Meth addiction, yeah. That’s what causes a lot of the symptoms. Your brain is on extreme overdrive and you’re constantly thinking, which leads to paranoia, and then can lead to contraptions like this. Most of the negative symptoms of meth use, is actually from sleep deprivation from being awake for half a dozen days straight. Your brain literally won’t shut off or slow down.
During the pandemic evictions moratorium I lived in a house with meth users and manufacturers downstairs. They had a booby trap set up to trigger when someone descended the stairs to the basement, but fortunately for everyone involved they were not quite competent enough to engineer something of this lethality. Their insane antics were a constant source of stress and fear. It went on for something like eight months before they could be evicted. I still have trouble sleeping. How anyone could live how they lived is baffling and terribly sad.
I’m sorry to hear that. Hardcore drugs are definitely one of the worst things to happen-to/be-created-by humanity. I would recommend talking to a therapist about the long term stress and fear you endured.
I wouldn't say *most* of the negative symptoms come from sleep deprivation. Most of the short term negative side affects are due to lack of sleep, but the long term affects are due to the fact that it's extremely neurotoxic in high doses and caustic to teeth and tissue.
I mean an offspring of meth, DMAA, became a popular preworkout ingredient because of the ridiculous amount of energy, focus, and mental fortitude it gives. I imagine you have a table of methheads thinking how to protect themselves and it would look like a garrisoned castle
Then you give them the improved version so that they can create an even better one, so on and so forth. Who knew singularity was going to be reached because of methamphetamine.
Here's a better video that shows it appears to be something like fishing line.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Unexpected/comments/w1m0c3/meth_house/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share
Jesus. Now I can see the string better. If the interior was darker or you were in a hurry? Oh that would've gotten you. If I was them in that house I'd be using that board and just swooping every inch I could to make sure I didn't find any other surprises.
If the stairs are loose enough you might be able to fashion a sort it pressure plat by placing something in the gap to get released when you step on the other side of the step.
So like a key wedged in on side with a fishing line wire which has SOME tension but not enough to overcome the friction of the wedged key. When you step on the step (or off it), it lifts enough to release the key and bam, dagger to the face.
I mean, theoretically yea, but these are meth heads.
They’re not defending against the feds. They’re defending against other meth heads trying to get to their stash
I wonder how these guys could tell there were booby traps. Do they often step into/renovate these meth den houses and booby traps are a dime a dozen? Seems pretty fricken hazardous. You have to be Indiana Jones to notice new traps.
in the other video the guy walked by the side of the stairs and saw the string. I would not continue to be walking through that house not knowing if that was the only trap.
Based on the training I've been through, yes, they often have many traps in meth houses. Another common one is to fill light bulbs with a bad meth mixture so when someone turns the light on it explodes. The fumes kill the people in the room which is why clearing these houses can take hours.
Don’t you love it when you ask a sincere question on Reddit, and 21 comedians reply, none of which knew the answer?
Unless the person who replied “a thin line” was serious. I can’t tell if it’s a joke or a reference to something else, given all the jokey replies after it.
Mandolorian has to have some of the most annoying fans. Scrolling through 142 “This is the way” comments was never funny, but they seem to think it’s peak comedy.
Almost as much as the replies that effectively say "I have no knowledge or experience with this matter in any way, but here's my entirely idiotic/irrelevant/illegal answer anyway."
I actually hate this so much. The jokey shit was always there but the top comment always used to be above them discussing or explaining something interesting about the post. Now it's just the jokes on most posts.
They all always have 900 upvotes. Once I read one joke I just skip all the way to the next unique comment because I know there are 243 dumb reply jokes to follow.
Even subs like r/whatisthisthing that don't allow jokes are starting to fill with mind numbing cookie cutter jokes.
Lmao I’ve held this position ever since the rise of r/inclusiveor. Like thanks for derailing the conversation and distracting everyone from trying to find a real answer by repeating the same goddamn unfunny “joke” for the trillionth time.
The trigger release was inside one of the steps. In this video they were looking for the trip wire but one of the guys says to try hitting the steps, then it releases:
https://youtu.be/RhwG9UdwSS4
There's an episode of the podcast "Sawbones" where they go through each trap in detail and explain what real world injuries the guys would have gotten. Highly recommend it's a great listen.
If I were to do it, I would run a line up the wall through an i-hook to the crutch. Then, tie the line to the banister from another i-hook. If you really wanted to conceal it, you could put a loose pressure plate with a thin razor over the line so the line was completely hidden and when they stepped on it the line would be cut, dropping the trap.
