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Continuing the trend of bringing you shit we couldn’t possibly have made up ourselves, a man took a stupid route while moving his house and ended up leaving it on the side of the Hollywood Freeway.

Patrick Richardson’s now immobile home was being moved Saturday from Santa Monica to Santa Clarita when several mishaps - including a roof-shredding blow while attempting to pass beneath an overpass - slowed its progress and it fell off its trailer.

Richardson, 45, got an oversized load permit from the California Department of Transportation. But instead of following the authorized Santa Monica-San Diego-Golden State freeways route, authorities said, he headed through downtown Los Angeles and then onto the Hollywood Freeway.

In the downtown area, the wheels started falling off, California Highway Patrol Officer Jason McCutcheon said.

“It was pretty ugly.”

Best part? California, the state where weirdness abounds, apparently has no rules about how long a house can sit on the side of a freeway. Bet they’ll pass something about it now! I do feel sorry for this guy though, on some level - due to his inability to understand why authorized routes are authorized, his house is now sitting on the side of a freeway covered in graffiti.

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