|
|
Post by mintygreen on Dec 1, 2012 18:10:50 GMT -5
Last night I saw a program about a murder case. It was a real murder case, I never watch the programs about fake ones. Anyway, I remember showing you guys a picture of my closet before and how it has that little door inside it at the top that leads into the crawlspace area. Well apparently sometimes in houses that are connected to each other....like townhouses, some apartments, semis, etc....you know how there are walls between your home and your neighbour's in those situations? Well, not always does the wall between your home and the neighbour's extend up into the crawlspace area. So in some places if you go up through that little door in the top of your closet you can actually crawl through the crawlspace and then come down through the little door in your neighbour's closet and get into their house.  Honestly, it was freaky and probably not something most people think about. The killer went up through the little door in the ceiling of his closet and then came down through the one in his neighbour's closet. Essentially the victim was apparently resting in his bed when the killer came out of his closet and killed him. It was seriously freaky. I could explain how the investigators figured out what happened but that would probably take too long to explain. I actually live in a semi by the way so that means that potentially my neighbours could crawl up through their closet and then come down into mine. Although according to my dad there is actually a wall that goes all the way up between the crawlspace between our home and theirs so it shouldn't be able to happen in our situation. Still freaky though. |
|
|
|
Post by pitbulllady on Dec 2, 2012 13:58:18 GMT -5
I'm so happy that I live way out in the sticks, and it's a good walk between my house and my nearest neighbor's, so we don't share any walls. Not that I don't trust him, but I do value my privacy, and I'm sure he values his. I would hate to live in a city where I had to share common architecture with another family, and this is just one of the reasons. I'd rather put up with coyotes sleeping on my truck's tonneau cover(yes, for realz) or deer hijacking the tomatoes and rattlesnakes sunning themselves in the backyard than random murderers accessing my house via the crawl space and closets.
pitbulllady
|
|
|
|
Post by mintygreen on Dec 6, 2012 4:02:58 GMT -5
I'm so happy that I live way out in the sticks, and it's a good walk between my house and my nearest neighbor's, so we don't share any walls. Not that I don't trust him, but I do value my privacy, and I'm sure he values his. I would hate to live in a city where I had to share common architecture with another family, and this is just one of the reasons. I'd rather put up with coyotes sleeping on my truck's tonneau cover(yes, for realz) or deer hijacking the tomatoes and rattlesnakes sunning themselves in the backyard than random murderers accessing my house via the crawl space and closets. pitbulllady Well there are pros and cons to everything I guess....because if someone does break into your place when you're out in the middle of nowhere, it would also be less likely that anyone would hear your screams or that you'd be able to make it to a neighbour's place for help. It would probably also take longer for police and other emergency personnel to arrive on the scene if you managed to call 911. So there are pros and cons to both. The neighbours that my family shares a wall with are nice people that my family has known for 35 years now but of course, you never know when someone will move and someone new will move in that could be completely different. It's good though that apparently in our semi there is a wall that goes all the way up between us and them even in the crawlspace. It is true there is still less privacy though because you CAN sometimes hear things in the neighbour's place and I wouldn't be surprised if they sometimes hear stuff going on in our place. I mean it would have to be pretty loud to decipher exactly what noise you hear from the other side of the wall though. Earlier this year though some of my neighbours up the street got into a huge argument with each other filled with curse words and it was really bad. I tried not to hear any of their argument, but it was just so loud and they were arguing outside. |
|
|
|
Post by pitbulllady on Dec 6, 2012 6:09:22 GMT -5
Well there are pros and cons to everything I guess....because if someone does break into your place when you're out in the middle of nowhere, it would also be less likely that anyone would hear your screams or that you'd be able to make it to a neighbour's place for help. It would probably also take longer for police and other emergency personnel to arrive on the scene if you managed to call 911.
So there are pros and cons to both.
The neighbours that my family shares a wall with are nice people that my family has known for 35 years now but of course, you never know when someone will move and someone new will move in that could be completely different.
It's good though that apparently in our semi there is a wall that goes all the way up between us and them even in the crawlspace.
It is true there is still less privacy though because you CAN sometimes hear things in the neighbour's place and I wouldn't be surprised if they sometimes hear stuff going on in our place. I mean it would have to be pretty loud to decipher exactly what noise you hear from the other side of the wall though.
Earlier this year though some of my neighbours up the street got into a huge argument with each other filled with curse words and it was really bad. I tried not to hear any of their argument, but it was just so loud and they were arguing outside.[/quote]
LOL, I live in the American South, dear. We call 911 after we serve up a large-sized lead sandwich, so the cops can come and collect the body of the property invader. A pump-action double-barrel .12 gauge serves as a nice deterrent to that sort of behavior. Southerners are, by tradition, armed, and South Carolina is a "stand your ground" state, where we are not only allowed to kill home/property invaders, but encouraged to do so. I learned how to shoot and properly maintain firearms when I was a young child. It's a very different world from one where people have to rely on the government or police solely for protection, people I have little faith in.