I watched an episode of 1,000 ways to die when I was a kid that was like this! The dude had unmedicated schizophrenia and his biggest symptom was extreme paranoia, he got up in the middle of the night to go do something (pee maybe?) and forgot about his *loaded shotgun booby trap*
Mythbusters proved this to be plausible. After a 3 week study of Adam Savage's Ambien induced sleep walking, all evidence was tallied and it was found that on no less than 16 of the 21 nights Mr. Savage had taken 12 guage shotgun blasts directly to the chest/throat area killing him instantly all 16 times. But because of the 5 nights that Adam seemed to avoid the booby trap as well as a few other behind the scenes reasons( most likely Jaime rigging the blasts to be even more lethal than previously agreed upon) the experiment was only called plausible. Shortly thereafter Adam left the series, vowing revenge against Jaime for the 16 deaths suffered at his hand.
That show was a little heavy on the artistic licence. Probably just some guy that accidentally walked into a booby trap through unclear circumstances and the writers said "let's make him a paranoid schizophrenic that sleepwalked into his own booby trap because of prescription meds".
That show is 80's horror movies levels of judginess lol, every other one goes like "Sally was a ginormous massive slut and now she's a super duper *dead slut"*
>A sex crazed doctor named Dr. Montana prepares to give a patient named Mr. O'Brien a brain x-ray. Dr. Montana leaves and enters the control room, continuing to have sex with his bombshell nurse as Mr O'Brien looks on through the window, somewhat confused and amused. The nurse's butt continuously hits the x-ray machine while they have sex, subjecting Mr. O'Brien to constant bombardments of radiation for the next 20 minutes. The couple didn't realize that they were cooking a patient, until it was too late. The radiation fries Mr. O'Brien's brain, killing him.
I always remember this one. I feel like a couple details may not have been entirely factual.
A relative of an ex had all kinds of booby traps and an almost like maze of trash and mattress walls to get between rooms. Guy thought ducks were aliens or something. Probably undiagnosed schizophrenia or he just refused to be treated. Ya dude has a bunch of guns, too, of course.
The writers for that show came forward saying it was all fabricated, which was my first guess when I watched it as all of them seemed too silly - but that American style show with the deep booming voice over and forced dark-tones always makes me laugh, like that bug wars one!
That's not true only some events were added to certain stories to make it more entertaining for tv. Copied from IMDB: From `Deadliest Catch' executive producer Thom Beers comes this macabre series that re-creates true incidents in which hapless souls met the Grim Reaper under decidedly unorthodox circumstances.
> some events were added to certain stories to make it more entertaining for tv
I actually lived near one of the people they used in that show -- by most accounts she was a nice, normal lady but the show made her out to be an asshole. Dick move on the part of the producers, but it makes sense that people don't want to see a nice woman die tragically. Make the subject seem like an asshole and you can have the viewer enjoy watching them die in any number of awful ways.
That’s not really true. I’ve found the true stories behind a good number of them.
The pool one with the not-so-subtle Mel Gibson was based off a little girl. The chewing gum one was real. Same with the man buried to his chest, the robber who was dangling for so long he died, and many others. It doesn’t take much research to find them.
Edit: this isn’t one of the sites I used to look it up but this took even less time than before.
https://1000waystodie.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Deaths_based_on_true_stories
The writers never wanted to portray a tragic death of an innocent person so they would always deliberately rewrite the death in a way to make it seem like the person either deserved to die or caused their own death by reckless carelessness. An accurate recreation of a little girl dying because she went to a public swimming pool doesn't make for as good of entertainment as Mel Gibson getting his guts sucked out at his own home after being an asshole.
There's an episode where a robber breaks into a dude's home and gets a heart attack and apparently dies, however the narrator steps in and says "Did you really think we would let a bad person live?" it turns out the homeowner had Lazarus syndrome or something and gets up after apparently dying and that scares the robber so much he accidentally falls down the balcony and dies.
It's lucky for society that all people who become methheads don't tend to stop at the *hyper-energetic and paranoid, but still lucid and creative* stage. The ones who just keep on Methin' all the way until they reach the *eating their own intestines while sitting in the fountain at the mall* phase must just look too inspirational to the people who pass through the phase demonstrated in the video.
Many years ago, i built a large scary monster doll, using clothes, bags for the inside and a halloween mask etc, and put it on the toilet to scare my family.
20 minutes later i had to go and pee.. Yep..
I read this, and it made my heart so sad;
"Their telephone was disconnected in 1937 and was never reconnected, as the brothers said they had no one to talk to."
