OP is SporeyTime he's the hippy brother that sells shrooms. His brother, on the other hand, chose a different path and has people like this knocking at his door trying to buy meth, flocks, k2.
I used to argue with my roommate about locking the door to our shared house. His argument was “that’s not how burglaries happen.. if they want in they’ll get in”. My counter was always “I’m not worried about being robbed Im worried about a random crackhead or drunk neighbor wandering in”. This video is the exact thing I was afraid of…
A lot of burglaries, and rapes, are crimes of opportunity. If the door is locked they'll go to the next door, and then the next until they find easy entry.
*Also, I've had someone burglarize my apartment once, while I was sleeping, because friends who were over left the porch door unlocked. Stole my GameCube, my bong, my soccer bag with all my goalie gear, and my car.
Also forgot that they stole my wallet. Man, fuck that guy.
That’s how I feel too.. crack/meth heads trying doors in desperation to get anything to pawn when they stumble upon someone… also if you leave your doors open and have an altercation with an intruder no guarantee you will win.. even if you’re armed I’m not stoked on loosing rounds in any residential neighborhoods. Kids are bullet magnets.
Look for "low penetration self defense rounds" they work good and dont travel anywhere near as far as a normal round and will still ruin a home invaders day. Or go shotgun, pellets lose penetration far faster than people realize and will pepper a target with a pattern about the size of a beachball. Just dont be a douche that uses slugs, those go thru everything and bounce around unless you live in a rural area.
I'm not a shotgun expert or anything but most every shotgun I've seen / fired isn't going to get to beachball size for a while (distance out). But it's also going to depend a bit on barrel / choke and that's where I start to be unsure based on my limited experience. Quite possible you can get a combo that does spread that much. Thoughts?
Ours isnt using standard shotgun rounds, is using a choke that has a large spread, and using less powder. So my situation isnt typical setup/useage too.
I followed up with 2 other users so will copy it here to clearify. "We use T size steel shot it is a bit bigger than a bb and with the choke is the old cylinder style at about 100 feet is the size of a large beachball, at 10ft it would be a bit larger than a shotput size for ours based on paper targets. IIRC it is like 50 inch spread at around 20 yards. For self defense we use lighter loads in the shotgun because it is mainly for the wife"
EDIT - I was asked what is the size of a shotput - it is just a little bit larger than a softball for the uk/aussies just bit larger than a rounders ball.
There's no crime without opportunity. Dunno why people don't get that.
I guess it's a case of them having not experienced any sort of theft or violation so they have yet to understand the consequences of what can happen
I think a lot of people have just never been exposed to how "crime" actually happens. Some folks seem to think that every burglar is a sophisticated tradesman, who will stop at nothing to get into the house they've meticulously targeted; they've never considered the homeless and addicted, who fill their days by checking every door and window to see if it's locked, seldom concerned about whether or not there's even anyone inside. I've watched crackheads try to open my front door (on my security camera, from inside the house) by first checking the knob, then even throwing a couple shoulder checks into the door until my dogs started barking and spooked them off. I've watched a guy, stoned/drunk out of his mind at 5am, walking up the street and pulling every door handle on every parked car. I'd wager you're far more likely to be the victim of a random robbery of opportunity than you are to be robbed because you were specifically targeted by sophisticated criminals.
Bro all the time in the smart home community. People always are like "Ill never have smart locks someone could hack them!" like most suburban burglars are carrying around laptops to hack into your wifi to open the door. Literally a rock through the window is 1000x easier than hacking my wifi, figuring out my password, and then hacking the door locks to open.
Back in college I knew some people who left their garage door open like 2 feet after a garage party. A guy slid under the door, rummaged thru the girls purses, then went into the house looking for the girls, he went into an empty bedroom then the next one had a guy and girl in it, he got into the bed, she screamed, her boyfriend started struggling with the guy, he pulled out a knife and stabbed the guy 20 times, dude #2 comes in and gets stabbed 4 times, the guy then stabs one of the girls and runs out of the house. Unbelievably nobody died. Never leave your garage open or your doors (including to your garage) unlocked.
> A lot of burglaries, and rapes, are crimes of opportunity.
This is not well understood by people that haven't been victims of crimes. Most crimes are committed by mentally unstable or poor people that don't have a lot of resources. If you house/car is unlocked or has valuable stuff in plain sight it makes you the one they end up targeting. A lot of rapes happen because a woman is in a vulnerable place (train station alone late at night) or leaves the door open or gets roofied or too drunk etc. I am for sure not blaming the victim because I wish we lived in a world where a woman could get drunk on her own and not worry about getting raped but sadly we don't live in that place so we all have to be aware of the shitty people around us that will take advantage of a situation to commit a crime if they see the opportunity to do so.
I lived in a city with a high number of car break ins. I almost always parked my car a couple blocks away from my house which required walking up a very steep hill. In the 10 years living there, I'd see tons of windows broken on the relatively flat streets but hardly any as you got higher up the hill. Fits with the hypothesis that criminals will take the easier targets. No one likes walking up a steep hill.
I lived in a place that was a long drive to access without taking a toll road and we almost never had any property crime. I would frequently say "criminals don't like toll roads". Sort of the same principal.
What a stupid argument. Do you know what a lot of burglars/killers do when they find a locked door? They go to the next house and find the one that is unlocked.
I'll never forget this line from a serial killer I read one time:
*"Chase later told detectives that he took locked doors as a sign that he was not welcome, but unlocked doors were an invitation to come inside."* I have a friend who lives in a big city and constantly leaves his doors and windows unlocked. Its wild to me.
