Slab City: A haven for the homeless gentrifies | On the Streets Ep. 9

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Los Angeles Times

Los Angeles Times

8 жыл бұрын

Lisa Biagiotti visits Slab City to see what the future of homelessness looks like. Off the grid, 190 miles southeast of Los Angeles, she tours this desert outpost with Phil Long, a young traveler passing through in a purple bus. She talks to 'Stickman,' who has settled on a concrete slab of this former military training base after 30 years on the road. At a community board meeting, she learns that Jack 'Two Horses' Martin has lost the resident election, and may be the first person ever evicted from Slab City because of gentrification.
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@guycalgary7800
@guycalgary7800 3 жыл бұрын
Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose !
@doubled1425
@doubled1425 2 жыл бұрын
Well done by the reporter with heart and respect for the residents of Slabcity.
@rcrhinehart66
@rcrhinehart66 5 жыл бұрын
Let them be. Los Angeles city jail is the largest mental institution in the world and inmates cost taxpayers $60,000+ a year to incarcerate. All while providing zero mental health functions. Slab City probably saves the state a few dozen millions of dollars a year. Either way, let them be. They do not infringe upon the rights of anyone.
@no_peace
@no_peace 5 жыл бұрын
Thank you!!
@Schlumbucketreturns
@Schlumbucketreturns 5 жыл бұрын
Absolutely. Live and let live. Places like this are a very reasonable (and essentially free) way of managing homelessness in an aggressively capitalistic society like ours.
@noneyajdub
@noneyajdub 5 жыл бұрын
They rape and murder without consequence. The child molesters out there hardly get arrested.
@Bearintheweeds
@Bearintheweeds 5 жыл бұрын
They're hurting themselves and the environment. If they were in society some of them could actually get services. Just because the state sucks does not mean we should allow this are you aware that there's Ben child molesters and rapists and murderers caught out there
@kathymack3791
@kathymack3791 5 жыл бұрын
@@Bearintheweeds- Sadly, there are rapists and child molesters everywhere. I would hope that Slab City residents would police thst kind of behavior and deal with it.
@jamesmakar2544
@jamesmakar2544 5 жыл бұрын
I bet she is gone before it gets dark.
@a.citizen7668
@a.citizen7668 5 жыл бұрын
I'm sure her camera guy is carrying.
@jonmacdonald5345
@jonmacdonald5345 5 жыл бұрын
A. Citizen Not in California people are too pussified out there when it comes to guns!
@a.citizen7668
@a.citizen7668 5 жыл бұрын
@@jonmacdonald5345 LOL
@lookingglass9175
@lookingglass9175 5 жыл бұрын
If she was smart she will be
@kileNoe
@kileNoe 5 жыл бұрын
Yeah she seemed so unrelatable the only reason she came was for views and I bet the whole time she can't even comprehend why people would choose to live free
@alanbrown7533
@alanbrown7533 2 жыл бұрын
Looks like a great location for a barbershop
@IamtheKGB
@IamtheKGB 8 жыл бұрын
I think a lot of people get overwhelmed with regular western life. most people have chronic stress from work, bills and responsibilities. I think some people get fed up or just dont see the point of it and move here. it seems really peaceful and relaxed. and like one guy said, its a community and the loneliness factor of homelessness isnt there as much. not to mention that communities help each other out. it looks like a very special place and Id hate to see it go away, people should start more places like it.
@mattjwatson5089
@mattjwatson5089 5 жыл бұрын
Its full of people running from the law.
@gbmarie836
@gbmarie836 5 жыл бұрын
I have watched a lot of videos about Slab City and I dont think it is safe at all, especially for women unless she would have a tough man with her. I have read stories about rapes, Rigs being burned while you are away, stealing from people in the middle of the night, packs of dogs attacking other dogs, and I even read they found a dead person there. Of course, it would be nice if people could police themselves but I dont think it is happening at Slab City, just brutes being bully's to others and that is not a way to live. A lot of nomads go there but they go in groups. Not a good place at all.
@TheMSLADY73
@TheMSLADY73 5 жыл бұрын
@@gbmarie836 funny because everything you just described happens in every city in every state in the U.S. So I would say that its not less safe than any other city in America!
@gbmarie836
@gbmarie836 5 жыл бұрын
Are you kidding me? The crime ratio per person in cities cannot compare to the crime rate in the very, very, tinyl population of Slab City. @@TheMSLADY73
@tiggernordberg7015
@tiggernordberg7015 5 жыл бұрын
How many of you have actually been to Slab City? I have but I don't stay because it like moving. They seem to police themselves just fine when I was there.
@JJF10101957
@JJF10101957 8 жыл бұрын
I find it refreshing that Lisa went into her trip with as few preconceived ideas as she could.