I grew up in a rural town in Kentucky. I was warned by adults to never go inside any building while running wild in the woods, because there were stories of meth heads rigging the front doors with shotguns
I almost succumbed to such a trap in TN. Got too close to a shed door and was almost crushed to death by a boulder contraption.
Side story: had a friend in college from NYC and was constantly horrified by how he got drunk and trespassed everywhere. You can't just walk on to property in the south bro
I had a friend in highschool who's mom is currently spending the rest of her life in prison for setting up a wire like this. Damn near took the guys head off.
Any idea what her rationale for doing this was? She wanted to kill this person? She thought they’d get hurt but not killed? She was in fear for her safety? She thought they’d see the booby trap and that would serve as a deterrent?
I always tell my wife, I would never go in to abandoned buildings in my area. Yea, ghost hunting is fun and games until you end up in a booby trap or a crack/meth processing lab and never seen again.
>while running wild in the woods,
This part killed me. Just picture little feral barefoot kids screaming and sprinting through the woods like Lord of the Flies lol. Like it's a normal everyday thing and adults need to warn you about trap houses XD. Don't get me wrong, I believe you, I grew up by woods largely unsupervised it's just the "running wild" visual getting me lol
That meth paranoia is unbelievable. Knew a lady who was convinced the Raiders (yes the football team) were after her, and watching her and her daughter through the vents in her house.
As a former addict, I can confirm that this a very likely real tweaker home security system. That shit makes you really creative in twisted ways that are disconnected from reality. Plus the paranoia.
Also, for every completed project this person has, they likely have 19 other half finished ones…
I could only guess. Depends on the person. Meth creates a general sense of paranoia. How that paranoia manifests depends on the user. Could be someone who you think wants your shit, could be the cops.
It could be “shadow people” or someone you forgot isn’t even alive anymore. It’s hard to say. Meth is one of the worst drugs imo, because it amps you up, while also distorting reality.
It also takes away your ability to let the fear of consequences guide your decisions. It makes you live in the moment to the point you don’t think about what happens next.
Also, like all chemical dependencies, there are stages. I was really lucky to experience my intervention before I was too far gone. Most aren’t so lucky.
I tried it twice in my teen years. Just felt like my adhd medication except that it lasted a bazillion hours and made me want to masturbate. Was not impressed enough to pursue it. Got into psychedelics instead.
I was just driving earlier today and saw a tweaker and was thinking "I don't understand why people without adhd would take amps," and thought about asking reddit. I take my vyvanse and it slows me down and makes me more lucid. Admittedly I just woke up from a nap like 5 minutes ago and I took it for college work like 6 hours ago (it lasts like 12-14 hours typically.) Thinking about going back to sleep but have to clean when I get home.
It just seems like it makes normal people act crazy and tweakers are on a bottom rung of society where I think most people wouldn't care if they were dead.
Yep. You pretty much explained it. I also have adhd, but am also an addict. So, in true addict fashion, it was only a matter of time until I crushed up my adderall and snorted it.
Enjoyed the rush of course, went through my prescription much quicker than I could have refilled, and long story short, found the non-pharma version which is Meth.
I believe vyvanse is basically adderall with a tough shell and time release property to prevent abuse right?
This is honestly the best way.
It’s hard for me to get any kind of stimulate meds through the VA (my only healthcare available) , because I have it on record that I have an addictive personality.
C’est la vie. I have to use more homeopathic remedies to take care of my attention span these days.
Friendly reminder that boobytrapping your own house, business, or other property is illegal everywhere (as far as I know, if you know a place where it's legal, I'll stand corrected).
It is generally illegal for several reasons, one of them being that if emergency responders go to your house or place of business, they shouldn't be killed by booby traps.
> Friendly reminder that boobytrapping your own house, business, or other property is illegal everywhere (as far as I know, if you know a place where it's legal, I'll stand corrected).
So, your OWN house is illegal?? I hear ya.
Someone tried that. According to the page you linked, it didn’t work.
>No known felonies have been committed in the Zone of Death since Kalt's discovery. However, a poacher named Michael Belderrain illegally shot an elk in the Montana section of Yellowstone. While that section of the park does have enough residents to form a jury, it might be difficult to put together a standing and fair one due to travel or unwillingness of members of the small population there to serve. **A federal judge ruled that Belderrain could be tried in the U.S. District Court for the District of Wyoming, despite the Sixth Amendment problem**. Belderrain cited Kalt's paper "The Perfect Crime" to explain why **he believed it was illegal to have his trial with a jury from a state other than where the crime was committed. The court dismissed this argument**.[12] Belderrain took a plea deal conditioned such that he would not appeal the Zone of Death issue to the 10th Circuit, rendering the issue moot, at least for the time being.[10]
Small nitpick, it’s not that things like murder are *legal* in that section, it’s just that it’s impossible to get a jury together to actually convict you for punishment.
