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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  • @jerrymylove1754
    @jerrymylove1754 Жыл бұрын

    Leave them fools alone

  • @Dr.Bongstrong
    @Dr.Bongstrong Жыл бұрын

    Gotta dream big when you only sleep a little

  • @davidblaske6911
    @davidblaske6911 Жыл бұрын

    They should legalize creativity and productivity someday.

  • @lelandgaunt7130
    @lelandgaunt7130 Жыл бұрын

    In 4 months, those will sell for $400k..

  • @jayhope615
    @jayhope615 Жыл бұрын

    ITS sad the government would rather have people sleeping in the streets...

  • @jmc_-im6sd

    @jmc_-im6sd

    3 ай бұрын

    I think the government (like me) would rather see these people working 🤷

  • @mafia_boss_donut5213
    @mafia_boss_donut5213 Жыл бұрын

    I respect the use of the message board

  • @MrJohnluvit
    @MrJohnluvit Жыл бұрын

    some body actually solved the affordable housing crisis and the government shuts them down because they can't tax it

  • @buildingjmpr67
    @buildingjmpr67 Жыл бұрын

    Would you rather have them squatting in someone's house?¿ Idiots.. Leave them alone... They aren't bothering anyone out there

  • @orbscorbs

    @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

    @buildingjmpr67

    Жыл бұрын

    @@orbscorbs who's property is it really?????? Let them squat at your house.. Problem solved. Lol

  • @orbscorbs

    @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

    @mariebussinger6565

    5 ай бұрын

    Squatters? PC speak for Addicts.

  • @johnl.8616
    @johnl.8616 Жыл бұрын

    Police putting up Tresspass Notices while Tresspassing.

  • @The_Stockfather
    @The_Stockfather Жыл бұрын

    That’s a nice treehouse.

  • @ScottRiddleArtist
    @ScottRiddleArtist Жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @richsky615
    @richsky615 Жыл бұрын

    Someone got kicked out and call the cops

  • @indiglo1971
    @indiglo1971 Жыл бұрын

    0:57 Skatepark?

  • @leviknox

    @leviknox

    Жыл бұрын

    was saying the same thing where tf is that i want to skate it

  • @YungTrinidad407

    @YungTrinidad407

    Жыл бұрын

    Yoo that thing was hard

  • @kurtdowney1489

    @kurtdowney1489

    Жыл бұрын

    I was thinking half a pool-LOL

  • @KekeeBlack

    @KekeeBlack

    Жыл бұрын

    I’d want to skate it! Maybe not with drug users tho haha

  • @scottbakanumba1heathen313
    @scottbakanumba1heathen313 Жыл бұрын

    A magical place!

  • @TrippinBusa
    @TrippinBusa Жыл бұрын

    Just let them be they were not bothering anyone

  • @allenatkins2263

    @allenatkins2263

    Жыл бұрын

    Dindu nuffin?

  • @SendDesantisToGitmo

    @SendDesantisToGitmo

    Жыл бұрын

    Based

  • @mariebussinger6565

    @mariebussinger6565

    5 ай бұрын

    How do you know?

  • @KB-mf8ef
    @KB-mf8ef Жыл бұрын

    You must leave this un habited area immediately!….what a joke

  • @xen3588
    @xen35888 ай бұрын

    0:56 jeeze they even have a skate park that’s incredibly rad

  • @brendatodd5288
    @brendatodd5288 Жыл бұрын

    Plus if they are not bothering, people or on people's property, maybe make it somewhere for them to be. Just an idea 💡

  • @dieselwrench3621
    @dieselwrench3621 Жыл бұрын

    No trespassing tacked up on the message board 😂😆👍

  • @CrowSpirit1977
    @CrowSpirit1977 Жыл бұрын

    Were they bothering anybody? NO.. So you're gonna force them back into the city? Brilliant!🖒Very well thought out as usual 👏👏🖕👏👏

  • @WoodenCrates1
    @WoodenCrates1 Жыл бұрын

    What’s the rent like on meth island?

  • @falcon4548

    @falcon4548

    Жыл бұрын

    Oooohh it’s a spnsit $$$$😬

  • @gailmckay5551

    @gailmckay5551

    Жыл бұрын

    They showed the sign. It's $10 a night.

  • @alexdavidson7785

    @alexdavidson7785

    Жыл бұрын

    An 8th

  • @bensmith4563

    @bensmith4563

    Жыл бұрын

    It's free claim your spot and create fortifications to ward off invasion

  • @KekeeBlack

    @KekeeBlack

    Жыл бұрын

    @@gailmckay5551 Affordable rent? These meth heads are doing more for homelessness than out government.

  • @brendatodd5288
    @brendatodd5288 Жыл бұрын

    Who actually owns the island?

  • @ralphholiman7401

    @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

    @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

    @GirlJay67

    23 күн бұрын

    Besos

  • @indiglo1971
    @indiglo1971 Жыл бұрын

    Slab City East? 😅

  • @anyone150

    @anyone150

    Жыл бұрын

    Pretty much.

