Subscribe Now!Update: Chinese Island Home Becomes Real Island
March 13th, 2007 by Anita Bath
We now have an exclusive update on the chinese family who refused to leave their home, even after it looked like this:
(if you haven’t seen the original story, you can read it here)
Turns out that the local Chinese government has decided to turn up the heat. Here is a photo that we just took at daybreak this morning:
I also had the rare opportunity to interview a local Chinese government official on the developing story. Here are his responses:
Anita: Sir, this photograph makes it look like you are trying to bully the owners out of their home.
Official: Not at all, we are trying to help them.
Anita: Huh? That’s seems rather far fetched, can you clarify?
Official: Oh yes, sorry. Two nights ago, after the news slipped past our censors, err, I mean … after the world learned of this family’s honorable stand, a large dam malfunctioned and flooded the work site. The family almost drowned.
Anita: It ONLY damaged this work site? And that’s why you installed a 50 foot deep drainage pipe in their exit path?
Official: Yes, it was quite a unique accident. Due to family ties, the government would not allow us to move the family, so we installed the drainage pipe. Our non-government affiliated contractors chose the location, there were no ulterior motives.
Anita: Then how do you justify the shark?
Official: Again, for their protection. The unprecedented media attention drew large crowds of people who were swimming to the family’s island to offer assistance. We cannot allow such disruption, so we flew in a Great White shark to fend off the crowds.
Anita: Wouldn’t this put the family’s lives at danger too? Why not at least give them a sturdy boat, or build them a bridge?
Official: Those are excellent questions. I’ll ask my superiors once we finish installing the electrified steps down to the row boat.
Original pic via Spluch
Anita, you beat me to it! I wanted to write a story about the homeowner creating a moat to fend off aggressive magazine salesfolks.
Hey, the 2nd picture is really funny! Did you create it yourself or did you find it somewhere else? Just curious!
Is there a whirlpool in the yard. And is that really a shark
Spluch - yes, I created that myself … I’ve been fooling around with Photoshop the past couple weeks.
Libragirl - a yes to both!
Nice work Anita…
I mess around in photoshop but doubt I could pull something like that off.
Anthony
Journey Through Divorce
Wow. Congratulations on your Bloggie! Soooo cool. And I’m soooooooooo happy for you!!! Wear your button proudly. You earned it.
On the plus side, the lake makes it a lot easier to get to and from the house by boat! That climb down the dry hill into the pit and them back out of it each was must have been murder.
As for teh shark and whirlpool…..just call it a security system and charge more for people to rent the place.
Woohoo! Beachfront property. Stubbornness pays.
outrageous! everyone’s fantasty to own an island but the land probably belongs to the government over there!
Once the sharks start moving in, there goes the neighborhood.
Bah! The shark doesn’t even have a laser.