Man Charged With Stealing Houses
April 23, 2008 by Laura | Trackback URI
This is the strangest news story I’ve read since Hurricane Katrina.
Man Charged With Stealing Houses
According to the St. Bernard Sheriff’s Office, Jesse Bryant, 47, was booked with burglary and criminal trespassing after posting signs in yards of damaged houses reading “I, Jesse Bryant, take possession of this abandoned property.”
Somehow he got the idea that he can legally claim property that he personally deems has been abandoned. He even had the locks changed on one house. What a maroon.
“What a maroon.”
That’s a hilarious play on words. The MORON reappropriated the houses that were MAROONED.
Still . . what a sad state of affairs.
Blessings,
Linda
A FAMILIAR WAY, at Nickers and Ink
A couple that lived near my sister went on a month long vacation. They had told their neighbors that they were going to do some remodeling but failed to tell them that they were going to be gone for a month before starting their project. Their home stood out alone in a field, but very visible to those going by on the highway. For two weeks people drove by and watched the house be dismantled bit by bit. Every single piece was taken. Shingles taken off and stacked, wood stacked, copper stripped. Seriously, EVERYTHING. After a month the couple came home and found little more than a slab where their house was. They called the sheriff and were told that even the sheriff had watched four men dismantle the house and haul it away. They thought that they were clearing the site for a new house….. turns out it was some guys who figured they could sell the house piece by piece and use the money to buy drugs. The only thing that got them caught was they were trying to pawn some personal belongings. If they had not done that they would have walked away with the profit from a $150,000 house in pieces. Amazing to me that people didn’t wonder about it, even more amazing that some drug addicts came up with the plan and executed it. Nothing is beyond belief these day.
That’s amazing… I’d never have had the nerve to do it. I’d love to be a fly on the wall at the insurance agents office.