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I've always had the theory that you could be functionally homeless in this city with a good gym membership. Seems I'm not the only person who thought of this.
Certainly possible. There are actually many people who are "invisible homeless" who blend in. They may couch surf or just do what he did. They go to work, socialize just like anyone. 6 years doing this requires some endurance that's for sure.
I find this story fascinating. He never made enough money to rent an apartment, but kept himself clean and well dressed. As long as you maintain a certain appearance, then people make all kinds of assumptions about you.
I know that there are a lot of people that covertly sleep in their cars at night, but its quite another matter to sleep under a tarp in all weather. Though I suspect he didn't spend as many nights up there as he claims--I can't imagine sleeping outside in freezing temperatures without specialized equipment.
I don't believe this story. I think it's been packaged to sell. He might have spent a few nights sleeping on a roof at one point but the rest of the tale is BS.
I don't believe this story. I think it's been packaged to sell. He might have spent a few nights sleeping on a roof at one point but the rest of the tale is BS.
More one thinks about this am not wholly buying the story either.
NYC had some really cold winters the past five years, this guy could not have been sleeping on that roof for nights at a time with temps below freezing. What about when it rained and or snowed for days on end?
Also for six years no one from the building for maintenance or other reasons went onto that roof? Also for that period this guy was able to get into and out of that building at least twice a day without anyone not only noticing but hearing sounds on the roof? No one from other buildings noticed night after night this guy was up on the roof?
Black top roofs get hot as heck during the summer. Not exactly the most comfortable surface to sleep upon.
No, this story has a whiff about it. He may have spent the occasional night up there or perhaps a few days at time, but there is no way in hell he slept up there seven nights a week for years at a time.
I don't believe this story. I think it's been packaged to sell. He might have spent a few nights sleeping on a roof at one point but the rest of the tale is BS.
More one thinks about this am not wholly buying the story either.
NYC had some really cold winters the past five years, this guy could not have been sleeping on that roof for nights at a time with temps below freezing. What about when it rained and or snowed for days on end?
Also for six years no one from the building for maintenance or other reasons went onto that roof? Also for that period this guy was able to get into and out of that building at least twice a day without anyone not only noticing but hearing sounds on the roof? No one from other buildings noticed night after night this guy was up on the roof?
Black top roofs get hot as heck during the summer. Not exactly the most comfortable surface to sleep upon.
No, this story has a whiff about it. He may have spent the occasional night up there or perhaps a few days at time, but there is no way in hell he slept up there seven nights a week for years at a time.
Perhaps. The article did mention that at certain times he was able to stay at friends homes during lightning storms and other bad weather. As for as the roof getting hot in the summer he claims he only went up there at night to sleep, when it was presumably cooler.
I do agree that during the very cold spells, he couldn't have spent the night up there without some specialized equipment that extreme campers use--and it doesn't sound like he had that.
I don't believe this story. I think it's been packaged to sell. He might have spent a few nights sleeping on a roof at one point but the rest of the tale is BS.
Yeah, there's just no way. Cool story, but anything other than that is just fantasy.
I've at times contemplated living in a lean to constructed in the woods in Van Cortlandt Park or Pelham Bay Park. I know them very well. Lots of tucked away places where I'd never be nailed.
If the powers that be decide I'm "disabled" (there are some issues with my heart, but I don't feel disabled; I won't fake anything. I'm seeing a cardiologist in a few days) I may still do this. I could live like a prince on the SSI money, if I had no rent to pay.
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