Posted on 09/26/2024 4:33:07 AM PDT by dynachrome
As my boat cruises toward the private island city of Indian Creek Village — better known as the Billionaire Bunker — I'm hoping my trip doesn't end in an arrest.
It's a hot morning on South Florida's Biscayne Bay, and I've convinced two local tour boat captains to pilot me around the perimeter of what is quite possibly the wealthiest and most heavily defended town in America. I'm not entirely clear on the rules about boating near the island, which lies just across the bay from Miami, and neither are my captains — they're both in their first weeks on the job. What I do know is that Indian Creek employs a new all-seeing security system and a small navy of police officers who frequently stop and ticket boats that venture too close to the island's manicured shore.
As we near the northwestern side of the island, I spot the bright red steel beams of "La Petite Clef," the Mark di Suvero sculpture that towers 20 feet over the front lawn of the car magnate Norman Braman's mansion. We glide past a modern palace hidden behind a dense cluster of palm trees, purchased for $50 million in 2019 by a mysterious LLC linked to the emir of Qatar. On the southwestern shore, we come upon the island's most sought-after mansions. This is where the elite of the elite live: Tom Brady, Carl Icahn, and the neighborhood's most recent arrival, Jeff Bezos. The wealth here is staggering — 25,000-square-foot mansions with ivy-strewn stucco walls, fronted by sprawling lawns and sleek yachts. Today, almost all the mansions appear to be empty.
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Of course. Being defenseless is for the unwashed.
Are some of these pulling the strings of biden and harris?
Very likely.
ARE THEY EMPTY DUE TO THE COMING STORM?????
“ the island, which lies just across the bay from Miami,”
I doubt that those houses are empty due to hurricane Helene, which formed in the Gulf of Mexico and is not going near Miami. They are most likely empty, just as are other huge celebrity owned homes in Paris, London, Vail, Nantucket, etc. They are to be at-the-ready whenever one of these celebrities chooses to stay in them, even for a few days.
He didn’t say “he who dies with the most toys, wins?”
I was mis-informed./s
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[Verse 1: Joe Walsh]
I have a mansion, forget the price
Ain’t never been there, they tell me it’s nice
I live in hotels, tear out the walls
I have accountants pay for it all
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Money.
Meh, Ive been around it, half the people that have it are still doing goofy crap just like anyone else.
But many times the grown daughters are fairly hot. Still nuts but very hot and and have $$$ to play with.
Never figured that one out, so I never brought it up with them.
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see my post #27
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Nope.
Confiscating all billionaires will not do too much.
Maybe balance the budget for a year.
True. LOL. /s. I was being sarcastic.
:)
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