Fed up Owner of Iconic 'Breaking Bad' Home Takes Extreme Measures

Your home where Walter White came down into criminal infamy has a brand-new antihero - but one armed not with blue meth or a barrel of money, but a garden tube.

Joanne Quintana, the real-life owner of the iconic Breaking Bad home in Albuquerque, New Mexico has lastly had adequate and reached her own breaking point.

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

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

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

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

The ranch-style home on Piermont Drive was celebrated on screen as the residence of Walter White, his partner Skylar, and their boy Walt Jr. in AMC's Emmy-winning work of art, Breaking Bad, which ranged from 2008 until 2013.

For five seasons, your home stood in as the symbol of White's descent as he went from struggling teacher to callous drug kingpin.

Quintana tells fans to avoid her home and to stay across the street or get too close

Joanne Quintana, the real-life owner of the iconic Breaking Bad home in Albuquerque, New Mexico has finally 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 residence of Walter White, his partner Skylar, and their son Walt Jr. in Breaking Bad from 2008 until 2013

And while the program ended 12 years earlier, the home and other shooting areas around town continue to pull in crowds of fans wishing to see where the show was set.

White and his on-screen home because familiar to countless fans around the world.

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

She grew up in your home together with her brother or sisters. She enjoyed the program's production unfold from her front patio, and even befriended cast and team in the early days.

It all began after Quintana's mother was approached in 2006 by a movie scout with want to shoot the pilot episode at their home. Within months the recording had actually begun.

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

The family had the chance to enjoy behind the scenes and satisfy the cast and team. Quintana's mother also constantly had cookies for anyone working the set.

But in the years since Breaking Bad ended, Quintana has seen your home changed into something of a pop culture expedition website.

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

Whilst the show was completed more than a decade earlier, the home and other recording locations around town continue to draw in crowds of fans intending to catch a glimpse

The family didn't hesitate at inviting fans initially but when the doorbell called in the early hours of the early morning their mindset altered

Tour buses boil down her street while selfie stick-holding fans frequently appear at dawn. Fans have taken the 'reenactment' of well-known scenes from the program to unreasonable new heights.

On more than one celebration, die-hard fans have actually tossed entire pizzas onto her garage roofing, mimicking the infamous scene where Bryan Cranston's character loses his cool and throws a pie after his character's wife, Skyler, shut the door in his face.

Ever since, the property owners said it was difficult to stop fans from attempting their own pizza tosses or sneaking into the iconic backyard pool.

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

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

'There is nothing original, or amusing, or cool, about throwing a pizza on this lady's roof,' Gilligan said, exasperated.

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

Initially, Quintana enjoyed to take images with fans, however when there was a knock at the door in the early hours of the morning the household's attitude rapidly altered.

'Around 4:30 am the doorbell sounded, my mom got up and opened the door and it was a package,' Quintana stated. The bundle was resolved to Walter While, so they called the bomb team.

Quintana can be heard barking guidelines at fans excited to catch a glance of your home

Walter White, seen here played by Bryan Cranston, tossed a pizza onto his home in the third season after a fight with his spouse

'My siblings said "That's it, we're done, fence is increasing. That's too close for comfort is the front door",' she added.

She has actually since installed a boundary fence to keep people back however has actually now taken to hosing down undesirable visitors with her pipe when her pleas go neglected.

'Back up, cowboy,' she told one visitor attempting to inch closer for a better shot.

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

The viral clip has actually split viewpoint online. Some viewers support Quintana, calling her 'a legend' safeguarding her right to safeguard her residential or commercial property while others have actually mocked her behavior, recommending she could rather have taken advantage of the attention.

'She just sits there all day and informs individuals how dumb they are lol,' one commenter composed.

'If she was wise, she 'd begin charging,' another quipped.

'The street and sidewalk are public residential or commercial property,' included a 3rd, questioning her legal footing.

In January, the stress 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 features it.

In recent months a fence has now been set 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 recorded at a studio and not at the New Mexico home

The three-bedroom, two-bathroom home was referred to as among Albuquerque's 'most popular landmarks' that is recognized globally by countless fans.

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

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