Calis Beach and Fethiye Turkey Discussion Forum
General Topics => All things that have nothing to do with Turkey => Topic started by: Scunner on August 31, 2012, 17:14:28 PM
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Who cares!!!
About bloody time, maybe if they didn't trash other people's property while living in it free I'd have more sympathy. Really pathetic to hear the anti spokespeople claiming it will mean a waste of taxpayer's money charging these parasites. Or as they called them, "the most vulnerable people in our society". Not the ones I have known...
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Spot on Keith. :)
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Agreed here also
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Couldn't agree more. Long overdue.
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Years go friends of ours went abroad to work for a year so rented there house out.When they returned the couple renting the house would not move out when the rental agreement ended they claimed 'squatters rights'
When they eventually left a year later the house was completely recked.
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Great start its about time they did somthing, lets hope they do somthing about the travelling community now!
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Well, now the squatters will get arrested and imprisoned for upto 6 months in a nice warm cell with 3 meals a day, medical care, sports facilities.....................................
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I agree who's going to foot the bill. On my way to work yesterday, I witnessed squatters being evicted. They were on the street, appeared drug ridden and in a daze. I thought to myself where will these go now e.g part of the homeless society, prison etc. For these there is such a lot of baggage attached to unravel and costly too.
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I would like to see the new law apply to "travellers" who squat on other perople's land.
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They were on the street, appeared drug ridden and in a daze.
Sounds like the departure lounge at Dalaman Airport.
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I thought to myself where will these go now
Maybe somewhere legal? It is incredible to me that there is any sympathy - would it be ok for me to just take someone else's car if I couldn't afford one of my own? I could then get my friends round and we could smash it to bits, then move on to the next car without having to answer for any of the damage at all. Of course not, but to some this is perfectly acceptable if it is a building..?
These people are generally not vulnerable, they are freeloading parasites who know (knew) their rights down to the last letter. Good riddance.
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Ok, I've been provoked into indulging myself in a little touch of pomposity. I believe the 20th century squatting movement began after WW2 when servicemen returned from the war to "a land fit for heroes" (to use a WW1 phrase). Many found that their homes had been bombed but there were plenty of empty buildings. So they moved in.
The present law change applies only to residential properties; it does not cover empty commercial premises which is where a lot of squatting takes place. One image of the squatter is the person who breaks into your house whilst you are on holiday and steals and then trashes your home. Another is of the person who occupies a building that has been long empty, owned by some overseas investor as a tax scam or waiting for the property market to rise, and - other than squatting - would likely be empty for the foreseeable future. Often the occupants, for their own comfort, renovate the rundown place and improve a rotting eyesore to the neighbourhood. To classify both sorts of squatter in the same way seems, to me, to be crass. The equivalent of supposing that all football fans are hooligans or all estate agents are evil. Of course, some squatters are lazy, selfish dross; and, of course, some aren't.
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Oh you mean like the squatter that was interviewed on the Jeremy Vine Show yesterday? She had to squat because she couldn't get a job in her chosen career...............Freelance Performance Poet ! FFS !
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Jeremy Vine ? ? ? ???
Oi, I put some question marks at the end of this post and bloody system converted them into some silly "smillie". The damned computer programs are taking over. Rise up and fight against these automated monstrosities.
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I'm sure there are indeed genuine cases where people who have hit hard times can take over a derelict building and improve it - thus improving the situation for them personally and the building. Sadly that must be a tiny percentage who will now be negatively affected due to the actions of the majority of squatters.
KKOB hits the nail on the head - these people are (generally) not " the most vulnerable members of society" - they are in fact from the opposite end - the overspoilt, anarchy dabbling offspring of the rich, rebelling against dad to embarrass him down at the Con club. Don't worry about these people being evicted; soon enough they'll realise that dad's money is not so bad after all.
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I'll admit to not knowing much about what happens down at the Con Club.