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8/23/2009 11:34:01 PM

shitis still painted up on his house

8/24/2009 12:01:14 AM

^Yup.

Drove by there last night, didnt realize it was so close to my house.

8/24/2009 2:11:05 AM

Oh man, I can't stop laughing at the lawn chairs.

8/24/2009 2:40:02 AM

http://www.newsobserver.com/news/story/1651458.html


Long story short, he better get used to living in a house with words spraypainted on the side.

8/24/2009 9:26:25 AM

They haven't fined him yet?! Because they feel bad for him?!

He had a drainage problem when he bought the house, and the town has offered to fix it and he has refused?!

Ugh, this story reeks. I don't pity the guy anymore.

8/24/2009 9:29:34 AM

I think the picture is worth 1,000 words you can hardly see the front door.

8/25/2009 8:41:29 AM

The amount he's asking for is about $130 a square foot. Which is like $30 more a square foot than comps.

8/25/2009 9:22:18 AM

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"Frantz said he met with Bowden at his home earlier in the year and remembers seeing small trees growing from clogged gutter"

this is stupid. he had the issues when he bought the house...and it doesn't sound like he takes care of the property, and the city has offered to install grate/pipes, to which he refused.

8/25/2009 9:24:22 AM

An important thing that has been left out of the discussion is the buyers responsibility to anticipate changes around a property they buy. Maynard road loops around the entire town of Cary, even the smallest amount of prudence would have made him think that the scenery in front of his house could change over time.

What they did to his house seriously devalued it but that is also one of the risks in owning a property. You are married to it whether it goes up or down in value.

8/25/2009 10:14:05 AM

If you read Frantz's blog entry:

http://donfrantz.blogspot.com/2009/08/red-letter-house.html

There's a handful of very interesting facts... The trees in the gutters aren't the most interesting part, I'd say this:

Quote :

"Mr. Bowden has refused to allow Town of Cary employees on his property to construct the drain, and instead is demanding that the town buy his house for $170,000 and pay him $80,000 for his “troubles”."

Paired with:

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"Looking back at my meeting with Mr. Bowden what I find most interesting now was a more casual discussion we had in which he spoke about his online ‘friend’ and his quest to buy a Dodge Viper."

Interestingly enough, $80k would get a person most of the way there on purchasing oneself a brand new Dodge Viper.

8/25/2009 12:03:50 PM

Does not look like he will fit very well in the Viper.

8/25/2009 12:07:42 PM

nutjob

8/25/2009 2:19:10 PM

Not to grave dig this thread...just stumbled upon it and find it interesting that a few TWWers live in my neighborhood (I'm on Coorsdale too).

9/24/2009 3:53:45 PM

so whatever happened with this guy?

9/24/2009 3:56:46 PM

probably wound up losing his property for tax delinquency and about six thousand traffic tickets because you know damn well cary put a big ass target on this guy

9/24/2009 4:08:22 PM

haha awesome, we're neighbors

and i'm pretty sure his house still has those words on it

9/24/2009 4:09:06 PM

holy shit, I know that house. It's right up the road from my old house in Cary. I lived at 907 SW Maynard.

9/24/2009 4:09:45 PM

more lawn chair emails please . . .

9/24/2009 7:15:16 PM

wat.....i live on coorsdale too (when im not at my house at school)

9/24/2009 7:18:15 PM

yea it's still there as of about a week ago

9/24/2009 7:18:56 PM

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"yea it's still there as of about a week ago today"

9/24/2009 11:17:21 PM

I hate cary

9/24/2009 11:18:14 PM

CARY HATES YU T

9/24/2009 11:19:30 PM

people drive too slow through this fucking town

9/24/2009 11:20:48 PM

im glad cary hates me

9/24/2009 11:21:56 PM

I'm truly shocked that Cary hasn't actually charged him with any fines until today.

http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/6405787/

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" Cary again asks man to remove sign Cary, N.C. — A Cary man could face a fine for the spray-painted protest he has on his Maynard Road house. The town issued a notice Thursday against David Bowden, noting that his message – with words that some might find offensive – violates size and color limits set by the town’s sign ordinance. Town staff first visited Bowden to ask him to change the sign in July. The violation, which allows for fines for each day the message remains on his house, has yet to be enforced. Officials decided to proceed with enforcement because of continued complaints from the community and a lack of progress in negotiations with Bowden, the town said in a statement. In a letter hand-delivered to Bowden Thursday, the town outlines the stalemate and asks that Bowden “support your community’s sign rules and take the required corrective action to remove the sign currently painted on your house.” Failure to comply, the letter says, “will leave the Town with no other choice than to pursue additional enforcement measures including, but not limited to, issuing civil citations.” Bowden claims a road-widening project left his once-arboreal yard, at 305 SW Maynard Road, void of trees and with a steep slope that funnels rain water into his home. Bowden’s complaints are not news to town leaders. Assistant Town Manager Mike Bajorek said the town offered a solution that was unsatisfactory to Bowden. "We have gone to him and said we have a design that would help resolve (the drainage issue)," Bajorek said. "He said, 'No. Stay off my property. I want you to buy my house.'" Bajorek said the town has purchased houses with drainage problems when there was no possible solution but that it is not willing, at this point, to spend tax money to buy the house. "Here in Cary, we welcome our citizens to get involved to express their opinions, but we have community values and standards that we need to uphold," Bajorek said. "Making your home a billboard is not one of those standards.""

