Squatters take over Florida ‘meth island,' build elaborate treehouse
Florida law enforcement officials are working to remove squatters from an island they outfitted with an elaborate treehouse, a "welcome center" and a trampoline.
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Leave them fools alone
Gotta dream big when you only sleep a little
They should legalize creativity and productivity someday.
In 4 months, those will sell for $400k..
ITS sad the government would rather have people sleeping in the streets...
@jmc_-im6sd
3 ай бұрын
I think the government (like me) would rather see these people working 🤷
I respect the use of the message board
some body actually solved the affordable housing crisis and the government shuts them down because they can't tax it
Would you rather have them squatting in someone's house?¿ Idiots.. Leave them alone... They aren't bothering anyone out there
@orbscorbs
Жыл бұрын
Right, and as soon as there's a person injured or killed out there, everyone will be clucking their tongues about how nothing was done for them. Why does being broke mean that you can take other people's property? Resurrect the WPA and put these leeches to work on public projects. Maybe then they'd learn some self respect.
@buildingjmpr67
Жыл бұрын
@@orbscorbs who's property is it really?????? Let them squat at your house.. Problem solved. Lol
@orbscorbs
Жыл бұрын
If it isn't your property, stay off of it. The leeches would be much more comfortable squatting with you, a like-minded dolt.
@mariebussinger6565
5 ай бұрын
Squatters? PC speak for Addicts.
Police putting up Tresspass Notices while Tresspassing.
That’s a nice treehouse.
It actually looks clean and well-kept. I think if more unhoused people show that kind of initiative. Communities be more empathetic towards them. Here in California they just destroy the environment. Even using the very things that people have given them out of charity to litter along with their hypodermic needles everywhere.
Someone got kicked out and call the cops
0:57 Skatepark?
@leviknox
Жыл бұрын
was saying the same thing where tf is that i want to skate it
@YungTrinidad407
Жыл бұрын
Yoo that thing was hard
@kurtdowney1489
Жыл бұрын
I was thinking half a pool-LOL
@KekeeBlack
Жыл бұрын
I’d want to skate it! Maybe not with drug users tho haha
A magical place!
Just let them be they were not bothering anyone
@allenatkins2263
Жыл бұрын
Dindu nuffin?
@SendDesantisToGitmo
Жыл бұрын
Based
@mariebussinger6565
5 ай бұрын
How do you know?
You must leave this un habited area immediately!….what a joke
0:56 jeeze they even have a skate park that’s incredibly rad
Plus if they are not bothering, people or on people's property, maybe make it somewhere for them to be. Just an idea 💡
No trespassing tacked up on the message board 😂😆👍
Were they bothering anybody? NO.. So you're gonna force them back into the city? Brilliant!🖒Very well thought out as usual 👏👏🖕👏👏
What’s the rent like on meth island?
@falcon4548
Жыл бұрын
Oooohh it’s a spnsit $$$$😬
@gailmckay5551
Жыл бұрын
They showed the sign. It's $10 a night.
@alexdavidson7785
Жыл бұрын
An 8th
@bensmith4563
Жыл бұрын
It's free claim your spot and create fortifications to ward off invasion
@KekeeBlack
Жыл бұрын
@@gailmckay5551 Affordable rent? These meth heads are doing more for homelessness than out government.
Who actually owns the island?
