TL;DW: Andy lives in a rented apartment in Portland that Hulu’s “Shill” series wanted to film in, but couldn’t agree on compensation levels. Landlord (who lives in the building) basically decided he wants this thing done, and started the whole “crazy neighbour” routine: shouting through walls, insulting him, staring through windows, taking down the mailbox, and removing the wifi network. Andy seems to have moved out, and I guess will sue the guy for breaching the lease.
The landlord seems like a piece of work. All this to be able to say at parties “hey, my house was used to film that tv series <that nobody remembers anymore>”. I hope somebody throws the book at him.
Even sadder, the production crew doesn’t seem to care. I guess you don’t win an Emmy without breaking some dude’s life, or something.
Please no, while I admit that was funny I come to hackernews for the intelligent discourse. Please don't let hackernews slowly turn into zingers and one-liners
What the ? Sounds like a amateur mob intimidation. Would hope Hulu does the right thing and severely punishes this unacceptable behavior. Who do people think they are, really?
[redacted] corporate would probably be interested in knowing one of their yield engineers has such a flexible moral compass and propensity to break the law. If he'll do this for his house to appear in a web show what would be do when Vladimir from Russia offers him $1.000.000 to stick a USB drive into his work machine?
> [redacted] corporate would probably be interested in knowing one of their yield engineers has such a flexible moral compass and propensity to break the law.
Be careful. They might use that as justification to promote him to Vice President and put him on the board.
@dang: so far googling these posts' texts does not lead me to the linkedin page or profile. Please redact this if you believe it constitues doxxing.
The linkedin post text is something like this:
"Shrill Season 3 will be filming at my house in [place] starting on [date]. A new character on the show will be living at my house.
Maybe show-business will be my backup career."
There's a follow up post which reads:
"Please ignore posts about me from a disgruntled tenant. I wish to keep the issue private. Issues related to tampering and damage to my property are involved."
We got a user complaint about this thread containing doxxing. I know that word means different things to different people, but generally we try to err on the side of avoiding such things, since it's not in keeping with or necessary for HN's mandate. I've redacted this comment accordingly, to take out personal info.
I don't get it. If the landlord wants the filming to happen so badly, why doesn't he kick in a few grand to compensate his tenant... That's a lot easier than kicking and screaming all night.
They are clearly not being rational. Andy leaving for his personal safety is absolutely the right move.
Anyone this aggressive with demonstrably impaired judgement presents a significant threat.
Almost all the time they'll come to their senses. Sometimes they'll escalate.
I have been present for an escalation, a completely irrational one that totally ruined the guy's life. And he was more pulled together beforehand than the behavior in that video.
When people say poverty affects your brain, this is one of the things they mean. Now, the landlord probably isn't poor, but from a poor or normal background, where money isn't abundant enough for such solutions.
It sounds like the opposite, to me. He's a man whose moral compass only aligns to his own self-interest, what's going to enrich him more at any cost, which happens when people lose empathy.
In general, poverty makes humans kinder and more charitable, not crazy and dishonest, while selfishness and apathy for others scales with wealth and resources.
"Updates:
* he started played the song again.
* he started staring at me through my front window and banging on it.
* I phoned 911. Two police offers arrived and got him to stop playing the music."
More explanation at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24895704