Give the guy a break. It was Sunday. The party on Saturday night got out of hand, and the cleaning crew wasn’t going to show up until Monday morning.
Where did the $1 million figure come from?
Here’s a whole bunch of news articles using the “million dollar” figure. Whether it’s even vaguely accurate, I don’t know.
They had 23 kids living there. I’ve seen the mess a family with 2 or 3 kids can make; with 23 I’m surprised the walls were still standing.
Sure it looks like a mess now, but they were going to be on an upcoming episode of Extremist Home Makeover.
I think a lot of money went into his other place, at Costellobad.
I’m thinking this is most likely.
Here in Dallas proper, less than a million will get you this house:
Not huge, but certainly a lot less crappy than that pit in Abbottabad.
I guess you missed the episode of House Hunters International where you got to see Osama Bin Laden tour three homes.
He chose this one because of its view of the walls, granite counter tops, stainless steel appliances in the kitchen - but most importantly, it had a “man cave” in the basement!
(One of his wives liked the fact that the closet was big enough to put her one pair of shoes in it, along with the shoes of the other 34 wives…)
It’s Pakistan. It was only a mansion by Pakistani standards. And the media made up that “mansion” moniker anyway. So if it doesn’t look like a mansion, and it doesn’t look like it’d cost $1 million, and it doesn’t quack like a lair, then…
the seals didn’t have a lot of time to search, you dump, sift, and shove things aside as you look for hidden storage media.
people may have noticed a delivery or 2 from best buys and pottery barn.
Well, at least he had more space than you’d get for $1m round here. It’ll just about buy you a one-bedroom flat above a shop.
The local CBS station here was calling the dump a “$5 million mansion”.
As I said, it looks like a slum building in an American inner city.
I gather he wasn’t expecting guests that night.
I’m not familiar with land economics in Pakistan, but given that Abbottabad is apparently an up scale neighbourhood, I suspect that the initial land sale probably makes up the majority of whatever is the true price tag. Construction and material costs probably would have been minimal.
Oh, I don’t know, with a lawn jockey and a couple of throw pillows…
I’m not so sure of that. Those walls were very high and thick–even if they look bad, they weren’t cheap. That compound was gigantic, so even if the materials were cheap, the sheer amount required would push the bill way up. But sure, the property is probably the most valuable part.
The fun thing is that the city was really named for someone named “Abbot” – not Bud Abbot, but Major James Abbot, a raj-era Brit.
Does the Obama Administration realize that by burying OBL at sea, they’ve just moved his future shrine from his tomb to the the house he was killed in?
Is this a bad thing? Anyway my guess is that the Pakistani government will destroy the house.
An Abbottabad local says the compound was worth $250,000.