Malibu, Ca. — Wanda Warfield wouldn’t take no for an answer.

“I told them money was no object,” she said to her architect and structural engineer, “and that I had to have my house on that exact spot.”

That spot turned out to be a point of land (a vertical point, that is) along the Malibu coastline.

Pushed to the edge by limited coastal land and insane homeowners like Wanda, builders have begun to use controversial techniques intended to make use of land previously thought (i.e. known) to be unbuildable.

“And sure enough,” continues Warfield, “those blockheads figured it out.  Something about electromagnetism.  Whatever.  As long as it stays, and my neighbors eat their hearts out with envy, I couldn’t be happier.  Otherwise, for my fifteen minutes of fame… I’ll take my chances.”

The structural engineer’s fee came to $2 million dollars.  It sort of works like a Segway.  Let’s hope there’s no glitch.  I’m off for a long vacation.  Later!” 

When the house originally went up, passers-by pointed and craned their necks to see “the house on the point.”

“It’s an abomination,” says Heck Edwards, a self-proclaimed ‘flatlander,’ “if God wanted us to build on things like that, he would’ve given us the brains to make it happen!”