@sentradynamics8889
@sentradynamics8889 6 жыл бұрын
Jimmy Fischbeck I feel the same way.
@davidlaskiewicz4963
@davidlaskiewicz4963 4 жыл бұрын
I don’t recall stating anything adverse to living off grid. However , the Slabs is very hot in the summer. Other downfalls Of Slab Living is Water ; Insects ; FLIES . I’ve camped for many years. My first thought when going to Slabs was David you don’t know how good you got it. I was staying at Coyote Howls East in Arizona in 2007. A annual fee of 450.00 a year was required for a lot . Water was provided with a real faucet. DUMP SITES provided.4 shower houses : free computers to use with internet ; community bldg in park with coffee. Community breakfast for 1.25 . Community Bldg jam sessions 3 times a week. Exercise classes , weekly movies . Then I rode to Slabs on my Harley in 2007 . My first thought was where are their dump sites . Where is their shower house ? Who does garbage pick up ? In Coyote Howls East garbage dumpsters are provided and they haul off the garbage. If I was going to live off the grid I would think of BLM Land in Arizona where dump sites are provided. And dumpsters are provided for garbage. Just Saying
@lorriecrow7872
@lorriecrow7872 2 жыл бұрын
Slabs has been hosting snowbirds going on 70 yrs.. ppl USED to pack out trash.. it used to be so clean.. Ive seen vintage footage from the 70s 80s it was AlOT like Coyote Howls
@kwpp7
@kwpp7 Жыл бұрын
The trash is HORRENDOUS
@mikebrown9781
@mikebrown9781 Жыл бұрын
@@lorriecrow7872 Back in the late 70s to late 80s when I use to partially winter it was great. We had as you mentioned pack out our refuse, emptied our black water at an approved dumping station. On Monday a clean up crew would be organized to pick up the trash of weekenders. There was a public health nurse every two weeks and a bookmobile weekly. Nobody had to worry about being robbed or burned out if they left their domicile unlike todays breed of Slabber. Oh, and there was no begging. Many snowbirds were not affluent but they paid their way all through life. More than I can say about todays squatters.
@CDTyphol
@CDTyphol Жыл бұрын
@@mikebrown9781 Cool
@LindaMerchant-bq2hp
@LindaMerchant-bq2hp 11 ай бұрын
No snakes spiders??
@panxerox01
@panxerox01 6 жыл бұрын
Everybody is homeless, they just don't know it yet. One bad illness, one bad choice with a law, one bad boss, one bad corporate decision and its over and your out thinking what the hell just happened, "Happiness is but the penciling of a shadow"
@charleshoang6481
@charleshoang6481 5 жыл бұрын
panxerox01 even if people own their house right away they still can be homeless if they owe few hundred in property tax for few years without paying for it!
@shaleemichelle
@shaleemichelle 5 жыл бұрын
Precisely. As you've essentially already stated, most of us are literally one medical bill or single misfortune away from bankruptcy and homelessness. Yet we always find a bone to pick with the impoverished, blaming them for literally everything, accusing them of laziness or simply not working hard enough. As well as thinking more highly of ourselves (generally speaking), and being led to believe that if we truly work hard enough, we'll be successful and fortunate. People fail to realize - more often than not - that the only bone to pick is with the government and the corporations. Corporate welfare and money in politics is something that's often overlook by the unaware public, because the government likes to keep us looking the other way, by pitting us against one another and giving us someone else to blame (the homeless, the poor, the ethnic communities, the left/right, etc). This is precisely why I plan on going about things via the van life movement, keeping myself as mobile and off the grid as possible, until I can find a decent area with lackadaisical building codes and regulations. Then building affordable and alternative style home, most likely a cob or strawbale style. It's not feasible for everyone, but I'll be damned if I continue living the next 50 or so years of my life in the way the government wants. Fuuuck that.
@markbrown5117
@markbrown5117 5 жыл бұрын
Sir spot on point. Thank you.
@EurekaLiveTV
@EurekaLiveTV 5 жыл бұрын
i know a guy named Fred who isn't homeless.
@TheWhimsicalFamily
@TheWhimsicalFamily 5 жыл бұрын
My family and I live in a camper
@DanLaw559
@DanLaw559 8 жыл бұрын
I don't ever want to see slab city lose it's freedom. Slab city is my dream home. I hope the freedom doesn't die, but spreads like wildfire.
@DanLaw559
@DanLaw559 7 жыл бұрын
Don't get outside much do you?
@sentradynamics8889
@sentradynamics8889 6 жыл бұрын
It will spread. It has grown a lot in recent years. Why haven't you gone yet?