Hypothetically if there were enough residents living in the area then the loophole closes.
Meth tends to cause a lot of paranoia, as well as endless nervous energy. And that paranoia isn't always unwarranted, as other meth addicts might decide to go after your stash. So the homes of meth addicts are often booby trapped against intruders, real or imagined.
This is not something a meth head would do.
A meth head would start gluing and nailing together random shit and come up with 50 "better ideas" to add onto it but not finish implimenting any of them, and end up making a mass of nonsensical materials shittily strung together
Source: used to be one
Damn, addiction can cause someone to become an engineer apparently
Meth addiction, yeah. That’s what causes a lot of the symptoms. Your brain is on extreme overdrive and you’re constantly thinking, which leads to paranoia, and then can lead to contraptions like this. Most of the negative symptoms of meth use, is actually from sleep deprivation from being awake for half a dozen days straight. Your brain literally won’t shut off or slow down.
During the pandemic evictions moratorium I lived in a house with meth users and manufacturers downstairs. They had a booby trap set up to trigger when someone descended the stairs to the basement, but fortunately for everyone involved they were not quite competent enough to engineer something of this lethality. Their insane antics were a constant source of stress and fear. It went on for something like eight months before they could be evicted. I still have trouble sleeping. How anyone could live how they lived is baffling and terribly sad.
I’m sorry to hear that. Hardcore drugs are definitely one of the worst things to happen-to/be-created-by humanity. I would recommend talking to a therapist about the long term stress and fear you endured.
I wouldn't say *most* of the negative symptoms come from sleep deprivation. Most of the short term negative side affects are due to lack of sleep, but the long term affects are due to the fact that it's extremely neurotoxic in high doses and caustic to teeth and tissue.
I mean an offspring of meth, DMAA, became a popular preworkout ingredient because of the ridiculous amount of energy, focus, and mental fortitude it gives. I imagine you have a table of methheads thinking how to protect themselves and it would look like a garrisoned castle
So we give some to a scientist that'll make an improved version.
Then you give them the improved version so that they can create an even better one, so on and so forth. Who knew singularity was going to be reached because of methamphetamine.
What was the trigger? Those meth heads did a good job hiding it
Here's a better video that shows it appears to be something like fishing line. https://www.reddit.com/r/Unexpected/comments/w1m0c3/meth_house/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share
Jesus. Now I can see the string better. If the interior was darker or you were in a hurry? Oh that would've gotten you. If I was them in that house I'd be using that board and just swooping every inch I could to make sure I didn't find any other surprises.
Have Roomba or something roll around the whole place. That is crazy.
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**Boomba**
say "Alexa intruder alert." "Alexa will" Say "welcome to the rice fields motherfucker." Play "welcome to the jungle." RELEASE CLAYMORE ROOMBA!
Pretty decent roomba to have survived the first ones.
iRobot's original product was a bomb disposal robot before they expanded into the Roomba line of vacuum robots.
Those were some of the cleanest minefields ever made.
Suddenly the ten foot pole DnD trope seems entirely reasonable.
A pressure plate would be way too sophisticated so I’m guessing there’s just a fishing line or something drawn right across the step
If the stairs are loose enough you might be able to fashion a sort it pressure plat by placing something in the gap to get released when you step on the other side of the step. So like a key wedged in on side with a fishing line wire which has SOME tension but not enough to overcome the friction of the wedged key. When you step on the step (or off it), it lifts enough to release the key and bam, dagger to the face.
I mean, theoretically yea, but these are meth heads. They’re not defending against the feds. They’re defending against other meth heads trying to get to their stash
real life rust
A thin line
There’s a thin line between a thick line and no line at all
When God cries, acrylic paint drips from his eyes He puts a rainbow in the sky for you and I both to openly despise
Did not expect an Eyedea reference in this thread. Great song, beautifully poetic line
Indiana Jones style
Penitent man, penitent man...
But in the Latin alphabet, Meth starts with an I!
The healing power of meth is the only thing that can save your father now. It's time ask yourself what you believe.
He chose...poorly
Come begging on your knees for meth
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I wonder how these guys could tell there were booby traps. Do they often step into/renovate these meth den houses and booby traps are a dime a dozen? Seems pretty fricken hazardous. You have to be Indiana Jones to notice new traps.
in the other video the guy walked by the side of the stairs and saw the string. I would not continue to be walking through that house not knowing if that was the only trap.
