Register a SA Forums Account here!
JOINING THE SA FORUMS WILL REMOVE THIS BIG AD, THE ANNOYING UNDERLINED ADS, AND STUPID INTERSTITIAL ADS!!!

You can: log in, read the tech support FAQ, or request your lost password. This dumb message (and those ads) will appear on every screen until you register! Get rid of this crap by registering your own SA Forums Account and joining roughly 150,000 Goons, for the one-time price of $9.95! We charge money because it costs us money per month for bills, and since we don't believe in showing ads to our users, we try to make the money back through forum registrations.
 
  • Post
  • Reply
PirateDentist
Mar 28, 2006

Sailing The Seven Seas Searching For Scurvy

Bape Culture posted:

How does that explain the hole behind the mirror? That’s not a normal thing to happen

Small medicine cabinet replaced with a larger mirror on the cheap? Used to be a big mirror on the other side as well maybe?

Adbot
ADBOT LOVES YOU

Roblo
Dec 10, 2007

I posted my food for USPOL Thanksgiving!

Bape Culture posted:

How does that explain the hole behind the mirror? That’s not a normal thing to happen

Yeah it's completely not ok for someone in another apartment to have free access into yours. Or for your landlord not to tell you about any of this poo poo.

Also they were entertaining videos!

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

In my estimation, that video is fake.

Yngwie Mangosteen
Aug 23, 2007

Bape Culture posted:

How does that explain the hole behind the mirror? That’s not a normal thing to happen

Yes it is and it’s explained in a post in this thread and the tweet thread itself. Contractors/landlords wanted to be able to get in to fix things if the person wasn’t home, so they made entrances like that. That habit also inspired the Candyman movies because someone took advantage of it in Chicago to sexually assault a bunch of women.

Bape Culture
Sep 13, 2006

Captain Monkey posted:

Yes it is and it’s explained in a post in this thread and the tweet thread itself. Contractors/landlords wanted to be able to get in to fix things if the person wasn’t home, so they made entrances like that. That habit also inspired the Candyman movies because someone took advantage of it in Chicago to sexually assault a bunch of women.

Where’s the post? That’s absolute absurd.

JacquelineDempsey
Aug 6, 2008

Women's Circuit Bender Union Local 34



PirateDentist posted:

Small medicine cabinet replaced with a larger mirror on the cheap? Used to be a big mirror on the other side as well maybe?

Yeah, my first apartment ever was a big house that got haphazardly chopped into 2 apts. As a result, my shower was not in the bathroom but in a closet off the kitchen --- and had an electrical outlet in it. We called it The Suicide Shower.

Never underestimate the depravity of a cheap and unscrupulous NY landlord.

Edit: just lol if you think they wanted access to "fix" things. They'd want access so if you were late on rent or died in there they could get in and throw all your poo poo out and flip that place to the next sucker.

JacquelineDempsey has a new favorite as of 18:48 on Mar 4, 2021

Mak0rz
Aug 2, 2008

😎🐗🚬

Captain Monkey posted:

Yes it is and it’s explained in a post in this thread and the tweet thread itself. Contractors/landlords wanted to be able to get in to fix things if the person wasn’t home, so they made entrances like that. That habit also inspired the Candyman movies because someone took advantage of it in Chicago to sexually assault a bunch of women.

This looks like a whole rear end dwelling that is going unused, not some maintenance tunnel.

Mauser
Dec 16, 2003

How did I even get here, son?!

Mak0rz posted:

This looks like a whole rear end dwelling that is going unused, not some maintenance tunnel.

yeah and also why wouldn't you just use a key to access the property you own that you are renting out?

Bape Culture
Sep 13, 2006

Yeah I dug up the article the other posted unhelpfully alluded to and it mentions pipe runs aboit 3-4 foot in diameter. This is clearly not what is going on here. It’s hardly more convenient to have to go through another apartment because you don’t want to be in a public corridor.

wizzardstaff
Apr 6, 2018

Zorch! Splat! Pow!

Captain Monkey posted:

Yes it is and it’s explained in a post in this thread and the tweet thread itself. Contractors/landlords wanted to be able to get in to fix things if the person wasn’t home, so they made entrances like that. That habit also inspired the Candyman movies because someone took advantage of it in Chicago to sexually assault a bunch of women.

So in case one person isn't home to let the contractor in, they ask to be let in to a neighbor's apartment, dismantle the bathroom, and climb through?

EL BROMANCE
Jun 10, 2006

COWABUNGA DUDES!
🥷🐢😬



Jeez lady, you live in NYC we get it already.

Anyway, I've seen enough trailers of the game The Medium to know this is just some basic, run of the mill alternative dimension portal and nothing to be afraid of.

Fanged Lawn Wormy
Jan 4, 2008

SQUEAK! SQUEAK! SQUEAK!
Tomorrow:
There was a hole here. It’s gone now.

Bape Culture
Sep 13, 2006

“We’ve just measured and the building is 20 feet bigger on the inside than it is on the outside”

SiKboy
Oct 28, 2007

Oh no!😱

Bape Culture posted:

Yeah I dug up the article the other posted unhelpfully alluded to and it mentions pipe runs aboit 3-4 foot in diameter. This is clearly not what is going on here. It’s hardly more convenient to have to go through another apartment because you don’t want to be in a public corridor.

You say "dug up" like you had to do something more than read the posts on the last page, where


the article linked they mention that the pipe run

quote:

The mode of entry didn't startle residents of the high rises; Abbott intruders have been breaking into their apartments through medicine cabinets for at least a year. Even the dullest youth here knows you can slither from one apartment to the adjacent one through the pipe chase, about two-and-a-half feet across, between the cabinets. The cabinets themselves, secured by only six nails, are no obstacle. In some areas of the building you can even climb vertically in the pipe chase to an apartment above or below the one you start in. "It's the way to go from one apartment to the next even if you're not killing nobody," the Janitor says.

