Suburban Revenge

So, I'm home now, visiting the fam, and my parents and I went on a walk, from which emerged the best story: So, I grew up in Newton, Massachusetts, one of the more affluent suburbs just outside of Boston. We were taking a walk on West Newton Hill, one of the nicer parts of town (where the 2-3 million dollar houses are...think the nicest parts of Evanston, but with big yards), and we turned down Prince Street, one of the more posh avenues, and I noticed a plastic pink flamingo on someone's front yard. I commented on how funny it was, and how out of place it seemed amongst the well-manicured flower beds and fancy-stoned driveways. My parents took me to the source. Apparently this kind of wacky artist (who must be rolling in family dough) bought this huge house on one end of Prince Street and promptly painted it florescent pink. This was complemented by her bright pink Nissan Passport SUV to which she had affixed multi-colored fake rhinestones all over the vehicle. And, the piece de resistance - 200 (200!) plastic, pink flamingos on her front lawn. Now, apparently some of the snootier neighbors didn't appreciate her additions to the neighborhood and sent her some rather nasty e-mails telling her to stop desiccating the austere, selective borough of Newton with her trash. Well, apparently this set off a turf war in the neighborhood, with the people supporting her right to decorate he house however she wanted to, versus the people opposing her "art." And to display their support, her allies agreed to have some of her flamingos "migrate" to their houses. So all along this street (and we spotted them up to 1/3 mile away), pink flamingos poke out of bushes, make nests with little baby plastic pink flamingos in flower beds, and walk proudly in lines from one multi-million dollar house to the next. They arranged them like a literal migration - some "flying" by resting high in trees, other's marching single-file across the lawn, only to "jump" over their neighbor's lawn and "land" on the lawn of the house next to that one. It rocks! Apparently it made the front page of the Metro section of The Boston Globe. Suburban Revenge.