@kwpp7
@kwpp7 Жыл бұрын
Aim high, lol
@slewfoot6608
@slewfoot6608 Жыл бұрын
the freedom of slab city under threat
@LindaMerchant-bq2hp
@LindaMerchant-bq2hp 10 күн бұрын
Slab city beats skidrow
@oldman9843
@oldman9843 5 жыл бұрын
Jack Two Horses seems like a cool brother
@MOODMENDR
@MOODMENDR 2 ай бұрын
hes hilarious. I trimmed weed with this guy and never laughed so hard.
@johntilson2535
@johntilson2535 5 жыл бұрын
I notice comments like, "There's rapists and murderers there". Having spent time in prison myself, there is a basic code of conduct that inmates must follow and is enforced by other inmates, independent of corrections officers. And it's very similar to the one at Slab City. It's based on respect, there is no court trial to convict and a suitable force of fellow residents crushes any violators no matter how violent, powerful, or insane they may appear to be. In other words, in an organized (controlled) 'free' society, a person can hurt people and maybe get away with it. Not so in prison. Not so in Slab City. I Imagine any rapists, murderers or child molesters wind up either being run out of Slab City or simply...disappearing!
@seannewhouse1943
@seannewhouse1943 4 жыл бұрын
Oh please there's plenty of gotten away with a lot down there there's no way in hell you would get me down there
@dinahsoar6982
@dinahsoar6982 5 жыл бұрын
Nothing like romanticizing Slab city...it's bleak, acre after acre of dirt and scrub brush for as far as the eye can see...full of people who have one thing in common: they are nomads, for one reason or another. It's their life, and the life they've chosen or not...but there's nothing desirable about it to a realist.
@jamesjerome6942
@jamesjerome6942 5 жыл бұрын
Preach brother!!!
@dinahsoar6982
@dinahsoar6982 4 жыл бұрын
@ThinkAboutWhatYoureSaying 1. I didn't say or imply the reporter romanticized Slab city. . Why would YOU say I did when it's not true? 2.. I didn't say I don't like scrub brush or nomads. Why would YOU say I said that? I said it's bleak as far as the eye can see: because it is bleak: (lacking vegetation and exposed to the elements, which is one definition of bleak: look it up) 3.I didn't speak for every realist on the planet: I spoke for myself. Why would YOU imply that I was speaking for every realist on the planet? 4.Yes, a realist would make the comment I did, b/c I AM a realist and my comment expresses my opinion. I don't need evidence or logic or rationale to speak my opinon. And I don't need your permission nor your approval to make a comment and give MY opinion. Nor do I need to prove my opinion. My opinions are based on MY personal observations of which you know nothing. And opinons are judgments, unlike Truth which can be supported by evidence and facts. It is however a FACT that people do romanticize Slab City: (make something seem better or more appealing than it really is, which is one defintion of romanticize: look it up). I've heard them do it with my own ears multiple times and not just in this video. I think YOU are the one who needs to think about whay they are saying. You might want to think twice b/4 you reply to a comment, b/c it helps if you actually understand what is said and the given context. You took my whole comment out of context, spun your own narrative and that is a pre-text. You are like the fake news, misrepresent what someone says so you can bash them.
@punaticlavalover854
@punaticlavalover854 4 жыл бұрын
@Doctorshockstudios I think it looks very well cared for. They have porta luas & conpost toilets. Trump Supporter I presume???
@dinahsoar6982
@dinahsoar6982 3 жыл бұрын
​@@punaticlavalover854 My comment is an opinion. It doesn't square with yours so it has to be b/c of Trump. RIDICULOUS...that's what you are.
@hippiebits2071
@hippiebits2071 3 жыл бұрын
Without romanticizing this place at all it still seems many of these people are far better off living in this little cobbled together community rather than they would be on the streets of major US cities. At the very least they can build themselves reasonably appropriate shelter. This seems a lot better than some of the heartbreaking stuff one routinely sees in inner cities.
@tammyjackson5927
@tammyjackson5927 4 жыл бұрын
As a single woman I don’t think I would feel safe at slab city! I live in a Fifthwheel tiny home!
@rodciferri9626
@rodciferri9626 5 жыл бұрын
That "council" in Slab City is an abomination.
@sgtshadow5200
@sgtshadow5200 6 жыл бұрын
Do these people not understand once the land is sold to private owners it falls under state law which means all kinds of laws.
@outbackeddie
@outbackeddie 5 жыл бұрын
They understand that very well. That's why they don't like it.
@vendetta8084
@vendetta8084 4 жыл бұрын
Who is gonna buy that shit
@capt.jackoffgrid
@capt.jackoffgrid 3 жыл бұрын
It can't be sold to a private party, only a 501c non profit
@growhouseanarchist4795
@growhouseanarchist4795 2 жыл бұрын
@@capt.jackoffgrid Hey Jack can I get an update on the Slab City counsel shenanigans.. I pray that no one inside of Slab City was evicted from their spots.. Did you get to keep your Slab pad my dude?
