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Originally posted by Morpheus
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Originally posted by Shaun
You seem to be suggesting that all squatters are nice and rosy. A distant cousin of mine (3rd cousin), who lives nearby, is homeless. I've seen myself what leads someone to that course of life. It isn't 'woe is me' unluckiness, there are plenty of opportunities in this country if we only seize them: free education for all children being one example of that.
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Your STILL missing my point. Squaters are people who live in predominantly empty or abandoned houses , doing nobody any harm except perhaps the owner of the completely unused property.
People here are suggesting they should be treated as theives because they break and enter into an occupied home and sleep on the rug while grandpa trys to watch the TV. Thats not a squater and they should not be treated as thieves. Thats a stupid thing to say. They live in buildings that would otherwise be burned to the ground by some ASBO sooner or later. If you want to say they steal , fine , but the buildings are unused. I call it opportunity.
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And you're still missing my point - it's ultimately property that does not belong to them, and is no different at all to breaking and entering, other than causing damage. It doesn't matter if the property owner has been away from there for a week or 50 years, it's still his, and squatters have no [moral] right to inhabit it if the owner doesn't want them to.
Taking the example with the topic starter here, it's obviously causing his friend's mum a great deal of stress and concern to have these squatters claiming their property - and in my opinion that's just not right.