@ralphholiman7401
11 ай бұрын
Who owns this raw and undeveloped man-made 39-acre island just off Key West called Wisteria Island? The federal government does, a U.S. District Court judge has ruled, and not a local developer. Judge Jose Martinez granted the U.S. government summary judgment in a 2011 lawsuit brought by developer Roger Bernstein who lay claim that the island belonged to his corporation, F.E.B. The government’s interest in the case, however, only arose after two Key West journalists, Naja and Arnaud Girard, dove into the history of Wisteria Island after seeing Bernstein’s plans to develop it. “My husband and I had a lot to do with it,” Naja Girard said. “All the research convinced the government.” Wisteria Island ruling, July 31, 2020. by Gwen Filosa on Scribd In 2011, the Girards, who own a Key West marine assistance and boat salvage company, made three trips to the National Archives in Washington, D.C., and pored through records. “It was sort of a passion,” Naja Girard said. “We asked for what you have about the Navy and the Key West area and they brought out all these boxes. We sat there for days.” They hit the jackpot: documents that suggested the Bernsteins could not own the island because the Navy had not given up title to Wisteria until 1982. And when it did, it transferred it to the U.S. Department of the Interior, not the state of Florida. By the time the couple had compiled their evidence that Wisteria belonged to the government, they had persuaded the U.S. Bureau of Land Management to write to them in November 2011 that, because Wisteria was built by the Navy, it was public land. The lead attorney for F.E.B. did not respond to a request for comment on Thursday. The corporation could still appeal Martinez’s decision. The Bernstein family in 2012 said they were stunned the feds disregarded the warranty deed their late father, Ben, obtained for $155,000 in 1967, the four decades worth of property taxes they’ve paid, and the Submerged Lands Act of 1953, which they believe confirms their ownership. “This is a land grab by the federal government of epic proportions,” Roger Bernstein told the Miami Herald in 2012. Wisteria sits across from another island, the ultra-developed luxury community of Sunset Key.
@CBPunisher1900
3 ай бұрын
If it's wisteria Island the federal government the Navy technically so local police are the ones trespassing they have no jurisdiction you could take those signs and wipe your ass with them
@GirlJay67
23 күн бұрын
Besos
Slab City East? 😅
@anyone150
Жыл бұрын
Pretty much.
Why can't the government just give them a small plot of land like this one instead of keeping them in the city?
This is perhaps the greatest meth city ever made
Meth Family Robinson
@falcon4548
Жыл бұрын
The leader be Chrystal Methony 💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼
Meth family Robinson.
Their version of Costa Rica's Finca Bellavista.
Just gotta ruin everyone's fun😳 At least they're not lying on the sidewalk in front of somebody's place of business.
So who really owns this island??? 🤔🤔🤔
@indiglo1971
Жыл бұрын
Wondering that myself. I guess just about every parcel is owned by someone these days.
@buildingjmpr67
Жыл бұрын
@@indiglo1971 or so they say
@indiglo1971
Жыл бұрын
@buildingjmpr67 I have a feeling it belongs to someone. Sometimes they just let people stay there. I left another comment comparing this place to Slab City. Along the Texas Coast there is San Jose Island. It is owned by a wealthy man, but he lets people go there for day trips and overnight camping.
@indiglo1971
Жыл бұрын
@@buildingjmpr67In the video they are putting up trespass notices. That means it belongs to somebody.
@ralphholiman7401
11 ай бұрын
Who owns this raw and undeveloped man-made 39-acre island just off Key West called Wisteria Island? The federal government does, a U.S. District Court judge has ruled, and not a local developer. Judge Jose Martinez granted the U.S. government summary judgment in a 2011 lawsuit brought by developer Roger Bernstein who lay claim that the island belonged to his corporation, F.E.B. The government’s interest in the case, however, only arose after two Key West journalists, Naja and Arnaud Girard, dove into the history of Wisteria Island after seeing Bernstein’s plans to develop it. “My husband and I had a lot to do with it,” Naja Girard said. “All the research convinced the government.” Wisteria Island ruling, July 31, 2020. by Gwen Filosa on Scribd In 2011, the Girards, who own a Key West marine assistance and boat salvage company, made three trips to the National Archives in Washington, D.C., and pored through records. “It was sort of a passion,” Naja Girard said. “We asked for what you have about the Navy and the Key West area and they brought out all these boxes. We sat there for days.” They hit the jackpot: documents that suggested the Bernsteins could not own the island because the Navy had not given up title to Wisteria until 1982. And when it did, it transferred it to the U.S. Department of the Interior, not the state of Florida. By the time the couple had compiled their evidence that Wisteria belonged to the government, they had persuaded the U.S. Bureau of Land Management to write to them in November 2011 that, because Wisteria was built by the Navy, it was public land. The lead attorney for F.E.B. did not respond to a request for comment on Thursday. The corporation could still appeal Martinez’s decision. The Bernstein family in 2012 said they were stunned the feds disregarded the warranty deed their late father, Ben, obtained for $155,000 in 1967, the four decades worth of property taxes they’ve paid, and the Submerged Lands Act of 1953, which they believe confirms their ownership. “This is a land grab by the federal government of epic proportions,” Roger Bernstein told the Miami Herald in 2012. Wisteria sits across from another island, the ultra-developed luxury community of Sunset Key.
