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Re: The Houseboat Wars of Richardson Bay

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They crush people’s boats? That seems out of character for US systems

Completely in character. That's why he holed up in his boat and fought. Only realistic chance of being compensated is pitching a big enough fit that public opinion is on your side. If he had killed some of the officers it may have been a bigger deal and gone better for him, sadly.

How long until they start doing this for vanlifers?

Re: The Houseboat Wars of Richardson Bay

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post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for the sources. The aggressive NIMBY'ism of the Bay Area is really bizarre. Part of it is well explained by textbook racism.

If San Fran is racist, there is no hope for the rest of us.

I think you overestimate how much the professed beliefs of the region coincide with the actual beliefs. Having lived all over the country SF is one of the more hypocritical places I’ve been. You don’t see nearly as many Black Lives Matter signs in Dallas for instance, but what you do see are far more middle class black families living side by side middle class white families.

For more on the Bay Area’s legacy of racism, highly suggest reading Richard Rothstein’s _The Color of Law_.

Re: The Houseboat Wars of Richardson Bay

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vessels are only allowed to drop anchor for 72 hours, according to a law codified in 1987 by the Richardson’s Bay Regional Agency. After that, they are supposed to leave for at least a week before returning to drop anchor again. Problem is, that law wasn’t really enforced in the quarter of a century that former Harbormaster Bill Price patrolled Richardson Bay. After Price retired in July 2019, the RBRA hired Havel to…

But that's nearly every regulation - the poor are always less capable of complying, almost by definition.

Still the targeting of those living on boats is an abuse. An obvious one, that you would think they'd have figured out before embarrassing themselves by harassing folks in that way.

Re: The Houseboat Wars of Richardson Bay

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Where are these 100 anchor-outs? I can't find even a tiny fraction of that number plausibly anchored on google sat view. I tried to find some pictures of these boats or more information. Found something here: https://pacificsun.com/tensions-rising-on-richardson-bay-as-... More pictures (google image search for "sausalito anchor outs"): https://www.google.com/search?q=sausalito%20anchor%20outs%20... * The other perspe…

> I can't find even a tiny fraction of that number plausibly anchored on google sat view. You don't see cars on google earth either, unless there's a glitch. Large cattle herds get blurred in a weird way that prevents counting the number of animals. I ran across this when looking at imagery [1] of the recent quarter-billion-dollar (yes, with a "b") ghost cattle fraud in Grant County, WA [2]. That's right, I said ghos…

Interesting! But I don't think this is it. I searched for some reference to this behavior and found this:

https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=18188.0

...which seems to check out. Cars disappear from roads (but not parking lots) only when I turn on 3D mode ("Globe view"). In normal mode, I see all the cars on freeways around Marin. Plus there are boats showing... just not 100.

Re: The Houseboat Wars of Richardson Bay

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The word processor in Microsoft Works for the Macintosh was written on a houseboat in Richardson’s Bay by Bryan Haas, who bought a bigger boat with the proceeds and sailed off never to be heard from again.

Have any good sources for more info on that story? It sounds fascinating and I’d like to read more, but I can’t find anything about it.

I am the source of that story because I worked with Bryan. I wrote the database:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21777891

My email is in my profile if you have any further questions

Edit: I didn't mean to sound unfriendly. I would be happy to answer any questions

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