[HN Gopher] A man who lives in a Boeing 727 in Oregon (2020)
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A man who lives in a Boeing 727 in Oregon (2020)
Author : cromka
Score : 26 points
Date : 2022-01-10 21:14 UTC (1 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.loveproperty.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.loveproperty.com)
| gigatexal wrote:
| Yeesh. Can we talk about how obnoxious that site is? Hijacking
| the back button. Huge screen filling ads. It's just gross.
| xnx wrote:
| It's amazing how over-spec'ed (in some categories) for housing
| plane is: air-tight, heavy thermal and noise insulation, built to
| withstand winds of hundreds of miles-per-hour. It's a shame we
| can't build something like the iPhone or Tesla of housing.
| irrational wrote:
| I've been to this guys place. Nicest guy. But he is absolutely
| surrounded by "Trump Nation" people (their flags are everywhere
| out there) who hate him. Every time he leaves home his place is
| vandalized. Just before I visited someone had waited till he was
| gone and then dumped truck loads of some kind of poison all over
| his grounds. He was going through and sifting it out of the soil
| by hand. It is incredible how cheerful and optimistic he remains
| in the face of all the surrounding hate. I'd definitely recommend
| going and visiting his place if you are ever in Portland.
| duck wrote:
| Why do they hate him?
| s5300 wrote:
| Dumped truck loads of poison on his property?
|
| Unless you're mistaken, it sounds like he should hire somebody
| to sit in one of his many surrounding trees with a gun. Oregon
| laws would have him covered, and surely his surrounding Trump
| Nation would applaud his necessary use of deadly force to
| protect his property.
| anon_123g987 wrote:
| This is such an American comment. A report to the police
| wouldn't be sufficient? (Well, maybe _they_ will shoot the
| perpetrator anyway, but still...)
| throwawaygh wrote:
| Reporting property damage to the police is never useful.
| Where I live, they won't even send an officer out.
|
| I have a few friends who own property in West Virginia, so
| probably similar vibes to rural Oregon. A report to the
| police out there for something like this would probably be
| counter-productive. At best.
| s5300 wrote:
| While this is starting to get into flame war we don't want
| on HN (so I wont comment further on it past this)
|
| The police in "Trump Nation" areas of our country tend to
| be very kind & permissive of skirting the law to the rest
| of those who identify with their same political views, and
| it often goes the same for the Sheriff, and sometimes even
| further up the chain.
|
| Simply put - I don't know the entire context, but if one of
| the reasons they're harassing this person has to do with
| the fact he's of the "wrong" political views, the police
| aren't going to do anything to those harassing him.
|
| That is one of the reasons our gun laws are nice, but
| sometimes when the "wrong side" exercises their right to
| self defense, the sitting president publicly calls for
| their execution without trial. [1]
|
| @anon_123g987 if it weren't literally poison I would be
| more inclined to agree with you on not using excessive
| force. But somebody who dumps poison on your property
| probably doesn't think very highly of your life, and may
| over time take more brash measures against you. Also,
| having somebody work security on your property definitely
| isn't a trap, especially in rural areas.
|
| [1]https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/15/politics/trump-fugitive-
| shoot...
| TaylorAlexander wrote:
| In an area surrounded by "Trump Nation" flags, the police
| very likely have those flags on their property too. They
| may well do nothing if you are reporting their friends, and
| they will definitely do nothing if the perpetrators are
| actually officers.
| kube-system wrote:
| It's property crime. They'll write up a report and you can
| give it to your insurance company. They're not going to
| investigate it in-depth or serve as your personal security
| force.
|
| The most effective solution is probably to put up a fence
| and cameras.
| anon_123g987 wrote:
| Of course. I guess, what I wanted to say is that
| _anything_ is better than setting up a trap and just
| executing the guy, like the other commenter said.
| [deleted]
| madrox wrote:
| For the curious, you can see this on Google Maps:
| https://goo.gl/maps/yuJ7cDx196AxX5bf7
| nyx wrote:
| I've visited Bruce and his home as well, and it's almost
| startling how welcoming he is. When I went, it was the middle of
| a nice afternoon, and so he already happened to be outside
| conversing with some other guests, but if you poke around on his
| website, you'll find that he essentially says "if you come for a
| visit and I'm not around, climb up on the wing and come bang on
| my airplane until you wake me up."
|
| Was only there for a few minutes, but we got in a short and
| pleasant conversation about housing scarcity and the future of
| AI. Really interesting character, clearly living his best life.
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