remeck
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I was thinking of squatting, not out of necessity, but because of whatever ticks in me has lead me into this direction. There are alot of abandoned farmsteads in this area, just wasting away. I liked just exploring these abandoned places, but decided I should utilize it.
last year, I found a place that still had a house standing in favorable shape and empty buildings that I could have some animals in. But I soon found out it was just a game of cat and mouse. Just to test out the owner's presence, I would place objects around, and would soon see them disappear, so the owner was coming around every week. I wrote notes on the door at various times, saying what my intentions were, such as living there and wanting to save the place from going to waste. No notes were ever written back, no tresspassing signs were put up, nor were the doors locked. But I soon realized this owner wanted to play games, and I like to play, so we played. I would leave the garden gate opened, and every time I came back, he would close it again. He finally got tired of the gate game and just removed it, the very gate he was trying to keep shut.
I had a bike that I got from a different abandoned homestead and decided to use it as a decoy bike and lock it up at this homestead to test the owner. A few times he left it alone, then he went nuts on it and pretty much destroyed it, bending its rims and slashing the tires of it. When I saw the wreckage, it was at that point I decided to not squat at this place, even though it had alot of the things I needed, but had an aggressive nazi owner. Every time I go by the place, I just open doors of the buildings for kicks, and when I go back, they are closed, only to be reopened again. That shall be the curse I put on the place.
Well, just a couple miles down the road from that cursed place, I just found an abandoned place with a house that may be in better shape than the cursed one. So I'm thinking, since going about things mysteriously in the night didn't work out for me with the past one, I was just thinking about going about things differently. I could go around there in the day, but be at risk of the owner questioning me. I'm not really keen on that because of my reclusive ways, just thought it might work out better being direct to the owner if he comes by. But on the flipside, if the person is as crazy as the last, then he knows what I looks like and I don't need that. I like to keep some certain mysterious john doe appeal, in case things turn to crap.
Anyways, that is my story, to sum it up, was going to try squatting in 2008, but didn't pan out. And about a year later, maybe ready to try it again at a different place, hoping for a nicer owner. :rules:
last year, I found a place that still had a house standing in favorable shape and empty buildings that I could have some animals in. But I soon found out it was just a game of cat and mouse. Just to test out the owner's presence, I would place objects around, and would soon see them disappear, so the owner was coming around every week. I wrote notes on the door at various times, saying what my intentions were, such as living there and wanting to save the place from going to waste. No notes were ever written back, no tresspassing signs were put up, nor were the doors locked. But I soon realized this owner wanted to play games, and I like to play, so we played. I would leave the garden gate opened, and every time I came back, he would close it again. He finally got tired of the gate game and just removed it, the very gate he was trying to keep shut.
I had a bike that I got from a different abandoned homestead and decided to use it as a decoy bike and lock it up at this homestead to test the owner. A few times he left it alone, then he went nuts on it and pretty much destroyed it, bending its rims and slashing the tires of it. When I saw the wreckage, it was at that point I decided to not squat at this place, even though it had alot of the things I needed, but had an aggressive nazi owner. Every time I go by the place, I just open doors of the buildings for kicks, and when I go back, they are closed, only to be reopened again. That shall be the curse I put on the place.
Well, just a couple miles down the road from that cursed place, I just found an abandoned place with a house that may be in better shape than the cursed one. So I'm thinking, since going about things mysteriously in the night didn't work out for me with the past one, I was just thinking about going about things differently. I could go around there in the day, but be at risk of the owner questioning me. I'm not really keen on that because of my reclusive ways, just thought it might work out better being direct to the owner if he comes by. But on the flipside, if the person is as crazy as the last, then he knows what I looks like and I don't need that. I like to keep some certain mysterious john doe appeal, in case things turn to crap.
Anyways, that is my story, to sum it up, was going to try squatting in 2008, but didn't pan out. And about a year later, maybe ready to try it again at a different place, hoping for a nicer owner. :rules:
