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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From the article: “Currently, Lidstone can be released if one of three things happen: he agrees to leave, the cabin is demolished by Giles, or 30 days have passed since he was jailed. Another hearing will be held next week.”
Look like Giles torched the place to put an end to the matter once and for all. Can’t say I blame him.
I’m not doubting your story, but I was the responsible official for several local agencies which built public works projects with state and federal funding, and everyone one them them had to be audited to show that the landowners were compensated properly. No one was bullied, coerced, or forced to sell for less than FMV.
We always overpaid if there was any question that our formula or comparable sales may be wrong so we would avoid any problems by the Feds. The main problem is that we would have to pay for the entire project with local funds and repay the federal grants.
Isn’t that what they did for Comrade Bernie?
So the landowner is 86 but nothing has stopped him from cutting timber every 10 to 20 years so why worry about an 81 year old guy living on the land. He is causing no hard, make him the game warden for the property and leave him alone.
Grumpy old men?
WHO WAS HE HURTING???
He has a family...apparently he’s been estranged for years.
No...he’s been a trespasser...not a squatter.
This fellow sounds like an old hermit I met back in the 60s who lived in a log cabin in the hills near Maryville, TN. The fellow was in his 80s and in excellent shape. He kept clean, bathed and shaved regularly. He had “dropped out” after WWI when he became disgusted with humanity.
He owned a lot of acreage which he leased to the government and those lease payments are what he lived on. His cabin had kerosene lamps, a wood stove and a huge collection of books. The old guy loved to discuss philosophy and literature but he had little contact with society.
When it became extremely cold in winter, he would take a bus to Mexico where he claimed he could live on 50 cents a day. In warmer months he returned to his cabin in the hills.
It’s certainly not a life I would choose, but “all folks with their own strokes”.
Meanwhile, in Venice Beach, CA, thousands of filthy bums live on the beach and and control the boardwalk so normal, decent folks cannot go there any longer
He’s not trying for adverse possession. Apparently the owner of the property doesn’t give a damn if he’s there. The key to this story is that the shack he is living in apparently offends some bureaucrat because it is not ‘up to code’.
Someone needs to introduce a baseball bat to that bureaucrat’s head. I’d suggest aluminum, as it’s likely to be pretty thick.
These days there are literally thousands of local, state and federal regulations that are probably violated by the structure—once any bureaucrat finds out about it the game is over...
So much for “Live Free or Die”.
Sounds like he did the Live Free part for 29 years.
The fact that yahoo “news” is writing a sympathetic article tells me all I need to know!
“Navigable? You never want to get into navigation laws.”
Why not? The USSC has definitively defined navigable waters in SWANNC v US and Rapanos v US. And, to the great disappointment of eco-fascists and the soviet USSR Army Corps of Engineers, navigable waters do not include drainage ditches and puddles.
IOW, when some federal bureaucrat fascist goosesteps on your land and tries to administer fines or send in the federal weenie patrol to harass you, you have the plenary right to call your constitutional sheriff to arrest the bastards.
People need to start learning property law in this country and stand up .
In some states a squatter must have been paying property taxes on the land before the squatter can claim ownership. If the original owner(s) have been paying the taxes on the land for 27 years it’s hard to see how someone other than the original owners can claim ownership.
Only if the owner knew he was there and was hostile the entire time and he never paid rent or gave any other good or service that could be construed as "rent".
Adverse possession is actually quite difficult to substantiate in court. At least in my state.
Living off the grid is unaccepted by government because it means that they have no control over the guy.
The ideal situation would be for all citizens to live inside the Capitol building where they can be observed, controlled and, if necessary, be shot by Capitol Police.
What’s Freeper handle?
What did the article say?
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