By Steve Sailer
11/15/2011
I should try to get the NYPD to raid my garage and throw out for me all the decades of junk piled up in there.
Anyway, Occupy Wall Street reminds me of another current phenomenon, food trucks and other businesses that have set themselves up rent-free in the public streets.
For example, in recent years, there’s always a big yellow sign advertising "Thai Massages" (I presume that’s a euphemism) mounted on a trailer parked in the right hand turn lane at a busy nearby corner. It’s a great location for advertising a massage parlor because the pimp doesn’t have to rent the land the sign occupies. Less obnoxiously, there’s now often a miniature barber shop in a trailer parked in front of a prosperous local strip mall where monthly rents are substantial.
Similarly, downtown Manhattan is, for most people, one of the most expensive places in the world to live, but a couple of hundred people have been camping rent free there for two months.
Why this 200-person free campout is the biggest deal since the Fall of the Bastille, however, is another question entirely.
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