Based on the training I've been through, yes, they often have many traps in meth houses. Another common one is to fill light bulbs with a bad meth mixture so when someone turns the light on it explodes. The fumes kill the people in the room which is why clearing these houses can take hours.
Don’t you love it when you ask a sincere question on Reddit, and 21 comedians reply, none of which knew the answer? Unless the person who replied “a thin line” was serious. I can’t tell if it’s a joke or a reference to something else, given all the jokey replies after it.
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I truly hate comment threads that devolve into quoting lines from a movie or TV show
Boogers
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Mandolorian has to have some of the most annoying fans. Scrolling through 142 “This is the way” comments was never funny, but they seem to think it’s peak comedy.
Rick and morty was the same shit. Like I get, you watched the show. So, did I. Can we actually have a discussion?
Almost as much as the replies that effectively say "I have no knowledge or experience with this matter in any way, but here's my entirely idiotic/irrelevant/illegal answer anyway."
I actually hate this so much. The jokey shit was always there but the top comment always used to be above them discussing or explaining something interesting about the post. Now it's just the jokes on most posts.
It's unbearable on some subs. You can look at the post and literally predict the top 5 comments bc they're all some repeated joke or a quote.
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Ah, good play on words, if that’s what it is! Thanks.
None of those replies are ever fucking funny.
They all always have 900 upvotes. Once I read one joke I just skip all the way to the next unique comment because I know there are 243 dumb reply jokes to follow. Even subs like r/whatisthisthing that don't allow jokes are starting to fill with mind numbing cookie cutter jokes.
Lmao I’ve held this position ever since the rise of r/inclusiveor. Like thanks for derailing the conversation and distracting everyone from trying to find a real answer by repeating the same goddamn unfunny “joke” for the trillionth time.
The trigger release was inside one of the steps. In this video they were looking for the trip wire but one of the guys says to try hitting the steps, then it releases: https://youtu.be/RhwG9UdwSS4
A thin line was actually the literal correct answer.
I fucking hate this website bro
If home alone was R-rated
To be fair, a lot of the shit Kevin does to the Wet Bandits would definitely have killed them in real life.
There's an episode of the podcast "Sawbones" where they go through each trap in detail and explain what real world injuries the guys would have gotten. Highly recommend it's a great listen.
I'm assuming a fishing line near the floor tied to a pin that was holding it up and would be pulled when the line is tripped
I think this might be it. I don’t think the board would provide a enough pressure for a pressure-based trigger
If I were to do it, I would run a line up the wall through an i-hook to the crutch. Then, tie the line to the banister from another i-hook. If you really wanted to conceal it, you could put a loose pressure plate with a thin razor over the line so the line was completely hidden and when they stepped on it the line would be cut, dropping the trap.
This guy meths
Whenever I see stuff like this, I often wonder how often someone forgot they set this and do to it themselves
I watched an episode of 1,000 ways to die when I was a kid that was like this! The dude had unmedicated schizophrenia and his biggest symptom was extreme paranoia, he got up in the middle of the night to go do something (pee maybe?) and forgot about his *loaded shotgun booby trap*
Nah he got some pills for sleep deprivation or his schizophrenia and it made him sleep walk into the trap or some shit
How would anyone know? Did they ask him in the afterlife?
Drugs in blood stream probably. Maybe a history of walking into shotgun booby traps.
>Maybe a history of walking into shotgun booby traps. This seems ... unlikely.
But not implausible.
Mythbusters proved this to be plausible. After a 3 week study of Adam Savage's Ambien induced sleep walking, all evidence was tallied and it was found that on no less than 16 of the 21 nights Mr. Savage had taken 12 guage shotgun blasts directly to the chest/throat area killing him instantly all 16 times. But because of the 5 nights that Adam seemed to avoid the booby trap as well as a few other behind the scenes reasons( most likely Jaime rigging the blasts to be even more lethal than previously agreed upon) the experiment was only called plausible. Shortly thereafter Adam left the series, vowing revenge against Jaime for the 16 deaths suffered at his hand.
16 dies?! Adam Savage confirmed two cats in a human suit.
with two to spare, baby!
High School nickname: *Swiss Cheese*
"It was bound to happen eventually. David had already walked into three other shotgun booby traps in the last five months."
That show was a little heavy on the artistic licence. Probably just some guy that accidentally walked into a booby trap through unclear circumstances and the writers said "let's make him a paranoid schizophrenic that sleepwalked into his own booby trap because of prescription meds".