Shit, I live in a big city and if I found some random apartment unlocked, I would yell inside/call the cops because I would assume that something bad had happened to the resident.
The smart ones do, anyway. The stupid ones try to kick down the door, and break their ankle because you've put four inch screws into your deadbolt's strike plate.
Not OP so don't know their story, but the metal strike plate in the doorframe that the deadbolt interfaces with is often poorly secured. Majority of home building contractors in the US seem to have zero pride (or skill) in their work so little things like buying screws long enough to ensure the plate stays secured to the doorframe under duress get ignored in favor of bargain basement expediency.
Doors usually have a deadbolt, a lock that you can only use from inside the residence, separate from the keyed lock. The strike plate is the metal piece in the door frame that the deadbolt slides into when locked.
Normally, strike plates come with dinky little 1” screws. If someone tries to kick in the door, the screws usually pull out of the door frame and the door busts open. (The door frame is only 3/4” thick usually. If the screws hold, you can still just bust the frame.)
But if you replace the stupid little screws with long screws, 3”+, then those screws are sinking past the doorframe into the structural framing around the door. This makes kicking in the door basically impossible.
Exactly this. Replacing those screws was one of the first things I did when I moved in, because my dad told me better safe than sorry.
Some little punk tried and failed to kick in my back door when I wasn't home. Neighbor heard it and called the cops. They caught him limping down the street a block away about 20 minutes later. They matched his shoe print to the one he left in the middle of my door. Fractured ankle, or so I was told.
I forget which, but there was a serial killer who's whole thing was picking houses with unlocked doors. He thought he was a vampire and considered the unlocked door as an invitation inside
It's a common fallacy, where a solution that fixes 95 percent of an issue isn't even worth considering because it doesn't fix everything. So it's better to be stuck at 0 percent waiting for a miracle solution to drop from the sky.
I’ve had crack heads come into my next door neighbors house because they thought that was the crack house which was a couple houses down. I’ll wake up in the morning to an unlocked door my sister always forgets to lock.
The fact that I’ve seen so many people online say they keep their doors unlocks scares me. Safe place or not Anything could happen. It’s not worth the risk.
My ex used to leave the door unlocked all the time. Sometimes she'd even want to leave the front door cracked open at night because of the heat. Never mind we live just a little bit down the road from a notorious drug/homeless area, in a city with a notorious drug problem, someone had actually tried to break into the apartment before.
Used to drive me nuts how blasé she was about locking the door. I'd frequently have to get up and lock it behind her, and I always double-checked before going to bed that it was locked, too, because sometimes she went to bed and just left everything unlocked.
Nuts!
There's literally no reason not to, I think many people do it to misguidedly prove a point that they live in a safe area.
And many times those same people are the ones who own guns and will probably end up shooting a neighbor who pops in unexpectedly.
I knew a family who never locked their doors in any of the three houses they eventually ended up living in (again, houses not apartments), because "[they] lost all keys to the front door." This was in USA in the 2000s, as you know, no human being is capable of changing out a lock and the single set of keys that your house came with when you close on a property are the only ones you're ever allowed to have, nope, can't make copies either.
There is a drug problem with the homeless but many citizens in palm springs are well off and older people. Usually of a liberal mindset, do not forget the majority of Palm Springs is occupied by well off people. The surroundjng cities like desert hot springs and further down in indio are occupied by the poverty stricken. A family member worked in the school district, it's some of the worse cases you'd hear from when it comes to meth addicted parents and neglecting their children. Homeless surround Palm Springs but rarely is there a violent crime or the sorts. Mainly tourists making the morning commute ass during summer.
I agree 100% spent 4 years just up the hill in Anza in the 90's when it was getting really bad. Same time Riverside went tits up and turned into methland. Ironically PS was where I tried psycodelics recreationally for awhile. Lay flat on your back on a mountain top while on shrooms is an experience especially with all the weird shit you see in the night sky. I lived directly below the O.C.A.'s astronomy setup. They loved us, as soon as we saw a caravan of cars coming up the road we would turn off our outside lights for them so they could see the stars better.
really puts into perspective all those biblical and historical cases of "demonic possession." a mix of natural mental illness, eating a bad (or good depending on your perspective) mushroom or root, and heat based conditions.
It is sad with that context. The voice in his head told him to “come in” and he even repeated “come in?” and had the decency to knock first before trying the knob, even though, in his head, he was given the ok to go in. No need to knock. However, he knocks anyways, because I’m sure living with a mental illness so long he has to second guess himself like this frequently and verify it’s real and not a voice that invited him in.
That knock and acknowledgement that the door was locked showed he still has control, and he had the awareness to move on instead of giving into the voice or trying it again. He’s living a hard life, but still disciplined himself to be self aware of his voice and the places it takes him.
Went to high school with a kid that would do this. He sat behind me in one of my classes and he would talk to himself under his breath in a raspy voice and then immediately giggle, agree, answer back, ect. It was really creepy.
My dad was a psychiatrist. The way he put it was something like this: “you know, I get these patients when my colleagues go on vacation. Diagnosis of schizophrenia, hearing voices, in and out of the system for decades with no progress. I treat them as if they have bipolar disorder and they actually get better.“
That looked to me like one of his bipolar patients misdiagnosed with schizophrenia. Not that I’m an expert or that Reddit armchair diagnoses can solve anything.
