All praise Zambodia!
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Underwear, Mountain Of Sand Angers Neighbors
Posted: 5:27 pm EST March 5,2010Updated: 6:46 pm EST March 5,2010
VOLUSIA COUNTY, Fla. -- A home in Volusia County is sparking outrage Friday. A homeowner has strung up women's underwear and built mountains of sand in the back and neighbors are desperate for help.
The house is located near Daytona Beach Shores on Venetian Way (see map). It turns out the homeowner has done it before in other states.
The owner is a minor celebrity of sorts in other cities. The homeowner, Robert Hodges, calls himself “Prince Mongo.” His home has women’s underwear hanging outside on a clothesline.
On his website, Hodges claims to be from the planet Zambodia and is 333 years old. Hodges says he is here to save the world, but he's ruining his neighbor’s world.
"I am really, really angered by it at this point," neighbor Pam Lucas.
Hodges’s neighbors said they really don’t want to draw more attention to him for fear of what he'll do next.
Hodges didn't have a permit for his deck last year and Volusia County found out. That's when the Prince Mongo began painting his home bright colors, including witch illustrations directed toward a neighbor.
In late January, a mountain of sand was delivered and then the underwear started flying. Neighbors said the display grows almost weekly.
"When you consider this is your home, you would want something more stable and this would seem to be a very unsafe situation," Lucas said.
WFTV discovered it isn't Hodges’s first redecorating job. He's owned homes in Ft. Lauderdale and Memphis, Tennessee, where he's run for mayor with bizarre campaign platform speeches.
"I have a spaceship coming that’s going to carry 333 spirits, 333,000 spirits from earth," Hodges stated.
He has enough money to fight code violations in court, even going to jail and letting battles drag on for months. Hodges has at least seven violations on his Volusia County home, but has not had a code board hearing yet and the county said he may still have ample time before fines start to add up.
WFTV tried to find Hodges, but neighbors said he's gone for several days at a time.
Hodges may know what is against code and what is not. The underwear counts as a clothesline, which is not against code. Same with the paint, which the county doesn't have a rule for.
It isn't the first case WFTV covered where someone has trashed a home. In Seminole County, a man was convicted of felony littering for the mess he had in his yard. Alan Davis claimed it was art. He once even mocked authorities with a giant statue of a rear end in his front yard.