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- datcrazydj, on 10/12/2007, -11/+329http://xs313.xs.to/xs313/07111/ihavenolife.png
=( - GliTCH82, on 10/12/2007, -16/+297Quick! Somebody photoshop in a mote with alligators!
- notjamt9000, on 10/12/2007, -10/+204DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS!
When will Steve Ballmer's evil tyranny stop? - FrogKermit, on 10/12/2007, -8/+126why photoshop when you can paint? http://www.grantmcneil.com/moatncoak.JPG
- smallestmills, on 10/12/2007, -7/+105Yeah, great job taking a stand. Now instead of a neighborhood, they live in a *****.
- steveo1219, on 10/12/2007, -7/+98THIS IS SPARTA!!!!!
- RoroCo, on 10/12/2007, -3/+89I have seen construction like this before and I do not think the story is factual. I would guess that this is a historic building that they are keeping up an integrating into the new building. If anyone is from DC, they did this with the smokestack behind the old Bayou what is now the Hilton (I believe).
If true, the story is interesting, but the government would never allow this type of construction around a home that someone live in. Especially, since you cannot rezone a lot from residential to commercial while there are still homes on the lot. - timpkmn89, on 10/12/2007, -2/+73This reminds me of the Bugs Bunny cartoon where Bugs Bunny wouldn't give up his rabbit hole for a new building. They ended up building part of the wall around the hole in a U-shape.
- snowbooch, on 10/12/2007, -6/+48link to a reputable source or its bs
- aliengoods, on 10/12/2007, -6/+47The page says the family has government connections, so they probably have some money. I'm thinking they live in a second home. Also, my guess is they're holding out for more money.
- imthepresident, on 10/12/2007, -3/+36I'm waiting for those little flying robots a la "Batteries Not Included".
- Prototek, on 10/12/2007, -4/+36I still don't see it. It looks like a road that goes into the pit for heavy machinery.
- CraigB12, on 10/12/2007, -9/+40Yeah, but those ***** developers can't build anything while his house is still there.
- Humptydank, on 10/12/2007, -1/+31
"Yeah, but those ***** developers can't build anything while his house is still there."
But they can. This may be what's called an "architectural hold out" and it happens all the time. People find out that large companies want to build an office building on a particular block, so they quickly buy up the real estate in order to hold up construction, and get paid much higher than market rate square foot rates for their land. It's why when Citibank finalized plans to build the Citicorp Center they set up many small, anonymous holding companies to quietly buy up the land they needed, otherwise they'd get killed by speculators.
The problem for the hold-outs is that modern building techniques allow developers to build around them if it's cost-effective. This happens all the time in New York and, in fact, if you look at this picture of the Macy's building:
http://www.littleviews.com/LV_art/macys-plaque.jpg
That notch in the building was actually a hold-out. When news of the Macy's building leaked out, that lot was bought at a premium by Henry Siegel, then a big Macy's competitor. He tried to hold Macy's up, but they refused and built around.
Once you open your eyes to hold-outs you can see them all over big cities. And while I'd like to believe the small-family-against-the-man aspect of this picture, hold-outs are almost *always* about money, and only money. - HunterTV, on 10/12/2007, -4/+32Where's a Vogon Constructor ship when you need one?
- Sundyr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+27That's because back then they actually were for adults. Looney Tunes weren't on TV, they were run before feature films in theatres...modern previews and sadly, commercials, have taken their place...
- RexMaxus, on 10/12/2007, -2/+28@DeflatorMouse
Actually, if you look at the picture again, you will see that the road is for the workers. The house is up on a big pile of dirt without a road.
That would suck.
edit: Prototek beat me to it - ahawks, on 10/12/2007, -0/+26Amazing how much old cartoons (not just Bugs Bunny/Loony Toons) actually cater towards adults. I suppose that's why I never liked it as a kid. All the jokes seemed dumb at the time, but as an adult there's a lot of truth in it.
- anidal, on 10/12/2007, -7/+31why would they even want to live there?
- mutatron, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=40673&in_page_id=34&ito=newsnow
- DeflatorMouse, on 10/12/2007, -5/+24How do they come and go? Helipad?
- jlettee, on 10/12/2007, -4/+22Dugg up for the Galaxy Quest reference!
By Grabthar's hammer, by the suns of Warvan, you shall be avenged! - sdfghjkl, on 10/12/2007, -7/+25Dugg down for using a joke that was on Roseanne.
Digg me down for having watched said episode. - herodrink, on 10/12/2007, -8/+25 dig down
- d00ley, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16"If they were holding out the construction co. cannot remove the civil pipes, sewage, road and electricity that have access to the house."
This is incorrect. I think you are projecting what would be fair onto what is true. Even in the US, this has happened. If anybody remembers the guy that built a homemade tank and demolished buildings with it, you know his situation, which was that the government rezoning which allowed a concrete plant to be built around it, completely closing his muffler shop off from the outside world... no gas, electricity, road access, nothing. Anyway, just because it goes against common since and is obviously unfair doesn't mean it doesn't happen.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/Central/06/05/bulldozer.rampage/index.html
Video (just for the fun of it): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZbG9i1oGPA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Heemeyer - mutatron, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15@Klaumbaz,
This house is in Chongqing. I don't think Red China is very lawsuit-friendly. - hambend, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14"the government would never allow this type of construction around a home that someone live in."
Keep in mind this is China. I was on a train from Beijing to Shanghai a couple of years back, you could see where rows of buildings had had their back halves demolished to make way for the rail. People were still living inside.
