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Hawaiian Beach House Has Illegal Bouncers

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0:00 this is probably like early college and I was on the beach and this lady comes out hey this is a private beach and then like uh pointing like to the water but then in my mind I'm like ████ [Laughter] [Music] you all right this is happening out in Kawai there's a guy who owns a beachfront property you know when people buy these like beach houses and they think they own the entire to the water yeah so this guy's got one of goes it's over at anini Beach and um it's an $8 million property that he has listed as a vacation rental and uh he puts amenities out on the actual Beach to like for guests at rent they'll put like like chairs and just little umbrella stuff like that but then um because people know that live in the area that it's

0:50 that Beach is for everyone they'll still go to it and they'll still enjoy it and he doesn't like that so what did he do he hired bouncers to kick people off of that Beach no way he hired like a staff of guys to like intimidate people to like leave and who enforces that what do you mean bouncers are the enforcement who are the bouncers probably local allian is it an Airbnb that he has that he's it doesn't say it just says a vacation rental so I'm sure that probably it probably I actually would want to stay there cuz now I know I get my own private beats and bounces sick huh you can't have any um private beaches in Hawaii yeah and then anywhere you go there's there has to be Public Access so you could go to like a balling ass neighborhood whatever and there'll be little walkways that you can go out to the beach yeah that that's why this

1:41 dispute is happening because everybody knows that and uh what he's done is like he'll put like um the road that leads up to that area he'll like put official looking like Road closed signs he'll do like I think there's a lady in California the same thing she uh would move she she had a house on the beach and she would just move um her uh what's it called she would move the line up try to claim more of it more more of it but it's not hers she just mve the fence up like it looks official but it's not IM if i' stay there like give me a piggyback ride right now okay I think even like rivers and ████ too in in Hawaii like you can't have any um water source or something like all of it yeah you you so if you walk around you can walk up the river and then people might be like get off my property and they're like it ain't your property yeah go yeah

2:31 is there no easy fix if everybody in the island knows that like you can't publicly or privately own like those public areas I think everyone know if you live in Hawaii you know but if you're a visitor you probably don't know yeah but can't a cop just come and be like hey well so what happens if the cop comes they have to like fight a Simone guy it's it's a situation where they have to it becomes like oh well then we just have to look at records and find the property line and blah blah blah blah like it's not as easy as oh the cop can just say you know what the situation is I'll be like we have to find the line where it stops and where this begins it's like it's one of those things almost feels like squatter's rights y like it almost feels like if if someone commits a crime it's so hard to prove it even though it's like right there and do you really want to go through it and all

3:22 that time and energy so just let it B let's go go through yeah I think that's why I think like stealing something under 950 is like Insurance gonna pay me do I really want to chase it down and they already put in their bag and if I go chase it down I can't resell it you know what just ████ take it let me go let me just tell the insurance coming to pay me that's what that's something like that same thing with the California rule like if you steal something like okay the person have to hire to manage and watch it go get it back and when I get it back I can't even resell it so like if someone stole like you had a diamond necklace in your store and today I took it it's better you get insurance on because like do you really want to go back and fight for it and then you know something worse happening yeah I think um what we don't also know on the mainland too is like since living there for a couple years it was like there's

4:12 like such a touchy subject about is Hawaii even America and is um do these property rights even fly right so the native and the local population there um they don't like it when people try to Step Beyond the private lines and then try to control the beach try to control the nature areas that are like supposed to be for everyone yeah it's supposed to be right cuz then also natives still use the land to like eat every day to like catch fish whatever or like whatever it's part of the culture right so then you have somebody a rich dude from California buys a $8 million property wants the Airbnb at whatever I don't know like maybe that corner could just be like hey uncle's always been fishing there since he was like you know and then it's been in the

5:03 family they fish there all the time and now they can't go and fish in that area or whatever but there are people like that that just have no idea about the controversy stuff there so like they'll be like oh look at this beautiful property and then they'll buy it and then they'll do the same ████ that they do in California is get off my property right and then all of a sudden you got 200 natives just chilling there and being like all right we're going to camp on this area or whatever so there's all of that going on that I think like is heavily missed um and and and like we kind of don't see that cuz in C like there's no more there like we don't have that like all the natives were kind of wiped out you know unfortunately so like there's no one telling you like hey these are like burial ground these are hunting area like no one's saying that you just buy property this is my private area and

5:53 then you know that's it and then you battle with the city that's it but over there you battle with the city the state you have controversy with yeah the the the community all this stuff and then so I don't know cuz there's the law but there's also like do you want to be in the middle of like a conflict of ████ that they've been dealing with for the last 100 years like seems like if you got money though it's worth just like doing it till you can't do it yeah like if he's willing to hire like knowing it's illegal what he's doing and he's willing to hire people to like enforce this that knows they don't they can't do that that's pretty ballsy I've never that's the most I've ever seen cuz if if his property is making like 20 G's or 30 G's a month yeah that he probably just sees it as that might be worth spending a grand on security a month or something corations that pay fines if you're like