11/12/2009 6:11:23 PM

what a fuckin douche, its people like this that makes the world a worser place.

11/12/2009 6:54:10 PM

as of yesterday, he was still making it a worser place.

11/12/2009 7:22:48 PM

they should just give him tax value and have it be over with. fuck that $80,000 for trouble, it sounds like he was part of the problem

11/12/2009 7:44:02 PM

His house has probably flooded to shit the last 2 days.

11/12/2009 9:24:54 PM

i want to pay some mexican 3 cases of corona yo ramp his driveway and hit the second floor of that cluster fuck. im tired of looking at it every day

11/12/2009 9:52:03 PM

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"His house has probably flooded to shit the last 2 days."

I thought this when I saw the tread upped.

11/13/2009 12:03:45 AM

That guy has epic moobs

11/13/2009 12:12:20 AM

its now obvious he's looking for a free ride
but i sorta like what he did, too many yankees are screwin up cary

11/13/2009 12:16:05 AM

i live in cary and it sucks sorta but that shit it makes you wanna slap that man paintin his own house, lol. naw im jus playin.

11/13/2009 12:22:21 AM

^ were those words supposed to mean anything in particular? might i suggest using real words in an order that produces an actual phrase or sentence?

11/13/2009 8:56:43 AM

Drove by this today and can't believe there's still no resolve to this situation. It's been months. Just declare eminent domain and take his property without compensation.

11/13/2009 12:57:20 PM

NC passed some eminent domain laws in response to the Kelo v New London ruling. His property would have to be a blight to get it taken, and I don't think paint and shiz makes the cut.


Fun aside:

Since the Kelo decision, Pfizer (the company that teh city was trying to get to move in on the property), decided to close down the project and leave town. So all that stuff that the city bought from it's owners and sold to Pfizer looks worse now. There's an adandoned office building and some empty land.

11/13/2009 1:23:12 PM

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"i live in cary and it sucks sorta but that shit it makes you wanna slap that man paintin his own house, lol. naw im jus playin. "

ahahahahahhahahahahahhah

11/13/2009 1:26:27 PM

surprised no one has vandalized his house yet

11/13/2009 4:30:34 PM

how do u vandalize a house when the fool spray paints it himself.

11/14/2009 12:08:23 AM

i want his prowler

11/14/2009 12:55:08 AM

M BS

11/14/2009 2:12:02 AM

haha the ACLU is involved now

http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/6459455/

11/19/2009 8:27:59 PM

Haha, I hope Cary wastes millions of dollars in taxpayer money fighting this.

Cary and the ACLU deserve each other.

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"The lawsuit asks the court to declare the town’s sign ordinance unconstitutional and to issue a temporary restraining order and an injunction against the Town. “In order to save itself from embarrassment, the town is attempting to silence Mr. Bowden from engaging in core political speech directed at the very governmental authorities who are seeking to suppress that speech,” ACLU-NCLF Cooperating Attorney Mark Sigmon said in a release. “Enforcement of the Town’s sign ordinance under these circumstances is a clear violation of the First Amendment.”"

[Edited on November 19, 2009 at 8:41 PM. Reason : .]

11/19/2009 8:40:09 PM

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"how do u vandalize a house when the fool spray paints it himself."

Paint some gang symbols on it?

11/19/2009 8:44:25 PM

^I was thinking along the lines of a nice new paint job. Isn't the object of the vandal to piss off the owner of the thing that they are vandalizing? Wanna piss the guy off? Paint his house normal one night while he sleeps. Then hide in the bushes with a camera, film him coming out of the house in the morning, then post the video on youtube.

Plus it would be entertaining to see the new phrase he inevitably paints on his house. Guaranteed to be crazy++; by that point.

11/19/2009 9:40:31 PM

http://video.foxnews.com/12202228/screwed-by-the-town/?category_id=949437d0db05ed5f5b9954dc049d70b0c12f2749

How about that. Fox News saw fit to bring that liar on national television.

12/4/2009 10:02:23 AM

Great, that guy is just looking for a handout. It's slightly ironic that the conservative Fox News networks supports this.

12/4/2009 10:10:35 AM