A bright pink 'emoji house' is at the center of major drama

An illegal short term rental property. A neighborhood tussle. A $4,000 fine. A bright pink "emoji house."

In the ritzy L.A. County coastal town of Manhattan Beach, neighbors are fighting each other, and begging the city to intervene, over a less-than-tasteful mural (of sorts) that's sprung up on the exterior walls of a duplex.

As first reported by Easy Reader News, homeowner Kathryn Kidd recently commissioned an artist to paint her walls bubblegum pink, and adorn them with funhouse mirror-esque emoji. The jumbo-size emoji have extra long eyelashes; one waggles its tongue below lopsided eyes, the other — the "shut up" emoji — has a closed zipper for a mouth  Read more...