In your FACE! Furious California woman exacts revenge on her neighbors by painting her house hot pink and adding two giant EMOJIS after they reported her for illegal short-term rentals
- Kathryn Kidd paid an artist to paint emojis on her Manhattan Beach, California, home after being fined $4,000 for short-term rentals following her neighbors’ reports to city officials
- Afterwards, Kidd hired street artist Bobby ‘Z The Art’ Rodriguez to paint her home hot pink and add the two enormous yellow emoticons to the front
- One of the emojis has a zipped lip and the other has googly eyes and its tongue sticking out
- An Instagram hashtag #TheEmojiHouse includes a note that strongly implies the creative paint job was Kidd’s payback for her neighbors snitching on her
- Neighbors have asked the city to force Kidd to paint over the images, but local officials said the artwork is not illegal
A California woman paid an artist to paint huge emojis over her home after her neighbors reported her for running illegal short term rentals.
Kathryn Kidd was fined $4,000 by the city of Manhattan Beach after her neighbors complained about the rentals.
Shortly after the fines, Kidd hired street artist Bobby ‘Z The Art’ Rodriguez to paint her home hot pink and add two enormous yellow emoticons to the front of the house, one with a zipped lip, the other with googly eyes and its tongue sticking out.
Both of the emojis have long eye lashes – and are said to resemble one of her neighbors.
A California woman’s angry neighbors want authorities to do something about the emojis she had painted on her home, which they believe is a creative form of revenge against them
Kathryn Kidd paid an artist paint zipped lip and googly eye emojis on her Manhattan Beach, California, home after being fined $4,000 for short-term rentals following her neighbors’ reports to city officials
But Kidd insists the unique paint job has nothing to do with her neighbors snitching on her.
‘It’s a message to me to be positive and happy and love life,’ she told KCAL. ‘I have eyelash extensions. The eyes are like a Mona Lisa eye. They kind of follow you.’
Some of local residents aren’t buying it.
They pointed to the Instagram hashtag #TheEmojiHouse, which they said was created shortly after Kidd’s expressive murals were unveiled.
Rodriguez, who appears to have created the hashtag, included a note with it on an IG picture of the home.
The note reads: ‘Are your neighbors constantly ratting you out? Have they cost you thousands in fines? Have you wanted to tell them off lately? Why risk a case, when you can hire me to paint them a pretty message?’
‘No verbal confrontations,’ he continued, ‘speedy turn around, open to photorealism [sic] and custom emojis. Hit the [direct message] for a free quote today.’
Kidd’s neighbor, Dina Doll, doesn’t think the emojis are a laughing matter, calling it a public nuisance.
Kidd said the unique paint job has nothing to do with her neighbors snitching on her
The house’s tenant (pictured) said he thought the emojis were ‘hysterical’
‘We are all affected by somebody so blatantly violating just common decency,’ she told KABC-TV. ‘I think right off the bat this is an illegal sign. She should’ve had that permitted.’
City officials told the news station that, ‘there are no rules against,’ local residents painting something creative on their homes.
Some neighbors have vowed to fight to get the emojis removed, saying the war isn’t over.
Others said they like the art.
‘We love the emoji house,’ a woman told KCAL.
Kidd’s tenant also enjoyed the new facade.
‘I thought it was hysterical,’ he said. ‘I didn’t really know any story behind it, but I just knew it was easy for my friends to find my place.’
Kidd said she has no intention of painting over the murals.