Posted on 08/05/2021 11:03:06 AM PDT by Red Badger
Edited on 08/05/2021 11:48:37 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
CANTERBURY, N.H. — For 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.
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http://wgme.com/news/local/fire-destroys-cabin-of-new-hampshire-hermit
The government doesn’t like it when you live without connection to government. It’s afraid you might have some money that it can’t get. It’s afraid they won’t be able to find you and throw you in jail for breaking some invalid law. They want you dependent on government, and they want to know everything about you so they can put you in prison whenever they decide to.
If I understand the story, the man is living on private property. If this is the case, he has no more right in doing so than someone believing they have a right to pitch a tent and live in your backyard.
A fire huh? Imagine that.
There must be places in Alaska where old Dave can go and live undisturbed.
While what you say may in fact be true, it has nothing to do with the facts of the story. See previous threads.
Plus Google can’t watch you take a pee.
The government wasn’t the one who initiated action against this man, it was the landowner. Looks like the government was pretty hands-off about this matter before then.
Wait..we don’t?
I’m guessing squatters rights no longer a thing?
My understanding is the original owner of the property gave the OK for him to live there. It was verbal only, nothing in writing. The property was sold and the new owner wanted him off. He was also cutting down trees for firewood and building, new owner considered that theft of his timber which was for lumber sales.
Needless to say a lot of bad blood with the new property owner.
Why is the government involved now? Why is he in jail? Doesn’t he have some rights, such as easement rights considering the decades he’s been there?
He had verbal permission from the previous owner.
Seems to me that would be an ‘easement’...................
Moocher has been hoarding all his SS checks.
In some states, if you mark or post a section of property and no one contests it for 7 or so years, it becomes your’s.
Seems to me you have a definite time to oust someone from your property. Once exceeded, you are deemed to have allowed it.
He looks like one of the muppets.
To me the interesting part of this story (not covered by anyone) is the land transfer from the old owner to the new owner.
Was it disclosed that there was a squatter?
If not (and that is what I suspect) that was fraud on the part of the seller—and the seller (or their estate) has liability here....
May not be. If you don’t put in, you don’t get out...............
Did you miss the part about also trespassing on the property which belongs to another even older gentleman?
The same family has owned it since 1963. Unsure, if has been sold within the family lately. But, the owner has been trying to kick this guy out for years.
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