The Chinese government relocates millions of people a year. They're in the final stage of relocations for the three gorges dam, which will submerge the homes of more than a million people, including two significantly sized cities and hundreds of villages. They're in the process of tearing down several historic neighborhoods in Beijing because the Olympics are coming up and they want the place to look tidy.
The owner of this building has to be a government official looking for a payout, otherwise they'd never have gone to the trouble of keeping it standing. - rshu4you, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13In other news WoW player still in basement unaware
- jameskeith, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12full story here: http://venture160.wordpress.com/2007/03/08/chinas-most-incredible-holdout/
- Rental, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14wake up, get a bowl of cereal and do some rock climbing. just don't let one of your drunk buddies go outside to throw up, unless of course he owes you money.
- DEADB33F, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12What about the farmer in England who refused to sell his family home so it could be knocked down to make way for a new motorway (something like that anyway).
They built it round him instead and he now is surrounded by 6 lanes of motorway traffic...
http://maps.google.co.uk/?ie=UTF8&z=18&ll=53.641629,-1.952305&spn=0.001571,0.005021&t=k&om=1
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bradford/features/2003/m62.shtml
Used to drive past this every day. - sipsyrup, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13they need to build near vertical stairs and turn it into a quicky mart monastery
- Spiritcatcher, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11Reminds me of Houston in the booming mid 70's. Owner of $65,000 home turns down offer of $500,000 holding out for $1,000,000+ and ends up being surrounded by 5 story 15 billion BTU compressors.
- rcran, on 10/12/2007, -7/+16@ smallestmills:
Don't you mean ***** pile? - EvoMR05, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9You guys are not reading it right, this actually shows how nice the government is.
This is in Chongqing, China.
The problem was this. The owner of the house would not leave without getting paid a large sum of money, how much? 20,000,000RMB, that's about $2mil. No one is living in there, but the owner would not move unless the money is paid. And house owner claims to have connections with the officials, and dares anyone who destroys his house.
Chinese Link:
http://news.cq.soufun.com/2007-03-11/975176.htm - VhaidraU, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8All these people are stating U.S. laws, but did you ever think maybe, if this is real, that this picture and situation is not in America?
- Klaumbaz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8could be fodder for a lawsuit about removing their right of way to access the building.
- ahawks, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9For reference, he is talking about Batteries Not Included:
http://imdb.com/title/tt0092494/
I had totally forgotten about that movie. It was pretty good. - randf, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9@ mutatron
still looking for a credible source. metro.co.uk probably got the story from reading digg. - jacobsor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7A similar thing happened in Seattle about 100 years ago, on a much larger scale.
The city voted to grade (bulldoze) Denny Hill north of downtown. Some existing property owners refused to move their homes. Those buildings ended up perched on cliffs dozens of feet above the new street level, on what were appropriately called "spite mounds."
http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=1123 - molsen311, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8From the blog:
"Apparently the family has government connections, and is not expected to be forced out."
LOL. I don't think they really have choice, they CAN'T live there. I certainly hope someone with "government connections" could get a better deal than this.... - ray901, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9@roroco
Is more than likely right. If they were holding out the construction co. cannot remove the civil pipes, sewage, road and electricity that have access to the house. From the picture none of the above would be connected anymore. - FishPoisonCon, on 10/12/2007, -8/+14nobody lives there...
did you guys know that gullible isn't in the dictionary? - WaterDragon, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8Apparently, a crew of Vogon Constructors were trying to build a new interplanetary causeway, and the earth was directly in its path and had to be destroyed.
- Kodiak41226, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Easement by necessity
Similarly, parcels without access to a public way may have an easement of access over adjacent land, if crossing that land is absolutely necessary to reach the landlocked parcel. There is an implied easement arising from the original subdivision of the land for continuous and obvious use of the adjacent parcel (e.g., for access to a road, or to a source of water). This easement is extinguished upon termination of the necessity (for example, if a new public road is built adjacent to the landlocked tenement). An easement by necessity is distinguished from an easement by implication in that the former easement arises only when "strictly necessary," whereas the latter can arise when "reasonably necessary."
However, the landlocked owner might be required to obtain a license for a new commercial use or to cause damage during access (e.g., a logging road or blazed trails). Some states, also, frown on granting easements by necessity when the need was created by the owner's own actions, say, by selling off plots of land resulting in a landlocked parcel.
Some U.S. state statutes grant a permanent easement of access to any descendant of a person buried in a cemetery on private property. - unhookt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Amazing what passes for reputable these days...other top stories from Metro.co.uk:
- Man enjoys sex with cars
- Steve Irwin ice tribute
- Paris goes big (Has Paris Hilton had a boob job) - EvilFerret, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Where's the actual story? It looks like somebody saw this picture and just assumed it was a family refusing to sell living there. Given the fact that the building doesn't even have a ***** way to exit.....I'm going to say there's a 95% chance that it's just a historic building they want to preserve.
- febryle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4It's real: another pic:
http://imgs.soufun.com/news/2007_03/11/1173621828971.jpeg - mutatron, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3What are you talking about, that would be cool living there. Just don't send the kiddos to play outside.
- CurtHowland, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Not building, highway. Bugs wouldn't move, and the road crew chief surrendered. So the road went around.
I remember when it went from "Bugs Bunny Road Runner Hour" to "Show" which lasted two hours, every Saturday morning right after The Jetsons.
They even still showed some of the "politically incorrect" cartoons, like the wartime ones with bad Japanese and Germans. -
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