This is a report of the news story I noticed earlier this week, in Market Watch, online.
Bond billionaire Bill Gross allegedly blasted the 'Gilligan's Island' theme on loop during dispute with neighbors
by Shawn Langlois
Sit right back and you'll hear a tale, a tale of two obscenely wealthy neighbors whose outsized bank accounts can't buy a peaceful co-existence in one of America's highest-priced ZIP Codes.
On one side, there's Pimco's retired bond billionaire Bill Gross and his $1-million outdoor sculpture. On the other, tech entrepreneur Mark Towfiq, who claims Gross's 22-foot long installation and protective netting are blocking his multimillion-dollar Laguna Beach, California, view.
According to the Los Angles Times, this squabble is just another in a long line of bitter standoffs leading to multiple legal actions and police calls to the pair of Orange County mansions.
In one funny twist, though it's rather doubtful that Towfiq and his wife are laughing, Gross's efforts to torment his neighbors allegedly included blaring the theme song to "Gilligan's Island" on a loop.
...In a lawsuit of his own against Gross, Towfiq and his wife claimed that they have had to take refuge twice in either a hotel room or with relatives to escape the music from next door. And in an application for a temporary restraining order, Towfiq cited a text message allegedly sent to him by Gross: "Peace on all fronts or we'll just have nightly concerts big boy."
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That is weird. These people have so much money, they could be anywhere in the world doing anything, and they're -- bickering with their neighbors??
A glass sculpture -- outdoors?
And it occurs to me, with all that chaos and back-and-forth: I hope they don't have a dog or a cat, because that nonsense could scare them. And also what about the household help? What are they going to think?
Has there always been this amount of craziness in the world, or is it something about the 21st Century?
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