Squatters moving into upscale neighborhoods (Randy Quaid)

MSNBC ^ | 9/23/10 | Bill Briggs

[JennysCool]

On the big screen, actor Randy Quaid may be best known for his mooching, move-in-and-never-leave character “Cousin Eddie” from National Lampoon's "Vacation” films. Last weekend, he allegedly followed his own Hollywood script.

Quaid and his wife, Evi, were arrested Saturday after they were found living in a guest house on a million-dollar, Montecito, Calif., property Quaid once owned. While Quaid claims his name remains on the deed, the actor and his wife were jailed until they were able to post $10,000 bail.

Quaid is hardly alone in his distinctly post-bubble legal trouble.

[svcw]

These people have liquified grey matter. So very weird.

[barbarianbabs]

How friggin hard is it to buy a house with cash? He has made plenty of movies and I bet his salary was way up there for 6 weeks of work.

[Snickering Hound]

Free Eddie!

[Cyman]

Why do I see this not only ending abruptly but also very ugly? Two people found dead in their own bed or Randy up in some bell tower taking shots at everyone while Mrs. Schizophrenia loads the guns. I hope the local PD has got a special Quaid SWAT Team briefed and ready to go at a moment’s notice.

[Ronald_Magnus]

I thought he was pretty good in "The Last Detail". I wonder if he's going to try "chanting" to get himself out of this jam.

[Bean Counter]

The guy who owns the house next door to me lets the place go until it looks like a freakin’ crack house. I’d welcome a sqatter if it meant getting rid of the neighborhood troll we have in there now, and if the squatters would keep the grass cut, and trim the apple tree so it stops dropping a bushel of rotten apples on my patio every summer...

[JennysCool]

Just plain sad. I hope that this IS some sort of real estate dispute, because I hate to think of the guy going bonkers after having lost bazillions of dollars.

[Anti-Bubba182]

I like one posted comment at the site:

"They would starve if you hid their foodstamps under their work boots!"

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

Wasn’t he arrested in Texas last year for failure to pay a hotel bill or something? This isn’t a new thing with him and the Mrs. - they have been in trouble for awhile now if I recall correctly

[LittleBillyInfidel]

“That there, Clark is an RrrrVeee! Don’t get too attached to it ‘cuz that’s where I’m agonna be livin’ soon.”

[BookmanTheJanitor]

[2ndDivisionVet]

Between 1988 and 2000 I alternated between counseling veterans on jobs and teaching a job-search workshop for welfare and food stamp recipients. Most of the welfare and food stamp folks drove a better car and wore better clothes than I did, as a relatively well-paid government employee. We, the people, had sent many of them to college for 2 to 4 years, and now they were back, and mostly unsuccessful finding work. This was in Iowa, a low unemployment state.

[Anti-Bubba182]

The scumbags are always first to learn how to game the system and the first to complain when it gets tough.

[TexasCajun]

I think Randy really was abducted by aliens who did strange 'things' to him.

...hadn't been right since.

[Viking2002]

I remember as a teenager, I went to run an errand for my mother at the A&P at the foot of the hill (there's dating myself pretty good - we had an A&P!). As I was heading towards the entrance, I saw a shiny new black Caddy with gold trim pull into a the lot, and one of our local residents from the Booker T. Welfare projects stepped out. Counting his food stamps. At the age of 16, I believe that was the single most defining moment in my path towards The Right. If I'd have had a gun, I and my youthful impetuousness would have dropped him right there on the asphalt.

"But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: for men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away, for his name is Obama."

[2ndDivisionVet]

They were no more interested in a job than I was in Eskimo folk dancing. Saw more expensive designer handbags and scarves than I would have at Fashion Week. You can lead a horse to water, etc. etc...

[ReluctantDragon]

I thought he was very good as Ish in Kingpin. A very funny actor. His private life seems like a disaster though.

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

A small town we used to live in had it’s own version of Acorn - local woman who knew how to work the system had all sorts of grants and government set ups. Housed the place in an abandonded school and had remodeled it to cover babies to grave - Headstart to adult day care, even handed out the “government cheese” once a month. She drove a big mercedes and had all sorts of family members on the payroll.... several times she was audited and somehow skated by, but eventually she got caught and if I recall did some time for theft. I was always amazed by how well she and her extended family lived in such a small town.

[WOBBLY BOB]

Breaking back into foreclosed home: Part II

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2609949/posts?page=1