meet pontifier (hackernews, twitter)
I offered about 3/4 what they were asking, and they accepted the offer.
Maybe I'm daft, but I ended up buying about 75 more properties here... all surprisingly cheap.
holds robber at gunpoint, twitter account is full of videos of getting robbed
starts an actual vigilante justice bounty website
devotes most of the rest of his time to pooping on pine bluff
tldr: @911roofer origin story
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@A is this sufficient effort
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too short, sry
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Ngmi
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Darn I wanted to post this. Sat on that golden egg too long.
Nice work King
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Who could’ve seen this coming?
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Needs more Bootstraps.
Also "This shithole city is a real shithole!"
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Crackheads stole his security system
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pine_Bluff,_Arkansas
read the wiki page, downwind from a papermill, lost a large chunk of it's population, 3/4 black population, This is like an even worse version of Detroit. It seems like they talk about rebirth almost as much as detroit anyway. What a fricking shithole, of course there's tons of empty warehouse space, the entire fricking downtown is basically empty warehouse space.
https://www.google.com/maps/@34.2294291,-92.0046054,3a,75y,214.76h,90.34t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1suPCvcHPkYleVBV0p-Fh8YQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192
https://www.google.com/maps/@34.2262329,-92.0034013,3a,75y,331.39h,96.35t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sPx7soGcPVcuIXjvYRIxJww!2e0!7i16384!8i8192
https://www.google.com/maps/@34.2262329,-92.0034013,3a,53y,233.87h,94.54t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sPx7soGcPVcuIXjvYRIxJww!2e0!7i16384!8i8192
yeah in the last one the only buildings are a hotel on the left and a motel on the right, both permanently closed and vacant.
Ah i see, most of the white people moved to Whitehall and it's like a half hour drive from there to little rock, so they really don't need pine bluff. hmm fascinating.
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That bounty system is terrible. If they even get convicted it'll be forever until they get sentenced. Nobody's doing the hard work of catching a criminal for maybe 100 dollars in a few years. It needs to be something more like $1000 up front for catching them plus 100 for each month they spend in jail.
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The guy doesn't understand poverty. Putting aside any delusions that these people will be properly prosecuted, brokecels fail the marshmallow experiment and will always take a little payout now over a potential larger payout later. But he's probably just so assblasted at being victimized by crime for the first time in his life that he wants to make sure the book gets thrown at them.
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Man thought he found some sort of unpatched exploit in reality and didn't question why the property was dirt cheap.
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This is best effort post I’ve seen in awhile.
Pine bluff is legit one of the worst places to live in the south. South Arkansas fricking blows.
North Arkansas is as underrated as they come
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Am I right that south AK, north Louisiana and all of Mississippi is pretty much the worst of the worst rural America? The rest of the south and Oklahoma seem to have plenty of redeeming qualities, any time I've passed through that little slice of the country it's just seemed like heck on earth.
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In my experience, yes. The Mississippi delta regions of northeast Louisiana, nw Mississippi and south Arkansas absolutely blow.
Just farmers and lots of poor blacks.
Some of the oxbow lakes, like lake Bruin are a good Time but the actual towns themselves are depressing
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I wish I was this badass,
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based
Snapshots:
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hackernews:
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twitter:
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My method sure hasn't worked very well... or has it? I was looking for cheap warehouse space to start a business in, and did a nation-wide search for the largest, cheapest building in the entire continental US.:
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holds robber at gunpoint:
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starts:
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vigilante justice bounty website:
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pooping on pine bluff:
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Is this crypto nerd shit? God I hate nerds so fricking much
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Imagine this
Being the reason you went to prison.
Transform your Marseys!
www.pastebin.com/Jj9URfVi
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Better:
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POV: Your going to die over $6 of scrap copper
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If he won this would be based
He lost so he is a clown, the circus and an r-slur all in one.
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I don't know what you mean, just look at the hustling, bustling cityscape, really seems like a great place to invest in and not anything like a scooby doo ghost town
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Why do all american towns look exactly the same?
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REE GENTRIFICATION
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Look at the upscale sports bar on Main St.
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good find!
It's like a where's waldo of grinding poverty.
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Its actually called "upscale sports bar."
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Faces of Autism
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When this guy holds you at gunpoint, you know what's next.
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I'm ok with this guy getting robbed
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This shit is hilarious, but what exactly is the purpose of his business?
Best I can tell you send them your own CDs and then they store and rip them and you can download or stream the FLAC of your own CD, but why? Who’s paying for this shit? Is this some kind of audiophile nonsense?
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Omg that video...
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Wtf is even this. Who has enough CDs in 2020 to need someone to store then for you. Even my old parents know how to download their CDs to a computer that has a disk drive. That was doable since like late 90s, before I even knew how to
work a computer.
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Are you trying to suggest that this is an NSA front? Typically they go for bigger things like capital management companies so that they have more influence. The only way this makes sense would be if they're going for maximum isolation.
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I thought glowie fronts try to avoid attention, not sperg out on Twitter and HN
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It isn't. It's just a real r-slur. If it were NSA, they would have given out insane kickbacks to the local police and mayor departments and declared their compound weapons free instead of reeeeing about it on social media
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It apparently had users, but I think it must be some insanely outdated service because he founded a competitor back in 2004. For some reason he was excited to swoop in and claim it when the main service went kaput 16 years later.
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Old people who don’t know they can do this themselves.
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He probably gets all his customers from putting up flyers in nursing homes tbh.
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His business is supplying copper and lead to criminals (depending on how lucky they are)
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Unintelligent and megabased
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“This town seems to have nothing going on?”
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all the robbers r white?
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They're culturally black.
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Only the ones he shows you, the city is 76% black so yeah...
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cope racist
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Shoulda listened to the rdrama brand of internet racism
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around whites never be nice?
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Seems like it would be hard to convince him of that when he likes to draw down on them.
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I'm having a hard time understanding his thought process here.
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The only way this makes sense is if he's planning to establish a cult or a commune.
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Read his other posts. This guy is mentally ill.
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Which is why this is incredible drama
Truly an incredible blend
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He’s going to turn them into gulags for the homeless
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He's going to fix them up and add hipster coffee shops
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There's another comment where people found he had plans to setup nuclear fusion. Top tier schizo
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For a second, I honestly thought his intention was to try and gentrify the place single-handedly
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He could.
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That would be too hard but you could probably manage the crime by only buying contiguous properties and hiring homeless veterans to live in them for free and shoot any robbers. Just build a big butt wire razor fence with a moat and cameras and shit around your outermost buildings, and give some vets ARs and free weed to camp out.
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A lot of homeless veterans seem like they could freak out and be just as likely to shoot themselves or each other as they are criminals "the tunnels the tunnels the tunnels the tunnels"
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That's fine, you officially want them gone anyway, they're squatting on your land with assault weapons
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Thats a bonus, you could post the footage here!
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At that point you may as well kill the robbers and bury them under the warehouses.
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Let the homeless vets cook the dead robbers and eat them.
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Surely there is some local crime syndicate that could help for a percentage.
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Nothing is stopping you from doing both but its better to have a homeless fall guy in case things go south
Also you want at least a few of them to survive to get the warning out to other crackheads that the guys in the lots on the noetheast corner dont frick around and should be avoided
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This would take about a day to propagate. There's some secret sauce to using poors against poors, they share an unspoken creed.
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CHUDZ/CHOZ
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