@feriwarlock9610
@feriwarlock9610 8 жыл бұрын
What I find striking is that many of these people are quite articulate and intelligent. Some end up in slab city due to economic circumstances but I think part of it is choice as well.
@cBodhi
@cBodhi 8 жыл бұрын
+feriwarlock i go there 100% by choice. it is a great experience and a taste of true freedom. i am grateful for the times i spent there.
@MISJPEREZ
@MISJPEREZ 7 жыл бұрын
feriwarlock most artists don't know the value of money.
@soynut6389
@soynut6389 6 жыл бұрын
feriwarlock n
@MrDickhead47
@MrDickhead47 6 жыл бұрын
feriwarlock I work in IT and can barely afford a 1br in California
@btbam93
@btbam93 6 жыл бұрын
feriwarlock The first guy in the video playing music is my cousin. He’s there completely by choice.
@sjames9005
@sjames9005 5 жыл бұрын
Soap and water are scarce too.
@johnmorris9711
@johnmorris9711 4 жыл бұрын
10 years ago I spent the winter on a cot under a tree at low and beal rd. a tarp to keep the rain off...good winter
@kenjohnson9498
@kenjohnson9498 5 жыл бұрын
LA Times Lisa - things have changed in Slab City. you should definitely do an update feature. you will be surprised by how things are now, and it needs to be shown without any sugar coating.
@David-kj1vm
@David-kj1vm 4 жыл бұрын
"Nobody owns it"??? Are they really that naive???
@BorinkenProject
@BorinkenProject 4 жыл бұрын
State of California owns it they just dont want the responsibility of the major clean up.
@mollywalts2776
@mollywalts2776 5 жыл бұрын
Just found this and super disappointed in the B.S. that has happened. Slab City: No longer the "free-ist place".
@lindalai9092
@lindalai9092 5 жыл бұрын
Never has been.
@al4385
@al4385 4 жыл бұрын
"Lawless & Free" but has it's own version of a homeowners association. lol?
@lookingglass9175
@lookingglass9175 5 жыл бұрын
I’m going to be evicted off the land I am squatting on. Brilliant
@ianodenmah9372
@ianodenmah9372 4 жыл бұрын
Hater
@seannewhouse1943
@seannewhouse1943 4 жыл бұрын
Hater!? That's exactly what I got on live chat good to hear it. What ive noticed that no matter how hostile things get their there's always some backing them up with a vengeance. Remember now, she's a nice gal so don't punch her
@capt.jackoffgrid
@capt.jackoffgrid 3 жыл бұрын
🤣 you liked that eh?🇺🇸✌️😎☀️🌵
@A3Kr0n
@A3Kr0n 5 жыл бұрын
People keep saying their free in Slab City but they're only as free as the government lets them to be. It could all come tumbling down in an instant.
@JonaChristoe
@JonaChristoe 8 жыл бұрын
houseless not homeless
@goochdawg
@goochdawg 8 жыл бұрын
Thats george carlins line! lol
@paulbob9573
@paulbob9573 6 жыл бұрын
Home Free!!☮️♻️🍁🎶
@tuberose4601
@tuberose4601 5 жыл бұрын
no.
@JR-of5hp
@JR-of5hp 5 жыл бұрын
Did someone say Shithole.....
@jaya.0069
@jaya.0069 5 жыл бұрын
Slob city!
@stephenantonicelli7069
@stephenantonicelli7069 5 жыл бұрын
Where do they go for bath and drop there manure.:-)
@deanchristopher1697
@deanchristopher1697 6 жыл бұрын
Cool vid, thanx.
@trashtvstar4635
@trashtvstar4635 5 жыл бұрын
I get the impression that when they say "You can do whatever you want" they mean drugs.
@lastnamefirst4035
@lastnamefirst4035 4 жыл бұрын
Or have sex w a dog perhaps. Poor dogs
@guidadiehl9176
@guidadiehl9176 4 жыл бұрын
Lots of meth in Slab City.
@douglaconti7113
@douglaconti7113 4 жыл бұрын
@@lastnamefirst4035 did you ask them
@lastnamefirst4035
@lastnamefirst4035 4 жыл бұрын
@@douglaconti7113 ask if i could have sex w their dogs? No. None of the dogs were my type. They were all a bunch a bitches
@capt.jackoffgrid
@capt.jackoffgrid 3 жыл бұрын
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😎✌️☀️🌵🇺🇸🤔
@TheMajinCollins
@TheMajinCollins 4 жыл бұрын
Technically it's a shelter if you think about it homeless Americans just decided to try and build their own community mad props
@ps8540
@ps8540 5 жыл бұрын
Now these people need to find an nice forgotten ghost town, if they have to leave.
