# My building is locked down. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 9, 2005, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-building-is-locked-down/307543 "2005-06-09T02:05:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2005, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-building-is-locked-down/307543/21 "2005-06-09T14:42:20Z")
> [@The King of Soup](#): > > … Homeland Security’s just declared a “threat level funky.” _Ceeeeeeelebrate bad times, Come on!_ ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2005, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-building-is-locked-down/307543/22 "2005-06-09T15:06:54Z")
Well, I for juan, am not going to rest easy until I find out what all the kerfuffle is all about. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2005, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-building-is-locked-down/307543/23 "2005-06-09T15:12:28Z")
Did you know that mice can’t throw up? ---
**Author:** ![5que](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/3bc359/32.png) [@5que](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5que)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2005, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-building-is-locked-down/307543/24 "2005-06-09T16:18:26Z")
1. Go out onto the roof 2. Yell out, “Top of the World, Ma! Top of the World!” 3. Receive accolades from the cinema-loving police force ---
**Author:** ![Syriaza](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Syriaza](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Syriaza)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2005, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-building-is-locked-down/307543/25 "2005-06-09T19:05:20Z")
So, **Campion** what was the kerfuffle? and 5que, were does that quote come from? I know I’ve heard it somewhere :S? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2005, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-building-is-locked-down/307543/26 "2005-06-09T19:10:10Z")
> [@Syriaza](#): > > and 5que, were does that quote come from? I know I’ve heard it somewhere :S? James Cagney, _The Public Enemy_, 1931. ---
**Author:** ![LindyHopper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ebca7d/32.png) [@LindyHopper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LindyHopper)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2005, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-building-is-locked-down/307543/27 "2005-06-09T19:14:46Z")
> [@Johnny L.A.](#): > > James Cagney, _The Public Enemy_, 1931. No way, man. _White Heat_. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2005, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-building-is-locked-down/307543/28 "2005-06-09T19:20:50Z")
> [@LindyHopper](#): > > No way, man. _White Heat_. :smack: Well, at least I got Cagney right. ---
**Author:** ![LindyHopper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ebca7d/32.png) [@LindyHopper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LindyHopper)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2005, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-building-is-locked-down/307543/29 "2005-06-09T19:25:45Z")
> [@Johnny L.A.](#): > > :smack: > > Well, at least I got Cagney right. Heh. No worries. Just saw _The Public Enemy_ a couple of weeks ago, too. Great flick. Great on a double bill with Edward G. Robinson in _Little Caesar_. We now return you to your regularly-scheduled thread. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2005, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-building-is-locked-down/307543/30 "2005-06-09T20:02:01Z")
> [@LindyHopper](#): > > Heh. No worries. Just saw _The Public Enemy_ a couple of weeks ago, too. Great flick. I love _The Public Enemy_. I especially like the fact that the producers of this film, in 1931, included a scene from the character’s youth, set in 1915, in which you can hear someone is struggling through Scott Joplin’s _Maple Leaf Rag_ on a piano in the background. That’s about the only time I’ve heard a recognizable, true Ragtime piece in any movie before _The Sting_. Usually, when filmmakers want to show the ‘old time piano player’ motif, they have him pounding out _O Dem Golden Slippers_, _Oh, You Beautiful Doll_, or other such pseudo ragtime kerfluffle. ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2005, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-building-is-locked-down/307543/31 "2005-06-09T21:14:11Z")
Your boss sure gets uptight when he finds photocopies of someone’s ass on the copier, doesn’t he? I mean, really. Lockdown? SWAT? Helicopters? Just write them up and be done with it. ---
**Author:** ![Campion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@Campion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Campion)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2005, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-building-is-locked-down/307543/32 "2005-06-09T21:51:38Z")
You ready for the big, exciting “suspicious activity”? Brace yourself: Someone left a cardboard box on the sidewalk. ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2005, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-building-is-locked-down/307543/33 "2005-06-09T21:54:13Z")
They don’t take litter lightly where you live, do they? ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2005, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-building-is-locked-down/307543/34 "2005-06-09T22:18:37Z")
> [@Campion](#): > > You ready for the big, exciting “suspicious activity”? Brace yourself: > > Someone left a cardboard box on the sidewalk. The non-vomitous mice did it. ---
**Author:** ![lisacurl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/41988e/32.png) [@lisacurl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lisacurl)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2005, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-building-is-locked-down/307543/35 "2005-06-09T22:38:33Z")
Nah, it was the Kool and the Gang tribute band. They’re evil, I tells ya. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2005, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-building-is-locked-down/307543/36 "2005-06-09T22:42:48Z")
> [@Campion](#): > > You ready for the big, exciting “suspicious activity”? Brace yourself: > > Someone left a cardboard box on the sidewalk. Hey, that was my apartment, damnit! Great, now I have to go and find another refrigerator box. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Tranquilis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tranquilis/32/3639_2.png) [@Tranquilis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tranquilis)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2005, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-building-is-locked-down/307543/37 "2005-06-09T23:17:35Z")
> [@lisacurl](#): > > Nah, it was the Kool and the Gang tribute band. They’re evil, I tells ya. Hope. It was the Neil Diamond tribute band, trying to frame Kool and the Gang tribute band, and get them out of the way. ---
**Author:** ![Campion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@Campion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Campion)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2005, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-building-is-locked-down/307543/38 "2005-06-10T01:55:02Z")
> [@Casey1505](#): > > They don’t take litter lightly where you live, do they? In fairness, it was a pretty _suspicious-looking_ box. Apparently. **Stranger**? Wow. I knew apartments downtown were small, but, really. ---
**Author:** ![Atheist\_Princess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e57/32.png) [@Atheist\_Princess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atheist_Princess)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2005, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-building-is-locked-down/307543/39 "2005-06-10T02:00:49Z")
Use away my friends, use away 😃 Hey man, your house looks kinda like my garage :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2005, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-building-is-locked-down/307543/40 "2005-06-10T02:35:52Z")
> [@Campion](#): > > In fairness, it was a pretty _suspicious-looking_ box. Apparently. Heretofore to be referred to as “the alleged box”. > [@Campion](#): > > **Stranger**? Wow. I knew apartments downtown were small, but, really. Naw, I’m over a bit to the east; I actually have a pretty good situation with my place on a nice, quiet street within staggering distance to Old Town, even if the house it’s in is one of those ramshackle “lets ram a bunch of houses together and then divide them up into aparments” deals. But those Holly Street apartments…not much bigger than a fridge box, yeah. Stranger [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-building-is-locked-down/307543.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-building-is-locked-down/307543.md?page=3)