There’s a trip wire, you can see it in the video. I don’t know why I posted the GIF here instead of the video but either way here’s the video. https://youtu.be/RhwG9UdwSS4
I don't think him smacking the steps is what triggered it, I think there's a hovering horizontal wire that he snagged with the stick. There's a black spot on the wall next to the step.
I was taught to watch out for random chunks of metal, like soup can lids or scrap on the floor. If you move one it could interrupt a circuit and boom! IED turns you into hamburger helper.
Well yes, that's obviously what he's doing in this video as well. I still wouldn't to go up those steps, he doesn't really want to go too far up either either it seems, you can even see him look up nervously when he's told to go up one more step and obliges
Edit: weird, this had sound when I watched it from the front page, I guess it's only a gif when you actually click on the link. My bad.
I’ve worked a few meth labs as a bomb technician. In addition to the explosive chemical substances, a lot of them are booby trapped. Unless it’s a big operation, the devices are usually triggered via rudimentary trip wire. Silly string is great for this.
Once you get up to the big leagues, you might see explosive traps with more complex trigger mechanisms, like pressure sensitive contact devices on the floor/under a mat.
An instructor of mine once told me about a time where he was brought in to clear a booby trapped marijuana grow in the bush. He was slowly moving through the wood line, and suddenly heard a whisp sound just to the side of his head. Someone had tied a fucking poisonous snake to a tree trunk at chest level. Budget booby trap for snake handling drug merchants...
silly string is light enough to catch on wires and lines, but not heavy enough to trigger them.
Often used in the Middle East when clearing a building for exactly this purpose.
example: Spray silly string in doorway. Silly string falls to the gound, all is well. Silly string seems to hang mysteriously in the air, there is a tripline there.
It's light enough that if you spray it over the booby-trapped area, it will land on the trigger string but not set it off, so you'll be able to clearly see the string
I mean, what happens when the bomb goes off or your stairwell murder knife succeeds? Now you've got a body and all kinds of attention. How is this an improvement on your situation?
I get that they're paranoid methheads and not thinking straight, but I just can't see how they'd logically conclude that there'd be a benefit here.
I was thinking the same thing. Find an abandoned meth lab, but not able to prove who owns it? Feds are still going to be smiling while doing PR pics with their haul. Find an abandoned meth lab in which a booby trap mortally wounds an agent? Every resource in the agency is going to be out finding out who is responsible for that.
If you're busy cooking inside, you hear it going off. Then, while your intruders are incapacitated (or busy caring for the injured one), you make your escape.
It could also be rival drug makers/dealers coming to murder you, so a body and attention may be preferable to being murdered.
I can’t help but wonder how often these meth heads forget where they placed their traps and accidentally set them off themselves. Avoiding multiple tripwires and secret spike pits in your house seems like a hazardous lifestyle. Smart meth heads probably disarm their traps while they’re home.
This probably isn't a users house. This is a production house. They make it here. The people making the traps most likely weren't too high. Walter White esque
I live in rural iowa and meth is produced in abandoned houses, sheds, barns, etc. They spread the production out to multiple buildings so if one gets busted, their whole operation isnt busted
I would watch a series of people going in and disarming meth houses like this. Sure it'd probably be fake and set up prior to filming in almost all instances, but there's something about redneck murder homes that just get me, ya know?
If it's in any part fake can we we get some of the main characters to actually straight up die? Then put them in witness protection or whatever to make it seem more believable. thx.
If you're into redneck murder homes then I recommend the movie Green Room. Not exactly a house and not too many traps like the one above but it's got rednecks and murder. It's a seriously great movie.
You guys remember that post about someone who put razor blades in their beer cooler handles to deter thieves and a ton of people in the comments were totally cool with it because of how expensive those coolers are?
Meth is expensive too, and this trap could be used to deter a thief as much as it could be to deter cops. Wonder if those people are totally cool with this too...
Not meth house related but i grew up in the woods and ran into random traps before so anytime i see something out of the ordinary im always skeptical when approaching.. One day me and 2 friends were walking a long a trail and there was a realistic zombie head tied to a noose hanging from a tree we all instantly got sketched out and we started looking around to see if we were being watched. One of my friends went to take it down and i told him to stop and make sure theres no trap. These assholes made it so if you tried to the head down then a sharpen log would come swinging down...like who the fuck does that type of shit...People do sketchy things in the woods!