@mobiltec
@mobiltec 5 жыл бұрын
HA! No matter how free you think you are, when people settle in the same place they end up with leaders, rules and everything that comes with society. It won't be long before there are taxes.
@phild.1122
@phild.1122 6 жыл бұрын
Still can't get by without money, 5 miles to niland for water at the community center, cheapest place to get food is walmart on the other side of Brawley, need a vehicle and gas, also for the wind storms that can last up to 3 days, impossible to deal with if you don't have solid structure.
@cheripiez67
@cheripiez67 4 жыл бұрын
you can no longer get water at the community center,the chamber got a high ass bill,so the water source was cut off
@missredumbrella
@missredumbrella 5 жыл бұрын
The Welsh dude at the end ✌ class!
@gigico511
@gigico511 5 жыл бұрын
Great Work Girl ...
@germanicusfink2350
@germanicusfink2350 5 жыл бұрын
I heard the air smells pretty bad out their. Apparently people get used to it eventually.
@jessdragonify
@jessdragonify 8 жыл бұрын
there's probably thousands like slab city,you just got to find em
@Bearintheweeds
@Bearintheweeds 5 жыл бұрын
Pascal and locus in Hamilton Ohio. Not nearly as big but hidden right in the middle of town.
@bluemountaindrivepae
@bluemountaindrivepae 5 жыл бұрын
Homeless camps, not a place you want to be.
@artm6723
@artm6723 5 жыл бұрын
They are slowly becoming what they left behind. Damn shame.
@sallyclay1974
@sallyclay1974 4 жыл бұрын
It looks like a toxic waste dump there.!
@leroygarner3791
@leroygarner3791 Жыл бұрын
Hey Phil wish you all the best from South Carolina Homeboy!!!!!!🔥🔥🔥🔥💯💯💯💯💯💯
@tonyclifton1517
@tonyclifton1517 5 жыл бұрын
I'm not convinced there is really such a thing as some idealistic unlimited freedom,no matter what scenario you are in you still have to have shelter, clean clothing, food, clean water, the right nutrition, and deal with many of the conditions you have in the city or suburbs,plus some additional problems.
@no_peace
@no_peace 5 жыл бұрын
The freedom I want is from other people, and it doesn't really exist. No matter what, if you don't conform in one way or another, people can punish you for it.
@no_peace
@no_peace 5 жыл бұрын
It doesn't matter how far away you get.
@RededicateYrLife
@RededicateYrLife 4 жыл бұрын
You bring relief to my craziness
@wandaclark5020
@wandaclark5020 Жыл бұрын
This place is making these people happy they are in their own community of course different bad situations may arise but look at all the crime going on in the inner cities all the homeless should just come here actually. This is not as bad as Kensington pa a bus 🚍 should come and take some from Kensington pa willing to come out here it's a better life for homelessness than Kensington pa. Sending prayers to the 💔 brokenhearted .
@bethroesch2156
@bethroesch2156 5 жыл бұрын
So much for freedom in the Slabs
@OlymPigs2010
@OlymPigs2010 4 жыл бұрын
..seeing that Slab City was a former US Military Installation..has anyone ever tested the land for Radiation or for any buried Toxic Chemicals ?
@ThatSkeptic
@ThatSkeptic 4 жыл бұрын
I doubt that they have. I bet if they can build on it, they would have and drove everyone out.
@tommytomtomt
@tommytomtomt 2 жыл бұрын
just looking at them..., they must have brain damage from that radon already
@SuperKidsCostumes
@SuperKidsCostumes 8 жыл бұрын
Where's the rest of this report? Where's the point of view of the council members? and all others referenced in this video. That's biased reporting no matter who I may agree with I like to hear both sides so my opinion is better informed.
@KavaKavana
@KavaKavana 4 жыл бұрын
I’m not sure there is “both sides”. Maybe just infinite sides
@CarolynsRVLife
@CarolynsRVLife 5 жыл бұрын
I did a few videos on slab city when I was there. I thought it was pretty cool.
@sallydermont7284
@sallydermont7284 4 жыл бұрын
That's because you're an idiot. There's nothing "cool" about that squatting desert slum.
@borod5571
@borod5571 3 жыл бұрын
I seen your Videos. ‘’Cool Videos’’
@myjourneytotheslabs8899
@myjourneytotheslabs8899 3 жыл бұрын
@@sallydermont7284 I remember with carolyne was there she was spitting on everybody telling us that she wished we were dead I cried all the time while she was there
@CesarClouds
@CesarClouds 3 жыл бұрын
@@sallydermont7284 Omg Sally.
