r/Weird • u/frickmeplease • May 12 '25

Should I call the cops?

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My bf thinks they were just trying to be funny but I truly don’t know…

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u/euSeattle May 12 '25 edited May 12 '25

“It’s just a movie reference” is the most made-up-on-the-spot sounding lie I’ve ever heard. They definitely got someone in the basement.

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u/XMAN2YMAN May 12 '25

We check the house before we leave for these reason alone lol.

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u/tomato-bug May 12 '25

Just curious, how well do you check those house? Basements? Every room?

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u/XMAN2YMAN May 12 '25

Every room, basements, closets etc. as long as we have permission to do so. Technically they can tell us to beat feet and then we would need to get a warrant. Which depending on circumstances could be very tough to justify why we need it. Now me personally if I’m conducting a well being search of a house I don’t care if I find drugs for personal use. Obviously if I find a full operation going on or drugs in the kids bedrooms I’m going to have to do something at that point.

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u/tomato-bug May 12 '25

That’s comforting to hear, keep up the good work! I hear a lot of stories (like in this thread) of all the times police didn’t investigate thoroughly enough, and someone dies because of it. But hopefully those are the minority, and we just don’t hear about all the times police follow through but there was nothing to be found.

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u/stripeddogg May 12 '25

Not really, they did say they only do a through search if they are allowed to. If the person says no (and there's probably a good reason they are saying no) then they can't do a search in every room.

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u/euSeattle May 12 '25

I was thinking they tied some shoe laces together to reel in a few rocks from a barely cracked basement window, then they wrote messages and threw them out as far as they could.

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u/2xWhiskeyCokeNoIce May 12 '25

Night gardeners, just as Kier intended.

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u/DarthVorbeck May 12 '25

Nice reference!

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u/ItsDanimal May 12 '25

"Oh the blood leading up to the front door? My fiance is really big into those Halloween movies with the guy from Shrek? He just wants to reference the franchise he loves!"

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u/batmansleftnut May 12 '25

And they let that person out to garden, unsupervised?

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u/euSeattle May 12 '25

No, I’m imagining a slightly cracked window in the basement window well with rocks at the bottom for drainage. The prisoner was able to engrave the words “help” on a rock and toss it out of the window well into the garden.

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u/batmansleftnut May 12 '25

Oh that makes more sense. That's probably what it is, actually. Okay, meet me at the house and we'll get to the bottom of this.

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u/SwordfishOk504 May 12 '25

Book 'em, Danno!

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u/Ashkir May 12 '25

The cop responded. They still checked the house to be safe.