6:43 a common person you're just there to visit the beach are you going to go like you know what I'm only here for two weeks to enjoy my vacation am I really going to fight this guy and stay in Hawaii I'm sure they love to stay in Hawaii but stay and fight this guy for two weeks or like you know what let me just move down to the beach I think it's more of a issue probably between the local and Native versus guys like this and then like I um there's always some ████ going on where like they'll build walls where they're not supposed to they don't like the beach access so like they'll build like a fence I heard they plant they plant like trees have you seen that I haven't seen the trees but I've seen like I feel like a thing I read where they these dudes planted like really tough trees so you can't go through but then I mean there's also guys that would just break that ████ right back down and then you know I saw one where a guy would chain up all the fences to his truck and then just

7:34 ████ drive off and take it down so like but you the local a lot of locals are gone though so it's not like they know okay let me go ahead I know this is the law I'm going to do it no matter what even though they can what do you mean did you say like uh in Hawaii like not a lot of the people know that these are the laws and rules oh no no no no the the the tourists don't know the tourists don't know but the locals know what about a situation like this where he's hiring probably I'm locals I don't know local that's a little new he's paying good the Local's probably need money too exactly he's like taking advantage like exploiting that side of it too $25 an hour unless it's kind of tight and the locals are like they they h a bounce tourist but have like a local dude comes that's maybe like if nobody's using the the the house at that day like it's com

8:25 side K yeah cuz I know they have that in like a Malibu where they have like all those private beaches but they're not like they say it's for private residences only but like like regular people can go down there yeah but there's nothing they can really do about it right it's like there's they can just annoy you and make it like kind of a hassle I guess but also in California you can own a I think you can own private areas really I think so only certain distance I think I don't know if you're know like the water oh like from the sand to the water yeah that's true I do remember I forgot what beach I was at this probably early college and I was on the beach and this lady comes out hey this is a private beach and then like uh pointing like to the water but then in my mind I'm like ████ you kind of go ████ yourself yeah I like

9:15 as long as you're not do anything wild as soon as she goes like I could go this way but if she goes inside then I just walk back over here and I have no control like I'm in the water the water pushes you wherever you want to go I'm like it's not my fault ████ RVE on their Beach I don't know yeah cuz I I think that is right when you look at theate at least those graphs where they show where it always stops where the the water is at right it's it's it's ████ it's a lie now yeah stay in the water you can't get out your this is my home now you can't get out here like all right fine typical howy move dude typical howy business activity it reminds me of that one lady it this is in like Colorado but remember that lady who had a house and then part of her backyard was the river yeah and then all these people were using it to like hang out and stuff because they were used to doing that with the old owner and she's like hey I'm the new owner I own this land I don't want

10:05 people leaving their trash in my river and then so the city tried to like forcibly take it they tried to do imminent domain yeah and it got really messy and she sued the city and it got really really crazy and she ended up getting a settlement and they ended up uh finding an agreement where they could take a parcel of it but they had to buy it at the price that she named wow yeah but they didn't take the whole thing it's ████ tricky cuz you know when you like buy a house there's ████ like a m milon documents you have to sign some of the fine print is like let's say randomly they found out you have ████ oil big ass thing of oil and you would like oh that's mine but no it's in the fine print that now that oil goes to the government and then you're you have to be evicted from your house the big one is the the Verizon polles like the the cell cellone towers they can just it's in your fine print like the cell phone tow is like hey you know what I think we need a cell phone tower here they can anywhere in your backyard whatever if

10:55 they it's in the nose like if there's something they the big one I know see is cell phone towers now can you choose what looks like like I want a nuclear missile carrier do I get free Serv forever do I get 5G i' like Horizon good luck getting past my HOA buddy w't this fly I'll go to the HOA paint it pink like oh man we can't have that that would be tired if you can get a a cell tower placed in this guy's Beach property right on the sand oh man super clear now sucks too to be doing that in Kawaii as well I know the most the most like laidback one the most laidback one yeah I didn't even know you can even Airbnb cuz um they just vacation rental I think it's a 3mon like a 3month

11:45 guarantee or two Monon guarantee right I think they changed it where it's you can't do shortterm you have to do at least I think it's at least 30 days yeah yeah dude I feel like at with whatever money this guy's playing with he's probably just breaking every rule until he gets it's probably easier for yeah oh Chris Brown owns it I hear he lives on some Street like he just rides his motorcycle does whatever and no one does anything cuz no one gives a ████ in in Hawaii no no in la oh yeah yeah yeah he's beating up ladies all the time

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