@davidhamlin705
@davidhamlin705 5 жыл бұрын
This is an old Marine Corps Base which is now located 39 Palms
@emmyarellano3704
@emmyarellano3704 5 жыл бұрын
Are ppl safe here? If there's no one "running" this place it would seem to me there'd be a lot of crime going on? I've heard of women being beaten and raped in Slab City, is that true?
@heyyall9378
@heyyall9378 5 жыл бұрын
Women are beaten and raped in wealthy suburbs by their husbands. Or do you not keep up with the news? If you're a woman and want to be safe, buy a gun and never get married. Husbands and ex husbands are the most dangerous people in a woman's life.
@AStanton1966
@AStanton1966 3 жыл бұрын
With no active police department you would need a pit bull and as pet.
@joymcarthur5429
@joymcarthur5429 4 жыл бұрын
Why is it that so many people in places like this have that stuck together, never knew a comb, nasty kind of hair?
@jkdunk20001988
@jkdunk20001988 4 жыл бұрын
Dreeds usually don't look to appealing on caucasoid people
@pinkberryconsumer4059
@pinkberryconsumer4059 4 жыл бұрын
ITS called not taking a bath or shower
@xstensl8823
@xstensl8823 2 жыл бұрын
American tend to judge people by what they own and equate worth in $$. you see this everywhere in American media on how so in so is worth this, or gets paid this. America is now a soulless society whose values now have taken a paradigm shift toward material wealth. it can be quite intimidating.
@africacarey
@africacarey 2 жыл бұрын
I been saying this
@drakeclifton5625
@drakeclifton5625 5 жыл бұрын
I really liked this
@MrSTOUT73
@MrSTOUT73 5 жыл бұрын
She broke the code and figured out why it's called Slab City. LOL
@hippiehillape
@hippiehillape 8 жыл бұрын
i'd like to have a beer with that last guy
@busterbiloxi3833
@busterbiloxi3833 5 жыл бұрын
He's a Welshman and will drink you under the table.
@paulbunyun-xi9by
@paulbunyun-xi9by 4 жыл бұрын
Zach Davis I would like to have a beer with the reporter!!!
@BazzerObama
@BazzerObama 4 жыл бұрын
He’s a Welshman, he’ll want proper beer, real ale............none of that weak piss that’s brewed in the USA
@trevillyan5515
@trevillyan5515 5 жыл бұрын
Someone is always in charge
@paulwormwood6414
@paulwormwood6414 3 жыл бұрын
Be prepared to defend yourself. If you can do that, you will be ok.
@ladyofthewoods2448
@ladyofthewoods2448 5 жыл бұрын
I have a home it’s a pain like ball and chain. Nobody comes I am alone with the care taking of the place, I’m 58 single female I’m close to selling become a nomad .
@lindalai9092
@lindalai9092 5 жыл бұрын
Then you will have a whole different set of problems.
@LP-MeAndMyShadow
@LP-MeAndMyShadow 5 жыл бұрын
Where ever you go, there you are.
@thomaslinger4062
@thomaslinger4062 5 жыл бұрын
Go for it,plan it well and enjoy the voyage
@fozzybear8878
@fozzybear8878 4 жыл бұрын
IS there any follow up on this? I would like to see how that fella got on, and did he have to move, etc.
@JohnDoe-ev9kt
@JohnDoe-ev9kt 6 жыл бұрын
"WAIT !! - You mean it's called Slab City because all these slabs are here ?!?!" Oy Vey.
@leannie2513
@leannie2513 7 жыл бұрын
I often wonder is this where the idea for trailer park boys came from
@MultiJebusChrist
@MultiJebusChrist 8 жыл бұрын
4:08- Cheba Hut sticker spotted :D Also, I've been to Slab City once and have been known to bum around the mesa at Taos (I should have a mailbox over at Manby at this point...), and agree that Slab City is the more free place, not that Taos mesa is exactly regulated lol. That said, I prefer Taos because of the climate and those damn good New Mexico vibes! Plus, the food is killer!
@roosterj2599
@roosterj2599 2 жыл бұрын
I love in New Mexico. Thank you for your positivity and nice comments about our home. Yes. The Vibes here are amazing and so I'd the food. I dont live in the wilds of NM. I got a mortgage, utility Bill's, etc. I do have mucho respect for the people who chose to live outside of the box.
@dystoniaify
@dystoniaify 7 жыл бұрын
I visited during the winter and everything was gone except for a few tweekers, weird. I am too disabled now to live off grid by myself, or I would do it in a heartbeat.
@dystoniaify
@dystoniaify 7 жыл бұрын
In the winter of 2013...
