Mooning-Man Statue Leads To Homeowner's Arrest (Must See Video)

ALTAMONTE SPRINGS, Fla. -- A Seminole County, Fla., man's statue of a buttocks mooning his neighborhood led to his arrest Wednesday after a neighbor called 911.

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	Mike DeForest Reports

Alan Davis, 46, created a giant sculpture of a bare torso and placed it in the front yard of his home on Alpine Street in Altamonte Springs. After a neighbor called 911 to complain that the statue was obscene, Davis allegedly got into a verbal confrontation with one of the deputies.

"He told me that he was going to move my statue and I quite flatly told him that he would have to talk with the Supreme Court of the United States," Davis said.

Davis reportedly locked himself inside his car after talking with the officers.

"I opened the door and I said, 'By the way, the name of the sculpture is kiss my ass and you could just do it,'" Davis said.

Davis was later arrested and charged with disorderly conduct and resisting an officer.

Seminole County filed suit to foreclose on Davis' property earlier this year because of the piles of junk and scrap metal in his yard, Local 6 News reported.

Davis owes $300,000 in code-enforcement fines, according to Local 6 News

He's a childish, self-centered class A jerk. His "plight" was aired a couple of weeks ago on 48 Hours with Dan Rather.

He moves into a neighborhood and proceeds to turn his yard into a junk pile filled with a half-built airplane fuselage, all sorts of other junk. He's a welder and makes fake bombs for movie studios. He belongs in an industrial park, not a neighborhood. He has no idea how to be a good neighbor or to give a little.

He feels his property rights allow him to do anything he wants on his property and he indicated he will use his 2nd Amendment rights to defend his property and everyone better stay away from his yard. Well, Dan the opportunist of course could not resist yet again displaying BIAS in the MEDIA to call this man a patriot. To put the label of patriot on this man made me furious.

The only difference between Dan Rather and "ass man" is that ass man fills his yard up with junk, and Dan Rather fills your living room with junk reporting via the TV. They should move in with each other.

'd like to see what some of the more Libertarian FReepers think. They are more known for ALWAYS taking the side that is not the government. Like when parents have malnurished kids but fight the gov, they will defend the redneck militia types.

Ahem . . . :-) You either have natural inalienable rights to your property or you don't. I saw the guy on 20/20 or 48 Hrs - one of those shows - he brought up many important points. He has a right to his property. What principle involved here says that he should make his yard look like everyone else's? I told my fiancee' while we were watching the show that if I did live in the neighborhood he does, I'd be over there with a 12 pack helping him build the statue. She just rolled her eyes and said, "Yes, you probably would."

He feels his property rights allow him to do anything he wants on his property and he indicated he will use his 2nd Amendment rights to defend his property and everyone better stay away from his yard.

He must have got that idea from the same silly principles the Founding Father's used in creating the Constitution and Declaration of Independence. What a crazy man to think he actally has rights . . . sheeesh . . . some looney people just don't get it . . .

"While the guy raises some valid questions about property rights vs. community standards, he seemed to be a total A-hole, spoiling for a fight with his neighbors or a shootout with the police.

Instead of seeking to be a good neighbor and attempting to reach some compromises, he was belligerant, surly, and seemed like he had more than a few screws loose. "

Ahh.... so you're saying that he's either already a member of Freerepublic - or he damn well should be!

You either have natural inalienable rights to your property or you don't.

You can only buy so much rights for your property. It is still subject to the law of the community. If such statue is deemed obscene for public display, then he can be reprimanded for publicly displaying such a statue from his property if his neighbors press charges. One simply cannot do whatever they wish on their property because they do not physically own the absolute right to do that. Some property rights are held by the gov.

But you probably already know this since I use the same argument to defend my position on keeping hard drugs banned.

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