The owners of the Breaking Bad house put up a fence to stop people throwing pizzas onto their roof

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Sometimes, life pushes even the most boring or predictable of people too far. The results of these sudden snaps can be dangerous and hard to see coming; maybe they start an international drug empire as part of an ultimately futile effort to defy the natural order and take some control back of their own lives. Maybe they build a fence.

The owners of the Breaking Bad house—i.e., the Albuquerque residence that served as the exterior of the White home on the beloved AMC meth drama—have opted for the latter, after four years of endless photographing, theft, and, yes, pizzas getting hurled onto their roof. The family’s bad break was documented by Albuquerque’s KOB4 news, which reports that as many as a hundred people a week show up at the house, sometimes demanding that the people who live there close their garage or clear out of the driveway so that they can take their perfect TV nostalgia shot. (Also, they apparently keep stealing their rocks.)

Not only is this behavior rude—Vince Gilligan has been yelling at people to knock it off for years now—it’s also hopelessly out of date. C’mon, folks: If you’re going to make a pop-culture pilgrimage, you’ve got to keep with the times. Leave these people—and the ones who live in Jesse Pinkman’s old apartment, which also gets its fair share of visitors—alone, and go find the Omaha Cinnabon that serves as Jimmy McGill’s post-crime purgatory on Better Call Saul, instead.

helpmeredditimbored on October 12nd, 2017 at 03:58 UTC »

By all accounts the owner of the house is a really nice lady and at first she was more than happy to greet fans and say hello. The fact that assholes have vandalized her home and made her life difficult is sad

godx119 on October 12nd, 2017 at 03:28 UTC »

I went to the house while I was on my road trip across America. It felt incredibly awkward to get out of the car and hang out in someone else's driveway, so we just drove by at a regular pace and took a mental picture. I feel weird even admitting that, and it's my favorite TV show.

Just utter insanity that more than once someone has felt comfortable throwing a pizza at this family's home.

plainoldname on October 12nd, 2017 at 02:06 UTC »

They could rent the house to students with this "free pizza" incentive and have full occupancy.