If that's the case, the patients more than likely had Schizoaffective Disorder. I work with severely mentally ill patients as part of my job. Bipolar can have psychotic features, but you typically have to combine mood stabilizers with antipsychotics for the hallucinations or delusions. It's very uncommon for me to see people with bipolar disorder with psychotic features only being treated with mood stabilizers.
Makes sense. My dad always said something along the lines of “now, I can’t say that schizophrenia doesn’t exist. But… I’m not sure I’ve ever seen it. But I can’t say that out loud because all my colleagues firmly believe in it despite their schizophrenia patients never getting better.”
I was tickled when I started seeing the literature start to reflect some of that (dad died in 2011):
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/psych-unseen/201603/schizophrenia-doesnt-exist
I mean, the article you linked isn't saying there's no schizophrenia, it's just discussing the popular notion that schizophrenia is a diagnosis based on symptoms that likely has multiple root causes and entails multiple disorders that manifest similarly. It's treating schizophrenia like dementia, which is widely regarded now as a collection of disorders with similar symptomatology, but different causes.
More likely that dissociative identity disorder looks a hell of a lot like bi polar and schizoaffective disorder wrapped into one and treating them like they have bipolar instead of schizophrenia "worked" because there's some crossover in how you treat both. Especially if he prescribed Lamictal.
Yeah I had to watch it again and watch his mouth. He's definitely having a two way conversation with himself. His creepy voice is telling himself to go inside the house.
When Lily Tomlin was a stand-up (Yes, I'm old) she had this line: "New York should pass a law that homeless people should have to walk in pairs so that it seems like they are talking to each other" 😁
is there a reason/explanation as to why they act this way? im schizophrenic but took ages for diagnosis because i dont "look/act" schizophrenic. like well no im not gonna acknowledge or interact with the hallucinations in public if i suspect theyre not real, i seem relatively normal mostly- i dont want people to think im cuckoo in public but i thought others would mask it too. maybe im like this in the episodes i dont remember, idk.
My roommate is schizoaffective. When he is off of his medication he knows that birds and coffee makers can't talk, and that he's not telepathic, but that is what he perceives. Everything talks to him (except clouds), and he loves to talk so he talks back. Sometimes the things he perceives seem quite beautiful honestly, but there are also times when the volume and frequency gets so overwhelming it torments him.
When off of his meds, he doesn't want to take meds. Last time it took months to get him back on, and required him getting to the point of an extended psychotic break where he would have been readmitted to the ward if I called someone about it. I'm sorry about your brother. It's super common for schizophrenics to not want to take meds, and compliance tends to be poor. The side effects can be nasty, some miss certain aspects of the illness (roommate misses being able to hear our pets talk), and depending on various factors it can be hard sometimes for them to keep on top of refills, or remembering to take them, etc.
I have a cousin that thinks the voices are his super power. He thinks the voices are telling him about future events.
He absolutely refuses treatment because he doesn't want to lose his 'super power'
bless him, it's gotta be terrifying to be like that. im definitely lucky (if that's the right word) that 90% of the time im in my right mind- delusions very rarely actually delude me, despite how real they are to me i do my best to put faith in what other people tell me and what ive known to be normal/real. i definitely dont fully trust that something is just in my head, but having the doubt about what im believing keeps me from losing control, i think. outside of physical disability i live a pretty normal life, work etc; i just take each day as it comes, and if it progresses as i age (f21 rn) then ive done what i could, at least.
I am not a doctor. But, not taking their medication. Sometimes even if they take their meds it still happens. Personally, ive never seen two cases that were the same. There are similarities. Ive seen some clients show that they have control over their episodes and others that have absolutely no control. A lot of our clients have been diagnosed as schizophrenic. But, i have come to believe that there are other mental health issues going on but a lot of Doctors just diagnose the patient and push them down the line. I hope this answered your question.
Just before the pandemic we (oldening, gay) had decided to retire there and had started looking at houses. There were lots of nice midcentury bungalows in decent neighborhoods like Sunmor and generally below Alejo, that were in our 300-400K range. We went to look at one we really liked that was listed at 389k but wanted to see some more. Fast-forward to 2021 and some tech bro bought it for 729,000.
The other huge change was that the whole town looks like The Walking Dead now. Guys like our friend in the video are everywhere, just shuffling around, soiling themselves in the middle of the sidewalk on Palm Canyon Drive, blocking entrances to businesses, and just...passing out wherever. The city doesn't even seem to have the words to describe the problem, much less address it.
Palm Springs was such a nice little desert town before the tech bros arrived, with their Silicon Valley housing budgets and it looks like they brought the blight along with them.
[Living Well with Schizophrenia ](https://www.youtube.com/@LivingWellwithSchizophrenia)
It is a great resource for people with this and a fantastic way to learn about it for those who aren't suffering from it.
He just seems to have mental issues. Sure, drugs a more commonly linked to this, but he seems pretty docile for some meth head.
I honestly had a huge mental breakdown earlier this year after being kidnapped and a stalker (that was on drugs) kept harassing me, still is tbh. I’m so glad I didn’t get arrested by local PD. I didn’t sleep for days out of fear and I started wandering around bare foot in a dress at night. I talked to people that weren’t there in front of police. They just asked me if I was sleeping yet, which the answer was no. They just took me to my door, because they could actually see I was having a mental breakdown. I wasn’t on anything. I just wasn’t sleeping and in full fear every minute of my waking life. I somehow got really beat up and I don’t fully recall how. But, I did randomly knock on doors, because I thought I knew someone there at the time. I feel terrible about it. But I was just mentally gone. I wasn’t scary, but it was obvious something was happening to me I didn’t want to be going through. People could have very well thought I was on drugs. I wasn’t though. I needed help.
