This is hugh. And figantice.
Posted on 08/02/2007 1:12:35 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
LAS VEGAS (AP) - An auto dealer vowed Thursday to fight a city order to take down the 109-foot pole from which he flies an American flag about the size of a competition volleyball court. The City Council voted Wednesday to order the Towbin Hummer dealership to take down the flag after officials said the pole was too high and neighbors complained the flag flapped too loudly.
"The American flag stays," dealership owner Dan Towbin declared. "I'm not convinced that people are complaining because of noise. This is about vindictiveness and power."
Towbin says the 30-foot-by-60-foot flag fits with his oversized dealership selling oversized cars, but rejects opponents' claims that it's an advertising tool.
"All I can tell you is we never sold a vehicle based on a flag," he said.
The council action followed a similar decision in May. Towbin sued the city, and a state judge last month sent the issue back to the council, ruling that he should have been allowed to have an attorney represent him before the body.
Towbin's lawyer, David Chesnoff, said Thursday that case remains pending.
"We're going to do whatever we can to keep the American flag flying," he said.
City regulations limit poles to 40 feet, but the council grants case- by-case exceptions.
Towbin got permission for a 100-foot pole in 2006, and the city has approved eight other flagpoles of that height or higher. Assistant City Attorney Bill Henry, however, said Towbin acknowledged last year that the council could revisit the decision if it bothered neighbors.
"We think it's arbitrary that they decide who gets it and who doesn't," Towbin said Thursday, adding that noise meters he put at a neighboring house didn't support complaints about loud flapping.
"If I was convinced I was truly disturbing people, I would have taken it down a long time ago," he said.
Here in Charleston, SC a dealership has a huge flag on their lot (it has been there for several years). It has become a land mark.
I wonder if the dealership can get the neighbors removed for the lound whining they are doing over this?
You need to tune ur beeber. I think it’s a bit stuned.
Oh, it's disturbing people, all right, but they're lying when they say it's the noise that bothers them.
LOL. This thread is too funny....
The birth of a new freeper term: figantice
I’m going to use that word on Festivus.
LOL!
Now I can’t get this guy’s theme song from his A&E reality show out of my head:
(He….He-He-He He’s the king… of cars)
King of cars, baby
We dooz-it large, baby
First in the nation
And it isn’t not no mirage, baby
I got the blue genie
Need a deal, come see me
Chopper edition low pros in the in the sign teaasies
We got the dope whips
You need to come and cop ‘em
We got the low prices
Cause I chop ‘em chop ‘em
(He….He-He-He He’s the king… of cars
I didn't think anything could be too big in Las Vegas. Outrageous is the name of the game.
I liked that show.
It had a real inside look at the seedy operations of high-pressure dealerships.
That guy - the King of Cars? He is now on my local (San Antonio) TV station on TV commercials for a local used car dealership.
I suppose he is nationwide now.... working for any dealership that will throw him a few dollars to hawk their cars.
Do you realize what you’ve done?! Now “figantice” is going to be an FR word! LOL :-)
I shall use the word, “figantice” in three more sentences to ensure widest possible useage!
This WILL be hugh, I’m series! This will stune beebers throughout the site!
This is hugh. And figantice.
That would have to be one huge figantice stripper.
Ping.
That would have to be one huge hugh figantice stripper.
Great illustrstion of what one gets when buying organic, pesticide free, figs shipped in “natural” refrigeration trucks.
As a native Californian, I want to apologize to our Nevada brethren. You never heard of any of this nonsense until SoCal discovered Nevada as the perfect retirement venue.
Now I have flag pole envy. Mine is onle 25 feet tall.
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