The Compound - ABANDONED - Desert Homeless Camp
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Transcript
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Welcome everyone. I'm in the desert of
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California today in a little area called
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Banning. And right off of the freeway is
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this massive abandoned complex. Now,
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upon review from the road, it looks like
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people have actually moved in and set up
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camp inside this facility. So, we might
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have to tread a little bit lightly.
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Let's go check it out. Join me, shall
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you?
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WE DON'T even ask [music] you.
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First thing we notice is that this
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property is for sale and it's actually
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surrounded by this gate, but the gate is
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completely wide open. And you can see
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they boarded up quite a few of the
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windows at least in this building in
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that beautiful mountain range in the
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background. But over here there are
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plenty of accessible buildings that have
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either not been finished or the windows
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have been busted out of
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some sort of trap door here or
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passageway that leads under the ground.
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And this has actually been labeled cobs.
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Maybe down there there are cobwebs
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or maybe some delicious corn on the cob.
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Wouldn't that be a little
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little screwy?
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This is kind of strange, too. This is
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actually made out of foam. You can see
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this is actually foam here. Any idea
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what maybe this was in a former life.
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You can see at one time whatever
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developer built this had some big plans
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and expected this to be a lot more
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thriving than it is now. And look up
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here. There's actually some really cool
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tile. Pretty nice decor across the top
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of the roof and down here. And of
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course, it's been tagged up.
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Are those patunias?
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Looks like there's some water.
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that has been uh definitely accumulating
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down there.
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Some nasty water down at the bottom of
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that hole.
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This possibly could have been a
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switchboard for maybe a phone. Maybe it
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went inside of here. The electrical
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aspect of this.
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Or maybe not. Maybe part of a computer.
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I don't really see anywhere where a
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computer
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would have been out here though.
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Strange.
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Normally I would walk upstairs like
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this, but you can see it's all burned
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out. In fact, look at the roof. If I was
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to actually put my
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semi overweight body up on those boards
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and those studs, you would see me fall
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directly to the ground. So, let's not do
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that. But look, look at this.
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There's actually quite a few people who
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have set up residence here on the back
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side of the property. I don't want to
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get too close and disturb them because I
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don't really want any altercations or I
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don't want to really disturb their
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privacy in the home that they have
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built, but it looks like part of the
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backside there was actually a fire that
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destroyed one of the buildings. Not
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really sure if that happened because of
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the residents who have actually moved in
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the squatters and the homeless that have
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lived here, but let's go see if we can
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get a little bit of a closer look and
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see what happens.
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Do the police uh come out here and give
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you a hard time?
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Yeah, Banny PD cuz they want their taxes
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or whatever, but
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And how long have you been out here?
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Huh?
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How long have you been out here?
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I've been here all my life and I still
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ain't ready to know.
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How long have you lived in this in this
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property?
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Oh, about a month. about a month or so.
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Wow. I always heard of the compound, but
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I never been down here until I came down
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here. I'm like, "Oh my god, what the
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hell?"
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So, they call this the compound.
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Mhm.
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And you're far enough off the road where
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no one really knows you're back here.
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True.
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But there's there's people back here.
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I've been here about a month and a half.
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A month and a half.
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Yeah. Almost two months.
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You live in Sano?
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No, I I came from San Jose.
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San Jose? Yeah, but I stayed I grew up
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in San Pedro for a little something.
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I've been to the sunken city in San
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Pedro.
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Yeah.
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It's pretty cool.
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How many people live here now?
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About 50.
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50.
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About 50. So all up in here and then all
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through these buildings.
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She's giving herself the name
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Tinkerbell. The girl that lives here.
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This Tinker Bell. She picked it up.
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Tinker Bell. Are you a Disney fan or
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just a
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bored? I'm gonna go to Mickey Mouse.
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I got uh this is a compound as you know.
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And this is my upstairs. I
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go ahead. I have
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Okay. This is nice.
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She fixed it up herself.
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Go upstairs.
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Yeah. Tell it.
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Go ahead.
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She even has strip shows.
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You have strip shows in here.
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Everything in here is I found from the
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uh I found as in um trash. Oh,
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just on the side of the road and
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dumpsters and stuff
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in this compound.
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Oh, in the compound itself.
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This I found and brought it up here and
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and cleaned it up.
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Yeah, that's nice. That's like from an
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old diner almost.
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This was actually the other way. You
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know what I mean? But I brought it up
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here and then I uh put these boards up
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here and either they was going to be
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halfed half full. I said, "Well, look
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it." That way I can look in the comp
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now.
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Yeah. So if someone sneaks up on you,
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you can sneak in.
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Do you have a lot of police officers
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show up here?
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Oh, yeah. They're trying to kick us out.
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But if we're bitter in the place, how
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can they do such a thing?
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Hey, you're making it look better than
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it does outside. So you put the blanket
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there to keep the air out.
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Yeah. And then and then when I light
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fire or whatever, I just
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pull this back like this.
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Something like that.