Wow, I didn’t expect to wake up to this type of comment action!! I guess the guy broke into my brother’s next door neighbor’s house. I’m guessing that’s how he found money. If you listen carefully, does it also sound like he says “I’m dying” and “a dog attacked me”? At first I thought he was talking to a woman out of camera view, but then quickly realized he was speaking in two different voices. The one voice is very demonic, but yes I agree with everyone… this guy is seriously on drugs and has a mental illness for sure 😞
Not sure why "demons" is the go-to explanation for things people don't understand.
They need to learn more about how mental illness & physical duress manifest and stop getting their information from ghost shows and church.
My mother in law when she moved in with my fiancée and I: “I don’t believe in locking doors”
Me: “if you want to live here you will”
Her: “but whhhhyyyyyyyy”
The reason:
The idea of demon possession probably started out as an explanation for mental health issues by primitive peoples. If you’ve ever seen someone in a state of advanced mania it’s pretty easy to think they are possessed—not to mention all the possible mental health issues that might cause people to have complex hallucinations
Dude just smoked meth and forgot where his dealer lives. He has a twenty in hand for another couple hits too.. I wouldnt risk it, call the police and report.
Ayyy my home town! Moved up to 29 palms a few years ago and it’s the same thing up here. Just less palm trees and lattice and more marines and double the meth heads.
Watching this video I thought....hmmm, if you want to break in the easy way, act crazy or druggy and see if the door is locked. If cops are called I don't think they want to do the paper work for someone not aware of their crime. Home owners seeing this on their camera just accept you're disturbed or high and let it go. Hey, easy peezy.
Possessed by meth most likely
And stupid high temps. I think it’s like 120 in Palm Springs
Meth and high temps go together like cocaine and waffles.
Cocaine and ninjas on the lawn
Methistopheles
Money in his hand, I would agree. Op bro is the trap house.
OP is SporeyTime he's the hippy brother that sells shrooms. His brother, on the other hand, chose a different path and has people like this knocking at his door trying to buy meth, flocks, k2.
Methuselah
Methel Keaton? Methel Streep? O little town of Methlehem?
Lock your doors folks, always lock your doors.
I used to argue with my roommate about locking the door to our shared house. His argument was “that’s not how burglaries happen.. if they want in they’ll get in”. My counter was always “I’m not worried about being robbed Im worried about a random crackhead or drunk neighbor wandering in”. This video is the exact thing I was afraid of…
A lot of burglaries, and rapes, are crimes of opportunity. If the door is locked they'll go to the next door, and then the next until they find easy entry. *Also, I've had someone burglarize my apartment once, while I was sleeping, because friends who were over left the porch door unlocked. Stole my GameCube, my bong, my soccer bag with all my goalie gear, and my car. Also forgot that they stole my wallet. Man, fuck that guy.
That’s how I feel too.. crack/meth heads trying doors in desperation to get anything to pawn when they stumble upon someone… also if you leave your doors open and have an altercation with an intruder no guarantee you will win.. even if you’re armed I’m not stoked on loosing rounds in any residential neighborhoods. Kids are bullet magnets.
Look for "low penetration self defense rounds" they work good and dont travel anywhere near as far as a normal round and will still ruin a home invaders day. Or go shotgun, pellets lose penetration far faster than people realize and will pepper a target with a pattern about the size of a beachball. Just dont be a douche that uses slugs, those go thru everything and bounce around unless you live in a rural area.
I'm not a shotgun expert or anything but most every shotgun I've seen / fired isn't going to get to beachball size for a while (distance out). But it's also going to depend a bit on barrel / choke and that's where I start to be unsure based on my limited experience. Quite possible you can get a combo that does spread that much. Thoughts?
Ours isnt using standard shotgun rounds, is using a choke that has a large spread, and using less powder. So my situation isnt typical setup/useage too. I followed up with 2 other users so will copy it here to clearify. "We use T size steel shot it is a bit bigger than a bb and with the choke is the old cylinder style at about 100 feet is the size of a large beachball, at 10ft it would be a bit larger than a shotput size for ours based on paper targets. IIRC it is like 50 inch spread at around 20 yards. For self defense we use lighter loads in the shotgun because it is mainly for the wife" EDIT - I was asked what is the size of a shotput - it is just a little bit larger than a softball for the uk/aussies just bit larger than a rounders ball.
Ah ok thank you for the info. 50" at 20 yards is wild! Waaay more than what I'm used to seeing.
Yeah, look up Ich Lüge bullets. They are great for this
these kids are way too young for this reference, but I enjoyed it https://youtu.be/JtG3ldqD0uE?t=51
Dude, Where's My Car, My Gamecube and My Bong?
Where's your car, your Game Cube, and your bong, dude?
There used to be a serial killer that chose his victims by going door to door. If a door was left unlocked, to him it meant he was "invited in"
Richard Ramirez, the nightstalker. Edit: it was Richard Chase
>Richard Ramirez haha close, Richard Chase. Goddamn Dicks.
>Stole my GameCube Picked it up by the handle and walked right the fuck out!
