Archive for the 'Real Estate' Category

News: 70,000 Cans of Beer on the Wall

May 19th, 2006

 
Apparently some drunk in Oregon was living with 70,000 Beer Cans for years before anyone found out about it. 
No idea how he got around the house, or if he ever had guests over.  Pretty Gross.
From KSL.COM:
70,000 Beer Cans Found in Ogden Townhouse
John Hollenhorst reporting
A seemingly unbelievable mess discovered last year in an Ogden townhouse […]

News: Town for Sale on Ebay

April 6th, 2006

 
From MSNBC.COM:
California town again for sale on eBay
Original buyer backed out, so Bridgeville, population 18, back on the block
SAN FRANCISCO - The owner of a picturesque northern California town is accepting bids on online auctioneer eBay, nearly two years after purchasing the hamlet.
Bridgeville, with a population of about 18, was first put up for sale […]

Cheesy Titanic Attraction Being Built in Cheese-Town USA

April 3rd, 2006

From CNN.COM:
Titanic growth in Branson, Missouri
Museum dedicated to famous ocean liner latest of new attractions
BRANSON, Missouri (AP) — The bow of the Titanic rears above the spray of waves, the fatal iceberg jammed in its black and riveted iron flank.
(more here)
Branson seems determined to pass Las Vegas and Pedro’s “South of the Border” to be the […]

$420,000 Outhouse Museum of Poop Now Open in New Zealand

March 28th, 2006

From Hawke’s Bay Today:
Outhouse facade part of museum
A $420,000 extension to Wairoa’s museum has included the facade of an old outhouse, in what its curator dubs “a museum within a museum”.
The 190sq m extension almost doubles the museum’s floor space in the former ANZ Bank on Marine Parade. It now carries a New Zealand Historic […]

Kid shot by Neighbor for Walking on His Lawn

March 20th, 2006

From CNN:
Neighbor charged with killing teen who walked on his grass.
BATAVIA, Ohio (AP) — A man who neighbors say was devoted to his meticulously kept lawn was charged with murder in the shooting of a 15-year-old boy who apparently walked across his yard.
Charles Martin called 911 on Sunday afternoon, saying calmly: “I just killed a […]

Millionaire Buys 400,000 acre plot in the Amazon Jungle. Logging and Monkey BBQ’s now Prohibited

March 20th, 2006

From The Times Online UK:
It’s my rainforest now. No logging
Maurice Chittenden
 
WHEN millionaire businessman Johan Eliasch decides to head for his country estate, it involves a slightly longer trek than a drive to the Cotswolds.
After leaving his office in London’s Mayfair, it is a 12-hour journey by air and road before he can view his 400,000-acre […]

Time Catches Up with U.K Pub, Forced to Pay Fine From 1664

March 15th, 2006

From The Times Online UK:
Pub has to pay a fine for murder from 1664
By Helen Nugent
 
A PUB must pay a fine for a murder on its premises more than 300 years ago.
 
Auditors discovered the long-forgotten penalty for The Swan in Ipswich, Suffolk, while balancing the books for the town’s St Mary Le Tower Church Charities.
The […]

For Sale, Used Whore Houses, Great Locations, What a Bargain!

March 12th, 2006

From The Anchorage Daily News:
Escort-service houses go on auction block
By MEGAN HOLLAND
Anchorage Daily News
For sale: the Bunny Club, Miss Susies and Moon’s House. Great locations. Must be converted to legitimate businesses or homes. Going to the highest bidder.
Once flourishing as three of Spenard’s most infamous dating and escort businesses — and police targets for years […]