@Garrysullivanjones
@Garrysullivanjones 6 жыл бұрын
Sure sure
@no_peace
@no_peace 5 жыл бұрын
Democrats are centrist right-wingers. You are thinking of the wrong people
@laurazehnpfennig2484
@laurazehnpfennig2484 3 жыл бұрын
I think this is awesome.
@capt.jackoffgrid
@capt.jackoffgrid 3 жыл бұрын
Thanks 🙂
@Wanna.Wander
@Wanna.Wander 3 жыл бұрын
Phil💜fun chillin with ya
@MountainFisher
@MountainFisher 6 жыл бұрын
That "Sticks" guy at 1:30 is filthy dirty. He has to go get drinking water so he ought to at least wash his hands. Must be nice to live downwind from dog shit.
@desertweasel6965
@desertweasel6965 2 жыл бұрын
If those dogs could talk you would have a lot of ATF and FBI swarming that place.
@rickjamez7004
@rickjamez7004 5 жыл бұрын
MORE POWER TO YALL
@thedarkwave44
@thedarkwave44 6 жыл бұрын
4:11 is this a joke? People Running for President now😂😂🤣🤣
@kinniwright1642
@kinniwright1642 5 жыл бұрын
Since Kayne is going to anyone can. Lol
@autumn7436
@autumn7436 2 жыл бұрын
I like that; no homeless in Slab City. It's so true; here I don't feel homeless.
@charleshoang6481
@charleshoang6481 5 жыл бұрын
If I have money I will build a reservoir and hundred of bathroom so all the homeless in California could come here to live with a decency and dignity of a human being !
@no_peace
@no_peace 5 жыл бұрын
That is a great sentiment. I love your comment. One thing many people can do is make a composting toilet (it's relatively cheap) and a compost pile. I thought you had to have a liquid sewage system but then I started watching videos about van dwelling and off-gridding. There's so much stuff we don't know because it was kept from us.
@rt66vintage16
@rt66vintage16 5 жыл бұрын
Sure Jan.
@garygerard4290
@garygerard4290 4 жыл бұрын
I tried to live there but a bunch of them ran me off, 'they didn't want my kind around
@TheJanis302000
@TheJanis302000 8 жыл бұрын
Interesting place
@ricodelavega4511
@ricodelavega4511 5 жыл бұрын
that reporter is quite beautiful
@fukcoffdood2515
@fukcoffdood2515 5 жыл бұрын
once the entity gets hold of it. that's it! its over.
@grungeera4561
@grungeera4561 5 жыл бұрын
You don't have to move .. Hold your ground! Whatever you can take & hold.. you can keep✌
@mspat8195
@mspat8195 5 жыл бұрын
Homesteading law?
@grungeera4561
@grungeera4561 5 жыл бұрын
@@mspat8195 The law of men.. The law of nature..
@blairbushproject
@blairbushproject 2 жыл бұрын
Once a settler, always a settler.
@MichaelHalpern-uc5zo
@MichaelHalpern-uc5zo 4 ай бұрын
Im traveling in my truck, but i like this place better. Im moving there!
@georgewhiplemyerjr.9165
@georgewhiplemyerjr.9165 8 жыл бұрын
They can buy all they want. but bottom line, if the teachers union or the feds, state come in. Game Over.
@RoseAndCam
@RoseAndCam 5 жыл бұрын
nice piece can respect where you are and where you are coming from
@seannewhouse1943
@seannewhouse1943 4 жыл бұрын
NO hostility,.. at all!?!? Lofl!! If they're not hating on you they're bashing you as a hater for hating on they're hate I can walk & chew gum, mon!!! I heard them saying so many words making distinctions between them and other people I know what I heard!!!!! I've read about places elsewhere around the country that are like this and in Canada and stuff thatre FAR MORE pleasant I've looked up a lot about Slab City to know that I would not want to locate there or would recommend to anybody else I mean even if nothing else it's the type that you get coming through there regularly I don't care for the all-around disposition because it does exist and all these overtones of anger and hostility, defensiveness all the time what is that all about I've read about it enough from others. I sure got hostility over nothing the other day from them and then they sit there and talk about all this friendly also they're saying that there was no hostility oh, good one project THAT on to me!!! they don't like people poking at them well you sure had no trouble doing that with me what am I not correct in saying that that's EXACTLY what it was!!!!. Peace for what!?!? stupid assholes!? I'm not saying it's everybody there that's like that I'm not saying that at all but sure is a lot of them I can tell you that right now, I sez
@marcelobarefoot3549
@marcelobarefoot3549 6 жыл бұрын
Thats the way i want to live
@hrrr.
@hrrr. 8 жыл бұрын
This is what I think the near future will be in ALL of America. Eventually. I am ok with that.
@heatherjo989
@heatherjo989 6 жыл бұрын
Marcus Aurelius MAGA!