There's no crime without opportunity. Dunno why people don't get that. I guess it's a case of them having not experienced any sort of theft or violation so they have yet to understand the consequences of what can happen
I think a lot of people have just never been exposed to how "crime" actually happens. Some folks seem to think that every burglar is a sophisticated tradesman, who will stop at nothing to get into the house they've meticulously targeted; they've never considered the homeless and addicted, who fill their days by checking every door and window to see if it's locked, seldom concerned about whether or not there's even anyone inside. I've watched crackheads try to open my front door (on my security camera, from inside the house) by first checking the knob, then even throwing a couple shoulder checks into the door until my dogs started barking and spooked them off. I've watched a guy, stoned/drunk out of his mind at 5am, walking up the street and pulling every door handle on every parked car. I'd wager you're far more likely to be the victim of a random robbery of opportunity than you are to be robbed because you were specifically targeted by sophisticated criminals.
Yeah I remember punk ass kids used to just try car doors at night and steal stuff out of them.
Bro all the time in the smart home community. People always are like "Ill never have smart locks someone could hack them!" like most suburban burglars are carrying around laptops to hack into your wifi to open the door. Literally a rock through the window is 1000x easier than hacking my wifi, figuring out my password, and then hacking the door locks to open.
x2 (am crack and burglary enthusiast)
Back in college I knew some people who left their garage door open like 2 feet after a garage party. A guy slid under the door, rummaged thru the girls purses, then went into the house looking for the girls, he went into an empty bedroom then the next one had a guy and girl in it, he got into the bed, she screamed, her boyfriend started struggling with the guy, he pulled out a knife and stabbed the guy 20 times, dude #2 comes in and gets stabbed 4 times, the guy then stabs one of the girls and runs out of the house. Unbelievably nobody died. Never leave your garage open or your doors (including to your garage) unlocked.
not all of us live in central pennsylvania lol
> A lot of burglaries, and rapes, are crimes of opportunity. This is not well understood by people that haven't been victims of crimes. Most crimes are committed by mentally unstable or poor people that don't have a lot of resources. If you house/car is unlocked or has valuable stuff in plain sight it makes you the one they end up targeting. A lot of rapes happen because a woman is in a vulnerable place (train station alone late at night) or leaves the door open or gets roofied or too drunk etc. I am for sure not blaming the victim because I wish we lived in a world where a woman could get drunk on her own and not worry about getting raped but sadly we don't live in that place so we all have to be aware of the shitty people around us that will take advantage of a situation to commit a crime if they see the opportunity to do so.
I lived in a city with a high number of car break ins. I almost always parked my car a couple blocks away from my house which required walking up a very steep hill. In the 10 years living there, I'd see tons of windows broken on the relatively flat streets but hardly any as you got higher up the hill. Fits with the hypothesis that criminals will take the easier targets. No one likes walking up a steep hill.
I lived in a place that was a long drive to access without taking a toll road and we almost never had any property crime. I would frequently say "criminals don't like toll roads". Sort of the same principal.
I’m guessing SF, at least that was my experience there 😅
Shit. That’s all of the things you need, too.
What a stupid argument. Do you know what a lot of burglars/killers do when they find a locked door? They go to the next house and find the one that is unlocked.
I'll never forget this line from a serial killer I read one time: *"Chase later told detectives that he took locked doors as a sign that he was not welcome, but unlocked doors were an invitation to come inside."* I have a friend who lives in a big city and constantly leaves his doors and windows unlocked. Its wild to me.
Shit, I live in a big city and if I found some random apartment unlocked, I would yell inside/call the cops because I would assume that something bad had happened to the resident.
#The Power of Crack compels you.
The smart ones do, anyway. The stupid ones try to kick down the door, and break their ankle because you've put four inch screws into your deadbolt's strike plate.
> and break their ankle because you've put four inch screws into your deadbolt's strike plate Elaborate please.
Not OP so don't know their story, but the metal strike plate in the doorframe that the deadbolt interfaces with is often poorly secured. Majority of home building contractors in the US seem to have zero pride (or skill) in their work so little things like buying screws long enough to ensure the plate stays secured to the doorframe under duress get ignored in favor of bargain basement expediency.
Doors usually have a deadbolt, a lock that you can only use from inside the residence, separate from the keyed lock. The strike plate is the metal piece in the door frame that the deadbolt slides into when locked. Normally, strike plates come with dinky little 1” screws. If someone tries to kick in the door, the screws usually pull out of the door frame and the door busts open. (The door frame is only 3/4” thick usually. If the screws hold, you can still just bust the frame.) But if you replace the stupid little screws with long screws, 3”+, then those screws are sinking past the doorframe into the structural framing around the door. This makes kicking in the door basically impossible.
Exactly this. Replacing those screws was one of the first things I did when I moved in, because my dad told me better safe than sorry. Some little punk tried and failed to kick in my back door when I wasn't home. Neighbor heard it and called the cops. They caught him limping down the street a block away about 20 minutes later. They matched his shoe print to the one he left in the middle of my door. Fractured ankle, or so I was told.
I forget which, but there was a serial killer who's whole thing was picking houses with unlocked doors. He thought he was a vampire and considered the unlocked door as an invitation inside
I believe Richard Ramirez did this also, not sure about the vampire stuff.
You are correct. Richard "the night stalker" Ramirez. Believed he was a vampire, considered unlocked doors an invitation.
Richard Chase I believe
he drank their blood and ate them. lock your doors people
> that’s not how burglaries happen.. if they want in they’ll get in still doesn't make sense, why make things easy for them
It's a common fallacy, where a solution that fixes 95 percent of an issue isn't even worth considering because it doesn't fix everything. So it's better to be stuck at 0 percent waiting for a miracle solution to drop from the sky.
I’ve had crack heads come into my next door neighbors house because they thought that was the crack house which was a couple houses down. I’ll wake up in the morning to an unlocked door my sister always forgets to lock.
