This story is one that warms the blackened, icy hearts of the Odd News team. In Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, Alan Markovitz, not satisfied with expressing his distaste for his ex-wife in just words, has bought and moved into a home that sits right next door to a house that’s occupied by…h(huán)is ex-wife. That’s funny enough, but as WJBK Fox 2 points out, the cherry on top of this cupcake is an almost 12-foot high statue of a middle finger Markovitz put in his back yard, pointed toward his former love and her new boyfriend. Fox 2 wasn’t able to get the ex-wife on the horn, but did speak with Markovitz. He told them that the plan was to get even with the new boyfriend, because two had allegedly had an affair while she was still married to our favorite art patron. He also told them that it wasn’t his intention for this to be public and that it only spread after his ex-wife’s daughter posted a picture on her Twitter account. A private message, however, would be out of character for Mr. Markovitz. He’s quite the deal in Detroit. As this Deadline Detroit article summarizes in its first paragraph, “He's been shot twice, and he once was the target of a murder contract. He wrote an autobiography and bought and sold 11 local topless clubs…He once used a chimp in an act with predictably strange results.” And that’s not it. Fox 2 asked a very good question: is this legal? Their legal analyst Charlie Langton says “Unless this city has some ordinance, that prevents these kind of fingers from being illegal of some kind – no! You could have a statue, some people might call it art, I don’t know, but there’s nothing illegal about it…I know it doesn’t look good, but there’s nothing illegal about it. Get over it!” |
據(jù)美國媒體11月18日?qǐng)?bào)道,美國密歇根州一名男子因不滿被戴“綠帽”,買下前妻和“新歡”隔壁的住宅,并在后院里豎了一座中指雕像,以此泄憤。 艾倫?毛爾科維奇是底特律脫衣舞俱樂部的老板,人生經(jīng)歷非常傳奇。然而,和所有不幸的男人一樣,他被戴了一頂“綠帽”。毛爾科維奇說,豎立這座中指雕像是想報(bào)復(fù)前妻的新男友,這個(gè)“男小三”在兩人還未離婚時(shí)就插足進(jìn)來了。 這座雕像高達(dá)12英尺(約3.66米),花費(fèi)了7000美元。為了讓“奸夫淫婦”24小時(shí)受折磨,他還給銅像增加了夜間的照明燈,可謂下足了血本。 毛爾科維奇本不想將此事公開。但是,他前妻的女兒在推特上傳了中指雕像的照片,于是“家丑”迅速“外揚(yáng)”。 在被問到豎立這樣一座雕像是否合法時(shí),當(dāng)?shù)芈蓭煵槔?蘭頓表示:“我知道它看起來不雅觀,但并不違法?!?/p> ***“豎中指”的來歷 “豎中指”最早出現(xiàn)在英法百年戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)末期。彼時(shí),法國弓箭手讓英軍損失慘重,英國發(fā)誓要在擊敗法軍后將其弓箭手拉弓的中指斬?cái)?。不料結(jié)果卻是英軍慘敗,法國弓箭手紛紛伸出右手中指,以示炫耀。這一侮辱性的手勢(shì)后來在西方“走紅”。 相關(guān)閱讀 (譯者 yuanlu 編輯 嚴(yán)玉潔) |