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Apparently Tony Montana has got nothing on today Mexican drug lords:

If convicted, the pad belonging to Zhenli Ye Go is going to get auctioned off and wouldn’t it be fantabulous if one of you made it your/our own?
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“You realize that the mansions in movies like ‘Scarface’ aren’t exaggerations,” says Omar Yaffar, a 36-year-old manager at a branch of the Mexican Finance Ministry known as the Asset Administration and Disposal Service. “The real thing can be more amazing.” Think “Hansel and Gretel meets Pablo Escobar,” which for the coke blowing candy lovers in the audience (you know who you are, don’t deny it) should be argument enough to fork it over for this thing. For the others, who need a little more convincing, this is what you could be coming home to:

* a labyrinth of garden trails among man-made ponds fed by waterfalls

* a cave-like underground hot-tub complex about the size of a backyard swimming pool, featuring faux stalactites and a fireplace

* a glass skylight that allows bathers to gaze up at lions or a pair of albino tigers that dwell in a cage on the roof (the animals have since been donated to a zoo but you could get them back, easy, or bring in your own)

* Versace dinnerware to go with Baccarat wine glasses and Lalique Champagne flutes

Other items that will be up for grabs at the same auction, and which I really think you’ll need to feel comfortable in your new home:

* A Rolex watch and band custom-jeweled to resemble leopard’s skin

* De La Cour watches featuring skull or marijuana-leaf motifs

* a pair of gold pistol grips with raised eagle busts adorned with diamonds and emeralds

(via Dealbreaker)

And last but not least, a watch dedicated to the little plant that made this all possible:

Hip Hop artists who own large, ostentatious chains…the gauntlet has been thrown! Your move gentlemen.

Ebony Magazine wondered, back in 1985, what various celebrities would look like 15 years later. When it came to Michael Jackson (R.I.P.) they were so, so wrong:

Context sensitive advertising using Google Adwords can be great when you want to run your ad across tens of thousands of websites, say when your candidate’s name is typed…it can also FAIL HARD…like on this post of ours from February:

Strange things happen during the swimming tune-up for Sydney!

A 12-year-old girl just wanted to show her cousin the view from her family’s Manhattan rooftop. Instead, she fell into a chimney and plummeted down the flue for 14 stories, emerging nearly unscathed to tell her story after landing in a pile of furnace soot.

Grace Bergere, a young rock drummer, was recovering at a hospital on Saturday with an injured hip. A 2-foot-deep pile of ash and dust probably saved her life by cushioning her fall when she crashed into a basement furnace, fire officials said.

Yes, it does back flips. It is a Eurocopter BO-105 CBS 4 Twin engine helicopter. Stock model with a Rigid Rotor system, the fixed rotor is why it can do aerobatics.

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