Man buys house next to ex-wife, erects giant middle finger statue.

[JeffHead]

Nothing quite communicates the wrath of a scorned lover like the middle finger. But in Bloomfield Hills, this middle finger is loud and proud - in the form of a near 12-foot high statue one man erected next door to his ex-wife.

Alan Markovitz recently moved into the home where the statue was erected, which happens to be next to the home where his ex-wife now lives with her new lover, whom she reportedly had an affair with while being married to Markovitz.

Read more: http://www.myfoxdetroit.com/story/23985382/man-buys-the-house-next-to-ex-wife-erects-giant-middle-finger-statue#ixzz2kqOo9c7p

[Turbineguy]

1. Proving his ex-wife did the right thing.

[mythology]

7. Agreed

How does this do anything other than make his own life awkward? I mean what happens if he tries to explain it to a new girlfriend? Or his kid's friends?

[hibbing]

2. Bitter much?

Can see thinking about doing obnoxious stuff to exes, but never would do any of them, geesh.

Peace

[jakeXT]

3. Daughter posting personal info about her parents on to the internet

Various reports have identified the man as Alan Markovitz, who owns The Flight Club in Inkster and other strip clubs. Markovitz did not immediately return a message left tonight.

“How psychotic do you have to be to buy the house directly next to your ex wife and then put a statue up like that?!?! Real classy alan,” Tuohy tweeted Nov. 11.

The next day, she tweeted, “its hard for me to enjoy my baths now because my fav tub is in my moms bathroom which faces out towards tif and alans house ”

Tuohy also posted a picture of the sculpture at the lakefront house illuminated by a spotlight at night.

http://www.freep.com/article/20131115/NEWS03/311150129/middle-finger-sculpture

My mom couldn't be more annoying
https://www.keek.com/lenkatuohy#J7b5aab

Weird sounds my mom makes
https://www.keek.com/lenkatuohy#DuA8aab


Bad PR is good PR, I guess

Markovitz owns three strip clubs in Detroit recently wrote a book about his entrepreneurship, which is reportedly being turned into a TV reality series on Cinemax.

[In_The_Wind]

5. Keeping it classy.

[LiberalElite]

4. Did she leave him

because he's immature?

[Iggo]

8. Actually, she was effing some other dude while she was still married to Mr Immature.

[struggle4progress]

6. "... Markovitz owns three strip clubs in Detroit ..."

[treestar]

15. Yeah something about that made me wonder

Just what he did that might have contributed. That's be tough to be the wife of. She did cheat, but . . .

[struggle4progress]

16. "Markovitz ... never meant for the matter be made public ... The .. statue also included a spotlight

to keep the message illuminated at all hours"

After erecting a twelve foot illuminated middle finger statue, this poor fellow has unexplicably suffered undeserved, unsought, and unwanted attention -- and now the media even invades his privacy by reporting rumors that his ex-wife cheated on him

How could he survive such injustice?

[Denninmi]

9. Funny.

Right in my hometown.

[Major Nikon]

10. Not much different from this...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002701767

Which many posters seemed to think was a great idea.

[Iggo]

17. They also loved that trash-the-mistress-but-give-the-husband-a-pass website.

DU can get a little ugly when it's on an infidelity feeding frenzy.

(I'm not immune, either. I had some pretty choice things to say about a certain Mr. Tiger Woods. Oy...)

[Boom Sound 416]

11. I'm just so happy it's not in Florida

[BarbaRosa]

12. Brings to mind...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018159003

[treestar]

14. lol

FU Bush!

[LiberalEsto]

13. We should take up a collection, buy a house near the Koch brothers...

[nolabear]

18. I'm thinking some bling and a "tattoo" might be in order.

I'm sure there's some way to inscribe "O What a Douche I AM" on that hand. That and a little fluorescent pink nail polish and a big old pimpesque watch/ring combo and looking at it could be kind of satisfying.