Gang bangers who take over a pair of adjacent vacant apartments now often link them by taking down the medicine cabinets, providing an escape route should security or police enter one of the apartments. This escape hatch is particularly effective, says Area Four detective Ray Leuser, who investigated the McCoy murder, because the medicine cabinet opening is small—only about a foot-and-a-half wide—and there are pipes to squirm past. "A lot of policemen wouldn't be able to make it through there," Leuser says. "I think I wouldn't be able to make it through."

Which is still wider than the gap between the mirrors in the video, but then its a different building in a different city. So yeah, looks like at one point two bathrooms backed onto each other, with medicine cabinets blocking access to a narrow pipe run/pipe chase (the gap between the two walls where she has to grab that pipe for support in the video). At some point in the past her apartment had its medicine cabinet replaced with a big mirror, then recently the other side of the wall had its medicine cabinet torn off as part of a refurbishment, causing a draft. As to why they were designed like that in the first place, if I had to guess (which I do, because I am not going to any actual effort over this) its to provide easy access to the pipe run without tearing out a whole wall.

Yngwie Mangosteen
Aug 23, 2007
I'm sorry I didn't link the post from the previous page for you, person who is mad at me.

Bape Culture
Sep 13, 2006

I missed that tweet and am sorry for being mad. I can’t believe that’s a thing. I also can’t believe that medicine cupboards are sunk into fuckin plasterboard.

wash bucket
Feb 21, 2006

Reminds me of that lady who crawled up into the attic of her duplex and realized there was absolutely nothing up there separating her attic from her neighbor's.

EL BROMANCE
Jun 10, 2006

COWABUNGA DUDES!
🥷🐢😬



Don't know why she's complaining to the landlord when she now has a space she can sublease in the city with a 'charming back to basics decor' and 'quirky mirror entrance'.

Arsenic Lupin
Apr 12, 2012

This particularly rapid💨 unintelligible 😖patter💁 isn't generally heard🧏‍♂️, and if it is🤔, it doesn't matter💁.


https://twitter.com/depthsofwiki/status/1367127369593536515

Benagain
Oct 10, 2007

Can you see that I am serious?
Fun Shoe
Im thinkin bout thos immortal crabs

Yngwie Mangosteen
Aug 23, 2007

Bape Culture posted:

I missed that tweet and am sorry for being mad. I can’t believe that’s a thing. I also can’t believe that medicine cupboards are sunk into fuckin plasterboard.

No worries, I intended it more lightly than I realize it reads in text anyway.

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

https://twitter.com/JuliaLMarcus/status/1367159066531880961

I want this inside of me

Evilreaver
Feb 26, 2007

GEORGE IS GETTIN' AUGMENTED!
Dinosaur Gum

Can't wait to get some of that prick

freeedr
Feb 21, 2005

I wonder if it will make people as achey as that Moderna poo poo made me. I’ve never had side effects from a vaccine until that one.

Push El Burrito
May 9, 2006

Soiled Meat

freeedr posted:

I wonder if it will make people as achey as that Moderna poo poo made me. I’ve never had side effects from a vaccine until that one.

If it's anything like the last one I got it'll be a real pain in the rear end.

Ornamental Dingbat
Feb 26, 2007

Push El Burrito posted:

If it's anything like the last one I got it'll be a real pain in the rear end.

Oh how is China this time of year?

Air Skwirl
May 13, 2007

Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed shitposting.
https://twitter.com/BobbyBigWheel/status/1367489284631126018?s=20

Memento
Aug 25, 2009


Bleak Gremlin
https://twitter.com/al3ksis/status/1367382611870572551

toanoradian
May 31, 2011


The happiest waffligator
https://twitter.com/jfruh/status/1367571998285557760

TinTower
Apr 21, 2010

You don't have to 8e a good person to 8e a hero.
https://twitter.com/raeudiger/status/1367308334089596932?s=21

Inceltown
Aug 6, 2019

https://twitter.com/DrewBarrymoreTV/status/1367213504562921477

Dr. Lunchables
Dec 27, 2012

IRL DEBUFFED KOBOLD




Nobody gives enough blame to Malakian

freeedr
Feb 21, 2005

Dr. Lunchables posted:

Nobody gives enough blame to Malakian

I blame Daron for everything.

ultrafilter
Aug 23, 2007

It's okay if you have any questions.


https://twitter.com/jenny2x4/status/1367596055160754176

https://twitter.com/BestCoast/status/1367526867847180289

https://twitter.com/Ben_Verschoor/status/1367671153297399819

trapped mouse
May 25, 2008

by Azathoth

I mean like...who is still hiring them?

Pththya-lyi
Nov 8, 2009

THUNDERDOME LOSER 2020
https://twitter.com/Racheldoesstuff/status/1367710787846823938?s=20

Breetai
Nov 6, 2005

🥄Mah spoon is too big!🍌

She's the only one who could nail it.

Inceltown
Aug 6, 2019

https://twitter.com/naamanzhou/status/1367607009890037763

Yngwie Mangosteen
Aug 23, 2007
https://twitter.com/anzu_is_online/status/1367313052719337474?s=21

Adbot
ADBOT LOVES YOU

canyoneer
Sep 13, 2005


I only have canyoneyes for you
https://twitter.com/jim__time/status/1367666203120955402

https://twitter.com/jim__time/status/1367704290869927941

  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • Post
  • Reply