There is a guy in Seattle, WA that built a tree house to live in about 3 years ago. That's all well and good. But the problem is that he built it on property belonging to someone else. I'm not real smart, but I think if you're going to live on a place, you need to at least own it, or have the permission of the fellow that does!
Now, after reading about this deal thoroughly, I am pretty sure that this fellow don't have a full box of dominos...kind of like the "solitaire game with 49 cards."
But he's got some good folks behind him, trying to find him another place to live other than his tree house he built. He could have gone to a "shelter," but none of them take pets. He's got a pet rat, squirrel, and a ferret. No, they're not named Moe, Larry, and Curly...they are Lucky, Rainbow, and Tilt.
What really bothers me about this is that this guy is described as a "hard-worker" by neighbors. Heck, if he's a hard worker, somebody will give the old boy a job...you know, that thing that people go to every day to make American dollars so that they can pay for a place to live, groceries, and on and on.
The story is heart-tugging. This old boy lost his wife (that's hard to believe...not that he lost his wife, just that he got one to start out with), his house, and his vehicle (for not paying parking tickets????) Now that don't make any sense to me...he probably lost it because he didn't pay the note on it, either.
Just look at the article here from Seattle PI. I've got some excerpts below from FoxNews' computer page. I won't even call this old boy a Redneck. Rednecks live cheap, but not free!... And they pay their vehicle notes for sure.
Oh...be sure and look at the photo gallery...
Under The Needle: Man evicted from 'amazing' treehouse
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Squirrelman knows the end is near. A little more than a week ago, city workers arrived unannounced and put pink-ribboned survey stakes around the cluster of trees that hold his home. Then Friday, the city dispatched social workers to tell him about shelters a man with pets can't use and treatment programs a light drinker doesn't need.
They told him officials planned to evict him from his treehouse in the vacant lot under the interstate.
They asked him, "Won't you come down for good?"
But Squirrelman says he doesn't have anywhere else to go. On Monday at 9 a.m., when the Seattle Department of Transportation posted a lime-green 48- hour eviction notice on his hand-cobbled gate, telling him that he and his elaborate platform better disappear, Squirrelman didn't come down. His ladder, counterweighted with sandbags on pulleys, remained pulled up like a castle gate. His tent didn't stir.
A day earlier, he talked about the possibility that for the third time in three years he'd lose a carefully constructed home on other people's property. "I'm tired," he said. "I just want to be left alone. I'm not hurting anyone."
Which is true, neighbors said of David Csaky, also known as Squirrelman, decades ago known as Oral Wayne Branch, when he was born into poverty in Los Angeles on Nov. 24, 1955.
"David's a unique character but a good neighbor," said Janet Yoder, who owns an apartment complex adjacent to the unused City Light-owned lot on the 3100 block of Eastlake Avenue East, where Csaky built his home.
"He's built this amazing treehouse in the middle of a city," said Yoder. "I certainly believe he's not a threat of any kind to anyone."
Other neighbors agree, saying the wiry, weathered 52-year- old actually keeps crime down and the vacant lot clean.
Jim Ross, owner of neighboring Ross Laboratories, loaned Csaky a block and tackle he used to haul beams into the trees. "He works hard," Ross said. "He's kind of become the neighborhood watchdog."
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