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A man who lives in a Boeing 727 in Oregon (2020)
- irrational 5y agoI've been to this guys place. Nicest guy. But he is absolutely surrounded by "Trump Nation" people (their flags are everywhere out there) who hate him. Every time he leaves home his place is vandalized. Just before I visited someone had waited till he was gone and then dumped truck loads of some kind of poison all over his grounds. He was going through and sifting it out of the soil by hand. It is incredible how cheerful and optimistic he remains in the face of all the surrounding hate. I'd definitely recommend going and visiting his place if you are ever in Portland.
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- TaylorAlexander 5y agoIn an area surrounded by "Trump Nation" flags, the police very likely have those flags on their property too. They may well do nothing if you are reporting their friends, and they will definitely do nothing if the perpetrators are actually officers.
- kube-system 5y agoIt's property crime. They'll write up a report and you can give it to your insurance company. They're not going to investigate it in-depth or serve as your personal security force. The most effective solution is probably to put up a fence and cameras.
- anon_123g987 5y agoOf course. I guess, what I wanted to say is that anything is better than setting up a trap and just executing the guy, like the other commenter said.
- throwawaygh 5y agoReporting property damage to the police is never useful. Where I live, they won't even send an officer out. I have a few friends who own property in West Virginia, so probably similar vibes to rural Oregon. A report to the police out there for something like this would probably be counter-productive. At best.
- s5300 5y agoWhile this is starting to get into flame war we don’t want on HN (so I wont comment further on it past this) The police in “Trump Nation” areas of our country tend to be very kind & permissive of skirting the law to the rest of those who identify with their same political views, and it often goes the same for the Sheriff, and sometimes even further up the chain. Simply put - I don’t know the entire context, but if one of the reasons they’re harassing this person has to do with the fact he’s of the “wrong” political views, the police aren’t going to do anything to those harassing him. That is one of the reasons our gun laws are nice, but sometimes when the “wrong side” exercises their right to self defense, the sitting president publicly calls for their execution without trial. [1] @anon_123g987 if it weren’t literally poison I would be more inclined to agree with you on not using excessive force. But somebody who dumps poison on your property probably doesn’t think very highly of your life, and may over time take more brash measures against you. Also, having somebody work security on your property definitely isn’t a trap, especially in rural areas. [1]https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/15/politics/trump-fugitive-shooting/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/15/politics/trump-fugitive-shoot...
- dang 5y agoPlease don't take HN threads further into tedious flamewar. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- duck 5y agoWhy do they hate him?
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- WalterBright 5y agoTime to buy a trail cam. They're not expensive.
- irrational 5y agoNo point. The Police in the area are the same people as the Trump nation people. They won’t do anything against their own.
- dylan604 5y agoAnd do what with it? Send the data to the police to do what with? Their job? You never know if the LEOs might not just feel the same way and are deliberately looking the other way.
- noduerme 5y agoI live in Portland but spend most weekends at my gf's house in the country, near Chehalem, about a 15 minute drive from where the airplane is. It's a weird mix out there, because it's also wine country, so you have a lot of very wealthy landowners - some of whom aren't quite "locals" and are more socially liberal. The locals can really get into your business, though. Among other things, in our situation, some of the neighbors don't believe in Covid and during the lockdowns they went out of their way to have parties, and show up and try to spook us by getting close up in our faces. Ironically, once they found out we were vaccinated they stopped showing up, because they think the vaxed can spread proteins that will sterilize them. I've seen and heard them practicing with paint ball guns in the woods on nights prior to when Trump caravans rolled into Portland and shot BLM protesters with ball bearings. During the fires last summer, when it went out that the Bureau of Land Management was starting back-fires, they misinterpreted "BLM" to mean "Black Lives Matter", and set up illegal armed checkpoints on the roads, stopping cars at gunpoint to "check for antifa". Law enforcement did nothing about it. The Newberg school district is currently in hot water for banning all "political clothing" - defined as LGBTQ colors and BLM shirts, but, of course, not MAGA or Jesus stuff. At a bar there recently, someone told me that California had just legalized child abuse. A woman I know says the best sushi in Newberg is from the Fred Myer. Her son won't drink bottled water because it's heavier than normal water and designed to make you thirsty. I tried going to an accountant out there and when I walked into her office for the first meeting, she was wearing a large gold swastika necklace. I don't know if she knew I was Jewish or she just wears that all the time. That being said, there are all kinds of people out there - horse trainers, winemakers and others in the industry, five-star chefs, doctors, weirdo hippies, and the wealthy landed class, who are just like anyone you'd meet in Portland. There was even an unheard-of, pretty well-attended LGBTQ rally in downtown Newberg a couple months ago. Of the lower class there are only about 1/3rd I'd say who are actively hostile, as opposed to just curious. It's manageable as long as you never get into conversations about politics and treat everyone with respect. The only black person I know of who lives out there says he prefers it because he knows where he stands (as a curiosity) and he has no trouble with anyone. That's pretty much the attitude you have to adopt.
- ryandvm 5y ago> once they found out we were vaccinated they stopped showing up, because they think the vaxed can spread proteins that will sterilize them Jesus Christ, Idiocracy was far too charitable
- madrox 5y agoFor the curious, you can see this on Google Maps: https://goo.gl/maps/yuJ7cDx196AxX5bf7 https://goo.gl/maps/yuJ7cDx196AxX5bf7
- xnx 5y agoIt's amazing how over-spec'ed (in some categories) for housing plane is: air-tight, heavy thermal and noise insulation, built to withstand winds of hundreds of miles-per-hour. It's a shame we can't build something like the iPhone or Tesla of housing.
