# There Goes the Neighborhood: How do Creepers Find Themselves in Nice Neighborhoods **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 16, 2012, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-goes-the-neighborhood-how-do-creepers-find-themselves-in-nice-neighborhoods/637887 "2012-10-16T14:39:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2012, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-goes-the-neighborhood-how-do-creepers-find-themselves-in-nice-neighborhoods/637887/21 "2012-10-16T18:31:45Z")
> [@Inner\_Stickler](#): > > If they’re that distracting, just turn the setting to Peaceful. There’s an app for that. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2012, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-goes-the-neighborhood-how-do-creepers-find-themselves-in-nice-neighborhoods/637887/22 "2012-10-16T18:32:10Z")
> [@Diamonds02](#): > > …Church’s Chicken… What? No Church’s Chicken? What kind of shit hole do you live in? ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2012, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-goes-the-neighborhood-how-do-creepers-find-themselves-in-nice-neighborhoods/637887/23 "2012-10-16T18:50:21Z")
> [@Sicks\_Ate](#): > > Outside a Wal-Mart?!?! :dubious: I was hanging out in front of Wal-Mart before it was cool to do so. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2012, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-goes-the-neighborhood-how-do-creepers-find-themselves-in-nice-neighborhoods/637887/24 "2012-10-16T18:57:57Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > I was hanging out in front of Wal-Mart before it was cool to do so. Sometime this morning, probably. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2012, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-goes-the-neighborhood-how-do-creepers-find-themselves-in-nice-neighborhoods/637887/25 "2012-10-16T19:02:36Z")
Could be just about any time. ---
**Author:** ![Diamonds02](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5a626/32.png) [@Diamonds02](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diamonds02)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2012, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-goes-the-neighborhood-how-do-creepers-find-themselves-in-nice-neighborhoods/637887/26 "2012-10-17T19:31:16Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Yelp? Would such people care about yelp? People use Yelp to find restaurants that serve things such as pizza with pesto and Amish-raised roasted chicken and pubs that serve craft brews such as Arrogant Bastard Ale. > [@Alice\_The\_Goon](#): > > They’re staying with their sister’s boss’s cousin’s friend’s mom? Yep. I can’t forget the bums who like to couch surf. 😃 > [@sahirrnee](#): > > light rail In some places, yeah. In other places, there is no light rail stops near. > [@Sicks\_Ate](#): > > They found in while they were delivering papers, and decided it’d be a nice place to return during their ‘off’ hours? That’s true. Even in my case. Before I started delivering pizzas and such, I had no idea about certain very nice areas. > [@MichaelEmouse](#): > > Simple: you’re the elite scout pathfinder to the creeper army. > > Your role is to be ahead of them, finding new territory for them to assault and then consolidate with liquor stores, affordable housing, White Castle and Church’s Chicken, pawn shops and hole in the wall dive bar. When they catch up to your location, it’s your cue that you’ve done your work and it’s time to infiltrate the next location to be invaded by the main force. You sir, win this thread! 🙂 > [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > If your neighborhood has a Wal-Mart, it’s not nice. Not since they’ve been building these new super centers that have everything except a dentist and planned parenthood office, trying to compete with Tar-jay. > [@Lukeinva](#): > > What about check-cashing places. Are you okay with those? Oops I forgot that one! Also, I shall add those places that buy [stolen] gold. ---
**Author:** ![Living\_Well\_Is\_Best\_Revenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@Living\_Well\_Is\_Best\_Revenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Living_Well_Is_Best_Revenge)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2012, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-goes-the-neighborhood-how-do-creepers-find-themselves-in-nice-neighborhoods/637887/27 "2012-10-17T19:43:09Z")
Diamonds made me laugh actually: “Arrogant Bastard Ale” ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2012, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-goes-the-neighborhood-how-do-creepers-find-themselves-in-nice-neighborhoods/637887/28 "2012-10-17T19:54:20Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > If your neighborhood has a Wal-Mart, it’s not nice. We have a Walmart within the statistically defined neighborhood. In other words, it’s way over yonder but because it exists within the same zip code that means we are in a same crime reporting area. We measure creep by the number of Walmart shopping carts we find abandoned, how how far away from Walmart when abandoned, and how close to our enclave. Of course, when the wind blows just right in late summer, I’m not sure if the smell is coming from the papermill 20 miles away, or Walmart. ---
