“I’d much rather make a squatter homeless than have a landlord lose property,” James added.
Keeping it classy.
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wanted to say the same thing. what a dickhead, simping for landlords.
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I thought for sure I was on the onion when I read that line. Sad that it's real
he smells like a nimby. he probably would be at the place when MILLBRAE(rich white residents) were complaining about converting a former hotel into a liviing space for the impoverished that occured like last year.
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“I’d much rather make a squatter homeless than have a landlord lose property,” Jacobs added.
These are the pieces of shit your politicians listen to every time they increase funding for police enforcement against the homeless, and deny zoning changes, even if it would improve the housing crisis. "theft is always bad no matter what 🤓☝️"
You have to be genuinely mentally ill to believe that someone going homeless is better than someone with more properties than they need to live in losing one of those properties so someone has a place to live.
Breaking: local man enjoys licking boots.
Especially empty properties.
...with professional-grade tactical gear.
The gear includes firearms, ballistic full-body armor, flash bangs and smoke grenades, tear gas...
Where the fuck are you sourcing explosives and tear gas as a civilian, and more importantly...
Where can I get some? Purely for home defense, of course. Definitely not wanting it for defrost purposes.
Plus points for “defrosting” there, very nicely put.
It would seem contrary to known physics, but tear gas actually makes frozen water whine like little bitches. 🤷🏼♂️
Gun show.
The best part is the 50/50 on if they work or not
Where the fuck are you sourcing explosives and tear gas as a civilian
https://www.keepshooting.com/clear-out-6oz-tear-gas-grenade.html
Clear Out 6oz Tear Gas Grenade
Totally legal, all of that. The grenades require a $200 DD stamp each (don't think the smokes do, unsure about tear gas - I know I bought smoke grenades for airsoft all the time back when I played), but everything there is totally legal from your local gun show or Bubba.
this is a puff piece about the kind of gangster who turns up murdered and unmourned
“The average squatter has no melee experience,”
But what about magic? Magic beats melee in the combat triangle.
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This fool is going to get shot.
I assume it's a joke, but the guy said professional tactical gear and firearms apparently, as well as teargas and such. If he's not joking I'd say their odds of going to prison are pretty good. Premeditating and provoking a situation with deadly weapons instead of contacting actual authorities and following the laws/procedure doesn't seem like it would work out well for anyone.
Isn't that the exact gear that cops use to break up homeless encampments?
Whether we like it or not, those cops are the proper procedure/authorities in said situation. Thus they are allowed by law. I can't just hire a neighbor to show up to a homeless camp with said gear and expect when something goes wrong for them not to get arrested for murder/battery, and probably be arrested for something else. Paying them to do so probably has a different terminology than an accessory. Might fall under the rico shit, not sure
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Squatters rights are an important part of common law and they serve as a foundational means of ensuring valuable real estate remains in use. Adverse possession requires openly living somewhere for years without permission or resistance from the owner
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I’d much rather make a squatter homeless than have a landlord lose property,” Jacobs added
I'd much rather make poor people without an option homeless than have a rich asshole lose some money!
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sword-wielding man
ASAP Squatter Removal has a 95%+ success rate
Every now and then, you run into a spearman.
These people think evil quest givers in games are role models, not warnings.
I feel like this is a time to vouch for an element of a story I'm writing.
In this world, there's an Adventurer's Guild. It's named, and oriented, very much like the generic guild that appears in so many generic Anime-MMO medieval fantasy worlds. In it, travelers with weapons, be they swords or bows, complete missions for money.
As one would expect from that setup, the only people with money who ever hire the Adventurer's Guild are wealthy merchants with cargo to protect, or land developers with an excuse to enact aggression on innocent people, or anyone who can veil their murderous intent with some legal excuse. The first way the story introduces them is that a city has contracted with the Guild to use them as extra peacekeepers, and it's a horrible setup because they have no deescalation training. The guild itself lures in members with ideas that they'll "take down troublesome animals for troubled townfolk" and maybe even sometimes have those quests, but primarily, most of the other characters in the story just refer to it as "The Mercenary's Guild. Oh, I guess they call themselves Adventurers' Guild now."
It's my way of getting people to analyze their desire to kill things for rewards, which is fine for a simple game made for children, but shouldn't be part of your fantasies as you grow up.
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We must defend the empty properties!
Also, we must solve the housing crisis by building more houses!
It's gonna be really funny when dude gets charged with menacing and extortion.
He's gonna meet a former mall ninja/disciple of the sword fedora wearing meth head and he gonna die.
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Ads for this type of services show up in craigslist regularly where I live. Named organizations like Viking Acquisitions or FAFO LLC post weekly. I bugged the local newspaper about it, but they were disinterested.
Then I’ll train and purposely squat so that this stain can be humbled
Everyone here sucks except the squatters.
Nah fuck squatters too. Everyone sucks here but squatters are just as trashy. We need to have a vacant homes penalty desperately but yeah that won't happen anytime soon if ever in my lifetime.
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donning full plate armor and a dagger "Luckily I'm no average squatter"
Home ownership is now a soulslike? I've been training for this my whole middle-aged life.
bay area homeowners about to lose homes
if you have trouble with squatters, i am willing to sell professional advice on how to get them to leave. it never fails.
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