mean, anyone who had a pair of those shades would certainly feel like a prince! I'd say he was probably normal before those shades...