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Old May 24, 2007 | 12:17 PM
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Fucking hell!

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/afp/2007052...d-a7ad41d.html
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Old May 24, 2007 | 12:19 PM
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Old May 24, 2007 | 12:25 PM
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rofl

Old cunt will die next week from hypothermia anyways
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Old May 24, 2007 | 12:32 PM
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fucking hell.

makes my blood boil this country
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Old May 24, 2007 | 12:39 PM
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bizarre. Only in America! ........ oh shit... it happened in London. what is wrong with our courts?? Why these bizarre rulings?

Never did understand 'squatters rights' - can't see how it could ever be in the general public interest - someone illegally stays in your property for long enough and then you have to fight to get them removed and they can enter a plea for ownership of the property? why?!

The original owner of that land/gardens should be charging the guy for 21 years of back rent, not having his own property taken away.

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Old May 24, 2007 | 12:56 PM
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So where did the old guy get the money for his solicitors to fight the case in court for two years? Don’t tell me this was paid for as well!!!!
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Old May 24, 2007 | 12:57 PM
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bizarre. Only in America! ........ oh shit... it happened in London. what is wrong with our courts?? Why these bizarre rulings?

Never did understand 'squatters rights' - can't see how it could ever be in the general public interest - someone illegally stays in your property for long enough and then you have to fight to get them removed and they can enter a plea for ownership of the property? why?!

The original owner of that land/gardens should be charging the guy for 21 years of back rent, not having his own property taken away.

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Because all land in this country actually belongs to the queen technically, thats what happened when her lot came over here and warred with us originally, they won the whole country as a prize, if you as guardian of some of that land dont continue to show an interest in it for 21 years and someone else does, its deemed to be their home not yours.
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Old May 24, 2007 | 01:00 PM
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It sounds to me like the property developers didn't own the land either. So basically it was a quarrel over who had rights to the land, and as the homeless bloke had lived their longer (unquestioned as well), he won the case.

I personally don't agree with people squatting in properties when someone doesn't want them there, but if the owners don't give a shit and don't do anything about it then it's actually quite fair.

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Old May 24, 2007 | 04:31 PM
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Probably on legal aid, so paid for by you!!
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Old May 24, 2007 | 05:04 PM
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We are a little at cross purposes here.

There is the law of adverse possesion, which says if you occupy a piece of land / building UNOPPOSED and thats the crucial bit here, for a period of twelve years then its yours, unless the legal owner files an order to try and recover it, but its dogdy ground.


Then there is something called a Prescriptive Right, which means if you have done something, say crossed a piece of land for 20 years UNOPPOSED then you have the right to continue to do so.


It at any point in the 12 or 20 year periods someone says 'Stop' thats it, the clock stops and you've got no hope.


But if some developers have left a tramp on a piece of land for more than 12 years then they are naive fools and deserve all they get..... rich BMW Driving, Fake Tan, nasty pinstriped expensive suit wearing wankers !



GO THE TRAMP !!!!
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Old May 24, 2007 | 05:11 PM
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fair play to the old cunt
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Old May 24, 2007 | 10:48 PM
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71 years of age?

i'd sell the fucker, buy a 2 up 2 down and spend my riches on pole dancers
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Old May 24, 2007 | 11:17 PM
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Glad to see someone doing well in our country atleast.
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Old May 25, 2007 | 06:25 AM
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they should now charge him legal costs as he now has a few quid to spend
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Old May 25, 2007 | 06:28 AM
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thats even making the news out here
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Old May 25, 2007 | 10:37 AM
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Probably because they feel he's a kindred spirit....



Poor dress sense and smells of piss... who's just rogered old england for a packet...
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Old May 25, 2007 | 10:46 AM
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Developers should of slapped him and kicked him off the land with there size 12's, fence up and then got on with it.

F##kin old c##t.
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Old May 25, 2007 | 11:03 AM
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i dont get it.

A pensioner, almost certainly homeless due to government mismanagment, found himself a tiny little bit of PARKLAND made himself a wee shack and has lived there for 20 years, with only his pittance of a pension, and whatever he could scrape together. Some money grabbing CUNTS, move in, try to buy out the land from under him and turf hm out to god knows what end.

Turns out that under british law, a BRITISH man whos lived there for 20 years UNNOPOSED might just be enttled to stay, and you cunts are calling him a twat?!


fuck off.


its not like hes some pikey cunt who pitched up on farmland with a load of caravans and wrecked the fucking place is it. he lived there for years never harmed a soul, by all accounts is well known to the locals, who dont seem to have any objections, and lets face it, its an expensive area, if theyd wanted him out in the past 20 years hed have been long gone




fair play to the man, he deserves it i think, if hed come in as an imigrant he wouldnt be lving in a fuckng shack for 20 years would he.
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Old May 25, 2007 | 11:07 AM
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that is round the corner to my house the guy just walks round hampstead all day lol......but fair place to him
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SOMEBODY owned the land.

Fine, squat there but then when the owner (maybe all of us if it is common land) wants to use it, move in, etc and the squater f##kin ends up owning it

I'd be f##kin pi##ed if it was my land, whether i had been actively using the land property or not.
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Old May 25, 2007 | 02:39 PM
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Turns out that under british law, a BRITISH man whos lived there...
I don't think he is British actually. From reading the BBC news article on this, is appears that he is Irish and moved over here when he was 20. So he's an Irish immigrant tramp.
But on reading more about him, I've softened. He's doing no harm. Let him stay on the condition that ownership passes to the previous owners on his death.

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Old May 25, 2007 | 02:53 PM
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So he's an Irish immigrant tramp
aren't they all?

ok i take that back, i dont wanna get bombed
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Old May 25, 2007 | 03:05 PM
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Good on him...hardly as if he was being greedy and squatting in somebodys mansion...and 21 years without anybody saying for him not to go is a long time...longer than most people live in houses they've bought!

It's hardly as if he's brought 38 members of his family with him (all called wayne and waynette), caravans, transit vans, piss ridden mattress' horses, dogs.....and intends to steal everybodys cars..
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Old May 25, 2007 | 04:22 PM
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The lands worth 2M?! I'll bet there is a contract out on him already.

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Old May 25, 2007 | 04:24 PM
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Originally Posted by jammy86
The lands worth 2M?! I'll bet there is a contract out on him already.

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a contract out on him lol.........hes a 70 year old man if they kill him they wont get the property back it actually just goes to the local government...........
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Old May 25, 2007 | 04:28 PM
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Originally Posted by rauri
fair play to the old cunt
Innit! Fair play I say!

I used to squat a while back. Shame that never happend to me!
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