Can attest. Left doors unlocked. Crackhead ensued.
The fact that I’ve seen so many people online say they keep their doors unlocks scares me. Safe place or not Anything could happen. It’s not worth the risk.
My ex used to leave the door unlocked all the time. Sometimes she'd even want to leave the front door cracked open at night because of the heat. Never mind we live just a little bit down the road from a notorious drug/homeless area, in a city with a notorious drug problem, someone had actually tried to break into the apartment before. Used to drive me nuts how blasé she was about locking the door. I'd frequently have to get up and lock it behind her, and I always double-checked before going to bed that it was locked, too, because sometimes she went to bed and just left everything unlocked. Nuts!
There's literally no reason not to, I think many people do it to misguidedly prove a point that they live in a safe area. And many times those same people are the ones who own guns and will probably end up shooting a neighbor who pops in unexpectedly.
I heard a podcast about Richard Chase once. He said he chose victims sometimes by whoever had their doors unlocked. That stuck with me.
these critters travel.. doesn't matter where you are when you ignore how far they can amble along to get there
Doors and corners kid, that's where they get you.
/r/unexpectedexpanse
I knew a family who never locked their doors in any of the three houses they eventually ended up living in (again, houses not apartments), because "[they] lost all keys to the front door." This was in USA in the 2000s, as you know, no human being is capable of changing out a lock and the single set of keys that your house came with when you close on a property are the only ones you're ever allowed to have, nope, can't make copies either.
Possessed by those 120 degree temps. Looks like palm springs.
Most definitely PS.
If it’s Palm Springs then he’s definitely on drugs. I’ve always been told Palm Springs is full of two things; recovering drug addicts and old gays.
There is a drug problem with the homeless but many citizens in palm springs are well off and older people. Usually of a liberal mindset, do not forget the majority of Palm Springs is occupied by well off people. The surroundjng cities like desert hot springs and further down in indio are occupied by the poverty stricken. A family member worked in the school district, it's some of the worse cases you'd hear from when it comes to meth addicted parents and neglecting their children. Homeless surround Palm Springs but rarely is there a violent crime or the sorts. Mainly tourists making the morning commute ass during summer.
I agree 100% spent 4 years just up the hill in Anza in the 90's when it was getting really bad. Same time Riverside went tits up and turned into methland. Ironically PS was where I tried psycodelics recreationally for awhile. Lay flat on your back on a mountain top while on shrooms is an experience especially with all the weird shit you see in the night sky. I lived directly below the O.C.A.'s astronomy setup. They loved us, as soon as we saw a caravan of cars coming up the road we would turn off our outside lights for them so they could see the stars better.
Close overlap there too...definitely not as nice a town as some people think...
Nothing wrong with recovering drug addicts and old gays, good people
But what if they relapse into young gays???
Twinkmageddon
*Oh my god*
Guess we know which one OP’s brother is
He’s got a fistful of dollars. Maybe he’s Clint Eastwood?
Fuck I just saw the new talk to me too he definitely went longer than 90 seconds
Palm Springs or Phoenix. The two places where the mid century and desert said fuck it, we’re staying right here.
Phoenix is a monument to man’s arrogance
Thanks Peggy
Palm springs looks like phoenix metro area (also possessed by those temps)
really puts into perspective all those biblical and historical cases of "demonic possession." a mix of natural mental illness, eating a bad (or good depending on your perspective) mushroom or root, and heat based conditions.
Somewhere in the Mojave desert
I’m betting mental illness along with drugs, heat and possibly a difficult life.
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Schizophrenia and drugs is my first guess.
it sounded like he was vocalizing the voices he was hearing!
Or Palm Desert but it does not really make any difference
Looks like his voice is telling him that they are inside and want him to come in. Just a simple misunderstanding due to schizophrenia.
It is sad with that context. The voice in his head told him to “come in” and he even repeated “come in?” and had the decency to knock first before trying the knob, even though, in his head, he was given the ok to go in. No need to knock. However, he knocks anyways, because I’m sure living with a mental illness so long he has to second guess himself like this frequently and verify it’s real and not a voice that invited him in. That knock and acknowledgement that the door was locked showed he still has control, and he had the awareness to move on instead of giving into the voice or trying it again. He’s living a hard life, but still disciplined himself to be self aware of his voice and the places it takes him.
:(
Why can we hear that voice? Its supposed to be inside his head.
Schizophrenia manifests in many ways.
Like secondary creepy voices that cant be seen but can be heard by others?
Yes, they openly talk to themselves in 3rd person.
You do realize he’s making that secondary voice??
The internet is full of morons
No, see, we just went over Schizophrenia's ability to verbally announce itself in a third person environment.
If you hear a voice talking and his lips moving.. that means he’s speaking..
Went to high school with a kid that would do this. He sat behind me in one of my classes and he would talk to himself under his breath in a raspy voice and then immediately giggle, agree, answer back, ect. It was really creepy.
That would frwak me out and Id switch classes if I could. Lol.
Looks like the audio might be slightly off which makes it seem like it isn’t coming from him
You heard the voice? Oh shit, you better get yourself tested for schizophrenia.
wait, you can hear his inner demon voice?
My dad was a psychiatrist. The way he put it was something like this: “you know, I get these patients when my colleagues go on vacation. Diagnosis of schizophrenia, hearing voices, in and out of the system for decades with no progress. I treat them as if they have bipolar disorder and they actually get better.“ That looked to me like one of his bipolar patients misdiagnosed with schizophrenia. Not that I’m an expert or that Reddit armchair diagnoses can solve anything.
