“I’d much rather make a squatter homeless than have a landlord lose property,” James added.

Keeping it classy.

“I’d much rather make a squatter homeless than have a landlord lose property,” Jacobs added.

These are the pieces of shit your politicians listen to every time they increase funding for police enforcement against the homeless, and deny zoning changes, even if it would improve the housing crisis. "theft is always bad no matter what 🤓☝️"

You have to be genuinely mentally ill to believe that someone going homeless is better than someone with more properties than they need to live in losing one of those properties so someone has a place to live.

...with professional-grade tactical gear.
The gear includes firearms, ballistic full-body armor, flash bangs and smoke grenades, tear gas...

Where the fuck are you sourcing explosives and tear gas as a civilian, and more importantly...
Where can I get some? Purely for home defense, of course. Definitely not wanting it for defrost purposes.

this is a puff piece about the kind of gangster who turns up murdered and unmourned

“The average squatter has no melee experience,”

But what about magic? Magic beats melee in the combat triangle.

This fool is going to get shot.

I’d much rather make a squatter homeless than have a landlord lose property,” Jacobs added

I'd much rather make poor people without an option homeless than have a rich asshole lose some money!

Squatters rights are an important part of common law and they serve as a foundational means of ensuring valuable real estate remains in use. Adverse possession requires openly living somewhere for years without permission or resistance from the owner

ASAP Squatter Removal has a 95%+ success rate

Every now and then, you run into a spearman.

We must defend the empty properties!

Also, we must solve the housing crisis by building more houses!

These people think evil quest givers in games are role models, not warnings.

Ads for this type of services show up in craigslist regularly where I live. Named organizations like Viking Acquisitions or FAFO LLC post weekly. I bugged the local newspaper about it, but they were disinterested.

Then I’ll train and purposely squat so that this stain can be humbled

Home ownership is now a soulslike? I've been training for this my whole middle-aged life.

Ok......but what happens when a squatter has a gun?

Nah fuck squatters too. Everyone sucks here but squatters are just as trashy. We need to have a vacant homes penalty desperately but yeah that won't happen anytime soon if ever in my lifetime.

Everyone here sucks except the squatters.

Edit: This is very contraversial for some reason nobody cares to defend but consider that a house is first and foremost a tool and squatters are the only people in the story correctly using a house for its only real purpose. I'm not saying they're good people, just that they're the only people not enganged in some kind of elaborate fraud or thinly vieled attempt to murder humans.

If you were a tenant and you are getting kicked out you should have different rights like a proper eviction and a court date.

If you just broke in you should simply be removed by the cops on penalty of law if the landlord lies and you are actually a tenant who was illegally evicted.

This is what the law in liberal wa state is.

He stabbed me with a sword Mal ... How weird!

donning full plate armor and a dagger "Luckily I'm no average squatter"

There seems to be the implication within that quote that because he’s brought a melee weapon, the party being attacked is bound by honor not to use a firearm.

In fact he’s probably putting himself in much more danger by bringing a sword (thereby providing a self-defense defense) than if he showed up unarmed.