Posted on 04/15/2010 2:15:26 AM PDT by Daffynition
They say a man's home is his castle, but does that include the right to turn it into an eyesore?
On a quiet side street south of Daytona Beach, Robert Hodges' corner house is painted randomly with purple, yellow, orange, green and pink. A toilet and rusting bike stand by a tree, old pieces of a wood deck are scattered and a large sand mound is decorated with skis, golf clubs, plastic ducks and Christmas ornaments. Criss-crossing the front yard are several clotheslines featuring boxers, a pair of hot-pink feathery skivvies and colorful extra-large bras.
"Oh, yes, it's beautiful!" declares Hodges, a snowbird retiree from Memphis, Tenn. who prefers the moniker Prince Mongo. "It's absolutely gorgeous."
And it's his own personal protest.
Upset at complaints by neighbors over a wood deck that prompted county officials to cite him for a code violation, he transformed a $300,000 beachside home into a wildly provocative property that stands out as much as he does.
Prince Mongo, who eagerly tells you he is 333 and from the planet Zambodia, joins the colorful cast of other Central Florida characters who used their homes as a canvas for protest, to the point of becoming neighborhood nuisances.
The late Grover Walker painted his Winter Park home a wild red, white and blue, with massive slogans and a giant American flag flying upside-down on a 90-foot flagpole. The family hosted concerts and rallies, with loudspeakers, sirens and military surplus spotlights to protest a psychiatric diagnosis that barred him from receiving veterans benefits. Seminole County's "junkman," Alan Wayne Davis, went to prison rather than removing antique aircraft parts and a giant sculpture of a human buttocks from his yard near Altamonte Springs.
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This guy should be dinging the NEA for grant money...
Well, I’m one to make lemonade out of lemons...It sure would make it easy to give people directions to your house!
Genuine ‘Funk shooey’ decor! How....eclectic!
Wow, I wondered what had happened to Prince Mongo.
He use to be the funny clown of Memphis for a number of years.
“Wow, I wondered what had happened to Prince Mongo.
He use to be the funny clown of Memphis for a number of years.”
LOL! I was just thinking of him and wondering what had happened to him.
I had no idea he had moved. I remember the fuss over a coffin in his front yard in Memphis. LOL
This is what drugs and a liberal education gets you. What is everyone on the block did this? Investments lost, rats and ruin. Mongo just lawn in game of blight.
Well, Prince Mongo... I am Emperor Ming (the Merciless).
You will OBEY me!
Prince Mongo used to live in Memphis...had the same problems there...skulls on spears, etc in his yard...He used to drive a VW Thing with the top down and a huge American flag waving in the wind.
He would go to court on occasion to prove that he still needed to be given his disability for being nuts.
He also ran for mayor once and got about 19,000 votes.
There's only one thing worse than a Zambodian...
and that's an old Zambodian.
It won’t hurt real estate prices much now, and it will hurt them far less during the years to come.
Foreclosure rates surge, biggest jump in 5 years
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2493376/posts
send us your tired, your hungry, your poor and most of all don’t forget to send us your crazies....florida is fun to live in and watch these people....
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