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Father forced to beg squatters to get out of his new £1m home through the LETTERBOX
The Daily Mail ^ | February 27, 2011 | Rob Cooper

Posted on 02/27/2011 10:40:52 AM PST by LostInBayport

An Englishman's home is his castle, so the saying goes.

After squatters moved into John Hamilton-Brown's new £1million five bedroom home he has been forced to beg them to get out through his letterbox.

The group of foreigners were granted legal aid to fight to stay - while he was forced to represent himself.

The father-of-two was having the property renovated for his wife and two young daughters before they moved in when a dozen people from France, Spain, Poland and England sneaked in during the night.

The occupants are part of a growing army of squatters banding together and seeking out empty homes.

It emerged today that squatters, often young people, are swapping information online as they move from property to property before they get evicted.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Miscellaneous; Society; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: england; housing; law; onlyinengland; socialism; ungland
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To: LostInBayport

Squatters would be shot in Texas, and no charges would be filed. Too bad about the stupid people in England who have no property rights.


21 posted on 02/27/2011 11:10:06 AM PST by kittymyrib
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To: LostInBayport

For the love of all things decent...they are NO LONGER A COUNTRY OF FREEDOM. I would come in, with my side arm, I would tell them they had better pick up their things that instant or I would deem them a threat to me and start taking care of my safety.


22 posted on 02/27/2011 11:10:34 AM PST by ICE-FLYER (God bless and keep the United States of America)
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To: fella

This?

23 posted on 02/27/2011 11:13:32 AM PST by bvw
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To: LostInBayport
Situations like this are the reason God invented the Street Sweeper.


24 posted on 02/27/2011 11:13:45 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum ("If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun." -- Barry Soetoro, June 11, 2008)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

25 posted on 02/27/2011 11:14:23 AM PST by Christian Engineer Mass (25ish Cambridge MA grad student. Many younger conservative Christians out there? __ Click my name)
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To: Walts Ice Pick

“Just how does this guy think these poor squatters can fit through his letterbox?”
There are ways of doing just that.Very messy.sarcasm alert!


26 posted on 02/27/2011 11:14:47 AM PST by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

you mean the Squatter Splatter...


27 posted on 02/27/2011 11:15:56 AM PST by max americana
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To: DeFault User
Has anybody heard of “adverse possession”?

This is not adverse possession. Legally it is known as forcible entry and forcible detainer.

28 posted on 02/27/2011 11:18:34 AM PST by AndyJackson
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To: LostInBayport

So now you understand what the EU truly is. And England willingly agreed to be part of it. So now the question is, when will this absolute disdain for property rights come to the United States, because, in short, that is all this argument is about. Property rights and who has them. Clearly, the EU will use Europe’s tax money to fight to eliminate private property rights.

JoMa


29 posted on 02/27/2011 11:18:49 AM PST by joma89
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To: bvw

No, the house where they had to live with all the squatters and were being told what to do by the feminazi cammaczar.


30 posted on 02/27/2011 11:18:49 AM PST by fella (.He that followeth after vain persons shall have poverty enough." Pv.28:19')
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To: LostInBayport
"travelers, or gypsies. They don't really live anywhere, and just move from place to place and usually create problems in all of them. This guy looks like one of them"

No, he's just a grungy yute who fell on the bandwagon. He looks soft. 'Gypsies' look different than that. It's hard to describe.

This is one:


31 posted on 02/27/2011 11:19:46 AM PST by Christian Engineer Mass (25ish Cambridge MA grad student. Many younger conservative Christians out there? __ Click my name)
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To: LostInBayport
Here it is called Burglary of a Habitation and can get you 2 to 20 years in prison.
32 posted on 02/27/2011 11:21:55 AM PST by kennedy (I am a Kennedy. Where do I go to claim my Senate seat?)
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To: Christian Engineer Mass; LostInBayport

If you approach this guy, you will smell neat alcohol. At first, you will wonder if he spilled some spirits on himself. But in fact, the alcohol is coming from his pores.


33 posted on 02/27/2011 11:22:25 AM PST by Christian Engineer Mass (25ish Cambridge MA grad student. Many younger conservative Christians out there? __ Click my name)
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To: joma89
So now the question is, when will this absolute disdain for property rights come to the United States, because, in short, that is all this argument is about.

That disdain arrived in earnest with the Supreme Court's decision in Kelo.

There a massive number of foreclosed homes sitting empty in this country. As the economy crumbles further, we will see squatters moving into those...it will give them a place to crash in between protests at state capitols.
34 posted on 02/27/2011 11:23:42 AM PST by LostInBayport (When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
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To: Christian Engineer Mass

He looks pretty tough.He’d be the first one to get shot when the trouble started.


35 posted on 02/27/2011 11:25:44 AM PST by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: Christian Engineer Mass

If I encountered this guy, my first impression would be “carnie.” Very street smart, essentially a grifter, wise to the ways of taking from others but generally not very bright otherwise. Just schlepping along on what they can bamboozle and can’t imagine living any other way.


36 posted on 02/27/2011 11:25:58 AM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: LostInBayport

Government no longer works the way it was intended. Logic is now out the window.

We will soon be having to fight in the streets to reclaim what is ours and we will have to fight our own government along with the riff raff that they now represent.

If you are not willing to fight then you might as well join them as that will be the only way to get something for nothing. The rest of us will have to fight and possibly die to maintain our rights but I’ll go that route instead of degrading my morals and standards.

What men found out a long time ago that death was much preferred to servitude.


37 posted on 02/27/2011 11:26:07 AM PST by jongaltsr (It)
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To: Christian Engineer Mass

Now that you mention it, there was an article in the Mail a while back about gypsies who booked a wedding, trashed the hall and stiffed the caterer. They were all rough tattooed types too (even the bride). Very weird subculture...I think they are insulated by the P.C. police in the UK, based on some of the reader comments.


38 posted on 02/27/2011 11:27:24 AM PST by LostInBayport (When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
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To: RegulatorCountry

Yeah carnie is in the US what gypsie/traveller is in England.


39 posted on 02/27/2011 11:28:44 AM PST by Christian Engineer Mass (25ish Cambridge MA grad student. Many younger conservative Christians out there? __ Click my name)
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To: Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)

“I think the only way to get them out is to burn the place down.”

Well at least fumigate. LOL!


40 posted on 02/27/2011 11:28:44 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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