**Author:** ![Lukeinva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lukeinva/32/17872_2.png) [@Lukeinva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lukeinva)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2012, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-goes-the-neighborhood-how-do-creepers-find-themselves-in-nice-neighborhoods/637887/29 "2012-10-17T20:04:57Z")
> [@Living\_Well\_Is\_Best\_Revenge](#): > > Diamonds made me laugh actually: “Arrogant Bastard Ale” [Arrogant Bastard Ale](http://www.stonebrew.com/arrogantbastard/) ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2012, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-goes-the-neighborhood-how-do-creepers-find-themselves-in-nice-neighborhoods/637887/30 "2012-10-17T20:11:06Z")
> [@Lukeinva](#): > > [Arrogant Bastard Ale](http://www.stonebrew.com/arrogantbastard/) Awesome! “Perhaps you think multi-million dollar ad campaigns make things taste better. Perhaps you’re mouthing your words as you read this.” ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2012, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-goes-the-neighborhood-how-do-creepers-find-themselves-in-nice-neighborhoods/637887/31 "2012-10-17T20:18:27Z")
> [@Diamonds02](#): > > Would such people care about yelp? People use Yelp to find restaurants that serve things such as pizza with pesto and Amish-raised roasted chicken and pubs that serve craft brews such as Arrogant Bastard Ale. A whole subset of yelp deals with things like car washes, handjobs, and pine tar. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2012, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-goes-the-neighborhood-how-do-creepers-find-themselves-in-nice-neighborhoods/637887/32 "2012-10-17T20:21:00Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > A whole subset of yelp deals with things like car washes, handjobs, and pine tar. At the same time? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2012, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-goes-the-neighborhood-how-do-creepers-find-themselves-in-nice-neighborhoods/637887/33 "2012-10-17T20:35:42Z")
It’s amazing to get this view into what it’s like in the Land of Stereotypes. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2012, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-goes-the-neighborhood-how-do-creepers-find-themselves-in-nice-neighborhoods/637887/34 "2012-10-17T20:48:30Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > A whole subset of yelp deals with things like car washes, handjobs, and pine tar. > [@tdn](#): > > At the same time? :eek: I don’t think that I’d want a pine tar handjob. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2012, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-goes-the-neighborhood-how-do-creepers-find-themselves-in-nice-neighborhoods/637887/35 "2012-10-18T00:39:03Z")
> [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](#): > > I don’t think that I’d want a pine tar handjob. YMMV area, I’d bet. But yeah, no Clemente for me, thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2012, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-goes-the-neighborhood-how-do-creepers-find-themselves-in-nice-neighborhoods/637887/36 "2012-10-18T00:53:17Z")
> [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](#): > > I don’t think that I’d want a pine tar handjob. But admit it. You’d really need to go through a car wash afterwards. ---
**Author:** ![the\_diego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@the\_diego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_diego)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2012, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-goes-the-neighborhood-how-do-creepers-find-themselves-in-nice-neighborhoods/637887/37 "2012-10-18T03:44:55Z")
My mother’s hometown had a creeper who entered chicken coops and stole both eggs and chickens. Went like that for generations and no one got caught. ---
**Author:** ![grude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47774/32.png) [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2012, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-goes-the-neighborhood-how-do-creepers-find-themselves-in-nice-neighborhoods/637887/38 "2012-10-18T05:24:27Z")
Huh? The use of creeper in the OP confuses me, I’ve always taken it to mean someone who is creepy in a sexual way but not all the way to criminal. Like a grown man complimenting middle school girls on their developing bodies or something, ugh goddamn a fucking creeper. ---
**Author:** ![GreenElf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9de053/32.png) [@GreenElf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreenElf)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2012, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-goes-the-neighborhood-how-do-creepers-find-themselves-in-nice-neighborhoods/637887/39 "2012-10-19T14:54:16Z")
Maybe they just won the lottery, so they can afford to live in your nice neighborhood. ---
**Author:** ![Death\_of\_Rats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a6a055/32.png) [@Death\_of\_Rats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Death_of_Rats)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2012, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-goes-the-neighborhood-how-do-creepers-find-themselves-in-nice-neighborhoods/637887/40 "2012-10-19T18:45:23Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > A whole subset of yelp deals with things like car washes, handjobs, and pine tar. > [@tdn](#): > > At the same time? :eek: I need to get on yelp more often. And then hang around **Diamonds** ’ local Walmart [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-goes-the-neighborhood-how-do-creepers-find-themselves-in-nice-neighborhoods/637887.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-goes-the-neighborhood-how-do-creepers-find-themselves-in-nice-neighborhoods/637887.md?page=3)