most drivers could easily identify these duct-tape wrapped shapes as the universal sign for “caution: crazy person ahead,” but our submitter in boston actually pulled over and parked in order to get a better look. up close, “the signs were even crazier than we thought,” she reports. “seriously, what happened to this guy?”
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#1 goose
> “There is a ’single’ male living here”
No shit? Wonder why that might be…
Jun 16, 2008 at 3:46 am rating: +53
#2 Nathaniel
Looks like someone’s address got used as a drop spot for an ID theft ring. I can imagine that driving someone crazy if dozens of bill collectors or victims keep showing up harassing the guy who lives there.
Jun 16, 2008 at 3:49 am rating: +12
#3 J
what does this guy have against dogs and girls? and good ol’ glue? f’in misogynist.
Jun 16, 2008 at 4:01 am rating: +1
#4 Ray
I’m confused. So does the quadruple negative mean there are “pre-paid legal executives” living there?
Jun 16, 2008 at 4:25 am rating: +23
#5 David
Id theft, mail fraud, fraud, theft, trespassing and forgery aren’t THAT serious of crimes in this case, seeing that the victim is a crazy guy that calls the police about every woman or animal that gets anywhere near his house. People just want to rent out his fabulous bachelor’s pad!
Jun 16, 2008 at 4:32 am rating: +4
#6 park rose
Wondering what’s happened to your girlfriend/dog/ Prepaid Legal executive or employee? See that row of trash cans by the side of the building…
Jun 16, 2008 at 4:55 am rating: +25
#7 ErikaBlare
It seems as though one symptom of paranoid schizophrenia is the ability to write fairly neat block letters. Who knew?
Jun 16, 2008 at 5:21 am rating: +30
#8 marcopuffin
Above the “no apartments” sign there is a very small one that says, “If U do not live here, keep out!” The tempting ladder leaning up against the house seems a clumsy attempt at entrapment.
Jun 16, 2008 at 5:25 am rating: +23
#9 Dan
Interesting that ‘trespasses’ is spelled correctly but ‘tresspassing’ isn’t…..
Jun 16, 2008 at 5:30 am rating: +4
#10 PANU
You should always read the fine print around this guy.
Jun 16, 2008 at 5:36 am rating: +4
#11 Anis
Why would a woman say that she is married to that nut case???
Jun 16, 2008 at 6:45 am rating: +6
#12 anglophile
The progression of underlining styles in the ’single’ male sign is fascinating. First we go from discrete and decorative underscoring, then a little further down, the entire line is drawn with decorative separators, then plain distinct underlines, then, sadly, some weak and uneven attempts. Almost as though the sign maker suffers some sort of mental inbalance….
Jun 16, 2008 at 6:50 am rating: +18
#13 anglophile
ANY PRE-PAID LEGAL EXECUTIVE THAT TRESPASSESS
THIS PROPERTY– IS GOING TO THE
PRE-PAID LEGAL EXECUTIVE POUND!
If owner does not claim pre-paid legal executive.
Jun 16, 2008 at 6:54 am rating: +9
#14 park rose
Well id theft is a serious crime. See what happens when the super ego runs rampant?
Jun 16, 2008 at 7:43 am rating: +24
#15 Aijaz
We’re walking, we’re walking… we’re stopping.
All righty, folks. Our next stop in the first annual “Boston’s Most Eligible” walking tour is the residence of local playboy Heisa Monster. Men, keep an close eye on your women, because this cat is most definitely single!
Jun 16, 2008 at 8:00 am rating: +13
#16 marcopuffin
The submitter should have included the address, then we could have all dropped by! He might have met someone…. and rented out some apartments. Then he’d only have to worry about the dogs and pre-paid legal executives - because they’re a real no, no, no, no…
Jun 16, 2008 at 8:41 am rating: +3
#17 Jeffrey
Is this a note or a series of handmade signs?
['SINGLE'] is proper because it is a marital status. If the sign-maker were to solely indicate that there were ‘a single man inside,’ his marital status would be unresolved. I would like to snark that the rest of the signage secures his longterm unavailability for consorting with 0ther hominids, but crazies sometimes find each other!
Is ‘dog pound’ redundant? (it was tempting to phrase this in the negative)
Jun 16, 2008 at 8:44 am rating: +1
#18 Mishee
Funny, even before I got to the bottom and saw the “related:” link, I thought… wow… Anthony Grosso is really getting around now!
It’s almost like “Where in the USA Is Carmen Sandiego” - but with a spider on crack….
Jun 16, 2008 at 9:04 am rating: +15
#19 Mishee
I wonder how many stray dogs he gets knocking on his door that it needs a note for people to know that he is NOT a Doggie Hotel….
I also wonder how long he keeps them there to be “claimed by owner” until they get carted off to the pound.
Jun 16, 2008 at 9:08 am rating: +4
#20 RALPHY
I think that someone has been having a lot of fun messing with this guy’s head. It’s always tempting to tell a crazy guy that your Zorg from Mars or a pre-paid lawer with a pit bull, but a female trying to tell him that they’re married (possibly for free rent) is living on the edge.
Jun 16, 2008 at 9:18 am rating: +2
#21 Mishee
Apparently women who claim to be his wife also are guilty of passing their hair around….
is there really a crime in “tress passing”?
Jun 16, 2008 at 9:24 am rating: +10
#22 freedomcows007
So I have to ask: What, pray tell, is a pre-paid legal executive? Is it akin to a pre-paid envelope? Pre-paid calling card? Do you fill up the legal executive with money and then use at will?
Jun 16, 2008 at 9:33 am rating: +18
#23 GhostWriter
Kudos go out to the photographer- it’s very difficult to get that close to the servant’s entrance of Michael Jackson’s Neverland Ranch without having to show a valid I.D. the giveaway clue was, “…and God knows what else!”
Jun 16, 2008 at 9:45 am rating: +30
#24 Quite Contrary
For someone who has no apartments, he certainly has a lot of garbage cans? Perhaps the wives or dogs are really there?
Jun 16, 2008 at 9:51 am rating: +1
#25 Quite Contrary
The only thing missing from this is some razor wire across the top of the fence.
Jun 16, 2008 at 9:52 am rating: +10
#26 GhostWriter
When you compare this place to the actual headquarters of Pre-paid Legal Services, you can easily see why they are often confused.
Jun 16, 2008 at 10:07 am rating: +1
#27 A
This is actually located in South River NJ. And my brave-as-shit friend walked right up and snapped these pics with her camera phone while I cowered away in the corner looking for the crazy sniper that surely lives here.
Also, if you click on the first picture and see it enlarged, the first sign, warning that a trespassing dog will be brought to the pound, has a post script “if owner does not claim dog”. Well, this changes the whole story a little bit, doesn’t it? My heart kinda swells for this poor old sweet crazy sniper lunatic.
Jun 16, 2008 at 10:13 am rating: +9
#28 Ryan
Oh man, I’m in Boston - somebody needs to tell me where this is.
I would love to add a few signs up there and I’m pretty sure that would make that guy’s day!!!
ANYONE CAUGHT HANGING SIGNS ON MY FENCE…. (Blah, Blah, Blah!)
Jun 16, 2008 at 10:13 am rating: +4