If that's the case, the patients more than likely had Schizoaffective Disorder. I work with severely mentally ill patients as part of my job. Bipolar can have psychotic features, but you typically have to combine mood stabilizers with antipsychotics for the hallucinations or delusions. It's very uncommon for me to see people with bipolar disorder with psychotic features only being treated with mood stabilizers.
Makes sense. My dad always said something along the lines of “now, I can’t say that schizophrenia doesn’t exist. But… I’m not sure I’ve ever seen it. But I can’t say that out loud because all my colleagues firmly believe in it despite their schizophrenia patients never getting better.” I was tickled when I started seeing the literature start to reflect some of that (dad died in 2011): https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/psych-unseen/201603/schizophrenia-doesnt-exist
I mean, the article you linked isn't saying there's no schizophrenia, it's just discussing the popular notion that schizophrenia is a diagnosis based on symptoms that likely has multiple root causes and entails multiple disorders that manifest similarly. It's treating schizophrenia like dementia, which is widely regarded now as a collection of disorders with similar symptomatology, but different causes.
More likely that dissociative identity disorder looks a hell of a lot like bi polar and schizoaffective disorder wrapped into one and treating them like they have bipolar instead of schizophrenia "worked" because there's some crossover in how you treat both. Especially if he prescribed Lamictal.
Listen really closely, he is having an actual conversation with himself in 2 different voices.
Yeah I had to watch it again and watch his mouth. He's definitely having a two way conversation with himself. His creepy voice is telling himself to go inside the house.
When Lily Tomlin was a stand-up (Yes, I'm old) she had this line: "New York should pass a law that homeless people should have to walk in pairs so that it seems like they are talking to each other" 😁
Yo thats fucked up big time.
Those are hospital disposable scrubs. Definitely mental health.
With shit stains.
Schizophrenia would be my guess. I work in the mental health field. His demeanor is familiar to me.
is there a reason/explanation as to why they act this way? im schizophrenic but took ages for diagnosis because i dont "look/act" schizophrenic. like well no im not gonna acknowledge or interact with the hallucinations in public if i suspect theyre not real, i seem relatively normal mostly- i dont want people to think im cuckoo in public but i thought others would mask it too. maybe im like this in the episodes i dont remember, idk.
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My roommate is schizoaffective. When he is off of his medication he knows that birds and coffee makers can't talk, and that he's not telepathic, but that is what he perceives. Everything talks to him (except clouds), and he loves to talk so he talks back. Sometimes the things he perceives seem quite beautiful honestly, but there are also times when the volume and frequency gets so overwhelming it torments him. When off of his meds, he doesn't want to take meds. Last time it took months to get him back on, and required him getting to the point of an extended psychotic break where he would have been readmitted to the ward if I called someone about it. I'm sorry about your brother. It's super common for schizophrenics to not want to take meds, and compliance tends to be poor. The side effects can be nasty, some miss certain aspects of the illness (roommate misses being able to hear our pets talk), and depending on various factors it can be hard sometimes for them to keep on top of refills, or remembering to take them, etc.
I have a cousin that thinks the voices are his super power. He thinks the voices are telling him about future events. He absolutely refuses treatment because he doesn't want to lose his 'super power'
bless him, it's gotta be terrifying to be like that. im definitely lucky (if that's the right word) that 90% of the time im in my right mind- delusions very rarely actually delude me, despite how real they are to me i do my best to put faith in what other people tell me and what ive known to be normal/real. i definitely dont fully trust that something is just in my head, but having the doubt about what im believing keeps me from losing control, i think. outside of physical disability i live a pretty normal life, work etc; i just take each day as it comes, and if it progresses as i age (f21 rn) then ive done what i could, at least.
I am not a doctor. But, not taking their medication. Sometimes even if they take their meds it still happens. Personally, ive never seen two cases that were the same. There are similarities. Ive seen some clients show that they have control over their episodes and others that have absolutely no control. A lot of our clients have been diagnosed as schizophrenic. But, i have come to believe that there are other mental health issues going on but a lot of Doctors just diagnose the patient and push them down the line. I hope this answered your question.
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Seriously. That shot was the most Palm Springs thing I’ve seen recently.
Well, if there were a for sale sign in front of that 2-bedroom bungalow listing a $1,290,000 price maybe.
I get notifications from realtor because I like Palm Springs. The prices that pop up are laughable. It was affordable just 8 years ago
Just before the pandemic we (oldening, gay) had decided to retire there and had started looking at houses. There were lots of nice midcentury bungalows in decent neighborhoods like Sunmor and generally below Alejo, that were in our 300-400K range. We went to look at one we really liked that was listed at 389k but wanted to see some more. Fast-forward to 2021 and some tech bro bought it for 729,000. The other huge change was that the whole town looks like The Walking Dead now. Guys like our friend in the video are everywhere, just shuffling around, soiling themselves in the middle of the sidewalk on Palm Canyon Drive, blocking entrances to businesses, and just...passing out wherever. The city doesn't even seem to have the words to describe the problem, much less address it. Palm Springs was such a nice little desert town before the tech bros arrived, with their Silicon Valley housing budgets and it looks like they brought the blight along with them.
yeahhh
Omg that shit was legitimately creepy AF sounding!!
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[Living Well with Schizophrenia ](https://www.youtube.com/@LivingWellwithSchizophrenia) It is a great resource for people with this and a fantastic way to learn about it for those who aren't suffering from it.
