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- kent1146, on 10/12/2007, -15/+197I thought the world's smallest country was the Vatican... and I thought the Vatican was always for sale.
- Dpack1, on 10/12/2007, -2/+41So the guy wants 8 figures... i wonder if Verizon will bid and offer him 0.0000002c for it... after all, its got 8 figures in it right?
- loomis, on 10/12/2007, -3/+41Not as cool as the Maunsell Army Sea Forts! http://www.undergroundkent.co.uk/maunsell_towers.htm
Now those are fascinating! - Dpack1, on 10/12/2007, -22/+56@JackyTreehorn
And you'd get laughed at... cos you know, the English did kinda invent the English language. The Americans bastardized it less then half a millennium ago. - andyrobo60, on 10/12/2007, -3/+34If you buy it then you will be the only one living in the 'country'. That will mean no laws, you can do anything you want. If you don't want it anymore just declare war on the US. Watch as the bomb a whole country in to dust.
- kaelyiesta, on 10/12/2007, -7/+35@ Dpack1
'Than' not 'then'. Sorry. Normally I wouldn't correct spelling but considering you were on the topic of us americans bastardizing languages I thought it pertinent. - johnhoward666, on 10/12/2007, -1/+29Back in 2000 Wired covered this "country": http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.07/haven.html
Quite a good little story. - Zippo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+28All hail Diggland!
- sfacets, on 10/25/2007, -2/+28The digg community should pool resources and buy it... digg it? :)
- jonathantneal, on 10/12/2007, -0/+26Yes, quite a good little story, except for the disturbing ending "Four years later, Dutch and German businessmen on Sealand to discuss a business deal kidnapped Roy's son but were overpowered and held as prisoners of war before eventually being released." Serious?
- Braxo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+27no idiot, I'd be called Diggnation
- Hydraulix, on 10/12/2007, -13/+361. Gather barrels of oil.
2. Move oil to smallest country.
3. ?????
4. Profit! - XZanatos, on 10/12/2007, -6/+27@Dpack1
English itself is a bastardized language from German, French, Anglo-Saxon, and bits from a dozen other languages. So Boo-Hoo. - joel8x, on 10/12/2007, -0/+20Hey idiot, why would YOU be called dignation?
- zombo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+20You can buy yourself a Lordship or Ladyship title from the sealandgov website for the measley sum of 19.99 GBP, the pack includes...
Your chosen Certificate of Individual Noble Title Ownership
Information about The Principality of Sealand
History Of Sealand
Location Information about Sealand
Photos of the Principality
Full Registration Instructions
Glossy Folder to keep all your documents safe
http://www.sealandgov.org/shop.html - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+22@Dpack1
bastardized is the American spelling of bastardised.
I'm British I don't care about spelling. - JackyTreehorn, on 10/12/2007, -37/+56If I owned this platform, I would set up huge loudspeakers pointed towards England and shout through them "COLOR IS SPELLED C-O-L-O-R"
- fenixconnektion, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16I think the best part of this article is the last little bit:
"Four years later, Dutch and German businessmen on Sealand to discuss a business deal kidnapped Roy's son but were overpowered and held as prisoners of war before eventually being released."
Friggin' awesome. - shadus, on 10/12/2007, -4/+20It's not for sale, a country can't be "sold" it's for "transfer" and thats completely different right? *crickets* right?! guys?!
- edwardfrench, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16Anyone looking for it on Google Maps, it's here: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=51.53+N,+01.28+E&ie=UTF8&z=14&ll=51.529999,1.279993&spn=0.032465,0.111065&om=1&iwloc=addr
or at least it would be!
I didn't do any better on live.com or yahoo.com maps. - epoch, on 10/25/2007, -0/+12Sealand is about 10 miles from me. Locally, the family of Sealand are considered headcases. It's a fun story but I don't think anyone is really in any doubt that it only exists because the British government has no need to take action.
- pathy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12"It is accessible only by helicopter and boat but according to its owners, who want offers of eight digits or over, boasts uninterrupted sea views, guarantees complete privacy and is a tax haven."
This is a PERFECT place for any budding Evil Geniuses that just need that perfect lair to place their dastardly plans. - Negyxo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12Looks like a level in Myst or something. Way cool.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12According to Wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maunsell_Sea_Forts ), one of those forts became the "country" this article is about.
- Anrkist, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10I guess when you have such a small country, finding a decent web master can be challenging. They should outsource...
- ed2092, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9nice
http://www.churchandeast.co.uk/shop/14102006134.jpg - Wonderkind, on 10/12/2007, -5/+14Then as a nation we could sue Microsoft monopolistic business practices and split the proceeds among us.
- atdt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9No, Vatican City is 0.17 sq mi (or 440,297.979 m2), making it much larger than Sealand
- Urusai, on 10/25/2007, -1/+9Sealand is much smaller: 550 m^2 versus the Vatican's 0.44 km^2
Whether Sealand is actually a country is another matter. - Braxo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9damn, I'm the idiot now...