@ryta1203
@ryta1203 6 жыл бұрын
Better gun up then.
@stevenbenson5241
@stevenbenson5241 6 жыл бұрын
I never understood American's need to have authority figures, like Trump, to save them. It never works out.
@lmlowe9100
@lmlowe9100 5 жыл бұрын
@@elgatofelix8917 MAGA = Maggots Are Governing America...looks like they voted for and still support the #FAKEpresident...too.
@shantolion1576
@shantolion1576 5 жыл бұрын
@@elgatofelix8917 antisemitic asshole
@TheOscarzepeda
@TheOscarzepeda 8 жыл бұрын
Great video !!!!! come back again !!!! I'm from Chicago planning on moving to Slab City !!! to create my huge masterpieces !!!!! Land of Oz ...... I'll definitely keep you posted...... Namaste !!! Oz
@irishtrapper9149
@irishtrapper9149 6 жыл бұрын
Oscar Zepeda Well Oscar where are you now? :)
@houseofsolomon2440
@houseofsolomon2440 6 жыл бұрын
Oscar Zepeda It's been two years and no update on your slabs/ masterpiece project.
@Garrysullivanjones
@Garrysullivanjones 6 жыл бұрын
He was slabbed
@tuberose4601
@tuberose4601 5 жыл бұрын
this is great for homeless people
@INDYFA
@INDYFA 4 жыл бұрын
Looks interesting...
@madeariartha2546
@madeariartha2546 4 жыл бұрын
when one of your family left the house, you know where to find
@tuberose4601
@tuberose4601 5 жыл бұрын
why do people keep getting murdered there then
@N1xZer0
@N1xZer0 5 жыл бұрын
Because some people deserve to be killed. In this doc, "2 Horses" is getting displaced by some board/committee, and maybe he's a peaceful man. But the draw of Slab City, for me anyway, is that if people mess with you, you can incapacitate them.
@riverman721
@riverman721 5 жыл бұрын
@@N1xZer0 ya fuck them dumb fucks
@sandrachilders-hutchison5039
@sandrachilders-hutchison5039 4 жыл бұрын
YES!!!!!!!!!!
@David_a_journeyman_curmudgeon
@David_a_journeyman_curmudgeon 5 жыл бұрын
Civilization and order will eventually germinate no matter how lawless an area seems.
@kinniwright1642
@kinniwright1642 5 жыл бұрын
They don't reproduce so no worries.
@docholiday6421
@docholiday6421 6 жыл бұрын
I be selling watermelon s this fall ,renting rooms to..
@markbrown5117
@markbrown5117 5 жыл бұрын
That guy with the poncho is cool.
@jasondemmons5908
@jasondemmons5908 6 жыл бұрын
They have a small place like this in Tennessee it's called hippie hill
@JenDoe1
@JenDoe1 5 жыл бұрын
Jason Demmons really? I’m not too far away....tell me more! :)
@jasondemmons5908
@jasondemmons5908 5 жыл бұрын
@@JenDoe1 they have Facebook page cool people
@tawkinhedz
@tawkinhedz 5 жыл бұрын
No
@peezyworld420
@peezyworld420 4 жыл бұрын
Was there two weeks ago at West Satan (Jack's camp), he hasn't moved yet and says he has squatters rights.
@valalongtooth1
@valalongtooth1 4 жыл бұрын
Do you think he is being railroaded by Jesus freaks because of something as petty as the camp name?
@kimberlyhoffman242
@kimberlyhoffman242 5 жыл бұрын
if you dont own it get off it!
@thomasjensen6243
@thomasjensen6243 4 жыл бұрын
If you put a bunch of garbage in a circle then that is considered your land.....huh???
@victormanz9451
@victormanz9451 5 жыл бұрын
Amazing Place! V MAN
@mac2k2020
@mac2k2020 3 жыл бұрын
Lisa Biagiotti is adorable
@davidkirkpatrick712
@davidkirkpatrick712 3 жыл бұрын
Wow pot is so great ....look how successful all these pot heads are & great citizens
@lensmith1870
@lensmith1870 5 жыл бұрын
I bet it's a freak Show at night up there
@outermostoutermost9418
@outermostoutermost9418 5 жыл бұрын
Always some one playing on a guitar. And s and singing lol no one shower's nasty place ...should have showed the piles of trash to the right of the shot
@bluemountaindrivepae
@bluemountaindrivepae 5 жыл бұрын
I can see the trash on my cell phone screen.
@jamesgregory2197
@jamesgregory2197 5 жыл бұрын
How do they get electricity without paying for it? Lack of water, no shower would be awful, but I love the desert, especially at night.
@cheripiez67
@cheripiez67 4 жыл бұрын
these use generators @ How do they get electricity
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