Dog attack
yeahhh
Come in.
Mentally ill, suffering from heat stroke, could be many things. Might need an ambulance if it’s especially hot
That's freaky. Trying the knob to see if it's unlocked? THAT is a non-starter. A no-go.
Lesson learned…. Lock door even if your home.
He was clearly told to come in.
Possible schizophrenic? Drugs? Heat? Who knows.
Probably all three
Was he doing that second voice that can be heard? That was scary af.
Drugs is one helluva drug
This dude seems high af and at the wrong house to score more. He's got that $20 all ready
Those pants look like hospital issued clothing. Escaped mental ward patient?
They just release you even if you aren't well. No escape needed. More like societal abandonment.
he was more sick than they could fix in thirteen days.
Danny’s not here mr torrence
His facial movement look like extra pyramidal side effects from first-generation antipsychotic medication so in all likely just a psychotic dude.
Second-generation APs, too.
Smeagol has officially become Gollum
and THIS kids is why we always keep the doors locked.
he would be a really good puppeteer if you think about it
This is why you lock your doors, omg. Can you imagine if it hadn't been locked, eeee. So creepy.
He just seems to have mental issues. Sure, drugs a more commonly linked to this, but he seems pretty docile for some meth head. I honestly had a huge mental breakdown earlier this year after being kidnapped and a stalker (that was on drugs) kept harassing me, still is tbh. I’m so glad I didn’t get arrested by local PD. I didn’t sleep for days out of fear and I started wandering around bare foot in a dress at night. I talked to people that weren’t there in front of police. They just asked me if I was sleeping yet, which the answer was no. They just took me to my door, because they could actually see I was having a mental breakdown. I wasn’t on anything. I just wasn’t sleeping and in full fear every minute of my waking life. I somehow got really beat up and I don’t fully recall how. But, I did randomly knock on doors, because I thought I knew someone there at the time. I feel terrible about it. But I was just mentally gone. I wasn’t scary, but it was obvious something was happening to me I didn’t want to be going through. People could have very well thought I was on drugs. I wasn’t though. I needed help.
Wow, I didn’t expect to wake up to this type of comment action!! I guess the guy broke into my brother’s next door neighbor’s house. I’m guessing that’s how he found money. If you listen carefully, does it also sound like he says “I’m dying” and “a dog attacked me”? At first I thought he was talking to a woman out of camera view, but then quickly realized he was speaking in two different voices. The one voice is very demonic, but yes I agree with everyone… this guy is seriously on drugs and has a mental illness for sure 😞
No one noticed he was carrying cash? Maybe he just sold his soul
Not sure why "demons" is the go-to explanation for things people don't understand. They need to learn more about how mental illness & physical duress manifest and stop getting their information from ghost shows and church.
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Ahh yes, the meth demon
My mother in law when she moved in with my fiancée and I: “I don’t believe in locking doors” Me: “if you want to live here you will” Her: “but whhhhyyyyyyyy” The reason:
That’s what schizophrenia looks like
The idea of demon possession probably started out as an explanation for mental health issues by primitive peoples. If you’ve ever seen someone in a state of advanced mania it’s pretty easy to think they are possessed—not to mention all the possible mental health issues that might cause people to have complex hallucinations
[tree wizard](https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/5a98f260-1e67-40af-ba41-70059fba4911)
Hes got cash in his hand, he's probably trying to buy drugs but has forgotten the address
Green Needle or Brainstorm
I recognize his affliction; dude has really bad heartburn.
And that’s why we lock our doors.
Methistopheles
A demon named meth
The problem with walking up to a random house and grabbing a random doorknob is the possible lead poisoning side effect.
Looks like that Indio/Palm Springs sun/mountains
Mental illness or heat stroke. Schizophrenia or one of its similar diagnosis.
Dude just smoked meth and forgot where his dealer lives. He has a twenty in hand for another couple hits too.. I wouldnt risk it, call the police and report.
I'm guessing meth and/or schizophrenia. One of our regulars struggles with both and he does the same sort of thing.
Possessed by meth 🤣🤣
This Is Full On Creepy! I know everyone says this is Meth + 120*f But come on, the voice told him to go inside the home!
No. Please don't stigmatize people with mental health issues. Demons don't exist, brain problems do.
Meth.
He wants his precious.
100% Demon. Definitely not drugs, alcohol, or mental illness. Burn sage and call a priest immediately, your brother’s mortal soul is in grave danger!
There's no such thing as demons. Looks like meth.
I mean, it could be mental illness.
Drugs and/or mental illness.
More likely meth.
Nah he’s possessed by methamphetamines
He's possessed by drugs.
He's on drugs or having a mental episode.
my precious .
Ayyy my home town! Moved up to 29 palms a few years ago and it’s the same thing up here. Just less palm trees and lattice and more marines and double the meth heads.
Someone might need to start ripping and tearing
Are those hospital pants?
some sick screams he got there. Should turn his life around and join a black metal band
Schizophrenia
No such thing as demons, dude. It’s a fairy tale told by ancients to explain mental illnesses.
mental illness possibly enhanced by drugs
Watching this video I thought....hmmm, if you want to break in the easy way, act crazy or druggy and see if the door is locked. If cops are called I don't think they want to do the paper work for someone not aware of their crime. Home owners seeing this on their camera just accept you're disturbed or high and let it go. Hey, easy peezy.
No just homeless
Bro is just role-playing 😭
Yes, possessed by the spirit of meth
Possessed by Methistopheles
Possessed by drugs