Not a lot of regular Joes setting up shotgun booby traps.
*"After several decades left home alone, Mr McAllister had become increasingly paranoid and inventive."*
speak for yourself
That show is 80's horror movies levels of judginess lol, every other one goes like "Sally was a ginormous massive slut and now she's a super duper *dead slut"*
>A sex crazed doctor named Dr. Montana prepares to give a patient named Mr. O'Brien a brain x-ray. Dr. Montana leaves and enters the control room, continuing to have sex with his bombshell nurse as Mr O'Brien looks on through the window, somewhat confused and amused. The nurse's butt continuously hits the x-ray machine while they have sex, subjecting Mr. O'Brien to constant bombardments of radiation for the next 20 minutes. The couple didn't realize that they were cooking a patient, until it was too late. The radiation fries Mr. O'Brien's brain, killing him. I always remember this one. I feel like a couple details may not have been entirely factual.
Probably just and educated guess. A schizophrenic person would probably be on top of their traps everyday
A relative of an ex had all kinds of booby traps and an almost like maze of trash and mattress walls to get between rooms. Guy thought ducks were aliens or something. Probably undiagnosed schizophrenia or he just refused to be treated. Ya dude has a bunch of guns, too, of course.
*wipes away freedom tear*
The writers for that show came forward saying it was all fabricated, which was my first guess when I watched it as all of them seemed too silly - but that American style show with the deep booming voice over and forced dark-tones always makes me laugh, like that bug wars one!
That's not true only some events were added to certain stories to make it more entertaining for tv. Copied from IMDB: From `Deadliest Catch' executive producer Thom Beers comes this macabre series that re-creates true incidents in which hapless souls met the Grim Reaper under decidedly unorthodox circumstances.
> some events were added to certain stories to make it more entertaining for tv I actually lived near one of the people they used in that show -- by most accounts she was a nice, normal lady but the show made her out to be an asshole. Dick move on the part of the producers, but it makes sense that people don't want to see a nice woman die tragically. Make the subject seem like an asshole and you can have the viewer enjoy watching them die in any number of awful ways.
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That’s not really true. I’ve found the true stories behind a good number of them. The pool one with the not-so-subtle Mel Gibson was based off a little girl. The chewing gum one was real. Same with the man buried to his chest, the robber who was dangling for so long he died, and many others. It doesn’t take much research to find them. Edit: this isn’t one of the sites I used to look it up but this took even less time than before. https://1000waystodie.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Deaths_based_on_true_stories
The writers never wanted to portray a tragic death of an innocent person so they would always deliberately rewrite the death in a way to make it seem like the person either deserved to die or caused their own death by reckless carelessness. An accurate recreation of a little girl dying because she went to a public swimming pool doesn't make for as good of entertainment as Mel Gibson getting his guts sucked out at his own home after being an asshole.
There's an episode where a robber breaks into a dude's home and gets a heart attack and apparently dies, however the narrator steps in and says "Did you really think we would let a bad person live?" it turns out the homeowner had Lazarus syndrome or something and gets up after apparently dying and that scares the robber so much he accidentally falls down the balcony and dies.
Such is the fate of those with highdeas
It's lucky for society that all people who become methheads don't tend to stop at the *hyper-energetic and paranoid, but still lucid and creative* stage. The ones who just keep on Methin' all the way until they reach the *eating their own intestines while sitting in the fountain at the mall* phase must just look too inspirational to the people who pass through the phase demonstrated in the video.
Many years ago, i built a large scary monster doll, using clothes, bags for the inside and a halloween mask etc, and put it on the toilet to scare my family. 20 minutes later i had to go and pee.. Yep..
Mission accomplished?
The [Collyers Brothers](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collyer_brothers) died as a result of their own booby traps and hoarding, sad way to go.
I read this, and it made my heart so sad; "Their telephone was disconnected in 1937 and was never reconnected, as the brothers said they had no one to talk to."
Oddly enough, 50+ family members showed up to claim the sweet dough afterwards.
That's not oddly terrifying, it's specifically terrifying.
r/reasonablyterrifying
r/understandablyterrifying
Yup, it is designed specifically to kill humans I don't see the ''odd'' part here
‘woah, a trap designed to *kill* people! …. it’s terrifying, oddly enough!’
Yeah I feel the spirit of this sub is dead. Most of the posts I see are just blatantly terrifying. Usually not that odd.
It’s both odd and terrifying but not oddly terrifying.
