I was running around the lab a few minutes ago, then went back to the office just in time to catch part of the top-of-the-hour newsfeed. Seems there was some guy whose house was foreclosed on.
So he trashed it. Petty little bastard.
Yet the news story tried to make him out like a victim. Well, he might have gotten a smidgen of sympathy from were it not for trashing the house.
Oh, and the city (Fremont? Not sure, didn't hear it clearly) gave the bank three days to clean it up.
Iz out!
2 months ago
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Sadly, this seems to be happening a lot. It's idiotic, and childish, and I'd like to see that behavior go on these people's Permanent Records so the banks can think a bit before giving them a mortgage ever again (if they can even get one).
When did we stop being grown ups in this country? I consider myself pretty immature but I'd be aghast at the thought of trashing a house I was being foreclosed out of. (If anything, I'd probably leave the place totally clean, so the bank folks would think well of me...even if they thought I was a deadbeat, financially...)
It's idiotic in more ways than one. Foreclosed houses go up for auction. If the house goes for more than what he owes, the excess goes to him, not the bank.
The house next door was foreclosed as well; the couple living there went through a divorce, and neither one wanted the place, it seems.
So it wasn't deliberately trashed, but it wasn't cleaned up in any fashion, either. The people just left furniture, tools, kitchen items, and other items behind. Plus a lot of trash leftover from whatever was going on when they both moved out. The place was a mess.
The city is supposed to mow lawns that aren't kept up, and then charge the owners. That didn't happen, of course, so I mowed the front yard. The back I wouldn't touch, in part because of all the trash back there, not to mention the organic landmines laid by two rather large dogs. Who, by the way, nearly starved because neither person was feeding them. I wouldn't feed them because they were extremely territorial; merely walking along the fence enraged them (I had a contingency plan in case they ever got outside their yard, "OPERATION 12 GAGE").
The bank finally foreclosed, and removed the trash. But they didn't mow the backyard.
So it doesn't take childish behavior to trash a house; massive indifference will achieve the same thing.
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