Is that DeSantis's plan to replace Disney World? - needs some work.
Why they messing with those people
@HollyMoore-wo2mh
Жыл бұрын
WHY - because it is NOT THEIR PROPERTY. On their property they can build whatever.. more than likely if it's not an HOA.
They play Dodge the Hypodermic Needle on the trampoline on weekends only.
@falcon4548
Жыл бұрын
Love those games 🥳😜
@CHRISTisKing197
Жыл бұрын
There's literally no signs of drug use in this video
So where do our homeless go?
@SendDesantisToGitmo
Жыл бұрын
Repubs would rather see them starve than have access to shelter and community
@CHRISTisKing197
Жыл бұрын
Jail, on the tax payers dime
@SendDesantisToGitmo
Жыл бұрын
@@CHRISTisKing197 where they get to work for pennies on the hour producing consumer goods for private companies
@KekeeBlack
Жыл бұрын
@@SendDesantisToGitmoright, those companies are bums that just want something for free
@SendDesantisToGitmo
Жыл бұрын
@@KekeeBlack it's soooo hard collecting prison labor for pennies on the dollar 😰 poor Widdle CEOs of Walmart, Target, Nintendo, Walmart, McDonald's, etc would all starve if they couldn't essentially use slave labor :((((
Look at those hearts etched into that tree! We can't have this going on in random islands they could turn into pirates! Take my tax dollars to stop them immediately!!!
@FoundaPeanut
Жыл бұрын
We can't have these homeless people away from others, on an island, living peacefully out of the way, we NEED them sleeping and pooping on the sidewalks... am i right!!!
"Tresspassing." The Gubmint thinks it owns everything.
People in the comments are clowns. You can't simply build on land you don't own.
@RexHill-yn6os
Жыл бұрын
...ooh but the squatters can move into YOUR HOUSE, and tear it down..so is that right?
@SendDesantisToGitmo
Жыл бұрын
True freedom is when you have to pay some random company the amount of money they decided that it's worth for you to have a place to live
@timothyconley5871
Жыл бұрын
In America you pay property tax on your property or the government Seize the land. Doesn't sound like you own the property doesn't?.. I don't care about homeless people building an island that is basically a s*** hole
@nategrey8880
Жыл бұрын
kinda how the country was founded.
@ianwilkinson5069
Жыл бұрын
@@nategrey8880 Things were different then, if it was like that now then they would be hanging ppl for stealing a car.
Is anyone even there?
I wonder if this is the Treehouse murder trial spot on court TV.
! Next vacation spot
Try introducing a couple colonies of fire ants to the island maybe?
@CrowSpirit1977
Жыл бұрын
I hope they come and live on your sidewalk then!!
@10use
11 ай бұрын
Or Termites. 😂
When are the states going to legalize people solving their own problems??
Shhh, don’t tell ron desanctimonius about this! 😂
you set a lemonade stand up where we live and entire task force on you like stink on shoot
Tweekers have some funny ideas about construction.
@KekeeBlack
Жыл бұрын
I was hoping they had electricity. Meth head wiring in cars is funny as hell and I wanted to see it in an infrastructure application!
@elcobra0215
8 ай бұрын
@@KekeeBlackSounds like you have some experience 🤣
That's a good Squatter place 4them🧟
They hate wildlife
@SendDesantisToGitmo
Жыл бұрын
"Homeless people should simply stop existing" 🤡
LOL thye posted on the message board.
Go to the dessert in Ca! Nobody messes with ya there!
Do the meth heads all hide in the trees when the cops come?
I doubt this was a bunch of meth addicts like people want to say. This shows too much initiative, vision, and cooperation to just be the work of a bunch of tweakers, but who knows I could be wrong. I would happily live in a place like this (assuming it wasn't, in fact, full of drug addicts).
