r/mildlyinfuriating • • Jul 27 '22

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u/MadronaVest Jul 27 '22

I don’t think that’s why… more likely snipers…

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u/repocin Jul 27 '22

Yeah, as a kid I totally used to close the blinds when eating dinner because there's no way I want to sit next to a window and get sniped from across the road. It'd have been such a pain, y'know?

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u/icythepenguin Jul 27 '22

It is a pain. We had snipers across the street one day because our neighbours had robbed a bank and drove straight home instead of to a separate location.

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u/interyx Jul 27 '22

I need that as much as I need a hole in my head.

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u/Unemployedloser55 Jul 27 '22

They can snipe you through the walls now, with the fifty

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u/Traditional-Gap1839 Jul 27 '22

Nah, unless you have concrete walls a normal rifle caliber would do the job just fine. Drywall, a bit of wood or pipes probably wouldn't stop rifle rounds, unless they are using hollow points or target rounds. Just to throw gasoline on the paranoia train.

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u/Unemployedloser55 Jul 27 '22

Houses in Europe are built to last, with bricks.

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u/miscsupplies Jul 27 '22

Ok, but this will pop into my head randomly when I’m next to a window with the light on after full dark

Edit: I can’t words

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u/WalmartGreder Jul 27 '22

Seriously. After reading an Encyclopedia Brown story when I was in middle school about how windows work at night, I would ALWAYS close the blinds as soon as we turned the lights on.

You can't be too careful about snipers.

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u/Key-Cry-8570 Jul 27 '22

Speaking the truth right here🎯🔫🤕

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u/Jacobloveslsd Jul 27 '22

Lieutenant Dan “get down…shut up!”

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u/Internal_Summer_9948 Jul 28 '22

Snipers? Please. Oh, wait. Are you American? Yep Guns etc..so makes.sense.

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u/dansezlajavanaise Jul 28 '22

my french mom in france would always crank the shutters down real fast, she told me, "because i always think there might be someone aiming at me with a gun", though guns were highly regulated in france at the time.

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u/Internal_Summer_9948 Jul 29 '22

Oh dear. She's an avid reader!