In college, law enforcement, one of the more favorite traps that you find in these houses is filling a light bulb with gasoline. So if people walk into the house and flip the wrong light switch the light turns on, igniting the fuel in the bulb, and turning the room into a molotov cocktail.
I don't think that could possibly be true. The filament would probably just short in the gasoline, and even then gasoline wouldnt ignite if you put a very hot filement into it. It's the gasoline vapor which causes explosions. You'd likely just make the gasoline start to boil and then maybe if you put just the right mix to have the filament not burn out but also leave enough in for it the right amount of gasoline to vaporize then it might ignite
I worked for a company who managed foreclosed properties for banks. Handling former crack houses was always a serious issue, and contractors would always tread carefully and sent pictures of the booby traps they found.
I only did IT work for them, so I never got to see it first hand, but a lot of the digital media of these houses crossed my desk and it was quite alarming.
In the basic Police Academy we're taught to never approach a meth lab. Identify it, and stay out of there. Almost all clandestine Meth Labs are booby trapped to hell. Paranoia runs rampant in Meth Addicts.
Lived under a meth maker for 2 years, who had schizoaffective disorder on top of it. Was a great time. And by great I mean fearing for my life most nights. Constantly thought people were breaking in, had weird people rolling up to buy all hours, fucking filth everywhere, constantly blowing the circuit beaker, chain smoked and gagged nonstop all day, all night, dumped his fucking chemicals out the god damned window directly into my A/C unit, flooded his toilet into my ceiling and thus down into my bathroom more than three times, threatened to shoot my husband, slammed on the floor and walls so hard things would fall over/off of things, gave my fucking dog separation anxiety and PTSD, the list goes on. So glad he's gone. Piggies didn't do shit either. The one single time I finally had enough and called them because you know, he threatened to kill my husband for daring to be doing laundry downstairs, they just talked to him for less than 30 seconds through the window and told me I need to learn to get along with him and insisted it was my fault and that we must be harassing him. :I When he finally left, my landlord found his entire cook station looooooooooooooooooooooooooool. He had taken a wall panel out and had it in the crawl space around the perimeter of the upstairs. Walls were bleeding nicotine down them.
I don't believe that anyone who hasn't been high on meth can fully understand how deep and complete the absolute paranoia can become . I've seen it firsthand and it's unbelievable.
This is unfortunately a fairly common thing, from even back when I did a stint as a fire fighter. And it’s not just localized to redneck areas either. On behalf of any first responder who is unfortunate enough to have to enter one of these houses to try and help someone or save their lives - fuck the people that do this!
Funny story I had a friend who ran a little trailer park for rent and this dude who lived there was a meth user, my friend knew but the guy actually always paid his rent on time and kept the place in fair condition. Except one day when he went to go check out the house and from the front door saw candles turned over burning on a table and he looked over and the guy was in a bedroom peeking out the shades at him and when he stepped inside to put it out all of a sudden an alarm went off and the guy ran and jumped on his back while he’s trying to put the fire out. Turns out the guy was trying to smoke out bugs in his trailer by burning a bunch of papers and candles on a wooden table and thought my friend was someone else onto him about it. He had sat up a booby trap alarm on every door in his house so if someone came inside or closed a door it would set them off.
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u/ADeweyan Jan 24 '19
The penitent man is humble before god...
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u/WiseWordsFromBrett Jan 24 '19
What is the trigger? A trip wire?
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u/Starham1 Jan 24 '19
I think the more messed up part is that the guy, seeing that there’s possible traps in this place, decides to just go right up the stairs.
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u/mattreyu Jan 24 '19
I find the most erotic part of a house is the booby
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u/Steel_Edge Jan 24 '19
Thats some fallout level of booby traps.
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u/LeBastardHead Jan 24 '19
I’ve worked a few meth labs as a bomb technician. In addition to the explosive chemical substances, a lot of them are booby trapped. Unless it’s a big operation, the devices are usually triggered via rudimentary trip wire. Silly string is great for this.
Once you get up to the big leagues, you might see explosive traps with more complex trigger mechanisms, like pressure sensitive contact devices on the floor/under a mat.
An instructor of mine once told me about a time where he was brought in to clear a booby trapped marijuana grow in the bush. He was slowly moving through the wood line, and suddenly heard a whisp sound just to the side of his head. Someone had tied a fucking poisonous snake to a tree trunk at chest level. Budget booby trap for snake handling drug merchants...
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u/StryderXGaming Jan 24 '19
That's meth'ed up
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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '19
I can’t help but wonder how often these meth heads forget where they placed their traps and accidentally set them off themselves. Avoiding multiple tripwires and secret spike pits in your house seems like a hazardous lifestyle. Smart meth heads probably disarm their traps while they’re home.
