Johnny Depp Chooses His Kid’s City Lights View Over 50 Jobs
When given a choice between preserving the view from his kid’s play area and allowing the development of retail shops and a restaurant that would provide about 50* jobs to hardworking Angelenos, actor Johnny Depp votes against the people getting paid by the hour.
The Los Angeles Times reported that Depp is seeking to obstruct development of a parking lot downhill from his Sunset Strip house. While the proposed structure would not obstruct the views from his house, the actor’s representatives apparently claim that it could block his children’s views from a lower play area.
Thing is, in 2003 Depp famously said he was taking his children to France to live. So in theory they are never in their lower yard to notice their degraded aesthetics.
More comically, exclusive Independent Sources Action Team Sky Cam ™ photos show that the lower boundary of Depp’s house currently has landscaping sufficient to block any view that may exist:
image (c) Google Earth
Johnny Depp, friend of the working man? How about nominee for NIMBY — literally — of the year?
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* 50 jobs = our estimate
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April 30th, 2006 at 4:42 pm
Nice “mash-up” of a LAT story and a Google earth pic. Now where’s the Hiltzik story that’s on deadline?
May 1st, 2006 at 4:26 pm
I dig that you have the Google Earth pic of Cap’n Jack Sparrow’s house…awesome!
May 1st, 2006 at 5:36 pm
Aye, matey!