  • @jimmylim5015
    @jimmylim50155 ай бұрын

    Why can't the government just give them a small plot of land like this one instead of keeping them in the city?

  • @lonelyastronautaudio
    @lonelyastronautaudio Жыл бұрын

    This is perhaps the greatest meth city ever made

  • @davids6698
    @davids6698 Жыл бұрын

    Meth Family Robinson

  • @falcon4548

    @falcon4548

    Жыл бұрын

    The leader be Chrystal Methony 💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼

  • @franksnyder1038
    @franksnyder1038 Жыл бұрын

    Meth family Robinson.

  • @duckzncatz
    @duckzncatz Жыл бұрын

    Their version of Costa Rica's Finca Bellavista.

  • @CrowSpirit1977
    @CrowSpirit1977 Жыл бұрын

    Just gotta ruin everyone's fun😳 At least they're not lying on the sidewalk in front of somebody's place of business.

  • @buildingjmpr67
    @buildingjmpr67 Жыл бұрын

    So who really owns this island??? 🤔🤔🤔

  • @indiglo1971

    @indiglo1971

    Жыл бұрын

    Wondering that myself. I guess just about every parcel is owned by someone these days.

  • @buildingjmpr67

    @buildingjmpr67

    Жыл бұрын

    @@indiglo1971 or so they say

  • @indiglo1971

    @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

    @indiglo1971

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@buildingjmpr67In the video they are putting up trespass notices. That means it belongs to somebody.

  • @ralphholiman7401

    @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.

  • @TheFlutecart
    @TheFlutecart Жыл бұрын

    Is that DeSantis's plan to replace Disney World? - needs some work.

  • @jamesqryan
    @jamesqryan Жыл бұрын

    Why they messing with those people

  • @HollyMoore-wo2mh

    @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.

  • @eggsmann594
    @eggsmann594 Жыл бұрын

    They play Dodge the Hypodermic Needle on the trampoline on weekends only.

  • @falcon4548

    @falcon4548

    Жыл бұрын

    Love those games 🥳😜

  • @CHRISTisKing197

    @CHRISTisKing197

    Жыл бұрын

    There's literally no signs of drug use in this video

  • @timothyconley5871
    @timothyconley5871 Жыл бұрын

    So where do our homeless go?

  • @SendDesantisToGitmo

    @SendDesantisToGitmo

    Жыл бұрын

    Repubs would rather see them starve than have access to shelter and community

  • @CHRISTisKing197

    @CHRISTisKing197

    Жыл бұрын

    Jail, on the tax payers dime

  • @SendDesantisToGitmo

    @SendDesantisToGitmo

    Жыл бұрын

    @@CHRISTisKing197 where they get to work for pennies on the hour producing consumer goods for private companies

  • @KekeeBlack

    @KekeeBlack

    Жыл бұрын

    @@SendDesantisToGitmoright, those companies are bums that just want something for free

  • @SendDesantisToGitmo

    @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 :((((

  • @CHRISTisKing197
    @CHRISTisKing197 Жыл бұрын

    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

    @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!!!

  • @michaeltreacy6356
    @michaeltreacy6356 Жыл бұрын

    "Tresspassing." The Gubmint thinks it owns everything.

  • @cknorris3644
    @cknorris3644 Жыл бұрын

    People in the comments are clowns. You can't simply build on land you don't own.

  • @RexHill-yn6os

    @RexHill-yn6os

    Жыл бұрын

    ...ooh but the squatters can move into YOUR HOUSE, and tear it down..so is that right?

  • @SendDesantisToGitmo

    @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

    @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

    @nategrey8880

    Жыл бұрын

    kinda how the country was founded.

  • @ianwilkinson5069

    @ianwilkinson5069

    Жыл бұрын

    @@nategrey8880 Things were different then, if it was like that now then they would be hanging ppl for stealing a car.

  • @jasoncochran7760
    @jasoncochran7760 Жыл бұрын

    Is anyone even there?

  • @diecastguykid8751
    @diecastguykid87515 ай бұрын

    I wonder if this is the Treehouse murder trial spot on court TV.

  • @alexdavidson7785
    @alexdavidson7785 Жыл бұрын

    ! Next vacation spot

  • @ianwilkinson5069
    @ianwilkinson5069 Жыл бұрын

    Try introducing a couple colonies of fire ants to the island maybe?

  • @CrowSpirit1977

    @CrowSpirit1977

    Жыл бұрын

    I hope they come and live on your sidewalk then!!

  • @10use

    @10use

    11 ай бұрын

    Or Termites. 😂

  • @ingridgallagher1029
    @ingridgallagher10293 ай бұрын

    When are the states going to legalize people solving their own problems??

  • @jumpropexpressions8929
    @jumpropexpressions8929 Жыл бұрын

    Shhh, don’t tell ron desanctimonius about this! 😂

  • @timburton5950
    @timburton5950 Жыл бұрын

    you set a lemonade stand up where we live and entire task force on you like stink on shoot

  • @JRose-zn7iw
    @JRose-zn7iw Жыл бұрын

    Tweekers have some funny ideas about construction.