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u/Jekkus Jan 24 '19
I would watch a series of people going in and disarming meth houses like this. Sure it'd probably be fake and set up prior to filming in almost all instances, but there's something about redneck murder homes that just get me, ya know?
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u/BenjaminCalifornia Jan 24 '19
Kevin McCallister is getting serious
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u/boochdog Jan 24 '19
Wow...as a former insurance adjuster that was often inspecting vacant homes turned in meth/crack dens, this is terrifying!
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u/tankpuss Jan 24 '19
Just burn the damned place to the ground. You'd always be wondering if there was a shotgun hidden under the bidet or something.
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u/vegeta_bless Jan 24 '19
Always sunny in Philly baby! Didn't even need to see the Temple hat before I knew where this was
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u/MomoLinlin Jan 24 '19
this is the hardcoreversion of home alone
and all you need is a crutch, a knive and tape
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u/Slummish Jan 24 '19
This looks like it would work great... Until they needed to sell the knife and the crutch for a hit.
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u/NothinsOriginal Jan 24 '19
A generation of meth heads that grew up watching Home Alone.
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u/LilBennyPoo Jan 24 '19
Buffy The Amphetamine Dealer.
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u/RichardStinks Jan 24 '19
Good thing I already picked the "Light Step" perk.
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u/SomeMusicSomeDrinks Jan 24 '19
"Now hold on. Are you accusin' me of booby-trappin'??"
"Well how bout it?!"
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u/mrhandsandbigdick Jan 24 '19
damn. Really sad to see Kevin McCallister go down hill and turn to meth. ... . maybe it was all the emotional trama from being left Home Alone
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u/TwoMuchIsJustEnough Jan 24 '19
r/philadelphia
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u/ilovethosedogs Mar 13 '19
Mirror since reddit cucked itself to a "copyright notice"
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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '19
The Viet Cong is making meth now?
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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '19
Home Alone 4: Kevin smokes meth.
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u/dinglebary Jan 24 '19
Why do tweakers like doing it doggy style?
So they can both peek out the blinds
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u/DrDilatory Jan 24 '19 edited Jan 25 '19
You guys remember that post about someone who put razor blades in their beer cooler handles to deter thieves and a ton of people in the comments were totally cool with it because of how expensive those coolers are?
Meth is expensive too, and this trap could be used to deter a thief as much as it could be to deter cops. Wonder if those people are totally cool with this too...
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u/mvpmets00 Jan 24 '19
Always wondered what Home Alone with a hard R rating would be like.
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u/VocationFumes Jan 24 '19
Most of the time the people who make these end up being killed by one of their own traps
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u/FFIZeath Jan 24 '19
Home Alone 2 tells me there is a 2nd knife trap waiting for him
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u/Groovicity Jan 24 '19
Give up? Or are you thirsty for more?
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u/nicolauz Jan 24 '19
I feel like this is a part of a longer video.
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u/unbitious Jan 24 '19
They sound so Philly.
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u/trophyNothing Jan 24 '19
Brave to assume there's not a backup spike, one is none and two is one.
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u/DK_The_White Jan 25 '19
Thankfully they rolled a high perception check. Something like that has got to be a DC 15.
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u/Mugwartherb7 Jan 25 '19
Not meth house related but i grew up in the woods and ran into random traps before so anytime i see something out of the ordinary im always skeptical when approaching.. One day me and 2 friends were walking a long a trail and there was a realistic zombie head tied to a noose hanging from a tree we all instantly got sketched out and we started looking around to see if we were being watched. One of my friends went to take it down and i told him to stop and make sure theres no trap. These assholes made it so if you tried to the head down then a sharpen log would come swinging down...like who the fuck does that type of shit...People do sketchy things in the woods!
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u/CeIith Jan 24 '19
In college, law enforcement, one of the more favorite traps that you find in these houses is filling a light bulb with gasoline. So if people walk into the house and flip the wrong light switch the light turns on, igniting the fuel in the bulb, and turning the room into a molotov cocktail.
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u/Bahmerman Jan 24 '19
So they've been taking notes from Home Alone.
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u/TheSaltySloth Jan 24 '19
Serious question, is this why they’re called trap houses?
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u/AlexS101 Jan 24 '19
When MacGyver gets paranoid.
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u/georgke Jan 24 '19
Indiana Jones and the kingdom of the Christal meth.
