Man Claims To Be “Under Siege” By Nearby UC Berkeley Fraternities, Can’t Believe There Are Shenanigans On Fraternity Row

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On-campus housing is the way to go. You and your fellow Greeks have free reign to act in ways that a civilized society would deem tasteless and barbarian. Unfortunately, not every university accommodates on-campus Greek housing, and it is then that we find stories from people like Paul Ghysels, a man who claims to be “under siege” by UC Berkeley’s fraternities.

Ghysels lives on fraternity row and appears to be in a real life “Neighbors” situation. Although he lives among 34 fraternities houses, he expects quiet and sanity — two traits that he is unlikely to ever experience.

Ghysels isn’t crazy. He’s not, I swear. He only installed $60,000 in surveillance equipment and contacted ABC’s “20/20” with a list (and a collection of surveillance videos) of incidents related to the fraternities. Let’s look at a few of them.

From ABC:

He said he has captured footage of half-naked women, public urination just outside his window and plenty of other lewd and aggressive behavior.

Eh, you’d find that outside of GDI houses, too. Well, all of that minus the “half-naked women.” We all know those might as well be unicorns outside of fraternity row.

“I have video of them throwing 1.75-liter glass bottles of vodka off their tower, at the front door of our house,” he said.

First off, that’s called a handle, bro. Secondly, that is a helluva distance to launch a handle. Instead of whining, you should be impressed that such a degenerate is able to maintain the level of arm strength necessary to complete such a feat.

He said some of his fraternity neighbors began to break into his house, throw pieces of furniture on his roof, vomit and defecate near his property line, even leave him death threats on his answering machine.

I cannot fathom that they actually attempted to break into your house. Other than an extra-large bottle of Midol for the slam who won’t stop bitching, there cannot be much worth stealing to an intoxicated fraternity brother. As for that other shit, it’s their yard. Until it crosses your property line, fuck off.

“We’re under siege and we’re not getting really any help from the university or the authorities,” he said.

Yes, you are surely “under siege.” No exaggeration to be found in that claim.

Ghysels has since moved out of his house, leaving it to a family member, but he is still determined to fuck up some of those frat hoodlums. He has since filed a massive lawsuit against every UC Berkeley fraternity. Actually, this will be his second lawsuit — his first lawsuit was shockingly dismissed.

TFTC, bitch.

[via ABC]

    1. HouseChef_TFM

      “If you’ve ever been under siege, uhh that’s what it’s like.”

      If this guy ever faced one day of combat in Vietnam he wouldn’t dare ever make that comparison.

      11 years ago at 11:26 am
      1. DefinitelyNotNationals

        It said in the video that he worked on a carrier helping planes take off, so it sounds like he didn’t see one jungle other than the outside of it.

        11 years ago at 12:39 pm
    2. USArmy

      Being a Vet doesn’t mean someone isn’t crazy or has unrealistic demands. It doesn’t automatically get us in to heaven, a free meal or a free drink. It means that we survived a combat tour, which may have nothing to do with pulling a trigger. There are people in admin, supply, como, intel, etc. who were the same combat patch as those who were outside the wire day in and day out. Vietnam was a horrible war and there are real scars, emotionally and physically, that many Vets carry with them day to day. But, that doesn’t exempt them from skeptical criticism when they do something that may be deemed abnormal to the rest of society.

      11 years ago at 11:32 am
    3. Mark Daniels

      He’s got a good point. I get what y’all are saying about about him being unreasonable to compare it to a siege or to expect any better from college students or fraternities. But he’s a Vietnam vet who just wants to live free from the shenanigans of hundreds of degenerates which really isn’t an unreasonable request. If it were my fraternity I’m confident that we would try to accommodate a veteran in whatever way possible short of ceasing our shenanigans altogether.

      11 years ago at 12:23 pm
  1. HouseChef_TFM

    Paul Ghysel was definitely one of those guys that worked at the supply warehouses the entire war and tells people he was “all over the place” on the front lines.

    11 years ago at 11:21 am
    1. fratstar570

      He saw no combat whatsoever besides maybe a damaged plane returning from a fight on the aircraft carrier that he was on.

      11 years ago at 12:47 pm
    2. Sand_Hill_Alum

      am I the only one wandering how in the actual fuck these guys managed to get his number to leave death threats on his answering machine? I’m going to have to call bullshit on that one

      11 years ago at 8:10 pm
  2. USArmy

    Geez. Gramps needs to back off the gas a little. All the shit he is describing was happening any given Tuesday afternoon when I was in college.

    11 years ago at 11:25 am
      1. MarineCorps

        You look like the kind of guy that would fuck a man in the ass, and not even have the common courtesy to give him a reach around.

        11 years ago at 9:10 pm
  3. DaleEarnhardtJesus

    Hey Farva what’s the name of that restaurant you like with all the goofy shit on the walls and the mozzarella sticks?

    11 years ago at 11:31 am
  4. GeorgeH31

    He probably all bitchy because the frat stopped inviting him to the lobster dinners that had the senior special included

    11 years ago at 11:32 am
  5. inhocFaF

    The guy has probably spent more money on his surveillance cameras than the house’s worth. Probably got the house for dirt cheap considering its surrounded by degenerates and looks like the house hasn’t been updated since the day it was built.

    11 years ago at 11:49 am
    1. CREEPYALUM

      You must not be familiar with the California real estate market. His house is probably worth upwards of $700k

      11 years ago at 12:23 pm
    2. Its a TFM

      That guy’s house is worth just under a million dollars according to Zillow. The SF Bay Area is the most expensive real estate market in America. $60k isn’t even enough for a fucking down payment on a house in Berkeley.

      11 years ago at 1:13 pm
      1. FratstarsnStripes

        Living in a million dollar house that looks like that and not liking your neighborhood is stupid and he should feel stupid too.

        Easy fix, sell the house, have a million dollars, and move. A million dollars will get you pretty far in buying property elsewhere.

        11 years ago at 7:20 pm
      2. GetPhKTUp

        But didn’t you hear? Living on frat row is has so much sentimental meaning to his family!

        11 years ago at 8:46 pm
  6. itsaFratastrophe

    Most of these things sound pretty par for the course. GDIs don’t live on fraternity row for a reason

    11 years ago at 12:35 pm