TIL that the owner of the house featured in the 1985 movie “The Goonies” got so fed up with tourists coming to her property to get a view of the place, that she covered the house with blue tarps.

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1. Could be worse. At least she doesn’t have to regularly clean pizza off the roof like a certain house in New Mexico.

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2. >However, after the 30th anniversary took place in 2015, Sandi could not take it any longer. The event attracted 15,000 people to Astoria. Fans were disrespectful, leaving beer bottles and cigarette buds in the driveway, and she was tired of having no privacy in her own home. She resulted in covering her home in giant pieces of blue tarp in an attempt to gain back more of a personal and private life. She also put up signs which read ‘Access to The Goonies House closed’ and a second sign that read, ‘Imagine that you buy a house, fix it up, spend money, time and love. Then the city of Astoria encourages 100,000’s of people to come and stand in front and view it. This driveway (maintained by homeowners) sees 1,000+ people every day. Most are kind, fun and welcome, but many are not.’

   Man that would suck.

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3. The people who own [Walter White’s house in Breaking Bad](https://www.chicagotribune.com/travel/ct-breaking-bad-house-gets-fence-20171017-story.html) did something similar by putting up a large fence and blocking off the street with parking cones.

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4. >cigarette buds

   Are they growing smoke trees?

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5. Seems like a waste of a good revenue stream

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