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I think there's a bit of a sanity gap between using a gun to protect yourself and "made a show of loading it right in front of her", but what do I know I'm an east coast lib.
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Look if you have to get into the crawlspace really fast you just use this one weird trick American homeowners use. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trlj8c2xXC0
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Dareon posted:Hi, welcome to America, we have guns here. Tell that to all the non-Americans who have been quite successfully murdered with .22s because it's the only kind of gun allowed, why don't you. You imbecile. You moron. You liberal.
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Mar 24, 2021 00:31
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You're supposed to toss stun grenades before you breach the crawl space
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"`One time, I was a little kid, we were squatting. It was down by the Hudson, and those rats, man, they were big. It's the chemicals get into them. Big as I was, and all night one had been scrabbling under the floor of the squat. Round dawn somebody brought this old man in, seams down his cheeks and his eyes all red. Had a roll of greasy leather like you'd keep steel tools in, to keep the rust off. Spread it out, had this old revolver and three shells. Old man, he puts one bullet in there, then he starts walking up and down the squat, we're hanging back by the walls. `Back and forth. Got his arms crossed, head down, like he's forgotten the gun. Listening for the rat. We got real quiet. Old man takes a step. Rat moves. Rat moves, he takes another step. An hour of that, then he seems to remember his gun. Points it at the floor, grins, and pulls the trigger. Rolled it back up and left. `I crawled under there later. Rat had a hole between its eyes.' "
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Mar 24, 2021 01:54
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Dillbag posted:That being said, a single mother friend was hearing weird noises under the floors at night in a rental house. She started finding dolls and toys hung on her fence shortly after.
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We had an opossum get in under the house and was making a hell of a racket. After the squirrel the previous summer had chewed through the electric and managed to electrify the aluminum siding with its body, I didn't want any more critters. I called Animal Control and they said they could drop off a live trap in a few days, week or so maybe, and then get it a couple of weeks later if I got anything. I worked nights and didn't really want this animal scratching at the underside of the house while I tried to sleep, so I went to talk with the neighbor. I told the neighbor there was an opossum under my house and did he have a trap? He said he didn't, so I asked if it would be OK if I shot the thing. "Don't be too noisy with it and I don't think anyone will care" he says. After all, who reports gunshots on a weekday morning? So I got my .22 pistol with a red dot sight and a flashlight and opened the crawlspace. Flashlight showed two sets of eyes, so I took aim at the upper set and fired. The eyes disappeared and there was much thrashing. Some more probing with the light and I didn't see any more eyes, so I ventured alllll the way to the back corner of the house where I found a shot opossum in a puddle of water caused by condensate dripping off the vent where he'd torn the insulation away. So I stuff the guy into a plastic bag and tie it, then stuff that in another bag and tie it. I then drop the whole plastic-wrapped mess into the garbage can and go inside to finally go to sleep. I had forgotten it was trash day. That opossum was double-bagged inside a black plastic trash can in the summer sun for a week. After about 5 days, I took the can down to the curb because the smell was already getting pretty serious. When the trash guys finally dumped the bin, it stayed on the curb, open, for a while before my wife would let it back near the house. It was a smell you could feel in your mouth. Feel behind your eyes. It was intense. That is my "I can shoot things and get away with it because I'm American" story.
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Mar 24, 2021 04:42
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I know you guys are really excited to tell the tales of times you shot harmless animals because they were noisy but you think we could take a break from talking about killing things for a bit in this thread?
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Mar 24, 2021 08:50
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BonerGhost posted:I know you guys are really excited to tell the tales of times you shot harmless animals because they were noisy but you think we could take a break from talking about killing things for a bit in this thread?
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BonerGhost posted:I know you guys are really excited to tell the tales of times you shot harmless animals because they were noisy but you think we could take a break from talking about killing things for a bit in this thread? Also, don't kill possums. They're resistant to rabies and eat pests like ticks.
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Mar 24, 2021 14:37
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This thread epitomizes this moment from Always Sunny right now.
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https://mobile.twitter.com/mbloomstein/status/1374709572636655619
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Questions are technically already answered by the sign.
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My Lovely Horse posted:Questions are technically already answered by the sign. Not necessarily. Sure, the place isn't haunted, but is it cursed? Possessed? Built on a pet cemetery with killer zombie animals roaming the grounds? Next door neighbors are a coven of evil witches? A lot of paranormal situations aren't strictly covered by haunting alone.
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Mar 24, 2021 19:48
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NOT HAUNTED. All the weird things the previous residents experienced weren't caused by anything supernatural, it was just the all american creeper who lives next door. Certified alive! If you find personal items being moved around, creepy dolls you don't own in your house, or your clothes stretched out in weird ways between washes you don't need to call an exorcist, you just need to change your locks again.
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Mar 25, 2021 00:33
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Americans worry about their house being haunted because it’s the only pest they can’t shoot away.
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Blue Footed Booby posted:Also, don't kill possums. They're resistant to rabies and eat pests like ticks. I didn't know that at the time 
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Ashcans posted:Americans worry about their house being haunted because it’s the only pest they can’t shoot away. Time to invest in research for ectoplasm bullets. I'll be rich!