pitbulllady
|
|
|
|
Post by mintygreen on Dec 8, 2012 2:08:03 GMT -5
LOL, I live in the American South, dear. We call 911 after we serve up a large-sized lead sandwich, so the cops can come and collect the body of the property invader. A pump-action double-barrel .12 gauge serves as a nice deterrent to that sort of behavior. Southerners are, by tradition, armed, and South Carolina is a "stand your ground" state, where we are not only allowed to kill home/property invaders, but encouraged to do so. I learned how to shoot and properly maintain firearms when I was a young child. It's a very different world from one where people have to rely on the government or police solely for protection, people I have little faith in. pitbulllady Yeah, I assumed most of you probably had guns for a defense. Although personally I would hate to face off against an intruder.  But then again I've never even touched an actual gun so I guess I just find them intimidating for that reason. Most of us here in Canada don't have guns. Come to think of it....I guess the monsters would be safer coming out of the closets here in Canada then. |
|
|
|
Post by pitbulllady on Dec 8, 2012 14:28:14 GMT -5
LOL, I live in the American South, dear. We call 911 after we serve up a large-sized lead sandwich, so the cops can come and collect the body of the property invader. A pump-action double-barrel .12 gauge serves as a nice deterrent to that sort of behavior. Southerners are, by tradition, armed, and South Carolina is a "stand your ground" state, where we are not only allowed to kill home/property invaders, but encouraged to do so. I learned how to shoot and properly maintain firearms when I was a young child. It's a very different world from one where people have to rely on the government or police solely for protection, people I have little faith in. pitbulllady Yeah, I assumed most of you probably had guns for a defense. Although personally I would hate to face off against an intruder. But then again I've never even touched an actual gun so I guess I just find them intimidating for that reason. Most of us here in Canada don't have guns. Come to think of it....I guess the monsters would be safer coming out of the closets here in Canada then. That is kinda the whole gist, I think, with Mike and Sulley throwing Randall through a door that lead into a trailer in the Deep South. People here, whether in Louisiana or not, deal with perceived or real threats differently. We are more likely to have guns or other weapons handy and use them accordingly. I'm pretty sure Mike would have known this, and understood that throwing Randall into some home in this part of the country, especially a low-income home, is more likely to result in Randall being killed. Other people in other parts of the country might flee a 12-foot scaly creature suddenly appearing in their midst, but here in the South, people are more likely to go on the offensive and have the weapons on hand to do so. In Louisiana, big+scaly=FOOD. Whether he got shot, stabbed or bludgeoned, Mike knew that Randall probably would not make it out of that trailer alive. pitbulllady |
|
|
|
Post by mintygreen on Dec 18, 2012 23:35:09 GMT -5
Yeah, I assumed most of you probably had guns for a defense. Although personally I would hate to face off against an intruder. But then again I've never even touched an actual gun so I guess I just find them intimidating for that reason. Most of us here in Canada don't have guns. Come to think of it....I guess the monsters would be safer coming out of the closets here in Canada then. That is kinda the whole gist, I think, with Mike and Sulley throwing Randall through a door that lead into a trailer in the Deep South. People here, whether in Louisiana or not, deal with perceived or real threats differently. We are more likely to have guns or other weapons handy and use them accordingly. I'm pretty sure Mike would have known this, and understood that throwing Randall into some home in this part of the country, especially a low-income home, is more likely to result in Randall being killed. Other people in other parts of the country might flee a 12-foot scaly creature suddenly appearing in their midst, but here in the South, people are more likely to go on the offensive and have the weapons on hand to do so. In Louisiana, big+scaly=FOOD. Whether he got shot, stabbed or bludgeoned, Mike knew that Randall probably would not make it out of that trailer alive. pitbulllady Yeah, they probably sent him to the worst door possible.  I mean, that's even worse than the door Mike and Sulley originally got banished too....where it was really cold....but at least you weren't going to get shot or something. I actually saw a program on TV recently and apparently shovels are one of the things a lot of people use to kill reptiles/scaly reptile-looking things down south. I also saw on the program that some guy tried to shoot a snake with a gun down south and the first time he shot at the snake he missed and took out a chunk of his porch or something....then the 2nd time he accidentally shot off part of his own finger. What an idiot. I don't think the snake was harmed. I think after he shot off part of his finger he called 911 and the snake was simply re-located and thankfully not killed(it was a cotton mouth I think). There was another program I saw where a lady down south saw a gator in her backyard that had it's mouth taped shut. She felt bad for it because it was starving to death so she called the authorities and they took the gator and got the tape off it's mouth and were going to nurse it back to health and then re-release it. |
|
|
|
Post by lizardgirl on Dec 25, 2012 8:24:07 GMT -5
I have to admit, I do find it sort of crazy that people have guns in their homes in America (not everyone of course, but I believe it's more common in the south?) I'm not saying it's wrong or anything, it's just such an alien idea to have something that could kill someone so easily within your own home. As you said pitbulllady, it's a very different world to relying on others, like the police, for protection. I know I wouldn't want to trespass on someone's property if I knew they had a gun...
As for whether Mike and Sulley knew that they were throwing Randall into an area of the US where most people are armed, well, it does seem a bit of a coincidence for Randall to be thrown into a home where he wouldn't be feared, and the humans within it wouldn't run away from him, but would instead attack him. I mean, if he'd been thrown anywhere alligators or large lizards aren't common, Randall wouldn't have had much of a problem in terms of scaring the humans away and getting out of there. It's just too much of a coincidence.
I just wonder how Mike and Sulley managed to identify where a door led whilst in the door vault. Like, did they check a bunch of doors and once they'd come across one they thought was 'suitable' for Randall, they used it? It's not like they had access to the card keys or anything to be able to bring forward specific doors (or did they?) It just seems like a bit of a logistical nightmare- though to be fair, we never find out how Mike returns to the Monster World...I guess sometimes these things are meant to be left unexplained.
And referring back to the original post, that IS pretty freaky, mintygreen! We don't tend to have closets in this country so I've no idea how monsters would be able to access our bedrooms, though I have a built-in wardrobe, and at the back of the wardrobe there's a little cupboard which leads into the roof (I'm on the top floor of my house, so my room is sort of in the eaves, if you see what I mean). After my friends and I watched the film The Grudge, where the scary creature comes out of a cupboard in the roof, we started referring to the cupboards in my room as 'grudge cupboards'. Always comforting when you're trying to get to sleep...
|
|
But then again I've never even touched an actual gun so I guess I just find them intimidating for that reason.