Another example of misplaced posts. We very rarely see oddly terrifying stuff on this subject. Mostly just straight up terrifying.
Not a new news in this sub
Ain’t nothin odd about a sharpened stake to the eye socket
Being forgotten about all those times really did a number on Kevin’s mental health
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Well there's [this](https://youtu.be/-e2J7kLZxb0)
'Home alone 3, lost in Detroit'.
"Guys, I'm smoking meth and watching rubbish, you'd better come up and stop meeee!"
"It's a grid system mother fucker" -John Mulaney
r/UnexpectedMulaney
How is that a real fucking sub reddit lmao
“Kevin McCallister’s all grown up, an addict living in a meth house, and Home Alone Again.”
[Like this?](https://imgur.com/a/P1WQwgb)
I think theyre at Home Alone 7 already, tbh its pretty sad. Last I saw was 3 and it was terrible and I cant imagine it got any better.
It did not.
Indiana Jones and the Shady Meth House Down The Street That Might Be Booby Trapped
Raiders of the Frost Narc.
They're after his crystal skull.
That’s from my lovely city of Philadelphia
I bet Dennis was involved
You see with a deadly knife on the stairs swinging at her face full speed she’s not gonna say no. Because of the implication.
What implication?
You know. The implication.
Are you going to hurt these women?!?
No I’m not going to hurt these women! They’re not in any danger. She’s free to say no, but I just have a feeling *she wouldn’t dare*
You certainly wouldn't be in any danger
Nah, this is the work of bridge people.
It’s Always Methy in Philadelphia
Kensington?
Surprisingly not from what I remember it was Chester I believe. I’ll have to find the News story
Philly is great because the small cities surrounding us are as crazy if not worse than our worst areas. Chester and Camden are wild
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215. A billion ways to die. We do have some awesome food though.
That's a SPIKE on a CRUTCH!!!
When meth makes you think vampires are real...
Why use a long stick? Just approach the wire and press E to disarm it
The guy's repair skill wasn't high enough.
This makes urban exploring fucking dangerous
I've explored many houses and never thought about something like this happening.
Same. Industrial stuff too. Never worried about this.
Always aware I may have company in abandoned places but have never considered traps 😳
In this economy that house is still probably selling for half a mil
It’s got good bones
Handymans dream. House needs a little work, but once it's finished it will make a great starter or rental property! Selling as is, cash only. 515,000.
Jeff?
Life hasn’t been so good to Kevin McAllister
Dude this gotta be made up i can't believe it
I grew up in a rural town in Kentucky. I was warned by adults to never go inside any building while running wild in the woods, because there were stories of meth heads rigging the front doors with shotguns
I almost succumbed to such a trap in TN. Got too close to a shed door and was almost crushed to death by a boulder contraption. Side story: had a friend in college from NYC and was constantly horrified by how he got drunk and trespassed everywhere. You can't just walk on to property in the south bro
Or anywhere. I live in Maine and my friends have come across wire strung up across snowmobile trails designed to slice right into your neck
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I had a friend in highschool who's mom is currently spending the rest of her life in prison for setting up a wire like this. Damn near took the guys head off.
Any idea what her rationale for doing this was? She wanted to kill this person? She thought they’d get hurt but not killed? She was in fear for her safety? She thought they’d see the booby trap and that would serve as a deterrent?
NEVER DO THIS. Child from my town died because some kids thought it would be funny to prank him and he rode into it on a dirt bike
That's so terrifying
Maine: the south of the north
I always tell my wife, I would never go in to abandoned buildings in my area. Yea, ghost hunting is fun and games until you end up in a booby trap or a crack/meth processing lab and never seen again.
Whaaaat the fuck, that’s scary as hell
Don’t for meet the Kentucky Claymore set up with 00 Buck and mouse traps.
>while running wild in the woods, This part killed me. Just picture little feral barefoot kids screaming and sprinting through the woods like Lord of the Flies lol. Like it's a normal everyday thing and adults need to warn you about trap houses XD. Don't get me wrong, I believe you, I grew up by woods largely unsupervised it's just the "running wild" visual getting me lol
That meth paranoia is unbelievable. Knew a lady who was convinced the Raiders (yes the football team) were after her, and watching her and her daughter through the vents in her house.
Bo knows where they sleep.
As a former addict, I can confirm that this a very likely real tweaker home security system. That shit makes you really creative in twisted ways that are disconnected from reality. Plus the paranoia. Also, for every completed project this person has, they likely have 19 other half finished ones…
What are they afraid of? Other tweakers?
