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- WordsnCollision, on 06/10/2009, -3/+33Too bad "Screw Houses" are at present illegal (Nevada excluded).
- nahsrocketeer75, on 06/10/2009, -2/+20Sometimes you just have to make a stand.
- timothy53, on 06/11/2009, -1/+15http://imgur.com/5eKba.jpg
-found this one i had saved. barely holding on - protogenxl, on 06/11/2009, -1/+13This man is a 5'8" ape descendant and someone is trying to drive a bypass through his house.
- TheObviousChild, on 06/11/2009, -1/+12Reminds me of the 80's movie "Batteries Not Included".
- Hurricane, on 06/11/2009, -1/+8In the good ol USA here (you know where we have all these rights), the local community would simply eminent domain the property and then sell/lease it to the developers.
- ShiftyBizniss, on 06/11/2009, -0/+7i think I found one, Toronto's smallest house:
http://torontoist.com/2007/10/the_little_litt.php - freshyill, on 06/11/2009, -2/+8Not quite as extreme as some of those, but here's a house in Harrisburg, Pa., that's surrounded by a Lowe's parking lot.
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q& ... - jezsik, on 06/11/2009, -2/+8This reminds me of a form of building I only recently discovered: spite houses. These are buildings built on a piece of land that really is too small to build. The owner does so because the owners of the adjacent property makes a low-ball bid for the small bit of land. "It's not like you can build there, ha, ha!" Well, the joke is on them.
- Goombellaofgoom, on 06/11/2009, -0/+5I do not like the cone of shame.
- lostsymphonies1, on 06/11/2009, -0/+5Here is a strip joint in seattle that refuses to sell, so they built straight up around them, ahhaha
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=47.607639,- ... - stuwanker, on 06/11/2009, -1/+6Not quite the same thing, but there's a lone grave in the middle of the Loews Theater parking lot in New Brunswick, NJ:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Ellis_(1750-1827 ...
Also, the Barnum Museum in Bridgeport, CT, is surrounded by the People's Bank building. I can't find a good picture, though... - RudeTurnip, on 06/11/2009, -1/+6The best part about the single grave in the movie theater parking lot in New Brunswick is that the parking lot is at a lower elevation, so the gravesite is effectively a mound and you have to look up to see the stone.
- borez, on 06/11/2009, -2/+7There's a pub in London ( Putney ) called The Cat's Back which stands slap bang in the middle of this upmarket housing development, the owners of which refused to have demolished. If you're ever in London it's well worth the visit because it one of those strange places where time has stood completely still. Great beer, great food and some extremely eccentric locals can all be found:
http://lh3.ggpht.com/_N1F2Q6W2Jgc/SN340blETQI/AAAA ... - stuwanker, on 06/11/2009, -1/+5Yeah, the picture on Wikipedia doesn't show that. Here's a better one:
http://static.panoramio.com/photos/original/425995 ... - Zaxcomp, on 06/11/2009, -0/+4Maybe he is against capitalism.
- thomn8r, on 06/11/2009, -0/+3Why'd he get dug down? That's bad-ass!
- DouglasQ, on 06/11/2009, -2/+5My sister works in a 'nail house'
I don't know why we're not allowed to see her anymore... - inactive, on 06/11/2009, -0/+2In Vilnius there is a whole neighborhood of poor wooden shacks surrounded by skyscrapers, the property value of them are through the roof but no one wants to sell. The developers just hire thugs to burn the wooden houses down which makes it a lot easier to get the old people to sell. It's a shame really.
They look like this; http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3233/2850094667_610 ... - rolf, on 06/11/2009, -1/+3I remember 3-4 years back when a major suburban developer bought a large plot of land nearby and bought all the scattered houses except one. They eventually offered this one guy in a really small 1830s delapitated farmhouse, something worth 30K on the open market, something like 750k just to get the heck out of the way. Still wouldn't budge, no one thinks it was for principle but just to try to get a few more bucks. Now he's sticks out like a sore thumb as a little island among a sea of new 300k townhouses and last I saw a for sale sign went up for about 40K and that was 6 months ago still unsold. (Townhouses seem overpriced though, imo).
- marmotjmarmot, on 06/11/2009, -1/+3Now, you must wear the cone of shame.
- jax0047, on 06/12/2009, -0/+2I'm surprised they let stuff like this happen in China.
- pr0jecktpat, on 06/15/2009, -0/+1I have an uncle that at one point lived in a house that was surrounded by a Rubbermaid factory in NY state.
- Shamusjp, on 06/15/2009, -0/+1Intertubes 3 times? Google Schnapps? Buried.
- Magistrate, on 06/11/2009, -2/+3Does the author of the article not know where the shift key is? There isn't a single capital letter in the whole piece.
- Trickybunny, on 06/15/2009, -0/+1Crazy - I drive by there everyday on my way to work and I never noticed :-P
- Hellahulla, on 06/11/2009, -0/+1Indeed, that's the film! That was better than short circuit in my mind.
- Gyga, on 06/28/2009, -0/+1No, that's the caps lock, look right below it.
- Hellahulla, on 06/11/2009, -0/+1Yep, all hail rights.
- chadsmith729, on 06/11/2009, -2/+2Please explain more about these "multistorey building projects". They sound intriguing ...
- ferbs027, on 06/11/2009, -2/+2Cameron?
- eliomar, on 06/11/2009, -3/+2Hitchhiker's reference. Good one.
- teamgwho, on 06/11/2009, -2/+1check out this cemetery surrounded by a parking lot/
http://lostinjersey.wordpress.com/2009/04/03/mary- ... - djnforce9, on 06/11/2009, -1/+0I actually live near a nail house like those (although it was demolished eventually when the original owner died of old age). It was located right in the middle of a plaza area. Soon it'll be nothing more than extra parking spaces though.
- hellz143, on 06/11/2009, -2/+1Yeah this place is really weird. Who would of thought that woman from China would have survived so long in that Nail House. She was really asking for trouble when she left her house right in the middle of a place where a shopping center was supposed to be built.
- vanishedlight, on 06/11/2009, -4/+2oh no, lack of capitalization on the internet? surely this cannot be!
- conblex, on 06/12/2009, -3/+1I THINK I FOUND IT... WAIT.. IS THIS IT?
- inactive, on 06/11/2009, -5/+1NO BUT I DOES !!!!!!
- b1ffr43p, on 06/11/2009, -6/+1These ***** lists are getting ridiculous.
- lonewolf1222, on 06/11/2009, -6/+0http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuGSvika7Hk&fea ...
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