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		City randomly demolishes man's house without any notice or due process, then bills him $40k for the privilege. Then it gets weird (buffalonews.com)		12
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fluffybunny		2012-01-01 02:26:28 PM

10 votes:

Gordon Bennett		2012-01-01 02:32:53 PM

6 votes:

fluffybunny: [infocom.elsewhere.org image 640x512]

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JuggleGeek		2012-01-01 06:19:09 PM

2 votes:

There's no point in acting surprised about it. All the planning charts and demolition orders have been on display at your local planning department in Alpha Centauri for 50 of your Earth years, so you've had plenty of time to lodge any formal complaint and it's far too late to start making a fuss about it now. ... What do you mean you've never been to Alpha Centauri? Oh, for heaven's sake, mankind, it's only four light years away, you know. I'm sorry, but if you can't be bothered to take an interest in local affairs, that's your own lookout. Energize the demolition beams.

Gunny Walker		2012-01-01 06:06:07 PM

2 votes:

jtown: FizixJunkee: The bigger news is that you can buy a house for $20K-$40K!

\I'm U-Haulin' it to New York!

shiat, you can buy a house for that in a lot of places. And not necessarily in a run-down craphole neighborhood.

Buy a block, build a compund. That'll keep you safe. Electified fence, gator moat, electrified fence. The gator wil freeze in the winter, but Gator's good eating!

jjorsett		2012-01-01 02:44:18 PM

2 votes:

You have thirty minutes to move your house.

You have ten minutes to move your house.

Your house has been impounded.

Your house has been crushed into a cube.

You have thirty minutes to move your cube.

PainInTheASP		2012-01-01 02:11:38 PM

2 votes:

CrispFlows: This calls for a hitchhiker's reference.

"Berger noted he then spoke with the city attorney's office, and that he and a city attorney went to a room in City Hall filled with boxes of documents the FBI had requested. While Berger and the attorney were unable to find the documents that day, another city attorney eventually found the records and forwarded them to Berger."

They were on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying "Beware of The Leopard".

jtown		2012-01-01 05:38:23 PM

1 votes:

gweilo8888: How in the fark does it cost $40,000 to demolish a small, three story house? It's what, two hours work if that for the thing to be knocked over, and a few hours to load the debris into a few trucks and take it for disposal. It's not like there's any real pretense at recycling the building materials, or carefully stripping the house of anything reusable before the thing's knocked over, at least not in any US house demolition I ever saw.

$4,000 per house I'd believe. $40k, I don't.

It was an emergency! [/Australian_kid_voice]

fluffybunny		2012-01-01 04:52:55 PM

1 votes:

bigbadideasinaction: The contruction crews probably use their bulldozers like Texans use electric chairs.

Not sure why but this is the first thing I thought when I read that:

homepage.mac.com

/but yeah, I get it now.

Bucky Katt		2012-01-01 04:06:21 PM

1 votes:

I'm sure the FBI will sort out everything.

fluffybunny		2012-01-01 03:42:04 PM

1 votes:

Isildur: Gordon Bennett: fluffybunny: [infocom.elsewhere.org image 640x512]

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Vogons use Greek letters?

Duh,...

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Clint_Torres		2012-01-01 03:24:56 PM

1 votes:

Atharaenea: R.A.Danny: cantsleep: namatad: you drove the bulldozer? demolished

My only objection. I'm pretty sure the bulldozer operator had nothing to do with this fark up.

Zee Clerk at Auschwitz didn't kill any of zee Jews either.

'winned.

You think they told the bulldozer operator that the homeowner had no idea about the fire or the reason for demolition? It's likely that all the bulldozer operator knew is that today's job was to tear down a couple trashy houses, not the reasoning behind the tear down, and possibly not even who hired the contractor he was working for. You think the labor knows all the details of every job?

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CrispFlows		2012-01-01 01:59:00 PM

1 votes:

This calls for a hitchhiker's reference.

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