News Trump supporter wins constitutional right to live in his truck - the state appeals - GoFuckYourself.com

Bladewire · 05-10-2018, 03:43 PM

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/05/sea...ndle-homeless/

It was a chilly October night, and Steven Long just wanted to crawl under his covers after a long night of working out in the cold. But his covers and pillow were gone, along with everything else he owned—jackets for beating back the Seattle rain, pots and pans used to cook, and the tools he uses to make his living. The only things left from Long’s home were a rain-spattered green tarp and a few half-broken bicycles he’d been fixing up for friends.

Long called 911 to figure out what happened, and learned that his home—a 2000 GMC flatbed with a four-door crew cab and sturdy metal boxes to hold his trade tools—had been towed away because he violated a city rule that prohibits parking in the same spot for 72 hours.

A storm had rolled in while Long was at work, sweeping the aisles and picking up plastic beer cups at the city’s soccer stadium after the hometown Sounders played to a scoreless draw with Houston. So Long took a brisk walk to get his blood flowing, then wrapped himself in the tarp and tried to sleep.

“Wind was blowing, rain was coming, there was a young kid who came by and was going through the bikes, trying to buy them from me,” Long says. “I was just in total shock because I was like, ‘What the heck?’”

It was then, Long says now, that he realized this was part of the plan.

“Before I parked there I had a vision,” says Long, an enrolled member of northern Montana’s Flathead tribe. “I knew they were going to tow it and that I was going to have to sue them to get my truck back.”

Long went to court. He got his truck back. In March, after more than a year in the courts, he became the first person in America to win legal recognition of his vehicle as his home.

05-10-2018, 03:43 PM	#1
Bladewire StraightBro Industry Role: Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Monarch Beach, CA USA Posts: 56,232	Trump supporter wins constitutional right to live in his truck - the state appeals https://www.rawstory.com/2018/05/sea...ndle-homeless/ It was a chilly October night, and Steven Long just wanted to crawl under his covers after a long night of working out in the cold. But his covers and pillow were gone, along with everything else he owned—jackets for beating back the Seattle rain, pots and pans used to cook, and the tools he uses to make his living. The only things left from Long’s home were a rain-spattered green tarp and a few half-broken bicycles he’d been fixing up for friends. Long called 911 to figure out what happened, and learned that his home—a 2000 GMC flatbed with a four-door crew cab and sturdy metal boxes to hold his trade tools—had been towed away because he violated a city rule that prohibits parking in the same spot for 72 hours. A storm had rolled in while Long was at work, sweeping the aisles and picking up plastic beer cups at the city’s soccer stadium after the hometown Sounders played to a scoreless draw with Houston. So Long took a brisk walk to get his blood flowing, then wrapped himself in the tarp and tried to sleep. “Wind was blowing, rain was coming, there was a young kid who came by and was going through the bikes, trying to buy them from me,” Long says. “I was just in total shock because I was like, ‘What the heck?’” It was then, Long says now, that he realized this was part of the plan. “Before I parked there I had a vision,” says Long, an enrolled member of northern Montana’s Flathead tribe. “I knew they were going to tow it and that I was going to have to sue them to get my truck back.” Long went to court. He got his truck back. In March, after more than a year in the courts, he became the first person in America to win legal recognition of his vehicle as his home.