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The shadow doesn’t seem to match up.. Could be fake.
The question is: if his house was on fire, would you go in to save him?
#1 The shadow doesn’t seem to match up
which part?
This is a fake the wood tone and shadow for the pole look like they were added I would call this Fishy!
We currently live on the Navajo reservation in Arizona, and I’ve seen similar quality houses here.
Shadows look OK to me; check the shadow behind the shack. It’s the same angle as the pole.
This doesn’t seem that odd to me. There are many in this country that would buy the dish and TV before upgrading their homes. The only difference is that in the U.S., there are fewer people that can’t afford to do both.
Would it look any stranger to see the dish outside a trailer in a trailer park? Same thing really.
Do you think they’ll phone the guy to see if he still wants to be part of their ‘no-call’ list?
#8 – 🙂
hahahaha
I have seen the same sort of setup in West Virginia. A shack with a satellite dish.
Damn, he went a killed the whole look of his roof line with that FuGLy Pizza Pan sitting there. Could they not tuck that dish somewhere so you do not have to see it while on the front patio.
To go along with #6 – it wasn’t uncommon when I lived in the Navajo Nation to see a hogan with a C-Band big dish in the yard – even when, as in most cases, there wasn’t an electric utility.
You lit up the generator to watch TV.
What I noticed from the photo is that this dude must be pretty far north. Just look at the angle of the dish. He might be in Siberia or Lapland, the Shetland Isles.
I’m sure it’s a real dish – probably put up for a gag.
But it obviously doesn’t work – think about it – the satellite would have to be straight across on his neighbors roof!!! It’s at a 90 degree angle!!!!
At least he can watch Fox News…
Bet there’s a 50 inch plasma inside…
Look at the angle of the dish. It is nearly at a horizontal angle. It appears to be a line-of-sight antenna pointed at a broadcast tower, not a satellite. My guess is that it is probably a radiowave line-of-sight antenna meant for rural areas. I think it is normally used in the U.S. for internet connections for homes out in the country.
Are there any line-of-sight radio transmission TV broadcasters in the North America? If there are, I don’t know of any. And look at the shack. It is made of mud, scrap wood, and some sheets of plastic for a roof. My guess is that this has to be in Central or South America. I would bet that the guy is pirating the signal as well.
I feel sorry for the child standing next to the man. I hope that kid doesn’t have to live in that sh**hole.
Also, the dish appears to be marked “DIGI”. I googled it by I can’t find any TV or data radio transmission company by that name.
My brother-in-law lives off the grid in northern AZ in a couple shipping containers. And no, I don’t mean the containers you’ve seen that are turned into beautiful houses, I mean he lives in a couple metal boxes.
He has a dish mounted to the side of one of the containers for internet access. It looks quite like the one in the picture.
We don’t know, this could be a storage shed next to a larger house and that was the spot with the best southerly line of sight.
On the otherhand, having been to Mexico and Northern Arizona, I can tell you this is a common site. It used to be grass shacks with aerial antennas on the roof.
I did c-band satellite installations in the 80’s and 90’s. I once put a $3000 satellite system into a two room log cabin with an outhouse for a toilet and a single black plastic water pipe ( no faucet, running constantly) from a spring outside into a sink as the only indoor plumbing. go figure…..
Hey, give the guy a break.. the “Media Room” is not quite finished yet.
They probably got that dish after being on the DO NOT CALL list that DirecTV calls.
I wouldn’t get all excited. This is probably just the model home and they try and make them fancy.
Nice to make sport of a poor person. What kind of Paris Hilton-addicted clown he must be, watching TV, of all things – when he could be in his walnut-paneled library cataloguing his first editions.
I know that if I were poor and living somewhere out on the edge of the world, I sure wouldn’t want to squander my precious leisure time looking at anything from the big, big world outside, when there’s obviously so many other forms of culture and self-enrichment available. And of course, who, living in circumstances like that, could possibly have any curiosity about other people and other places?
Yeah, the guy must be a real cretin, watching TV – which I’m sure also makes him the butt of jokes at cocktail parties.
I dont know…
How mnay of you know HOW to live Humble…
Sat and cable are CHEAP compared to a RENT payment.
Also..Wait till you see a sat dish on a 12′ Trailer up in the hills, for a sheep herder watching over his sheep/goats.
snobs!
#12..Ed…..I was about to ask if maybe this could be some of the sheep herdsman north east of you….but their huts are nicer……lol
LOL! You’ve got to love some people priorities. It’s almost like seeing a Hummer parked next to someones mobile home.