@SailingHippies
5 ай бұрын
I know the three men who built it and they are hippies with jobs and houses who garden and finger paint and build things out there, none of them were on meth. The two guys who built the place who still live in the area in fact would kick out anyone they found doing drugs there besides weed and mushrooms because “it’s a family friendly island”
Why move them they are not in anybody’s way. Why do we have to pay to live of the land.
Im totally not for squatters rights, but I see no harm, no foul here. It appears to be a fairly clean, organized encampment, away from "normal" society. If no is doing harm, why not let it be?
I doubt that Tree House structure is up to code.
They BUILT that!!! YOU are squatting!!!!
@SendDesantisToGitmo
Жыл бұрын
Based
Raiders in fallout
toocool 'Florida' free
Tweakers so much wasted creativity
So where is everybody?
@mariebussinger6565
5 ай бұрын
Out for the day, robbing and assaulting citizens, that's an addicts "job".
Just think of all of the polutants going into the water. They need to eradicate these people into barrack-style housing, and have them go cold turkey, and jailed for life. Drugs are the destruction of society.
@mojesus680
Жыл бұрын
The Sewage flows freely in the Halifax from Bethune point so eat that mullet😂
@rickytecon5726
Жыл бұрын
That's the thing. Drug addiction and or mental illness. They just want to get high, pan handle and not work.
@SendDesantisToGitmo
Жыл бұрын
@@rickytecon5726me when I don't understand the neurochemical basis for addiction or neuropsychiatric disorders
@mojesus680
Жыл бұрын
@@rickytecon5726 *Mothers mowed the yard while they played video in air condition They will never labor 🚬👀
@rickytecon5726
Жыл бұрын
@@SendDesantisToGitmo ooooh Mr. smarty pants. With your big words. Funny you don't see this in China or the middle east.
I sending this to the governor he will help the police
Now where did I put my chainsaw?
@SendDesantisToGitmo
Жыл бұрын
I fucking hate homeless people existing in a space I will quite literally never see!!!!!!
At least their not all over the street. So many heartless idiots posting different state of people tripping out on the streets now you have to do this?
Dare to be different, not in this governments world. Its sad and disgusting that you cant do your own thing. You need a permit for this and that, etc. Not everyone wants to live the same way geez
Meth is a hell of a drug 😅
Why is this a problem? Where are people supposed to sleep? I know, not your problem. And don’t say they can get a job because it is obvious the problem with minimum wage ($12.00)and rent prices ($1800) plus the issue of food, electric, water… the basics. Please tell me how that would happen. If prices keeps going up I know a few people that will need to rent that room they have.
@jmcnally647
Жыл бұрын
I wish it was that simple. There are shelter programs but the junkies don't want to follow the rules. Same shit in Brevard county. There is a reason the Wawa at 95 and Eau Gallie has hired nighttime security. You can see the tarps on Google maps, and you can hear the screams from the camps sometimes if you are in the area, using the service station/commuting/working. Trust me, it does bother people.
@SendDesantisToGitmo
Жыл бұрын
@@jmcnally647maybe that's because they don't let you take your shit with you, zero privacy, and the rates of sexual abuse and theft in shelters is egregiously high. Think more deeply about why homeless people would choose NOT to have somewhere to sleep at night, it's because shelters are fucking horrible in America
@mariebussinger6565
5 ай бұрын
@@jmcnally647 Addicts brought back from overdoses refuse to go to hospital, don't want to give up the "life".
Thanks cops. Can’t let people live, huh?
All y'all need to do with them is make sure they don't leave the island. Don't you have anything better to do on our dime?
@CHRISTisKing197
Жыл бұрын
No
@mariebussinger6565
5 ай бұрын
They do leave, to do crimes to feed their habits.
Meanwhile a 911 caller is still waiting
LET THEM ALONE THEY ARE NOT BOTHERING ANYBODY ❤
@HollyMoore-wo2mh
Жыл бұрын
UNLESS it is YOUR property they are squatting on ..right?
They are only killing themselves; let them be 😂 people in the comment section 🤦♂️
SO MANY Meth heads ?????????