"Found Object" Fence near TR Island

[JorgeGortex]

http://www.arlnow.com/2013/05/15/one-mans-homeless-camp-takes-vdot-five-hours-ten-trucks-to-remove/

Not sure why this was necessary. The guy wasn’t hurting anyone, and the property wasn’t being used. Would love to know why someone felt the need to complain about it.

[baiskeli]

It’s not normal. It’s different. It breaks rules. It’s creative. So it must be destroyed!

[GuyContinental]

@JorgeGortex 52134 wrote:

http://www.arlnow.com/2013/05/15/one-mans-homeless-camp-takes-vdot-five-hours-ten-trucks-to-remove/

Go to 2:17 and watch the gray Honda try and kill some joggers at the intersection of doom (also a bike commuter right at the beginning running the red)

[dasgeh]

@JorgeGortex 52134 wrote:

http://www.arlnow.com/2013/05/15/one-mans-homeless-camp-takes-vdot-five-hours-ten-trucks-to-remove/

Not sure why this was necessary. The guy wasn’t hurting anyone, and the property wasn’t being used. Would love to know why someone felt the need to complain about it.

Agreed. Too bad the mom with the kid, who also agrees, isn’t properly wearing her helmet.

[consularrider]

@JorgeGortex 52134 wrote:

http://www.arlnow.com/2013/05/15/one-mans-homeless-camp-takes-vdot-five-hours-ten-trucks-to-remove/

Not sure why this was necessary. The guy wasn’t hurting anyone, and the property wasn’t being used. Would love to know why someone felt the need to complain about it.

Maybe something about adverse possession and ownership interests?

[baiskeli]

@consularrider 52167 wrote:

Maybe something about adverse possession and ownership interests?

It’s public property (the part VDOT cleared, at least), so adverse possession doesn’t apply.

[DaveK]

@baiskeli 52172 wrote:

It’s public property (the part VDOT cleared, at least), so adverse possession doesn’t apply.

It might not be, there is private property back there (if you follow the driveway cut back from Lynn St just north of where the MVT/Custis connects). That would take 15 years though, if my armchair legal degree is worth the TP it’s written on.

[JeffC]

Hmm, I’m not sure exactly who was living there. I thought it was a guy I frequently saw on the bench on the other side of the path, likely Hispanic, late 40s maybe, pony tail. He never showed me much attention but I noticed several times he would leer at women and make gestures at them after they passed and had their backs to him.

[pfunkallstar]

I notice the gesturing as well on a couple of occasions. Then again, other times he would tip his hat at random women, so who knows what he was up to. Also, if it is public property and some dude has constructed a fence that keeps other people out, then it has got to go.

[baiskeli]

@DaveK 52187 wrote:

It might not be, there is private property back there (if you follow the driveway cut back from Lynn St just north of where the MVT/Custis connects). That would take 15 years though, if my armchair legal degree is worth the TP it’s written on.

Yeah, but VDOT probably doesn’t care about that part. I wonder if they even cleared the private lot.

[baiskeli]

@pfunkallstar 52195 wrote:

I notice the gesturing as well on a couple of occasions. Then again, other times he would tip his hat at random women, so who knows what he was up to. Also, if it is public property and some dude has constructed a fence that keeps other people out, then it has got to go.

I think there was already a real fence there keeping people out.

[Brent]

@baiskeli 45043 wrote:

This map shows parcel boundaries. It looks like this was a lot on a street that was obliterated by I-66, perhaps with a house on it. Now the street is gone.

http://gis.arlingtonva.us/gallery/map.html?webmap=89e2a4b94a0e4d1cab23256e63b70d64

Lots of strange little things you learn from this map.

Thanks to you, I’ve just wasted an hour at work exploring Arlington via property maps.

[baiskeli]

@Brent 52410 wrote:

Thanks to you, I’ve just wasted an hour at work exploring Arlington via property maps.

Yes, it is all my fault. Have your employer send me a bill.

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