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A man who lives in a Boeing 727 in Oregon (2020)

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While this is starting to get into flame war we don’t want on HN (so I wont comment further on it past this)

The police in “Trump Nation” areas of our country tend to be very kind & permissive of skirting the law to the rest of those who identify with their same political views, and it often goes the same for the Sheriff, and sometimes even further up the chain.

Simply put - I don’t know the entire context, but if one of the reasons they’re harassing this person has to do with the fact he’s of the “wrong” political views, the police aren’t going to do anything to those harassing him.

That is one of the reasons our gun laws are nice, but sometimes when the “wrong side” exercises their right to self defense, the sitting president publicly calls for their execution without trial. [1]

@anon_123g987 if it weren’t literally poison I would be more inclined to agree with you on not using excessive force. But somebody who dumps poison on your property probably doesn’t think very highly of your life, and may over time take more brash measures against you. Also, having somebody work security on your property definitely isn’t a trap, especially in rural areas.

[1]https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/15/politics/trump-fugitive-shoot...

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It's property crime. They'll write up a report and you can give it to your insurance company. They're not going to investigate it in-depth or serve as your personal security force. The most effective solution is probably to put up a fence and cameras.

Of course. I guess, what I wanted to say is that anything is better than setting up a trap and just executing the guy, like the other commenter said.

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irrational wrote: post #2

I've been to this guys place. Nicest guy. But he is absolutely surrounded by "Trump Nation" people (their flags are everywhere out there) who hate him. Every time he leaves home his place is vandalized. Just before I visited someone had waited till he was gone and then dumped truck loads of some kind of poison all over his grounds. He was going through and sifting it out of the soil by hand. It is incredible how chee…

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I've visited Bruce and his home as well, and it's almost startling how welcoming he is. When I went, it was the middle of a nice afternoon, and so he already happened to be outside conversing with some other guests, but if you poke around on his website, you'll find that he essentially says "if you come for a visit and I'm not around, climb up on the wing and come bang on my airplane until you wake me up."

Was only there for a few minutes, but we got in a short and pleasant conversation about housing scarcity and the future of AI. Really interesting character, clearly living his best life.

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davidw wrote: post #17

More Bruce Campbell Oregon trivia: Bruce the actor, from Evil Dead and various and sundry other 'B' movies and TV shows like Burn Notice also lives in Oregon, near Ashland.

Tsk Army Of Darkness was robbed, robbed I tell you, of an Oscar.
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