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I like it. You got the place fixed up
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pretty nice.
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Yeah. You guys see my room?
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Oh yeah.
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shower slash new seal. I like
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this is a slash uh shower and buckets of
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feces. You know what I mean? To get
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right. Yeah. The bathroom and the
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shower.
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We got pee bucket. We got wash bucket.
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We got This is how we shower. And then I
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sweep the water out and wash my floor.
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Okay.
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And this is my bedroom.
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Now, how do you get water? Like where do
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you get water from?
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Recycling or This is actually a
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bathroom. [laughter]
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I like that.
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This was actually a bathroom. It's messy
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right now. God, I'm embarrassed to let
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you see it. But I This is my my bedroom.
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Oh, wow. I like Tinker Bell.
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Yeah, I'm Tinkerbell. That's what they
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call.
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You got a bed in here and everything?
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Yeah, but I just pushed everything in
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here because we had to move out right
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away. They told us over they were going
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to um But I just painted in here. I just
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painted and I was going to hang up
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everything. I have like I got stuff to
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hang up everything. I had stuff on the
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walls. I'm painting the walls right now.
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So, what do the police tell you when
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they show up? Like, what is what do they
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what do they say to you?
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We got to get out. When I first came, I
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had to barricade myself in here. I
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didn't know how to enclose everything.
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So, I found this
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and I
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barricade. And this this is what makes
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it where they can't open the door.
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This is where they can't open.
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So, you stay safe in,
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right? And then so you're not worried
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frame. And
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Oh, did you make that? Did you find that
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right there?
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What? That little uh tiki girl. The
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skull.
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Oh, that's what I got for my birthday.
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Oh, that's cool.
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These guys fixed it up and put it in my
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front porch. My birthday gift. And um
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that's awesome.
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I love it to death.
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Oh, you got a doorbell.
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It goes around here. See?
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And all the stuff you found in the
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trash.
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That's amazing. And did you have to find
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a battery for it or did you have a
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battery for it?
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No, batteries. And I I dropped batteries
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like picking them up. I had a door lock
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right here. I had to But the cops kicked
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it in.
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The cops kicked it out.
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Yeah. So I fixed it and I kicked it in a
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couple times. So I I turn around and I
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just get it a new door and I drag it
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over here. But these doors are so heavy.
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Yeah. Heavy duty door.
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So I got to put a new lock on here. But
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Oh yeah. Solid.
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Yeah. So it's they're heavy. But I I
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pretend like I have a little security
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system but and I love it.
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And then I
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I love your house. Very cool. It's not
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all that great right now cuz it's a
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mess. And
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so this is what it looked like before
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people pooped on the walls and
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street. And I went in there and I just
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cleaned it up and said,
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"So you'd be pretty disappointed if they
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kicked you off the property after you
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did all this work to your house."
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So that's why my bedroom was so messy is
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cuz they did they they put these tags
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all over. If you you see the front, I'll
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show you.
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I saw the paper saying you can't be
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here.
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And and you know what? It's sad because
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you know some of this artwork is
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beautiful. These people got real talent.
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I think cuz they steal. People steal and
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you can't keep them out.
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So it's like you have your own private
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stove.
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This is a stove and then I'm hooked up
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to the gas and I pull this out and I put
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this in there and I put all that stuff
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right there and I hook my own gas up. So
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you got your own stove
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hooked up to that gas line right there.
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That gas line. And it's hooked up all
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the way to the main line. I'm the only
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one that's hooked up like that. I got
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teflon tape and I have a whole bunch of
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it to be able to That's how I
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That's pretty genius. This is and this
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is hooked up to my is it a like a
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converter a amp thing where I could plug
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in a light or whatever. I plug it into
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this and I plug into my light.
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Well, this video took a different twist
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than I had originally planned. I thought
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I was just going to film an abandoned
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location, but I made some new friends
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that were veryospitable and showed me
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the way they have actually set up this
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property to live basically for free. And
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since they don't have any money, I've
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decided to drive down to the store and
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actually get them some supplies that
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actually might be useful to them. So,
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I'm going down to the store now to grab
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some stuff. Stopped off and got a case
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of water, 12-pack of Dr. Pepper, uh a
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pack of cigarettes. Someone asked for
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some cigarettes, and some peanut butter
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and jelly, and some bread in there as
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well. So, we're back at the compound, as
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they're calling it. So, let's drop the
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stuff off. Is that going to be good for
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Yeah, for me. Yeah, this for me.
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Well, you got to share with everybody.
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Okay. Okay.
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Share with Tina and what was the other
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other girl's name?
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Melissa.
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Melissa. Yeah. Share with Melissa and uh
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Tina.
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Okay, I'll do that.
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All right, buddy.
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Okay, I've dropped off the stuff and
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heading out.
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Kind of makes you think and makes you
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grateful for
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our lives, especially my life. Puts
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things in perspective.
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All right, heading out. Thanks for
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watching this video.
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See you guys later. Goodbye.