# Hell. Officially scared out of me. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 5, 2013, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hell-officially-scared-out-of-me/668102 "2013-09-05T18:49:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2013, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hell-officially-scared-out-of-me/668102/81 "2013-09-06T20:19:41Z")
Heh, different folks living in different locations sure have different notions of the need for security. My parents, to this day, don’t lock their doors during the day if they are at home. I usually do, but not always. On the other hand, my parents go through elaborate precautions to hide stuff at the family cabin, like the generator and the chainsaw. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2013, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hell-officially-scared-out-of-me/668102/82 "2013-09-06T20:47:38Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > I thought the OP was a cute story about how the sounds coming from the electronic picture frame spooked **ducati**. Can’t we just accept that instead of turning this into a debate about guns? Yeah, but the OP seems to have these types of experiences quite frequently. ---
**Author:** ![Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hentor_the_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2013, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hell-officially-scared-out-of-me/668102/83 "2013-09-06T20:57:21Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > Yeah, but the OP seems to have these types of experiences quite frequently. Wherever you go, there you are. ---
**Author:** ![Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hentor_the_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2013, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hell-officially-scared-out-of-me/668102/84 "2013-09-06T21:05:09Z")
> [@Capt\_Kirk](#): > > Most alarm systems come with a panic button, usually beneath the keypad. They are often laid out as three buttons; Fire, Badge and Panic. They all dial 911(US). He must have multiple panic buttons - it seems weird that if there was only one you would put it in the basement. I suppose multiple buttons make sense if you panic a lot. > [@](#): > > Several of my friends have cameras at their house. My computer geek, has two or three for basic security. The nice gay couple that I used to live across the street from, after having plants and statuary stolen out of their front yard and porch. Cameras are cheap effective security. > > **ducati** may be a bit over the top but as I said upthread, he has a background in Law Enforcement. Being prepared to shoot is not a desire to shoot someone. > > **Capt** Certainly people have to choose for themselves how to address such things. For instance, there’s lots of stuff out there that can make you sick. Going about in a plastic bubble or being a recluse would be possible methods to prevent undesirable outcomes. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2013, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hell-officially-scared-out-of-me/668102/85 "2013-09-06T23:34:22Z")
> [@Bob Ducca](#): > > I can believe that Ducati heard his daughter’s voice coming from the frame, but I can’t believe that these are the words she was saying. That was kind of my feeling. **ducati** , I’ll criticize you for something else: you’ve got a tin ear for dialog. I mean, I wouldn’t stake my life on it, because maybe your daughter is the one who watches tawdry action potboilers, not you; but that’s not how people speak. I hang out with a crapton of kids playing around, and I hear them shrieking and get told “Save me!” “Help!” and all kinds of stuff on a daily basis as part of their play. But your quote? Nope, that’s not how kids talk, in my experience. If you prove me wrong (say, by posting that digitalized video, or at least the sound bite from the part you claim), I’ll eat crow, and I’ll downgrade my comment to considering you a poster child for gun control, which was my first thought anyway, you double agent you :). ---
**Author:** ![SirGalahad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/71c47a/32.png) [@SirGalahad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SirGalahad)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2013, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hell-officially-scared-out-of-me/668102/86 "2013-09-07T01:42:36Z")
> [@Longshanks](#): > > Why do you find it normal to have the alarm on when your home alone? Doesn’t it go off if the motion sensors catch you making a move? Common alarm set-up … the stay-in setting monitors perimeter(door and windows,etc.) not motion sensors. ---
**Author:** ![Fubaya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@Fubaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fubaya)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2013, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hell-officially-scared-out-of-me/668102/87 "2013-09-07T01:47:15Z")
I’m wondering where people live where “Don’t let them take me” is something the kids around there would never say. ---
**Author:** ![Phil\_CostaMesa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Phil\_CostaMesa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phil_CostaMesa)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2013, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hell-officially-scared-out-of-me/668102/88 "2013-09-07T02:00:20Z")
> [@Malthus](#): > > How about this one? > > I was home, alone. I decided to have a shower, leaving the bathroom door open. The shower has a glass stall. > > When I’m home alone, I usually turn off all the lights except for the room I’m in. > > I’m getting it all steamy, when suddenly … I see a head pass, slowly and silently, right across the dark bathroom doorway! In the dark, I couldn’t see a body- just the head. > > I was sure I was just seeing things. No-one could get in without making a noise, right? I go back to showering … and the head passes, slowly and silently, the other way! > > Okay, I was now shitting myself, nearly literally. I definitely saw it this time. WTF? > > I turn off the shower and investigate, to find … my son’s “Spongebob” foil helium balloon, negected in his bedroom for months (and head-sized), had lost just enough gas to float at head-height … :smack: Ahhhha, that’s funny. ---
**Author:** ![grude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47774/32.png) [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2013, 8:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hell-officially-scared-out-of-me/668102/89 "2013-09-08T08:34:18Z")
> [@YogSosoth](#): > > So wait, was he in there? Did you eventually wake him up and open the door? What happened? He was in there but was dead of an OD, my BIL had to crawl in the window himself because both I and the other guy he had helping him refused to invade the home of an armed gun nut. The resolution kinda ruins my funny story about being asked to break into a drugged up gun nuts house. (dude had a speargun and flaregun in the bedroom along with conventional firearms.) ---
**Author:** ![Cinnamon\_Imp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@Cinnamon\_Imp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cinnamon_Imp)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2013, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hell-officially-scared-out-of-me/668102/90 "2013-09-08T19:55:02Z")
> [@lost4life](#): > > In the middle of the night I’m awaken by a booming voicing shouting AVAST VIRUS DATABASE HAS BEEN UPDATED. After I realized robots had not taken over the Earth, I changed the sheets and went back to bed. Goddam that thing, it’s the reason I have sound near-permanently switched off on the laptop. Thankfully I’ve not had quite so bad a run in with it though 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Dorjan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dorjan/32/12440_2.png) [@Dorjan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dorjan)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2013, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hell-officially-scared-out-of-me/668102/91 "2013-09-09T21:02:13Z")
I’d love to know the brand and model number of that picture frame, with non-shitty speakers of such volume and clarity as to be mistaken for actual people from across the house! Because I would buy one. 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hell-officially-scared-out-of-me/668102.md?page=4)