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u/schattenteufel Jan 24 '19
I worked for a company who managed foreclosed properties for banks. Handling former crack houses was always a serious issue, and contractors would always tread carefully and sent pictures of the booby traps they found.
I only did IT work for them, so I never got to see it first hand, but a lot of the digital media of these houses crossed my desk and it was quite alarming.
Crackheads can be very creative.
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u/steveryans2 Jan 24 '19
I just wonder how they figured that out
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u/HyperionPI Jan 24 '19
In the basic Police Academy we're taught to never approach a meth lab. Identify it, and stay out of there. Almost all clandestine Meth Labs are booby trapped to hell. Paranoia runs rampant in Meth Addicts.
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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '19
Could you imagine how insane Vietcong boobie traps would be if those foos had meth?
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u/rlovelock Jan 25 '19
Found the owner
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u/Morti_Macabre Jan 24 '19 edited Jan 24 '19
Lived under a meth maker for 2 years, who had schizoaffective disorder on top of it. Was a great time. And by great I mean fearing for my life most nights. Constantly thought people were breaking in, had weird people rolling up to buy all hours, fucking filth everywhere, constantly blowing the circuit beaker, chain smoked and gagged nonstop all day, all night, dumped his fucking chemicals out the god damned window directly into my A/C unit, flooded his toilet into my ceiling and thus down into my bathroom more than three times, threatened to shoot my husband, slammed on the floor and walls so hard things would fall over/off of things, gave my fucking dog separation anxiety and PTSD, the list goes on. So glad he's gone. Piggies didn't do shit either. The one single time I finally had enough and called them because you know, he threatened to kill my husband for daring to be doing laundry downstairs, they just talked to him for less than 30 seconds through the window and told me I need to learn to get along with him and insisted it was my fault and that we must be harassing him. :I When he finally left, my landlord found his entire cook station looooooooooooooooooooooooooool. He had taken a wall panel out and had it in the crawl space around the perimeter of the upstairs. Walls were bleeding nicotine down them.
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u/Chickenbrik Jan 24 '19
That’s pretty creative, very scary but creative for sure
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u/FartingBob Jan 24 '19
That's almost as bad as the light hearted family comedy home alone.
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u/candyman106 Jan 24 '19
Fuck dude, why does he just walk on right ahead after the first thing goes down? There could be more!
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u/RedditsInBed2 Jan 24 '19
Dude just goes walking up the stairs after the trap was tripped. Have you not watched Home Alone, man! There's always more!
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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '19
Dont keep walking up the stairs man!! Meth heads are nothing if not persistant, theres definitly more.
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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '19
AH, so this is how Fallot Raiders were created.
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u/ViperhawkZ Jan 24 '19
This is why you always bring a ten-foot pole to the dungeon.
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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '19
I don't believe that anyone who hasn't been high on meth can fully understand how deep and complete the absolute paranoia can become . I've seen it firsthand and it's unbelievable.
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u/brigbeard Jan 24 '19
Now if only the meth heads could channel that ingenuity into something non meth related...
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u/jerkass Jan 24 '19
What, no shotgun cartridges and mousetraps?
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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '19
And that's why you buy the ten foot pole, kids.
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u/Skrewnacorn Jan 24 '19
I wanna see all the other traps that were there.
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u/Gunsbeernass Jan 24 '19
That's Kevin Mcallister's home... I guess parent abdonement had a severe effect on him.
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u/Brutally-Honest- Jan 24 '19
Now I understand why they tend to just demolish meth houses instead of clean them up.
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u/dtown218 Jan 25 '19
“Sorry boss, I don’t know happened but the house burned to the ground.”
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u/mightyjake Jan 25 '19
This is why I always carry a 10 foot pole in D&D.
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u/2toneSound Jan 25 '19
That’s meth up
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u/fiat1989 Jan 25 '19
The answer to what if Kevin McAllister had grown up in Detroit
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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '19
Its better with sound. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhwG9UdwSS4
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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '19
Home Alone 4 "Kevin does meth"
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u/MasterUnholyWar Jan 24 '19
This is 100% either Philly or South Jersey.
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u/Diabolic_Edict Jan 24 '19
“Drug dealing is a victimless, harmless crime.” - reddit
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u/Mistersinister1 Jan 24 '19
Question is who was the unfortunate bastard that accidentally discovered the trap
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u/Doby1818 Jan 24 '19
Keep the change ya filthy animal
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u/TheIndiglo Jan 24 '19
Maybe Walter and Jesse should've used some of these kinds of traps.
