if this happened in london
all you would succeed in doing would be highlighting that here lieth an empty house for the next shower of tramps!!!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 11 Jun 2010, 15:53, 2 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

It's a jungle out there

( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Fri 11 Jun 2010, 15:55, Reply)

this property
will smell far worse than any jungle once we clean it up!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 11 Jun 2010, 16:08, Reply)

A farmer client of mine had squatters in a small cottage on his land
he drove a slurry tank up to the cottage, pushed the hose through the window and gave them a few hundred gallons of liquid shit to squat in.
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Fri 11 Jun 2010, 16:19, Reply)

The problem with this
is that he'd have to clean it out afterwards, and the squatters would be liable to do even more damage to the place by way of retribution.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Fri 11 Jun 2010, 16:20, Reply)

The cottage was derelict anyway
nowadays travelling pikeys are more of a problem for the farmers I know.
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Fri 11 Jun 2010, 16:21, Reply)

Travelling pikeys
would be a better target for the slurry treatment.

Mind you, they might think the smell had improved...
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Fri 11 Jun 2010, 16:23, Reply)

Ha!
but seriously, they can really fuck things up for farmers. They steal, they ruin land, dump stuff and generally cause havoc. Also there's usually dozens of the bastards, so the farmer is outnumbered.
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Fri 11 Jun 2010, 16:31, Reply)

I know
I've seen what they can do, not just to farmers' land, but also to football pitches etc.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Fri 11 Jun 2010, 16:43, Reply)

Can you not
Instruct a 3rd party to go round and change the locks? If someone was 'booked' to do the work before the squatters moved in, would it be feasible for them to turn up and do the work for the lease holder? Or is it a case that once they've claimed the place as a squat the rules change? A bit like saying 'no returns' to win an argument?
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Fri 11 Jun 2010, 16:11, Reply)

exactly that
once they put up signs saying it is their home, you have to go to court to prove it isn't. the law sucks!

of course, lots of landlords ignore the law.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 11 Jun 2010, 16:14, Reply)

Too late to get an interim possession order?

( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Fri 11 Jun 2010, 16:15, Reply)

Or get the cops involved if there's evidence of breaking and entering?

( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Fri 11 Jun 2010, 16:19, Reply)

It was like that when we got here Guv!
Followed by 'Can you prove it'?

Would be my guess as to the likely answers.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Fri 11 Jun 2010, 16:23, Reply)

But would squatters go to court
To defend their occupation of a building? I'm guessing if they are skint they'd not be able to go to the expense of it? I would like to think that legal aid isn't available to people who want to steal a house either.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Fri 11 Jun 2010, 16:16, Reply)

they don't pay anything
they just don't turn up, or they defend themselves. just the time it takes to get a hearing buys them a few days or weeks for free!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 11 Jun 2010, 16:39, Reply)

they don't pay anything
they just don't turn up, or they defend themselves. just the time it takes to get a hearing buys them a few days or weeks for free!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 11 Jun 2010, 16:39, Reply)

What if
some big bruisers with crowbars just happened to be passing and thought, "Oh look, there's some squatters. They shouldn't be in there. Let's duff them up and throw them out, just so the landlord doesn't get any grief, out of the goodness of our hearts, like"?
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Fri 11 Jun 2010, 16:19, Reply)