Your house where Walter White descended into criminal infamy has a brand-new antihero - however one armed not with blue meth or a barrel of cash, however a garden hose pipe.
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Joanne Quintana, the real-life owner of the iconic Breaking Bad home in Albuquerque, New Mexico has finally had adequate and reached her own snapping point.

Years of trespassers and photo-hungry superfans have actually turned her home into a zone of conflict in between a personal life and popular culture fixation. Now Quintana is taking matters into her own hands and striking back.

In a video posted to Instagram, Quintana can be seen sitting on a yard chair in her front backyard keeping watch.

When fans stick around too long or come too close to her residential or commercial property, she delves into action and blasts them with an effective jet of water from her garden tube before barking commands at them to keep away.

'You can take a picture from that corner,' she can be heard informing one shocked visitor. 'Do not get close. And no tripods, no absolutely nothing. One photo, then you go!'

The ranch-style house on Piermont Drive was celebrated on screen as the house of Walter White, his other half Skylar, and their boy Walt Jr. in AMC's Emmy-winning masterpiece, Breaking Bad, which ran from 2008 till 2013.

For five seasons, your house stood in as the symbol of White's descent as he went from having a hard time teacher to callous drug kingpin.

Quintana informs fans to avoid her home and to stay throughout the street or get too close

Joanne Quintana, the real-life owner of the iconic Breaking Bad home in Albuquerque, New Mexico has actually lastly had sufficient and reached her own breaking point and is hosing down fans

The ranch-style house on Piermont Drive was immortalized on screen as the home of Walter White, his spouse Skylar, and their kid Walt Jr. in Breaking Bad from 2008 until 2013

And while the show ended 12 years earlier, your home and other recording areas around town continue to draw in crowds of fans wishing to capture a glimpse of where the show was set.

White and his on-screen home since familiar to millions of fans around the globe.

But for Quintana, it has actually constantly been her home after her parents bought the residential or commercial property in the 1970s.

She grew up in your home along with her siblings. She viewed the show's production unfold from her front deck, and even befriended cast and team in the early days.

Everything started after Quintana's mother was approached in 2006 by a film scout with hopes to shoot the pilot episode at their home. Within months the recording had actually started.

At the time, she informed KOB-TV that it seemed like 'the magic of Hollywood.'

The household had the opportunity to enjoy behind the scenes and meet the cast and crew. Quintana's mother likewise always had cookies for anybody working the set.

But in the years given that Breaking Bad ended, Quintana has seen your home changed into something of a popular culture trip site.

The home's listing has actually approached its sale as an antique of the program, calling it Walter White's House and providing it as a possibility to own a 'piece of television history'

Whilst the show was completed more than a decade earlier, your home and other around town continue to attract crowds of fans hoping to capture a glimpse

The household didn't hesitate at welcoming fans initially but when the doorbell rang in the early hours of the early morning their mindset altered

Tour buses come down her street while selfie stick-holding fans regularly appear at dawn. Fans have taken the 'reenactment' of famous scenes from the show to ridiculous new heights.

On more than one event, die-hard fans have hurled entire pizzas onto her garage roofing system, imitating the infamous scene where Bryan Cranston's character loses his cool and tosses a pie after his character's wife, Skyler, shut the door in his face.

Since then, the house owners said it was hard to stop fans from trying their own pizza tosses or slipping into the iconic backyard pool.

Your home was only used for equipment and preparation. Any interior scenes were shot on a set at the studio lot.

The stunt became such an issue that Breaking Bad developer Vince Gilligan needed to personally intervene on a 2022 episode of the Better Call Saul podcast.

'There is nothing original, or funny, or cool, about tossing a pizza on this woman's roofing system,' Gilligan said, exasperated.

'She is the sweetest woman worldwide, and if you are getting on her nerves you are doing something seriously f *** ing incorrect.'

Initially, Quintana enjoyed to take images with fans, but when there was a knock at the door in the early hours of the morning the family's mindset quickly altered.

'Around 4:30 am the doorbell rang, my mom got up and unlocked and it was a bundle,' Quintana said. The plan was dealt with to Walter While, so they called the bomb team.

Quintana can be heard barking instructions at fans excited to see the house

Walter White, seen here played by Bryan Cranston, threw a pizza onto his house in the 3rd season after a fight with his wife

'My bros stated "That's it, we're done, fence is going up. That's too close for comfort is the front door",' she included.

She has actually given that set up a border fence to keep people back however has actually now required to hosing down unwanted guests with her hose when her pleas go overlooked.

'Back up, cowboy,' she informed one visitor trying to inch closer for a much better shot.

When another gushed that he was a fan of the program, she snapped back: 'The entire world is a fan. Doesn't impress me.'

The viral clip has actually divided viewpoint online. Some viewers support Quintana, calling her 'a legend' defending her right to secure her residential or commercial property while others have actually mocked her habits, recommending she might rather have actually taken advantage of the attention.

'She just sits there all day and tells people how silly they are lol,' one commenter wrote.

'If she was smart, she 'd start charging,' another quipped.

'The street and walkway are public residential or commercial property,' included a third, questioning her legal footing.

In January, the tension appeared to boil over. Quintana silently noted the home for $4 million, a figure that shows not simply the residential or commercial property, however the problem that includes it.

In current months a fence has actually now been put up to keep fans back from the home

Breaking Bad with Bryan Cranston as Walter White in a picture from 2012. The indoor scenes were all shot at a studio and not at the New Mexico home

The three-bedroom, two-bathroom home was explained as among Albuquerque's 'most well-known landmarks' that is acknowledged globally by countless fans.

Some fans have actually even proposed that she rent the home out on Airbnb to cash in on its notoriety.

The home's listing has approached its sale as embracing it as an antique of the program, calling it Walter White's House and using it as a possibility to own a 'piece of tv history.'

'I hope they make it what the fans want. They want a BnB, they want a museum, they want access to it. Go for it,' Quintana stated.

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