Originally Posted by demonrail666

The police raid on the St Agnes Squat in Kennington in around 2002 and it's resulting closure marked a real sea-change of attitude by the authorities.

Originally Posted by demonrail666

The police raid on the St Agnes Squat in Kennington in around 2002 and it's resulting closure marked a real sea-change of attitude by the authorities.

Originally Posted by jon boy

the raid on the headingley lane squat in leeds was put down in a rather heavy handed way. i for one did not look the same way at the police ever again. they all took there numbers off so you had no way of knowing who they were which was nice when they started hitting people, they had there faces covered (as above), they had lots of dogs, they had cs gas which they used at their leisure (no tazing bro), they made everyone walk out of the building one at a time through a gauntlet of police all looking like they wanted to rip your ears off, they took everyones name address etc.

Originally Posted by EMMAh

That last woman has the grossest legs ever

Originally Posted by jon boy

the raid on the headingley lane squat in leeds was put down in a rather heavy handed way. i for one did not look the same way at the police ever again. they all took there numbers off so you had no way of knowing who they were which was nice when they started hitting people, they had there faces covered (as above), they had lots of dogs, they had cs gas which they used at their leisure (no tazing bro), they made everyone walk out of the building one at a time through a gauntlet of police all looking like they wanted to rip your ears off, they took everyones name address etc.

Originally Posted by Rob Instigator

Originally Posted by !@#$%!

hey! it's savage clone!

Originally Posted by EMMAh

I have heard that somewhere in Europe (I forget where, because that's what I do) you can squat in a place as long as you have a chair, a bed and a table in there. Obviously the people who own the building you're living in can't care either, and the building had to be unoccupied for a year.
I've heard in Canada that a building must me unoccupied for five years, but I don't know if this is true.

I have never squatted, but I would do it, for sure. I wouldn't really care how dirty I was.

Originally Posted by pokkeherrie

That's in the Netherlands. You also need to be able to open and close it with a lock. The only thing illegal is the breaking-in part; meaning you'll have to do that without getting seen.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squatting#Netherlands

It's usually very difficult to have a squatted house evicted, because the squatters have legal protection meaning the owners pretty much always have to go to court to fight long legal procedures in order to get them out. That's why often when a building becomes unoccupied, the owners will have people living in there for a very low rent to prevent it from being squatted (=anti-squatting).


I don't think I would want to live in one myself (I agree with T&B about it seeming too much of a lifestyle), but I've been to a few that looked pretty great.

Originally Posted by EMMAh

That last woman has the grossest legs ever