Years ago a guy named Ron ran for my city commission, lost badly, and let VoteForRon.com expire. I bought it for the price of a pitcher and forgot I owned it. When he filed to run again, I remembered, and pointed it somewhere I won't describe. If you were online in 2002, you can guess.
The response was an unhinged email, delivered in full Dr. Evil, saying I was being sued for ONE BILLION DOLLARS for stealing their name. It was a name they'd left on the curb, and I'm still waiting on the paperwork.
Now it's 2026. A local group called the Original Save Our Beach is fighting four charter questions on my city's November ballot. For 28 years they have defended 4.3 acres of oceanfront parking lot and called it a beach. Their site lives at votesaveourbeach dot org.
So I bought the .com.
It's went full onion:
- Their site warns that building height caps are about to be lost. The ballot question keeps the height caps, in writing.
- Their page about "irreplaceable coastal heritage" is illustrated with a file literally named ai-generated-IMAGE.jpg.
I've been building websites since 1996 (Disney.com, Blockbuster.com). I intend to outrank them for their own name by Halloween.
We're called OSOB II, the Original Save Our Beach From the Original Save Our Beachers. Roman numeral, because everyone enjoys a good deuce. We're not a PAC, we take no donations and there are no t-shirts. But it's BOGO on the sarcasm.
Full story | The site: votesaveourbeach.com
Source: r/u/ChurchOMarsChaz · by /u/ChurchOMarsChaz