News Worthy Monday

Good evening bloggers! Hope everyone had a wonderful weekend. I did. I saw Sucker Punch yesterday. It was great, except the ending could have been better. Saturday I saw Diary of a Wimpy Kid Part 2. That was pretty funny. Before I get into what I originally came to blog about, I just want to say that Japan needs all the prayers/support that they can get right now. They just had ANOTHER earthquake over the weekend it was a 6.something. They were under a 0.5m tsunami watch, but it was lifted. If you pray, just pause & say a little prayer for them. If you don't pray, please keep them in your thoughts. Also, please continue to keep the 6 month old in your thoughts/prayers. If you don't know who I'm talking about, you can find out here. Now onto the original post: 10 Weird Traffic Laws (according to Yahoo! News)

10.
In Kansas, it is illegal to screech your tires. That's a state law, but there are also local ordinances to back it up. Good thing that's not a law here.
Penalty: a fine up to $500 and/or imprisonment up to 30 days

9.
In Eureka, California, it is against the law to sleep in any public space. That might make you think park bench, but they go so far as to add that you are not to sleep on any sidewalk, alley or street.
Penalty: classified as a misdemeanor and punishable by a fine up to $1,000 and/or up to six months in jail

8.
In Fort Thomas, Kentucky, it is illegal for your pet to “molest” a vehicle. Yes, that is the actual, unfortunate legal term used in the city ordinance for “animal-related nuisance.”
Penalty: a fine of up to $500

7.
In South Berwick, Maine, it is against the law for you park in front of Dunkin Donuts. You will be ticketed. Specifically, the Dunkin Donuts on Main Street “to a point of 25 feet south.”
Penalty: a fine of up to $175 and/or jail time of up to 30 days

6.
In Rockville, Maryland it’s illegal to swear within earshot of other people, whether you’re on a street, sidewalk or highway.
Penalty: a fine up to $100 and/or jail time up to 90 day

5.
In Minnetonka, Minnesota, it is considered a public nuisance, and therefore illegal for “a truck or other vehicle whose wheels or tires deposit mud, dirt, sticky substances, litter or other material on any street or highway.” If that were the law here, half of the county would be in trouble at times, ha.
Penalty: All violations of the Minnetonka code are subject to fines up to $2,000 but a spokesperson for the city said the city “attempts several other measures to mitigate the situation before pursuing misdemeanor charges.”

4.
In Sag Harbor, New York, it is illegal to take your clothes off in your car. Example: you have to be wearing a bathing suit in public and you can’t disrobe on the street or in your car or in any public place.
Penalty: a fine of up to $100 and/or jail time up to three months

3.
Roller skating may seem like a harmless hobby but if you do it in the street in Canton, Ohio (other than crossing the street, of course) — that’s illegal
Penalty: a fine up to $1,000 and up to six months in jail

2.
In Ohio, it’s illegal to leave a vehicle door open on the side of traffic, pedestrians or bicycles “for a period of time longer than necessary to load or unload passengers.”
Penalty: a fine of $90 and possible jail time

1.
In Hilton Head, South Carolina, it is illegal to store trash in your car. I live in SC & didn't even know that.
Penalty: a fine of up to $500 and/or jail time of up to 30 days.

Five Weird But Wonderful Homes

According to Yahoo! Real Estate

Bioscleave House Life Extending Villa

Location: East Hampton, NY
Cost: $4 million
Bed: 3
Bath: 2
Sq. ft: 3,700
Claim to Fame: The first U.S. example of reversible destiny architecture, or “architecture against death”
About: This house was designed with the goal that the occupants be disoriented, uncomfortable, and thrown off balance, because, the thought goes, when you get comfortable, death is not far behind. The thinkers behind this “life-affirming environment” were the artist-poet-architect/ husband-and-wife team Arakawa and Madeline Gins. This “life-affirming” was part of their plan to cheat the fate that awaits everyone else. Alas, Arakawa died in May, 2010. Built as an extension to a 1964 A-frame house based on principles of Frank Lloyd Wright’s architecture, Bioscleave House also comes with its own set of directions for use.