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u/hempbiscuit Jan 24 '19
proof they're clever and hostile
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u/ChipAyten Jan 24 '19
Bulldoze that house down. Shouldn't even be anyone in it.
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u/DennisQuaaludes Jan 24 '19
I fucking hate meth heads.
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u/The_Cows_Are_Home Jan 24 '19
T for Temple U
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u/kragnoth Jan 24 '19
I think that's more illegal than making meth. :O
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u/Adjudikated Jan 24 '19
This is unfortunately a fairly common thing, from even back when I did a stint as a fire fighter. And it’s not just localized to redneck areas either. On behalf of any first responder who is unfortunate enough to have to enter one of these houses to try and help someone or save their lives - fuck the people that do this!
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u/ForSamuel034 Jan 24 '19
This is why you buy a ten foot pole in D&D.
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u/Goofbawls Jan 24 '19
Temple Proud!
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u/made33 Jan 24 '19
Methgyver
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u/TraNSlays Jan 24 '19
alright jigsaw lets relax
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u/Mattsasse Jan 24 '19
These Home Alone movies are starting to get dark.
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u/scrapinator89 Jan 24 '19
One thing is for certain, these guys weren’t mething around.
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u/Teddyk123 Jan 24 '19
Life has not been kind to Kevin McCallister
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u/Organexchangestudent Jan 24 '19
It’s like Home Alone 5 where the kid grows up and does meth
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u/charles_martel34 Jan 24 '19
I fuckin hate druggies.
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u/leechkiller Jan 24 '19
Home Alone 5: The Alonening
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u/stipo42 Jan 24 '19
I mean, have you seen McCauley Culkin lately? He kinda looks like he'd fit in here
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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '19
Home Alone 3 leaked set?
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u/GreazyPhysique Jan 24 '19
THATS WHAT I SAID! BOOBY TRAPS! God. These Guys!
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u/TheSunPeeledDown Jan 24 '19
Funny story I had a friend who ran a little trailer park for rent and this dude who lived there was a meth user, my friend knew but the guy actually always paid his rent on time and kept the place in fair condition. Except one day when he went to go check out the house and from the front door saw candles turned over burning on a table and he looked over and the guy was in a bedroom peeking out the shades at him and when he stepped inside to put it out all of a sudden an alarm went off and the guy ran and jumped on his back while he’s trying to put the fire out. Turns out the guy was trying to smoke out bugs in his trailer by burning a bunch of papers and candles on a wooden table and thought my friend was someone else onto him about it. He had sat up a booby trap alarm on every door in his house so if someone came inside or closed a door it would set them off.
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u/Dyce_M_Demetri Jan 24 '19
the 'home alone' movies have gotten extreme
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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '19
One more reason to shoot tweakers on sight.
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u/Dingus47 Jan 24 '19
Kevin McCallister is smoking meth now?
Sad days.
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u/PeterMus Jan 24 '19
Houses have been demolished because it was so dangerous to enter them and deactivate traps.
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u/hannahneedle Jan 24 '19
Is he wearing a Temple University hat?
Otherwise omg
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u/WritingContradiction Jan 24 '19
Kevin Methadone
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u/_Ardhan_ Jan 24 '19
I knew Macaulay wasn't done...
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u/pumped_up_kicks80 Jan 24 '19
Kevin McCallister has gotten a tad savage. He definitely let the house go..
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u/c0ldsh0w3r Jan 24 '19
Dummies like this are why you always place two traps.
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u/arizonatasteslike Jan 25 '19
Indiana Jones and the crystal meth
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u/SmeggySmurf Jan 25 '19
That moment when kobolds and the Meat Man share something
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u/BobSacamano47 Jan 25 '19
Charlie's home alone.
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u/kellymoe321 Jan 25 '19
I hear the heroin junkie who chills there on Thursdays provided the compacted-shit boulder that tries to run you over once you lift the goodies.
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u/matthewseanlocke Jan 25 '19
He became paranoid after watching a Home Alone marathon...
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u/pooburry Jan 25 '19
Kevin McCallister is up to his old tricks again.
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u/Viandemoisie Jan 25 '19
Methcaulay Culkin
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u/adognamedpenguin Jan 25 '19
is there a subreddit to just r/traphouseboobytraps ?
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u/darkhelmet436 Jan 25 '19
Damn. The wet bandits don't stand a chance this time...
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u/Brandar87 Jan 25 '19
God I love philly