[HN Gopher] A man who lives in a Boeing 727 in Oregon (2020) ___________________________________________________________________ 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. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-01-10 23:00 UTC)