The Dune House

Location: Atlantic Beach, FL
Cost: $1.4 million
Bed: 2
Bath: 2
Sq. ft: 1,500
Claim to Fame: It’s a disco-era house in a dune!
About: This design by architect William Morgan is ensconced within the earth, forming two double-height apartments carved into a sand dune. The apartments are entered at street level and a common stair leads to the upper floor’s entryway, bedroom and bath. On the main lower floor, the living, dining and kitchen with mostly built-in furniture open oceanside to a covered terrace at beach level. The building was constructed in 1975 using swimming pool technology, a gunite-concrete shell anchored to a cast concrete floor. It’s also one of the original green roofs, as it’s topped by a mantle of earth stabilized by native landscaping which helps to maintain a 70-degree temperature inside.

Mystery Castle

Location: Phoenix, AZ
Cost: Not on the market
Bed: n/a
Bath: n/a
Sq. ft: n/a
Claim to Fame: Built by a man who abandoned his family and disappeared after learning he had tuberculosis
About: Boyce Luther Gulley left his Seattle office in 1927 and was not heard of until 3 years later in the hills south of Phoenix. There he spent the last 15 years of his life creating a three-story, 18-room mansion crenellated parapets, turrets, and a tower. Gulley constructed the castle from found and cheap materials like native stone and adobe bound by a mortar of sand, cement, calcium, and goat's milk. The house’s curious features include petroglyphs, automobile parts, Depression glass dishes as transoms, windows made from Gulley’s Stutz Bearcat, and the Bearcat’s windshield as a wall panel. Gulley built stairs over a boulder so as not to disturb the landscape, and for the same reason he hauled natural materials from over a mile away. The wife and daughter he abandoned moved in after Gulley’s death in 1945, and began conducting tours. Daughter Mary Lou Gulley just died herself in November 2010.

Coral Castle

Location: Miami, FL
Cost: Not on the market
Bed: n/a
Bath: n/a
Sq. ft: n/a
Claim to Fame: Billy Idol’s 1986 hit “Sweet Sixteen” was a tribute to the Coral Castle and its creator, and the video was shot at the Castle.
About: Ed Leedskalnin spent 28 years secretly working alone, mostly at night, with just hand tools to move 1100 tons of coral to construct this monument to the woman who jilted him the night before their wedding. It remains a mystery how he accomplished the feat. Since no one ever witnessed the construction, some have speculated that Leedskalnin had supernatural powers. Leedskalnin himself claimed to know the secrets used to build the ancient Pyramids. Coral Castle was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984 and is now a museum listed under its original name of Rock Gate Park.

Hammargren Home of Nevada History

Location: Las Vegas, Nevada
Cost: Not on the market
Bed: n/a
Bath: n/a
Sq. ft: n/a
Claim to Fame: Robin Leach called it “the most interesting home in the world.”
About: This residence is actually three houses that form a compound of curiosities. The first is a planetarium and celestial observatory in one-third scale model of a Mayan pyramid, the center house is a full-scale model replica of the “House of the Governor” at a Mayan site at Uxmal, and the third house is a “Mayan Revival Style” architecture inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright’s designs in Hollywood. The man living in Mayan style is Dr. Lonnie Hammargren, a neurosurgeon, former Nevada Lieutenant Governor and Honorary Consul to Belize. The houses contain thousands of oddities from 65 years of collecting unusual things like an iron lung, a Batmobile, a Liberace staircase and Bugsy Siegel's toilet, even a fancy Easter egg entryway that Liberace once used for an Easter performance. Also on the premises are an Apollo Spacecraft Capsule, a Space Shuttle replica, and a Stonehenge reproduction.
Jason Wakefield of Top Ten Real Estate Deals explains why he ranked this one the weirdest: "Just beyond Evel Knievel's Messerschmitt motorcyle under the garage, the doctor has an authentic Egyptian tomb where he is to be buried and become part of the museum. The museum features a full pulley system for opening and closing the sarcophagus. Other unique characteristics include a Clark Gable dummy jumping out of a plane over an authentic "Welcome to Reno" sign, a dolphin tank from the original MGM casino, and if you look out the right window you will see the back of a Space Shuttle replica. The home is as unique as the Nevada history it exemplifies."


These are some very....interesting houses. However, you figure for millions they would have more than 2-3 rooms and bathrooms ^.^