Posted on 12/06/2016 10:51:25 PM PST by BenLurkin
The footage and photos, obtained exclusively by DailyMail.com, shows the living quarters of some of the residents of the building known as the Oakland Ghost Ship.
While photos on the art collective's website show an eclectic and creative space for artists and musicians, the reality of life behind the scenes in this dilapidated building is horrific.
Dark and dingy rooms don't look fit for humans, with exposed electrical wires and panels, venting pipes and piles of junk and old clothes everywhere.
Tenant Shelley Mack, who disclosed the pictures to DailyMail.com also revealed that there were three fires while she lived there - in late 2014 and early 2015 - caused by faulty electrics.
'They were small fires. There were no sprinklers so everybody was just aware, if you smelled smoke you would go look and put it out.
'They were isolated fires, a transponder blew up and electrical sockets got overloaded, everybody was very aware that the place was a fire hazard, it was filled with old dried wood and wooden furniture.
'There were power cords and extension cords hooked up to extension cords everywhere. To get across all the place to heat and light all the trailers. Everybody would plug in and they'd get overloaded, refrigerators and microwaves and cell phones, lots of electrical equipment and massive stereo equipment, any system would have been overloaded.'
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'To be honest I didn't think it was going to last this long before it went up or somebody shut it down.'
Mack recalls how one doorway was blocked because it led to the property of a neighbor who'd been in a dispute with the operators.
The 58-year-old jewelry maker who lived there for four or five months leaving in February, 2015, became so angry at the conditions that she began to log...
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Sounds like a typical Hippie-Liberal- socialist home from the late 1960s and 70s.
Terrible. LOL
Wow, that’s probably as accurate a one line summation as we’re likely to see.
Remember fifty years ago when motorcycle gangs offended everyone with Nazi flags, helmets, and metals?
Now they do the same by flying the Confederate battle flag.
I do believe libs today were offended by the Battle flag than the Nazi and fasicst emblems.
Svasti, or swasti, means “auspiciousness” in Sanskrit.
I’m not one of those converted to the cult of pointless moral hand-wringing.
I’ll paraphrase what I said earlier. Those who play stupid games should not be at all surprised when they win stupid prizes.
Svasti, or swasti, means “auspiciousness” in Sanskrit>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
yep
and “ka” in the ancient meaning is mark or sacred command.
Svastika ; auspicious sacred command.
It also has the same meaning in Tibetan.
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