Real estate opportunities
Published 10:05 pm Friday, March 14, 2008
Looking for exotic real estate? >Then beat feet to the not-exactly-exotic state of Idaho, where an abandoned railroad tunnel is for sale.
Think of the possibilities. You could store the world’s largest wine collection, or survive a nuclear blast, or develop a new race of red-eyed albino tunnel-men with which to conquer the world.
And here’s the clincher: ecoterrorists couldn’t burn it down.
Here’s another real estate opportunity: a house in Tennessee that looks like a flying saucer.
Perched on six landing-gear legs, the structure even has an entrance staircase that retracts at the push of a button, just like the flying saucers on “The Twilight Zone.”
Seattle city officials need to buy this thing. It would nicely complement the Space Needle — to say nothing of that downtown library building that looks like a malevolent starship from the planet Zoltron.
As St. Patrick’s Day approaches, police will be looking extra hard for drunken drivers. In a related St. Paddy’s Day development, The Buzz cautions readers about another tragic consequence of the holiday: Irish cuisine.
