Why put a ball-head camera mount on a monopole?

So I can take shots like this one...

Or this one.......

From vantage points in places where a tripod wouldn't fit, but stability for the camera is still required, as in up against a railing on a balcony, or against a wall at the extreme end of a balcony, for differing perspectives of a familiar view. Or simply "just for the hell of it" because it's fun and it works, and if it works.......

And if you want a quality ball-head for your tripod, with really smooth panning
for those panorama shots you like to compose with Microsoft Research's 'I.C.E.'
then get yourself a Milano B-2, with adjustable drag control - it's as smooth as a baby's bum and it smells a lot nicer too. You should try it. You'll never leave home without it again! 

This is the Nikon Coolpix P510 on the Manfrotto Monopod, with the Manfrotto ball-head from the original Manfrotto Tripod on it, beside the box for the new Milano B-2 ball-head that is now on the Manfrotto Tripod. Confused? Me too!

 And here's what I can do with that camera-and-pole-and-ball-head setup: I can move the ball-head to a right-angle position with respect to the pole, set the camera's self-timer for a ten-second shutter delay, poke the whole thing out the
window far enough to get the building's wall out of the picture, and voila! So there was a method to this madness, and it works! You're now looking at the unobstructed view across parts of North Vancouver to Mount Seymour ( no relation to the ever-radiant Jane) on our eastern horizon.