Posted on 08/04/2021 2:02:01 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
or almost three decades, 81-year-old David Lidstone has lived in the woods of New Hampshire along the Merrimack River in a small cabin adorned with solar panels. He has grown his own food, cut his own firewood, and tended to his cat and chickens.
But his off-the-grid existence appears to be at risk.
...“You came with your guns, you arrested me, brought me in here, you’ve got all my possessions. You keep ’em,” he told a judge at a hearing Wednesday. “I’ll sit here with your uniform on until I rot, sir.” “It’s lying, cheating corrupt judges like you that are stepping on little people like me. But I’m telling you, sir, you step on me, I’m going to bite your ankle.”
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I don't think they meant "Live for Free on someone else's property or Die".
Eminent Domain requires just compensation (fair market value for the taking).
He should claim that because the river is navigable by boat and thus it serves as a road just like rivers have done throughout American history.
He’s not really a squatter. He was a guest. He lived there with permission of the owner. He should thank the owner for the 27 free years of no rent.
Total nonsense. The new NO-EVICT rule applies to him! The landowner must not evict the guy or face fines and prison time.
I oppose the rule, but it’s law and MUST be applied equally. This man must be allowed to live in the woods and no one must disturb him.
What’s fair is fair!
(I know that the “legal justice” system will prosecute him and throw him out into the street, cuz that’s how things work in the post-constitutional USA).
Cage match?
It does? Not from what I’ve seen. In my area, they took a whole mall from the owner, to give to another private developer, and they paid a fraction of fair market value.
Navigable? You never want to get into navigation laws.
Should’ve just moved to NYC and squatted in a luxury building. No chance they could’ve thrown him out.
> The thing is that there was a land transaction that happened while he was squatting
Yep, there is a thing called “due diligence”
Eminent Domain doesn’t apply. He lived their as a guest of the owner. His Guest status has not been renewed.
It hasn’t been long enough. The owner only found out about the guy in 2015.
Hopefully he gets invited to set up shop by another property owner.
Live Free or Die can get literal when you squat on someone’s property.
Well, he's been a squatter for the last 5 years since the owner told him to leave. Even a judge ordered him to leave several years ago. He claims the previous owner told him he could live there, but has no evidence. I agree, he should say thanks for the free livin, but I suspect he wants a handout, since he refuses to leave.
I don’t believe it. Said someplace that they knew each other.
My guess is that the previous landowner is the actual bad guy here—giving verbal permission to the squatter, hiding it from the new buyer....
But—it would be helpful to know if that was really true or not.
Only elected representatives can make laws - not the CDC.
I’d vote for a swamp yankee over any other kind.
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