June 24, 2005
These include;- An insulting offer of $60,000 from the government on a home worth $215,000.
- Unannounced visits to Cristofaro's elderly parent's home demanding they sign a contract to hand over their property.
- Intimidating and harassing phone calls at all hours of the day.
- Parking bulldozers and wrecking balls outside the houses pointing at the property with threats of "your house is next."
- Revving the engines of the bulldozers outside the houses in the early morning hours of the morning.
- Cristofaro's mother becoming distraught and suffering a heart attack after being served with condemnation papers that said she no longer owned her property and had ninety days to leave.
- A death bed plea from a 93-year-old resident begging "what about my house, what about my house?" The man had been living in his home for 80 years. The contractors would park construction vehicles on his property, make his house literally shake and would, Waco-style, shine bright floodlights into his home as his blind wife cowered in fear.
- A threat to charge residents back rent if they lost the case, effectively meaning the homeowners will have to pay the city to be kicked out of their own homes. One resident, William von Winkle, would owe the city $200,000 in back rent.
- When the Supreme Court decision was made on Thursday, the city had police cruisers and a fire truck casing the neighborhood because they feared the residents would riot. "What were they planning on doing? Hosing us down?" stated Cristofaro.
- Real Estate agents paid by the government to force residents to sign contracts to hand over their homes were on an $8,000 commission to get the signatures by any means possible.
- William von Winkle's apartment tenants were forcibly evicted and locked out from their homes in the early morning hours during winter with snow on the ground, before the city even owned the property. Von Winkle had to break back into his own apartment block to prevent his tenants from freezing to death.
In other words, "We made you an offer -- you cannot refuse."
(Via Random & Politically Incorrect Thoughts!
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We need a Constitutional amendment to correct this.
Bartleby
Posted by: Subjugator at Sat Jun 25 03:26:39 2005 (r/FBF)
Posted by: J Harris at Sun Jun 26 03:23:30 2005 (j/7V9)
That said, who knows -- I may one day find Michael Moore to be an acceptable source for something. Stranger things have happened.
Posted by: Rhymes With Right at Sun Jun 26 05:35:00 2005 (+sihf)
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