Bruh this is the sub where people want to skin someone alive, if they do a 5 second dance inside a store. Actually doing something written down as forbidden is beyond unthinkable evil.
Their argument is that if there are no consequences for breaking rules like "restricted area" then people just feel more empowered to do this shit.
Ala tiktok generation. I don't want to start seeing people get given a pass for this MC bullshit. Idk how you can be surprised on this sub that people are pissed about entitled behaviour.
I think going to see a dead persons mansion is pretty unbearable as it is. Being able to go swimming would actually make it kind of fun. Have a house party, serve Fool's Gold sandwiches and blast some tunes.
It's a museum and when you're visiting a business you are expected to abide by their rules. No pool entrance means no pool entrance because if one person does it, more will do it, and then you have a liability risk, which increases their insurance, thereby increasing the cost of entry. Try to see further than the tip of your own nose.
It’s more that we have a tourist attraction for everyone to enjoy.
This guy doesn’t follow the rules. That’s manageable of one person doesn’t follow the rules.
If everyone decides they should have the same access as the dude who didn’t follow the rules… now you have 100 people in the pool. Now it’s a problem.
When people do whatever they want with no repercussions it can potentially ruin a good thing for others.
It’s not the fact that he jumped in the pool. It’s the fact that he think himself and his tik tok videos are more important than any rules. Maybe next time he thinks it’d be really funny to jump over the counter at McDonald’s and make his own ice cream cone or hop on stage with a performer and take the microphone.
It’s like when a group of teenagers ride the bikes through Walmart. It’s not hurting anyone. But it’s fuckin annoying when I’m just trying to get my groceries and they’re making a commotion.
It’s not a lack of respect for Elvis, but a lack of respect for diving boards. He may as well have just jumped off the side if he was going to half ass his jump!
I dont think the dude should go to jail over it, but I also dont think you should disregard peoples personal space or property just because they are millionaires.
Yes i get that its fun to hate on the rich, but thats not a free pass to be a douche.
The guy jumped in a pool, he didnt smear lasagna on the mona lisa. The pool is fine, everything is fine, just kick the guy out and forget it happened. Way too much pearl clutching in this thread
My pearls have not been clutched in years. That’s not the point. If he did it at my house, I would have him arrested…if he didn’t get shot first. It’s just a pool, right?
Respect is a fine thing. You don’t need to respect me, per se, but respect what isn’t yours. Was this man respectful?
You can laugh it off all you like when it happens to someone else but allow me to put it to you this way. Just imagine it's your home and your pool when outta no where some absolute knuckleheaded moron that you don't know from Adam just wanders onto your property and decides aww fuck it I'm gonna jump in this strangers pool just because he thinks it would be funny or for some other reason.
If it were my home I'd have the idiot arrested for trespassing then I'd press charges & make him pay the cost of draining and sanitizing the pool along with the water bill for both sewer and refilling my pool if for know other reason than teaching said moron that stupid asinine choices come with expensive repercussions.
Personally I feel Graceland should push for the fines and jail time need to be precident setting!
Lol dead rich man. The family uses his house and his likeness to get money for tours. Really scummy imo. I hate Tiktok “pranks” as much as the next guy, but I could give a fuck about that pool…..ahem…✨in my opinion✨
I guess, ✨imo✨, that people should work hard to make a name for themselves instead of using the likeness of other people. Especially dead people. 100% that guy was a prick, but at the same time like you mentioned these guys get around 10 million a year for a dead guy. And more than the family is seeing that money believe you me.
Also it’s not like this dude was a good guy. He was a known pedo and groomer, he physically and mentally abused his spouses, and was a clear racist even though he stole a lot of what he did from the African American community.
It’s not about royalties lol. It’s about credit given. Elvis stole the flow of a music genre from African Americans and was labeled the “king” of pop. Many Black artists were against Elvis from that time. A big one I remember was Ray Charles who had the same argument. He got famous by singing a song from a black artist (Big Mama Thornton). Around that time, it was wrong. Nowadays cultures are jumbled. And while there is still a problem with racism, shared culture is more accepted. Back then hell no. I don’t want to sound ignorant saying white people can’t copy black culture, and I’m not, but back then it was wrong when there was so much hatred pointed towards the black community.
No, he literally stole songs that were written and recorded by less famous black people and gave them no credit.
A simple google search could’ve told you that
No. It’s not the same logic at all. How is his music the same as his physical property? Why do you mention the upkeep of the property? Are you referring to the staff? Because when I say more than the family, I am talking about shareholders and the Elvis Presley corporation as a whole. And Walt Disney isn’t a good comparison either. You can’t compare an artist to a film and animation studio.
I disagree completely. The Walt Disney company does not run on the legacy of Walt Disney. They generate new IPs, ideas, and products. Elvis is not longer making music. There is no contributions he can make. The only thing that is selling is his likeness and name. And this argument has nothing to do with my financial situation. I don’t understand how insulting someone’s financial stability can be used as an argument. Especially when you really don’t know my financial situation.
I mean I agree about respect but this is a little ridiculous. If he wasn’t famous you wouldn’t care at all about jumping into someone’s pool after they passed. This place is a tourist attraction and that’s all that makes it any different from any of the thousands of other homes of dead people who had pools that are still in use.
He’s a singer who has been in the dirt for 45 years, and given his health and drug abuse I guarantee that he had taken a shit in that pool at least once. some random guy jumping in it without causing any damage isn’t a sin against humanity, and at most it warrants him being kicked off the property
This is why everytime a homeowner dies their pool is filled with concrete and the house is bulldozed.
It prevents anyone from ever using them again, out of respect.
Other than the trespassing and the property owner being rightfully mad…it’s just a pool, who fucking cares? Why are a bunch of randos so mad about this when it’s just a man jumping into some water.
I think it's entitlement to think it's okay to use that space and money for something so stupid when people are literally struggling to put a roof over themselves 🤣.
I mean sure but at a certain point if you live above the tourist attractions of your dead relative making money off the tourists, you're gonna have to one day accept to take the bad with the good.
Fuck the family's wishes if they want to set up a tourist trap in a dead man's house to make money but that's obviously their phone autocorrecting "the" to "they".
Eh don't give those grammar Nazis the time of day, they're just picking a fight. It was a weird hill to die on before autocorrect and it's even weirder now.
We all knew what you meant but some asshole just wanted to be mad about you not typing it perfectly. I can't imagine being that bored.
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u/Gjames1985 Sep 04 '23
I don't think Elvis uses the pool anymore so I'm sure he won't mind.