WHAT Recession? Gardeners at Simon Cowell's $30M mansion use levels, measuring tape for even hedges

[Amerigo Vespucci]

http://www.wwtdd.com/2009/05/simon-cowell-might-be-insane/

Apparently by the time you’re rich enough to buy a 30 million dollar house, you’ve long since run out of stupid things to spend money on, so outfitting an “army or gardeners” with measuring tapes and levels so that you’re hedges are always some arbitrary perfect height must seem like as good an idea as any. The Daily Mail says…

And it’s not the first time high-priced landscape gardeners wielding spirit levels and measuring sticks have been called in to check the dimensions of the star’s hedges.
“The gardeners were inspecting each section of the hedge to make sure they all aligned,” said one witness.
“They walk around with clipboards squinting at the bushes to make sure everything is exactly level and that they’re trimmed to perfection.”
Workers have also been instructed to remove every fallen leaf from the property’s large grounds.

Unfortunately jobs like yard work are now done by slave labor and/or robots, so it’s practically free, meaning Simon still has to skip red diamonds across a lake to entertain himself, or have a contest to see who can throw Jackson Pollack paintings furthest into a river of lava.

[HopeHoops]

1. Why do they need safety vests to trim hedges?

:shrug:

[trof]

3. So they don't get run over by the jet lawnmowers.

[Rabrrrrrr]

2. So are they high-priced landscape gardeners, or slave labor? Stupid writer.

What the hell - Cowell is employing people. More people than other places.



So, yeah, let's all go stupid self-righteous and moneky-pile on him.

:eyes:

[trof]

4. Spirit levels? That's SO 80s. Laser level is the way to go.

[XemaSab]

7. That's what I was going to say

Seems like lasers would be MUCH faster

[DarkTirade]

5. That's the wealth 'trickling down' to the little people...

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[Overseas]

6. I'm glad somebody is still hiring people. But yeah, the writing is really bad. //nt

[bluedigger]

8. This reportage doesn't measure up.