  • @KekeeBlack

    @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

    @elcobra0215

    8 ай бұрын

    ​@@KekeeBlackSounds like you have some experience 🤣

  • @mojesus680
    @mojesus680 Жыл бұрын

    That's a good Squatter place 4them🧟

  • @francisgoldstien6153
    @francisgoldstien6153 Жыл бұрын

    They hate wildlife

  • @SendDesantisToGitmo

    @SendDesantisToGitmo

    Жыл бұрын

    "Homeless people should simply stop existing" 🤡

  • @duckzncatz
    @duckzncatz Жыл бұрын

    LOL thye posted on the message board.

  • @Skyrider12
    @Skyrider12 Жыл бұрын

    Go to the dessert in Ca! Nobody messes with ya there!

  • @pete6705
    @pete67052 ай бұрын

    Do the meth heads all hide in the trees when the cops come?

  • @coyotefeather4896
    @coyotefeather48965 ай бұрын

    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

    @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”

  • @smattos1224
    @smattos122413 күн бұрын

    Why move them they are not in anybody’s way. Why do we have to pay to live of the land.

  • @peaves
    @peaves5 күн бұрын

    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?

  • @10use
    @10use11 ай бұрын

    I doubt that Tree House structure is up to code.

  • @stevensmith6445
    @stevensmith6445 Жыл бұрын

    They BUILT that!!! YOU are squatting!!!!

  • @SendDesantisToGitmo

    @SendDesantisToGitmo

    Жыл бұрын

    Based

  • @Skullvania
    @Skullvania Жыл бұрын

    Raiders in fallout

  • @fred-san
    @fred-san6 ай бұрын

    toocool 'Florida' free

  • @kds365
    @kds365 Жыл бұрын

    Tweakers so much wasted creativity

  • @stuarthayward2220
    @stuarthayward2220 Жыл бұрын

    So where is everybody?

  • @mariebussinger6565

    @mariebussinger6565

    5 ай бұрын

    Out for the day, robbing and assaulting citizens, that's an addicts "job".

  • @JuergenGDB
    @JuergenGDB Жыл бұрын

    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

    @mojesus680

    Жыл бұрын

    The Sewage flows freely in the Halifax from Bethune point so eat that mullet😂

  • @rickytecon5726

    @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

    @SendDesantisToGitmo

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@rickytecon5726me when I don't understand the neurochemical basis for addiction or neuropsychiatric disorders

  • @mojesus680

    @mojesus680

    Жыл бұрын

    @@rickytecon5726 *Mothers mowed the yard while they played video in air condition They will never labor 🚬👀

  • @rickytecon5726

    @rickytecon5726

    Жыл бұрын

    @@SendDesantisToGitmo ooooh Mr. smarty pants. With your big words. Funny you don't see this in China or the middle east.

  • @austinhowells20
    @austinhowells20 Жыл бұрын

    I sending this to the governor he will help the police

  • @larryps
    @larryps Жыл бұрын

    Now where did I put my chainsaw?

  • @SendDesantisToGitmo

    @SendDesantisToGitmo

    Жыл бұрын

    I fucking hate homeless people existing in a space I will quite literally never see!!!!!!

  • @pennyschuerch2806
    @pennyschuerch2806 Жыл бұрын

    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?

  • @nichole9943
    @nichole9943Ай бұрын

    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

  • @ATF.California
    @ATF.California Жыл бұрын

    Meth is a hell of a drug 😅

  • @user-si5uq9ky1v
    @user-si5uq9ky1v Жыл бұрын

    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

    @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

    @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

    @mariebussinger6565

    5 ай бұрын

    @@jmcnally647 Addicts brought back from overdoses refuse to go to hospital, don't want to give up the "life".

  • @Patriotsoftwash
    @Patriotsoftwash Жыл бұрын

    Thanks cops. Can’t let people live, huh?

  • @chillbilly2517
    @chillbilly2517 Жыл бұрын

    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

    @CHRISTisKing197

    Жыл бұрын

    No

  • @mariebussinger6565

    @mariebussinger6565

    5 ай бұрын

    They do leave, to do crimes to feed their habits.

  • @emc2928
    @emc29287 ай бұрын

    Meanwhile a 911 caller is still waiting

  • @annabrown7302
    @annabrown7302 Жыл бұрын

    LET THEM ALONE THEY ARE NOT BOTHERING ANYBODY ❤

  • @HollyMoore-wo2mh

    @HollyMoore-wo2mh

    Жыл бұрын

    UNLESS it is YOUR property they are squatting on ..right?

  • @sonsofthunder007
    @sonsofthunder007 Жыл бұрын

    They are only killing themselves; let them be 😂 people in the comment section 🤦‍♂️

  • @ricklane1693
    @ricklane1693 Жыл бұрын

    SO MANY Meth heads ?????????