- Ligeia, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10Taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_and_British_English_spelling_differences :
"Most words ending in unstressed -our in Britain (e.g. colour, flavour, honour) end in -or in the U.S. (e.g. color, flavor, honor). Most words of this category derive from Latin non-agent nouns having nominative -or; the first such borrowings into English were from early Old French and the ending was -or or -ur[12]. After the Norman Conquest, the termination became -our in Anglo-French in an attempt to represent the Old French pronunciation of words ending in -or[13]. The -our ending was not only retained in English borrowings from Anglo-French, but also applied to earlier French borrowings[14]. After the Renaissance, some such borrowings from Latin were taken up with their original -or termination; many words once ending in -our (for example, chancellour and governour) now end in -or everywhere. Many words of the -our/-or group do not have a Latin counterpart; for example, armo(u)r, behavio(u)r, harbo(u)r, neighbo(u)r; also arbo(u)r in sense "bower"; senses "tree" and "tool" are always arbor, a false cognate of the other word. Some 16th and early 17th century British scholars indeed insisted that -or be used for words of Latin origin and -our for French loans; but in many cases the etymology was not completely clear, and therefore some scholars advocated -or only and others -our only[15].
As early as 1755 Dr Johnson settled on -our, while Webster's 1828 dictionary featured only -or and is generally given much of the credit for the adoption of this form in the U.S. By contrast, Johnson, unlike Webster, was not an advocate of spelling reform and for the most part simply recorded what he found. For example, documents [2] from the Old Bailey, the foremost court in London, support the view of the OED that by the 17th century "colour" was the settled spelling. Those English speakers who began to move across the Atlantic would have taken these habits with them and H L Mencken makes the point that, "honor appears in the Declaration of Independence, but it seems to have got there rather by accident than by design. In Jefferson’s original draft it is spelled honour. " [3] Examples such as color, flavor, behavior, harbor, or neighbor scarcely appear in the Old Bailey's court records from the 17th and 18th century, whereas examples of their -our counterparts are generally numbered in hundreds. One notable exception is honor: honor and honour were equally frequent down to the 17th century[16], and Honor still is in Britain the normal spelling for a person's name." - Anrkist, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7I'm sadly reminded of Waterworld when I see those images.
- BM5k, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Its a country because some guys came in, kicked everyone else out, claimed a title and planted a flag (see Wikipedia entry for flag.) That's the way countries have been created for centuries. I'd have to say that simply not participating in the UN doesn't directly translate to not being a sovereign nation. Again, passports and national anthems, aren't requirements for statehood. Oh, and given the titles of Prince given for the so called leaders, I'd have to assume that this is some sort of monarchy (also "confirmed" by wiped.)
In case you missed it, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealand
But it does seem like these guys just got a little carried away playing with their fort/clubhouse. I mean, who never built a fort out of cardboard boxes, drew a flag on it, and declared war on their little brother/sister? - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+10Those are awesome pics...that place looks really facinating..Thanks for sharing!
- M2Ys4U, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6It will take all of half of an SAS team to take the place
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I tried to find pictures but couldn't...I would love to see some.
- sevenhelmets, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6According to Wikipedia they do (or have) issued passports, have a flag, national anthem and also constitution (all 7 articles of it). And it's a sovereignty while they're at it. So the only thing they don't have is UN representation.....
- MrBrightside, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6fantastic - I live about 20 miles away from this place and i didnt even know it existed!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5It's the tale of valiant knights and cowardly crooks.
- cquilliam, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I read about this place not too long ago. I remember reading that one of the things you have to do when declaring a country is you have to defend it against occupation. Aparently those "warning shots" they talked about was all that was needed.
The british must have been laughing too hard to do anything about it :) - daharris, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I can see the island from my window in felixstowe, suffolk
- dggeek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Wikipedia has a couple pictures and a map.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealand - Grishnackh, on 10/12/2007, -2/+71. Buy Country
2. Run Out Big, Fat, Pipe
3. Repeal Copyright Laws
4. ????
5. Profit! - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Well, if the global warming trend goes on as is, it will be an underwater country soon.
- profOblivion, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Just a guess, but I'm pretty sure that the Vatican is more than 550 square metres.
- loomis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4More pics. Note servers there. Note also that this site has a 2nd, 3rd, and 4th part of pictures, including the fire and rebuilding: http://www.bobleroi.co.uk/ScrapBook/SealandOne/ThisIsSealand.html
- repins, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Microsoft new corporate headquarters? After all Bill Gates is just a white angora cat from being a James Bond Villain...he needs a cool hide out..
- Zippo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Right, of course. All hail Diggnation!
- visually, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5haha sounds like that place has a lot of cool stories :)
- Uranium118, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4So how much was the last bid on ebay?
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