BREAKING NEWS – Seattle, Washington – Residents of the mega tent “mansion” homeless encampment near Seattle’s famed Space Needle are bragging about the practicality of their new digs, taunting local politicians: “If you can live on the street and not pay rent, then why would you pay rent?” The recently constructed camp is located on a small patch of grass on Third Avenue and Broad Street, about a half-block from the Space Needle and surrounded by multi-million dollar high-rise condos. “It is a form of protest,” Melissa Burns, one of the “mansion” dwellers, told Q13 News. “We’re staking a claim. We’re refusing to cower in our tents.” She then explained their future plans. “Our goal is for hundreds of us to move into the Space Needle and live there indefinitely. And if the city of Seattle tries to stop us, I will encourage all of the homeless men here plus any of the bold women, to use the entrance of the Space Needle as a urinal.”
