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Grandma living in Miami treehouse for 24 years in showdown with county
MSN CBS ^

Posted on 09/05/2016 3:37:08 PM PDT by SMGFan

Miami-Dade County says a woman’s open-air tree house was built illegally, is unsafe and must be demolished in the next four months.

The Miami Herald reports Shawnee Chasser refuses to remove her tree house nestled against the forked trunks of an oak and strangler fig in the wooded front yard of her late son’s Biscayne Gardens home.

The fight sets up an only-in-Miami showdown between a $7 billion government and a 65-year-old grandmother who sells bags of organic popcorn at Whole Foods.

“I’m not taking down anything,” Chasser vowed during an interview. “I’ll chain myself to that tree house.” Chasser,who discovered her aversion to indoor living decades ago, has slept in a tree since 1992 after she moved her family back to Miami from California.

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TOPICS: Outdoors; Society; Weird Stuff
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To: sparklite2

Radagast’s girlfriend or ex-wife?


21 posted on 09/05/2016 4:23:21 PM PDT by Reily
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To: blueplum

You have no idea how humid and bug (with zika virus) infested that place is right now. Looks OK in the picture, though. Nice and tropical.


22 posted on 09/05/2016 4:24:06 PM PDT by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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To: Truth29
They will probably send in a SWAT team and conduct a dynamic enytry and arrest to save her from herself, however,

What's the fun in that?

There's no front door to blow up...

23 posted on 09/05/2016 4:24:56 PM PDT by publius911 (IMPEACH HIM NOW evil, stupid, insane ignorant or just clueless, doesn't matter!)
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To: sparklite2

But it looks like a fun sort of crazy!


24 posted on 09/05/2016 4:26:46 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: DJ Taylor

Maybe she could get the EPA to complete a site inspection and remediation plan. That might buy her five more years!


25 posted on 09/05/2016 4:28:56 PM PDT by Noob1999
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To: SMGFan; All

A youtube tour

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXEGbU8qTbc


26 posted on 09/05/2016 4:35:56 PM PDT by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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To: Jonty30

If that was in california she would have been arrested for molesting an oak tree.


27 posted on 09/05/2016 4:38:51 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Hillary Clinton, the elderly woman's version of "I dindu nuffins.")
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To: SMGFan

Straight out of Haight Ashbury in the sixties!!! Hasn’t had a shampoo or haircut since!


28 posted on 09/05/2016 4:40:12 PM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: Moonman62

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Judging by the photos, I’d say that jealousy is the only problem.
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29 posted on 09/05/2016 4:40:34 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: DJ Taylor
"there was an old woman who lived in a shoe"


30 posted on 09/05/2016 4:41:51 PM PDT by ETL (God PLEASE help America...Never Hillary!)
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To: CaptainK

So the whole story line is untrue - she SLEEPS in the tree house and everything else is at ground level including a kitchen...Thanks for the whole picture..


31 posted on 09/05/2016 4:48:02 PM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: 1rudeboy

You VILL conform!! or else!


32 posted on 09/05/2016 5:00:30 PM PDT by hoosierham (Freedom isn't free)
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To: Texas Fossil

I bet all her grandkid’s friends wish their granny was like her.


33 posted on 09/05/2016 5:02:19 PM PDT by Grams A (The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
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To: SMGFan

“...is unsafe ,”

Hmmm. If 24 years is correct, then the structure has survived at least 4 hurricanes.

5.56mm


34 posted on 09/05/2016 5:09:34 PM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: SMGFan

She loses some sympathy from me when she has a picture of Huey Newton in her living room.


35 posted on 09/05/2016 5:16:34 PM PDT by Rastus (#NeverHillary #AlwaysTrump)
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To: Rastus
She loses some sympathy from me when she has a picture of Huey Newton in her living room.

She's clearly an old hippy, but honoring Huey Newton, a Black Panther leader from the 60s, is definitely over the top for me too. I hadn't noticed that pic.

36 posted on 09/05/2016 5:23:14 PM PDT by ETL (God PLEASE help America...Never Hillary!)
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To: Thank You Rush

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Haight Ashbury was a middle class neighborhood that happened to be near the Golden Gate Park Panhandle.

The kids that swarmed there in 66/67 were from mostly very wealthy liberal families, and had never had a care in the world.

Their hippie garb was part of the total put-on. They had check books and credit cards up the wazoo.

Scott McKenzie’s song was catchy, but told mostly lies. They were not “gentle people,” they were thugs and thieves when their money got cut off.
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37 posted on 09/05/2016 5:30:31 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: Thank You Rush

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I know a few people that sleep in their gazebo or screen rooms. What’s the big deal?
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38 posted on 09/05/2016 5:30:31 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: Grams A

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Yep!
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39 posted on 09/05/2016 5:30:31 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: SMGFan

Always fascinating when you read the comments and learn the rest of the story. That is why FR is such an excellent source of information.


40 posted on 09/05/2016 5:46:36 PM PDT by Robwin
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