mark in portugal
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The trouble I have with motion triggered cameras is wind, overhead trees make moving shadows.
I end up with huge amounts of video to trawl through (or not bother with).
I lived in Amsterdam Netherlands for a decade or three; they used to have a big squatting culture, and many of my friends lived in squatted buildings. It was a reaction to a time when there was a housing shortage, yet there were hundreds of empty buildings owned mostly by banks, who didn't want to take a loss by selling just then.
Populist government passed squatting rights laws and property owners rights were out the window for a long time.
I had a neighbor who bought a huge empty barge on the river, with a permanent mooring that was zoned as a residence. He asked me to help him with the lines, which I did. A year later, he told me it was squatted by a bunch of young punks and he didn't know what to do.
One of my other neighbors had a young punk son who had moved out; the kid told me him and his friends had squatted a huge empty barge on the river.
"Has that got like, 4 thick new shiny blue mooring lines?" I asked him.
"How did you know that?" he asked.
The owner, a Dutch doctor who was married to an American woman, disappeared into Thailand a few years later. Eventually his bank seized the barge and sold it to cover the unpaid mortgage.
The kid matured and often works for me.
The barge was built into a 4000 sq. ft. home and was recently sold again for around $2 million. I believe it's the biggest houseboat in Amsterdam.
Some friends of mine squatted a disused train station shed, and made a workshop in it. They let me use it too, so I have to shoulder some squat responsibility of my own.
The squatting rights laws have been repealed. Mostly at least.
I end up with huge amounts of video to trawl through (or not bother with).
I lived in Amsterdam Netherlands for a decade or three; they used to have a big squatting culture, and many of my friends lived in squatted buildings. It was a reaction to a time when there was a housing shortage, yet there were hundreds of empty buildings owned mostly by banks, who didn't want to take a loss by selling just then.
Populist government passed squatting rights laws and property owners rights were out the window for a long time.
I had a neighbor who bought a huge empty barge on the river, with a permanent mooring that was zoned as a residence. He asked me to help him with the lines, which I did. A year later, he told me it was squatted by a bunch of young punks and he didn't know what to do.
One of my other neighbors had a young punk son who had moved out; the kid told me him and his friends had squatted a huge empty barge on the river.
"Has that got like, 4 thick new shiny blue mooring lines?" I asked him.
"How did you know that?" he asked.
The owner, a Dutch doctor who was married to an American woman, disappeared into Thailand a few years later. Eventually his bank seized the barge and sold it to cover the unpaid mortgage.
The kid matured and often works for me.
The barge was built into a 4000 sq. ft. home and was recently sold again for around $2 million. I believe it's the biggest houseboat in Amsterdam.
Some friends of mine squatted a disused train station shed, and made a workshop in it. They let me use it too, so I have to shoulder some squat responsibility of my own.
The squatting rights laws have been repealed. Mostly at least.