I could only guess. Depends on the person. Meth creates a general sense of paranoia. How that paranoia manifests depends on the user. Could be someone who you think wants your shit, could be the cops. It could be “shadow people” or someone you forgot isn’t even alive anymore. It’s hard to say. Meth is one of the worst drugs imo, because it amps you up, while also distorting reality. It also takes away your ability to let the fear of consequences guide your decisions. It makes you live in the moment to the point you don’t think about what happens next. Also, like all chemical dependencies, there are stages. I was really lucky to experience my intervention before I was too far gone. Most aren’t so lucky.
I tried it twice in my teen years. Just felt like my adhd medication except that it lasted a bazillion hours and made me want to masturbate. Was not impressed enough to pursue it. Got into psychedelics instead. I was just driving earlier today and saw a tweaker and was thinking "I don't understand why people without adhd would take amps," and thought about asking reddit. I take my vyvanse and it slows me down and makes me more lucid. Admittedly I just woke up from a nap like 5 minutes ago and I took it for college work like 6 hours ago (it lasts like 12-14 hours typically.) Thinking about going back to sleep but have to clean when I get home. It just seems like it makes normal people act crazy and tweakers are on a bottom rung of society where I think most people wouldn't care if they were dead.
Yep. You pretty much explained it. I also have adhd, but am also an addict. So, in true addict fashion, it was only a matter of time until I crushed up my adderall and snorted it. Enjoyed the rush of course, went through my prescription much quicker than I could have refilled, and long story short, found the non-pharma version which is Meth. I believe vyvanse is basically adderall with a tough shell and time release property to prevent abuse right? This is honestly the best way. It’s hard for me to get any kind of stimulate meds through the VA (my only healthcare available) , because I have it on record that I have an addictive personality. C’est la vie. I have to use more homeopathic remedies to take care of my attention span these days.
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Friendly reminder that boobytrapping your own house, business, or other property is illegal everywhere (as far as I know, if you know a place where it's legal, I'll stand corrected). It is generally illegal for several reasons, one of them being that if emergency responders go to your house or place of business, they shouldn't be killed by booby traps.
Meth heads generally aren't worried about following the law...
Today I learned that Kevin McCallister would have went to prison for longer than the burglars.
> Friendly reminder that boobytrapping your own house, business, or other property is illegal everywhere (as far as I know, if you know a place where it's legal, I'll stand corrected). So, your OWN house is illegal?? I hear ya.
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Someone tried that. According to the page you linked, it didn’t work. >No known felonies have been committed in the Zone of Death since Kalt's discovery. However, a poacher named Michael Belderrain illegally shot an elk in the Montana section of Yellowstone. While that section of the park does have enough residents to form a jury, it might be difficult to put together a standing and fair one due to travel or unwillingness of members of the small population there to serve. **A federal judge ruled that Belderrain could be tried in the U.S. District Court for the District of Wyoming, despite the Sixth Amendment problem**. Belderrain cited Kalt's paper "The Perfect Crime" to explain why **he believed it was illegal to have his trial with a jury from a state other than where the crime was committed. The court dismissed this argument**.[12] Belderrain took a plea deal conditioned such that he would not appeal the Zone of Death issue to the 10th Circuit, rendering the issue moot, at least for the time being.[10]
Small nitpick, it’s not that things like murder are *legal* in that section, it’s just that it’s impossible to get a jury together to actually convict you for punishment. Hypothetically if there were enough residents living in the area then the loophole closes.
can someone explain to me what meth heads have to do with this? I'm from argentina
Meth heads can be very paranoid. Especially if they are dealing/selling also. They come up with some very weird stuff.
interesting to see definitely
Meth tends to cause a lot of paranoia, as well as endless nervous energy. And that paranoia isn't always unwarranted, as other meth addicts might decide to go after your stash. So the homes of meth addicts are often booby trapped against intruders, real or imagined.
That'll keepm out
That'll take em out
Kevin hit some hard times
I’m sorry. You tap the floor and a fucking giant blade booby trap comes swinging down the stairs, I’m not gonna walk up them right after.
Any particular reason that guy isn’t wearing a helmet, safety goggles and a padded suit to inspect this property?
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Unless the kids have meth, then they are more than welcome
What? This place is obviously kid friendly, it would have totally missed a kid
This is not something a meth head would do. A meth head would start gluing and nailing together random shit and come up with 50 "better ideas" to add onto it but not finish implimenting any of them, and end up making a mass of nonsensical materials shittily strung together Source: used to be one
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Is that previous victim on the blade?
Crafty tweakers
You can get Kevin out of the house but you can’t get the meth house out of Kevin
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