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

While it appears you read my reply, I don't have the impression that you understood it. Example: I did not say you should bend to the will of those around you. I happen to think there are benefits to being flexible, but I didn't write what you said I wrote.

What I did try to say is that had the man been more thoughtful and considerate, he would have bought land elsewhere and not bothered these people. Did he have to have this house? Something special about it? Why not an acre or two next to the grain elevators and the old gravel pit where he could spread his junk out, have some room to work? Instead he chose this house where he is under a barrage of interruptions from irate neighbors. His choice was a self-defeating one at best because now he is distracted from his line of work.

On your question of principles, and I hope this analogy comes close enough to be workable, may I hazard a guess where you fall on gay scoutmasters being allowed in the Boy Scouts of America? I'll suppose, since I'm unable to get an immediate answer, that you are against it and would say that the Boy Scouts was established for the purpose to help boys grow into healthy well-adjusted adults. And that if the gays want to be in the boy scouts, then they should form their own with their own bylaws that endorse their choices and leave our normal Boy Scouts alone.

A neighborhood can be sort of like the Boy Scouts; a small unit of society exercising their right to free association. Many people who move into a neighborhood have chosen it for the proximity to schools they want their kids to attend, for the quality of social services such as fire, police, mass transit, and also to have good neighbors, and to enjoy quiet.

When a disrupter like Assman shows up and turns his yard into a scrap metal business it is somewhat like the gays wanting to get into the Boy Scouts. The gays want to change everything that the boy scouts are happy with "because it is their right," and this man wants to change everything his neighbors are happy with "because it is his right." But where does the gays' rights and this man's property rights end and someone else's right to free association begin? And what is so wrong with bending anyway? When I was a boy, I bent to the will of my parents. That helped me learn respect. When I was in school, I bent to the will of my instructor, and that helped me get a better education and a better job. When I am at work I bend to the will of my supervisor, who pays me more than my peers, who argue with him because they think they know more. When I joined this neighborhood, I silently gave my consent to bend to the neighbors' will, and keep my grass cut, the house in good repair, and not have old washing machines or cars up on blocks in my front yard. This is being wise, not weak.

It is the man who feels small and powerless in his heart who defiantly jumps in his neighbors' faces and makes indignant assertions about his natural rights. I don't feel powerless so I have no need to confront others with my rights or to allow my eccentricities, had I any, to impact the neighborhood.

This does not mean I don't know when to say no or that I always let people walk on me. I can open up a can of whoop ass should a real injury to my person, property, or reputation occur. But some disputes should be let go because winning them would be winning little, and not be worth the costs in time and energy. That is the case with this little ass man. He is a mental midget and unless there is a significant change in him, he will always be a nuisance to someone as long as he lives. A pest.

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