Posted on 10/10/2017 12:40:27 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Millions of people around the world over know the Northeast Heights home as the one owned by teacher-turned-meth kingpin Walter White in the AMC show "Breaking Bad," but it's not. It belongs to real humans.
After years of taking vandalisms, trespassing and general rudeness in stride, the real-life homeowners have said enough, it's off limits. For Joanne Quintana, it's been a pretty ridiculous four years.
"We feel like we can't leave because when we, do something happens and that's ridiculous," she said.
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Quintana's mom owns the house. Watch what goes down in her neighborhood every single day and you'd think Walter White really lives here. Paul Siddell, visiting from Tuscon, Ariz, said he was pretty into it.
"This is almost like this stuff really happened in these houses," he said.
On a weekly basis, Quintana said she loses count of how many people come to the house. Over the first Balloon Fiesta weekend, she estimates it climbed into the hundreds. In 15 minutes, a KOB news crew counted nearly 10 tourists.
They can get nasty. Some even steal rocks from the landscaping as souvenirs.
"They feel the need to tell us to close our garage, get out of the picture, you know -- tell us what to do on our own property," Quintana said.
After a particularly messy weekend, the free show is over. Quintana is installing a 6-foot high wrought iron fence. It wasn't exactly an easy decision; it's one that feels like a punishment.
That fence should be completed soon, but Quintana said people have already tried to climb around the construction to get a picture.
"We don't want to gate ourselves in," Quintana said. "We're the ones who's being locked up. We did nothing wrong."
At a UNM area duplex used as Jesse Pinkman's apartment, the renter deals with it as well. Every weekend, she has at least three or four people up here trying to take a selfie at her front door. Weckiai Rannila said it's annoying at worst, but she applauds Quintana's fence.
She said if it ever got bad, she'd break too.
Frank Sandoval runs Breaking Bad RV Tours. He's become almost a private police force, shooing people from properties.
"We hear about it on a daily basis, so much so that we've gone up on the roof to pull pizza's down," he said.
I wonder how many people have thrown a pizza on her roof..?
Summary: People are STUPID!
PS: I tried to watch BB — after 5 episodes I just found it boring.
... on the plus side, getting a pizza on the roof now and again has helped out with the grocery bill ...
park an aztek in the driveway and charge for photos.
Same here. Overrated. You got to 5 episodes? Tt lost me at 3. BTW, the actor is a flaming libtard who promised to move to Canada once Trump won. Why is he still here in America?
Nailed It !
“park an aztek in the driveway and charge for photos.”
That could have helped pay for that fence anyway...
Oh it got MUCH better. You should have stuck around. The last 5 episodes or so was some of the best television I’ve ever seen.
The producers should buy them a new house.
Last year I watched the first episode, and was hooked. I binge-watched all 6 seasons over the next week.
I found it very satisfying — only one boring episode. And the ending was WAY better than the Sopranos’ ending.
I’m not much of a TV watcher, and make it a point to avoid watching TV series (ever since the Sopranos). But I have to admit that Breaking Bad just got better and better with each episode.
Just my opinion. Your mileage may vary.
P.S. After Breaking Bad, I decided to try Sons of Anarchy. Now THAT was boring.
Before too many tears ate shed for them, I wonder how much they were compensated, how many BB parties they threw for their friends, and after the first year of episodes, what did they expect would happen.
It was cool seeing the brownstone that Audrey Hepburn is seen entering at the very start of Breakfast At Tiffany's.It's on East 71st St...Upper East Side.
Well than you must not live in the real world. After drug intervention in Miami and some stealthy crap for “the phone company” in the 70’s and 80’s it was uncanny to me how close to real life it was and that those types live next door to us.
It was by no means fiction.
This Las Vegas incident probably makes many in drug and graf enforcement look down allies many here cant imagine.
Idiot! Turn it into a BB museum! She could easily make $1 million per year. Can I buy it? Damn...
If I owned that house, I wouldn’t live in it. I’d have it on AirBNB and would charge New York or Paris level “rip off the turista” prices. Especially around Balloon Fiasco weekend. I’d also cover up the place with quickly removable decorations to make it not look like “the show”, and then post a money collector and charge more tourist ripoff prices to remove the c**p and maybe throw a temporary pizza on the roof for pictures. I’ll bet you could make a mint on that place if you played it right.
allies = alley but y’all knew that. Thank you spell dork
Zoning rules are a pesky thing
That’s about how many episodes I lasted.
I got hooked on BB after 2 episodes. Looked forward to each new episode. I enjoy the spinoff “Better Call Saul”. Can’t wait for the new season.
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