When you encounter this wild New Yorker in Queens he has the Greasiest Fingers known to mankind. Some say if you touch his fingers you will instantly get the gassed like the jews. Others say your getskin poisoning. The world may never know.
A Shackteau is a humble, weather-beaten, structurally questionable shelter located in a spectacular or highly coveted place—Wales, Jackson Hole, Sun Valley, Crested Butte, coastal Maine, the Alps—where the building itself may be worth almost nothing, but the dirt, view, access, and mythology make it absurdly valuable.
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Shackteâu - We thought it was an abandoned shed until the realtor called it a rare alpine Shackteâu with unobstructed views and listed it for $2 million.