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Wingnut Ninja posted:There are only two reasons I can think of: 3) Fecal Lasagna. Have we forgotten our beloved terrible stdh.txt goon stories of yesteryear? edit hello new page oops.
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Mar 25, 2021 05:33
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Ashcans posted:Americans worry about their house being haunted because it’s the only pest they can’t shoot away. If only there was someone they could call.
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Found, like so many, on Reddit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QS3fERQj6OE What is this "Fire Code" you speak of?
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Tell that to all the non-Americans who have been quite successfully murdered with .22s because it's the only kind of gun allowed, why don't you. You imbecile. You moron. You liberal. .22 LR has a lethal range of about 300 meters though it's quite hard to aim because it goes rainbow at about 150 meters. .22 kills just fine. It doesn't kill quickly at that range, but it can still kill you fine. My buddy and I used to shoot at dinner plate targets at 150 yards all the time. We also used to shoot at quater-mile targets. At that point you're going for man-sized. At that range you're aiming about 15 feet above the target but you can hit it once you're used to the rifle. If you want no penetration but want to kill a little thing, number 9 bird shot, 20 gauge is pretty drat safe. At 100 feet that doesn't even break the skin. No good for self defense, but kills small woodland creatures fine.
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No way someone did that. https://i.imgur.com/okp66FD.mp4
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loving 
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Facebook Aunt posted:NOT HAUNTED. All the weird things the previous residents experienced weren't caused by anything supernatural, it was just the all american creeper who lives next door. Certified alive! If you find personal items being moved around, creepy dolls you don't own in your house, or your clothes stretched out in weird ways between washes you don't need to call an exorcist, you just need to change your locks again. A terrified man, curled up in the corner in the fetal position, after realizing his house isn't haunted. That spooky creaking - a floor joist settling onto a subsiding pile. The arrhythmic hissing - a water supply tee slowly disintegrating. Hideous moaning - windwhistle in termite holes. Ghoul rattling it's chains? - A Federal Pacific Stab-Lok panel lid, clanking in the wind.
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An image so terrifying none of my browsers will show it.
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Jaguars! posted:A terrified man, curled up in the corner in the fetal position, after realizing his house isn't haunted. That spooky creaking - a floor joist settling onto a subsiding pile. The arrhythmic hissing - a water supply tee slowly disintegrating. Hideous moaning - windwhistle in termite holes. Ghoul rattling it's chains? - A Federal Pacific Stab-Lok panel lid, clanking in the wind. I would actually watch a movie with that premise. Impressionable young new homeowner moves into spooky house, discovers each new haunting has a completely mundane, yet still hazardous, explanation, fixes them with the help of a friendly neighbor who works as a contractor. Stinger is talking with some of his local coworkers about all this, and someone goes "Uh... we haven't had a local contractor in this town for years, the last guy died in an electrical accident in the house next to yours."
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I had to stare a good 30 seconds before my brain processed what I was looking at.
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Not sure I'd call that an inline grinder but 
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Warmachine posted:I had to stare a good 30 seconds before my brain processed what I was looking at. It's incredibly grody, but points for ingenuity, I think - it probably kind of works?
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A normal disposal drains out the bottom. This one does not, and instead creates a lovely little habitat. Any time you run it it’ll just mix things up and probably warm the slurry a little from the motor. Any puréed material will simply settle to the bottom. I can only imagine the smells coming up out of that sink. It is literally a miniature septic tank.
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Bad Munki posted:A normal disposal drains out the bottom. This one does not, and instead creates a lovely little habitat. Any time you run it it’ll just mix things up and probably warm the slurry a little from the motor. Any puréed material will simply settle to the bottom. I can only imagine the smells coming up out of that sink. It is literally a miniature septic tank. it almost looks like they could have set the bottom of the drain pipe lower so that the "fresh" waste would push up the old, settled material to help make its way to the drain. Not that it still wouldn't be a bad idea.
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SourKraut posted:it almost looks like they could have set the bottom of the drain pipe lower so that the "fresh" waste would push up the old, settled material to help make its way to the drain. Not that it still wouldn't be a bad idea. Quit trying to make that superfund disposal work! A strainer is all you need to keep food going down the drain.
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Computer viking posted:It's incredibly grody, but points for ingenuity, I think - it probably kind of works? It's grody to the max
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Dareon posted:I would actually watch a movie with that premise. Impressionable young new homeowner moves into spooky house, discovers each new haunting has a completely mundane, yet still hazardous, explanation, fixes them with the help of a friendly neighbor who works as a contractor. Stinger is talking with some of his local coworkers about all this, and someone goes "Uh... we haven't had a local contractor in this town for years, the last guy died in an electrical accident in the house next to yours." There was a post long ago about a guy who was convinced his house was haunted. Stuff kept moving around that he didn't remember moving, despite being the only one ever in the house. Kept escalating until he found a note on his keyboard in his handwriting he didn't write. Turned out what was really happening was a horrendous carbon monoxide buildup was making him lose time.
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that was on r/legaladvice, of all places first thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/34l7vo/ma_postit_notes_left_in_apartment/ update: https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/34m92h/update_ma_postit_notes_left_in_apartment/
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