Emergency Dumaguete Airport/ Million peso tree/ overnight parking

I was at the sight yesterday buying some product, this man is a pinoy, the tree is just about covering his roof of his single story house and only reaches 5 meters above his roof at the highest point. i asked about why here? i was told the land has been in the family for over 100 years. back to the fact if the landing strip was built for turbo props that,s what should land there. anyway way im over it .

 

Cheaper to move a house than an airport. I for one prefer the jets, due to the skimpy baggage allowances on the turboprops. It really cuts down on the amount of Pasalubong I can get in without paying the astronomical cost for overages.

Is commonsense really common?

 

Your side, my side and the truth. I don't claim to fully understand all the dynamics of the situation and don't really care to. I'm speaking in general and at a business level. Weight the costs, the inconveniences and the good/bad and come up with a solution with the most positives and least cost.

Not many people I know are happy about being at either end of a runway anyway. I'm not saying don't compensate the guy, but if he is being unreasonable as people can be, than d*mn the torpedoes. If the city isn't compensating him that's wrong too. I'm saying compensating this guy appropriately is a better idea than stifling the economic growth of Dumaguete and decreasing safety because his family has owned the land for 100 years. We all leave our land behind at one time or another, so 100 years doesn't buy a lot in my book. I just can't get that attached to a piece of dirt, as long as I and equally good piece of dirt, I'm happy.

With respect to the owners points, what was necessary for an airport in the past may no longer be valid, but that in and of itself doesn't mean a mistake was made.

Going to war rarely results in a clear win for either party.

 

What war? The tree owner has made no overt acts that I know of?

I am a supporter of property rights anywhere, always have been. If you don't agree that every property owner should be dealt with fairly and legally, I believe that you should have all you have taken away from you and you should be forced to help load it all up, because you are ok with it in principle.

Corporate entities should not pull the we are big and you are small crap, refusing to pay and making you sue them. I have been there and I can tell you it's no fun. Yeah, I think it's funny when they step on their dicks. They need something from the land owner now who has to do nothing but ignore them and engage a lawyer who will squeeze it for all it's worth. Karma is a b*tch.

There is this guy on You tube calls himself Sean the resort rebel and I think he is full of crap except for one thing he said. Just pay on the spot. Pay the first person. When you let things drag out and more people get involved, it isn't going to get cheaper. Why make the lawyers rich? Words to live by.

 

If you make it so someone's only chance of redress is to sue you, of course they become unreasonable. Or possibly their reasonable threshold lowers to equal the one who refuses to compensate them for damages. When a corporate entity refuses to pay for damages they are responsible for, are they being reasonable? Why would you expect any individual to be reasonable when meeting un-reason?

I have a suit against a company that defrauded my brother myself and the court. I told them years ago that if they undid what they did I would let them walk away free. I don't see how I could be more reasonable than that. I will win on the basis of notarized recorded documents alone. I gave them a free out and they didn't take it so now I want a big settlement, worse yet the lawyer who is going to get 40% of the punitive wants a big settlement. It's tough to put a price on 6 years of aggravation which I would never wish on anyone.

 

There are a couple of definitions of war. Here is the definition I had in mind while making that statement.

In an active state of conflict or contention.

There seems to be a state of conflict or contention and I'd say pretty overt by the fact lots of people seem to know the who and why. It evens ends up in papers. I wasn't suggesting people shooting at each other, which is the more typical definition. That said maybe war might be to strong a term as I don't know all the details.