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Re:In London 'Guardians' live in empty office buildings by JoeAltmaier on Thursday January 16, 2014 @08:42AM (#7069292)
I'm confused - these are the lovely people tearing holes in the wall in the article? Painting graffiti? Heck, living in someone else's building just because they want to and have a crowbar? At least two of those are crimes, so yes they are criminals. I'll let you have the scumbag one - maybe they are really nice vandals...
Re:In London 'Guardians' live in empty office buildings by Pxtl on Thursday January 16, 2014 @09:38AM (#7069581)
If the building is insecured-enough for squatters to take up residence, then it's insecured-enough for anybody else who wants to come and visit and do some damage.

And if you had 5, 10, or 20 squatters... how long do you think it would take one jerk to ruin the place top to bottom.

Squatters don't need to be all bad to destroy properties. Only a tiny percentage of them have to be destructive, and then building will look like a hellhole by the time the owner sees what's been done.

Re:In London 'Guardians' live in empty office buildings by ronaldx on Thursday January 16, 2014 @11:05AM (#7070100)
> At least two of those are crimes, so yes they are criminals.

You have made some logical errors here.

The fact that there is a hole in the wall is not ascribed to squatters and could equally be attributed to general disrepair.

I accept you might say: "there has been at least some crime, so there has been at least one criminal"... but you still don't know if that one criminal was a squatter or how many squatters there were who were not committing such crimes.

In the end, this anecdotal/circumstantial evidence teaches us nothing.

Re:In London 'Guardians' live in empty office buildings by dblacc on Thursday January 16, 2014 @08:56AM (#7069354)
you assume that every squatter does graffiti and tears holes in walls, this obviously is NOT the truth by any means.
Re:In London 'Guardians' live in empty office buildings by JoeAltmaier on Thursday January 16, 2014 @09:31AM (#7069551)
Just the ones described in the article then.