A Property Literally with Character
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@siennaman or, a good reason for her to come out of the woodwork and get all litigious due to internal guilt over not being around more for him when he was alive/desire to prove to relatives that she's a good/responsible daughter
Sometimes, the family members that have the least to say to a person when they're alive suddenly have the most to say when they're dead
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Either way, this is going to make for a fantastic premise the next time Edgar Wright does a movie!
Just picture The Money Pit, but with Simon Pegg and Rebel Wilson as the husband and wife, plus Nick Frost as the sketchy neighbor who is also an extended family member -- cut out of the will -- who doesn't approve of the fancy new mansion the couple wants to build on the property.
The highest of jinks ensue.
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Great find, and what a story. Please buy it for our entertainment!
I doubt removing the masoleum "shed" would violate any rules, as long as you don't disturb the grave. Even removing the headstone may very well be legal (but I dunno).
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@ash78 oh, this is fantastic - can it be written as a 90 minute movie, then stretched at the last minute into 10 half hour episodes for streaming purposes? Also, need to cast someone as the attractive general contractor that Rebel Wilson's character finds herself starting to turn to for support as her husband goes further off the deep end from all the stress, further adding to his stress with hilarious results
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Did he always go around with handcuffs at the ready, or did the photographer capture him anticipating a frisky interlude with one or more of the seven or eight?the guide price
The spirit guide price, amirite?
Anyway, I wouldn't be put off by the presence of the dead (one day I shall join them, like all men, arguably save one, who have ever been or ever will be) but the physical legacy of a florid hoarding disorder is another thing. Don't forget to add demolition and clearing to your cost of construction — with generous contingency in case you discover storage vats full of chemical unknowns, or his grenade collection spanning several wars, or whatnot.
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@ranwhenparked said in A Property Literally with Character:
Sometimes, the family members that have the least to say to a person when they're alive suddenly have the most to say when they're dead
A good point. An especially interesting variant is when one of the family members gets the idea that the decedent had squirreled away a fortune, which they cannot prove but they are sure is attested-to by a piece of paper amid the stacks, or perhaps in the form of physical currency and buried somewhere on the premises.
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@Ad-absurdum-per-aspera I believe if you look closely you'll see that monument he's leaning against claims to a be a "Civic Folly" and entrant for the Turner Prize; which is an award for modern art (and has featured some truly wacky stuff over the years including sliced cows in formaldehyde and an unmade bed, leading to it becoming synonymous with the idea that any piece of crap can be art if you say so)
I suspect based on context that he erected it as an unauthorized and difficult to remove piece of public "art" and was either prepared to lock himself to it to thwart removal or in the process of being arrested.
Also I laughed out loud at "spirit guide price"
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@ranwhenparked I'll allow it but only as the basis of a reboot of "last of the summer wine" as the old fella's mates try to thwart the builders and end up sliding downhill in a bathtub.
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@zipfuel thank you.
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I was thinking maybe you could buy it and 'accidentally' burn it all to the ground. But I then guess there's the arson charges that probably wouldn't end well.
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@BJ I'm pretty sure the rules only apply to the deceased not the headstone which isn't his anyway. I've already given this way too much thought and reckon the base case would be to jackhammer everything off the surface and pave over him for a parking spot.
Then offer the family members the options: complete erasure and some yellow lines or sign the form and I'll pay to have him dug up, cremated and the remains fired out of a cannon across the field while the cameras roll...
Maybe sponsor some kind of tasteless memorial like a musical urinal.
@pos_camaro isn't there a bit in the 'pirates of Penzance' where someone is talking about his "ancestors by purchase"? -
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@john-norris I mean it's been a year since the funeral, I'm kinda surprised the local yoofs haven't already had a go...
If it went up between Oct 30th and Nov 5th nobody would bat an eye.
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@zipfuel buy it and just put a bulldozer through it.