- snorrah 5y agoiPhone, sure. Tesla? Not a chance. Their build quality is abysmal.
- rpmisms 5y agoThey're still overbuilt in certain aspects, as are iPhones. I think the comparison is "doing much more than what you would think the bare minimum is".
- coryrc 5y agoThey are not significantly thermally insulated and are full of toxic materials. In no way is it a good idea.
- sideshowb 5y agoThe iPhone house - in which only a limited set of objects pre-approved by the manufacturer are allowed in the front door?
- nyx 5y agoI've visited Bruce and his home as well, and it's almost startling how welcoming he is. When I went, it was the middle of a nice afternoon, and so he already happened to be outside conversing with some other guests, but if you poke around on his website, you'll find that he essentially says "if you come for a visit and I'm not around, climb up on the wing and come bang on my airplane until you wake me up." Was only there for a few minutes, but we got in a short and pleasant conversation about housing scarcity and the future of AI. Really interesting character, clearly living his best life.
- pstuart 5y agoTurns out I live a modest drive away -- this encourages me to make the trip!
- NaturalPhallacy 5y agoI dug into this because I live in Oregon and was thinking about checking it out for a giggle, but for real, his website: https://airplanehome.com/VisitorsInformation.html#Anchor12 https://airplanehome.com/VisitorsInformation.html#Anchor12 Really does insist that if you show up (even unannounced) to climb up on his airplane and bang on it/yell until he comes out: "Please do wake me boldly sans any regrets." I might have to head out there as it's basically a suburb of Portland where I live. He seems like a very kind eccentric.
- gigatexal 5y agoYeesh. Can we talk about how obnoxious that site is? Hijacking the back button. Huge screen filling ads. It’s just gross.
- HeyLaughingBoy 5y agono.
- cblconfederate 5y agoAmazing to see that the plane belonged to Olympic airlines. This was an airline started by Aristotle Onassis which later became tha national carrier of Greece, and finally merged with Aegean airlines. How it ended up in oregon ... another matter.
- irrational 5y agoThis is literally the airplane that carried Onassis’s body after he died. The owner of the plane won’t let you sit in the seat where Jackie sat during that flight.
- jandrese 5y agoIt's probably not that strange. Once the plane hits the end of its life the airline looks to sell it off to some scrapper, so all he has to do is show up at the auction with cash in hand. As for getting it to Oregon, well, it is an airplane.
- davidw 5y agoMore Bruce Campbell Oregon trivia: Bruce the actor, from Evil Dead and various and sundry other 'B' movies and TV shows like Burn Notice also lives in Oregon, near Ashland.
- HeyLaughingBoy 5y agoTsk Army Of Darkness was robbed, robbed I tell you, of an Oscar.
- chaostheory 5y agoThere are more examples https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdwLlI9abgU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdwLlI9abgU https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4124672/Scrapped-Boeing-747-turned-Californian-wonder-house.html https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4124672/Scrapped-Bo... https://www.insider.com/boeing-747-airplane-converted-hotel-inside-2019-2 https://www.insider.com/boeing-747-airplane-converted-hotel-...
- ashleyn 5y agoWith an old airplane, one thing I'd be worried about is Kapton wiring[1]. A lot of these older planes were wired with a type of orange insulator that breaks down very easily over time and under mechanical stresses. A handful of planes went down because of it; Bruce would still need to think about the fire risk and should consider replacing the wiring if he hasn't already. [1]: https://www.interconnect-wiring.com/blog/disadvantages-kapton-insulated-wire/ https://www.interconnect-wiring.com/blog/disadvantages-kapto...
- WalterBright 5y agoHe'd have to rewire it anyway. Airplanes are not wired up with 110VAC.
- kragen 5y agoProbably not a worry if the plane is stationary except during earthquakes.
- WalterBright 5y agoAlso in Oregon was Bomber Gas. I always went out of my way to fill up there! https://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/2968#:~:text=Bomber%20Gas%20has%20been%20a,a%20souvenir%20Bomber%20place%20mat https://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/2968#:~:text=Bomber%20....
- TedDoesntTalk 5y agoWhat a great story. Thanks for sharing the link.
- shmoopi 5y agoThat was a cool story. "Wind damage", hilarious!
- obelos 5y agoAlso in Oregon, Wings & Waves is an indoor water park where the four big slides start out in a jet mounted to the roof: https://www.google.com/maps/@45.2042334,-123.1495756,172m/data=!3m1!1e3 https://www.google.com/maps/@45.2042334,-123.1495756,172m/da...
- Syonyk 5y agoYes, but it's also next to the Evergreen Aviation Museum, which is absolutely worth stopping at if you're in the area! And, actually, is worth most of a day to visit. I was there earlier last year and we took the time to go through the Hughes HG-1 (aka "Spruce Goose"). It's an excellent museum on the west coast! https://www.sevarg.net/2021/04/24/evergreen-aviation-museum/ https://www.sevarg.net/2021/04/24/evergreen-aviation-museum/
- ThinkBeat 5y agoI was a little underwhelmed with the pictures on the original site. (the site itself was annoying as well) Learning more about the man and who he is I fell in love with it. I genuinely think we need a lot more people like him. Eccentric free thinkers.