# Why take the stuf in the house?  Just take the damn house itself!

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**Created:** [March 24, 2005, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-take-the-stuf-in-the-house-just-take-the-damn-house-itself/296063 "2005-03-24T17:19:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2005, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-take-the-stuf-in-the-house-just-take-the-damn-house-itself/296063/1 "2005-03-24T17:19:13Z")

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[Linkity-link](http://www.tylerpaper.com/site/news.cfm?BRD=1994&dept_id=341384&newsid=14200839&PAG=461&rfi=9)

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> LINDALE - Board by board, shingle by shingle, for nearly three months, they dismantled the three-bedroom brick house and carted it away until only a pile of rubble was left.

Honestly, I’m bewildered. How can the people living there not notice the house next door is being taken away? Yeah, when it started you can assume it’s normal demolition, but after a motnh and only some bricks and shingles are gone, you got to start thinking something is up.

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**Author:** ![Jaade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/dfb087/32.png) [@Jaade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaade)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2005, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-take-the-stuf-in-the-house-just-take-the-damn-house-itself/296063/2 "2005-03-24T18:26:47Z")

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Ask some other Texans. Tyler, Texas. An interesting place, if the people I’ve spoken to from that communtiy are any indication. (Of course, those were all people we were trying to put in jail, so perhaps mine is not the best opinion.)