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A Drone Flies Through A Rotting, Abandoned $17.5 Million Vancouver Mansion; This Is What It Saw
Zero Hedge ^
| 4-15-16
| Tyler Durden
Posted on 04/15/2016 5:59:08 PM PDT by dynachrome
So far, he’s filmed five properties in Point Grey and a few in the south Cambie area. Many of them sit behind blue fences, the telltale sign a backhoe is on its way.
Fieldwalker said accessing the properties is simple: “We just go up to them and shoot.”
In the following film posted to Fieldwalker’s Vimeo page, the viewer is brought inside a 3,430 square-foot Point Grey teardown on Drummond Drive, which last year sold for $17.5 million.
The property’s overgrown lawn, mossy shingles, smashed windows and missing doors suggest it’s been many years since anyone called it home. It's owner, mostly likely another Chinese tycoon, is long gone.
Inside, the camera pans and dollies slowly over peeling paint, crumbling gypsum and broken glass, up a staircase and down hallways that show no signs of life, save for some graffiti. It would be the perfect set for a horror or post-apocalyptic film.
Fieldwalker said he understands he’s trespassing and takes responsibility for it, but believes that because the properties are on unceded Coast Salish territory, they can’t truly be owned. Many have sat vacant for five or more years as investment properties. "I’ve had no friction so far,” he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at zerohedge.com ...
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: abandoned; canada; drone; mansion; vancouver
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Maybe the Chinese that bought these mansions never made itout of China?
To: dynachrome
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posted on
04/15/2016 6:00:46 PM PDT
by
dynachrome
(We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values.)
To: dynachrome
the viewer is brought inside a 3,430 square-foot Point Grey teardown on Drummond Drive, which last year sold for $17.5 million.
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posted on
04/15/2016 6:01:32 PM PDT
by
dynachrome
(We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values.)
To: dynachrome
$17.5 S or canofdog money?
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posted on
04/15/2016 6:03:46 PM PDT
by
Fai Mao
To: Fai Mao
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posted on
04/15/2016 6:06:03 PM PDT
by
dynachrome
(We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values.)
To: dynachrome
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posted on
04/15/2016 6:08:06 PM PDT
by
dynachrome
(We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values.)
To: dynachrome
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posted on
04/15/2016 6:09:14 PM PDT
by
sauropod
(Beware the fury of a patient man.)
To: dynachrome
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posted on
04/15/2016 6:09:43 PM PDT
by
null and void
("when authority began inspiring contempt, it had stopped being authority" ~ H. Beam Piper)
To: null and void
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posted on
04/15/2016 6:10:30 PM PDT
by
dynachrome
(We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values.)
To: dynachrome
that was pretty cool. don’t know if i’d call it a “mansion” but a beautiful house for sure. they don’t build them like that anymore sadly..... see how thick the walls were? a modern built home wouldn’t last 10 years without maintenance me thinks. My son has a drone and i enjoy watching his videos.
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posted on
04/15/2016 6:10:48 PM PDT
by
sdpatriot
("Thank you very much, sdpatriot!! Smooch!" - from JR - send him a buck!!!!)
To: sdpatriot
5 million only buys you a “starter” home.
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posted on
04/15/2016 6:11:31 PM PDT
by
dynachrome
(We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values.)
To: dynachrome
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posted on
04/15/2016 6:18:59 PM PDT
by
null and void
("when authority began inspiring contempt, it had stopped being authority" ~ H. Beam Piper)
To: dynachrome
lol....must be a few prime acres included is all i can say...
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posted on
04/15/2016 6:21:16 PM PDT
by
sdpatriot
("Thank you very much, sdpatriot!! Smooch!" - from JR - send him a buck!!!!)
To: null and void
No room in the title. I put it in the key words just now.
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posted on
04/15/2016 6:21:25 PM PDT
by
dynachrome
(We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values.)
To: dynachrome
I saw that, was going to m’self. Ya beat me to it!
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posted on
04/15/2016 6:23:54 PM PDT
by
null and void
("when authority began inspiring contempt, it had stopped being authority" ~ H. Beam Piper)
To: dynachrome
Why aren’t these properties condemned?
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posted on
04/15/2016 6:24:38 PM PDT
by
Dallas59
(Only a fool stumbles on things behind him.)
To: dynachrome
I know that place. I grew up in Vancouver and passed it almost every week.
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posted on
04/15/2016 6:25:31 PM PDT
by
max americana
(fired every liberal in our company at every election cycle..and laughed at their faces (true story))
To: Dallas59
buried in the story:
“Many of them sit behind blue fences, the telltale sign a backhoe is on its way.”
and:
“National Post reports, according to city records there were 974 housing-permit demolitions citywide in 2015. 917 were torn down in 2014, 859 in 2013 and 1,008 in 2012.”
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posted on
04/15/2016 6:27:58 PM PDT
by
dynachrome
(We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values.)
To: dynachrome
rather incredible that no one has dropped a match in the place yet
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posted on
04/15/2016 6:35:38 PM PDT
by
bigbob
To: dynachrome
Kubrick would have loved these drones. He’d put a custom made camera with a million dollar lens on one.
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posted on
04/15/2016 6:36:44 PM PDT
by
Moonman62
(Make America Great Again!)
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