Look inside their house!

[BattyBettysBiccy]

The husband and wife team, Mark and Patricia McCloskey, are both personal injury lawyers. They were in the news a couple of days ago because they held guns up to a group of protesters in Missouri.
This is the inside of their house/mansion

[MiddleClassProblem]

Does their fruit bowl have a stuffed fox on top?

[nettie434]

They are in a gated community now Timeandtune. That's why they justified taking their guns out when the protesters broke the gate because they said it was trespass. All I can say is that if being a personal injury lawyer is that profitable, then there is something wrong with the legal system.

Totally off thread, but it was only when I saw the film Meet Me in St Louis that I realised what a wealthy city St Louis was in 1890. A fake Palladian mansion then would have been bit like a 5 bedroom detached house today. And that is only a slight exaggeration, not forgetting there was also great inequality.

[Zaphodsotherhead]

It's like a palazzo crashed into Versailles and the rubble formed a 1900's Dower house as it fell.

With just a touch of Ikea.

[FizzyGreenWater]

Lol! It looks like it was built in 2007. Like a terrible pastiche. Nice and big though!

[Terralee]

This is them with guns. Unbelievable scene.

[Timeandtune]

Thanks Nettie. I had no idea about the gated community thing.

[ShowOfHands]

They're awful people but I love to poke around in their home. They clearly just go for whatever is expensive and looks like it's from a different era, fuck knows which era apparently but it's classy innit.

[ConstanceSalinger]

I think I'd be frightened if protesters broke down a gate and came protesting up a private road.

He made a statement that the only reason the protestors didn't approach his house was because they had guns.

The protestors said they were being peaceful and the gate was already broken.

Who knows. We've seen some strange things from America in tthe last few weeks. Everything from Joe Exotic to Trump and everything in between.

[nettie434]

Accounts of what happened definitely differ. The protesters were walking by their property on theIr way to protest outside the Mayor's house but we know from the shooting of Trayvon Martin that just walking inside a gated community (he was visiting relatives) can be fatal. I can't tell but some people have been saying on social media that they were not holding their guns safely.

Mark McCloskey has said that it was like the storming of the Bastille but he also represented someone who took out a civil lawsuit against a police officer for police brutality.

I keep on thinking how we would react here if two high profile lawyers were photographed pointing guns against protesters.

Apparently lots of pieces in the house are genuine, not reproduction. They just don't come from the same era or location!

[TheGoldenApplesOfTheSun]

Looks like they have a McMansion, architectural curse of the US:
mcmansionhell.com/101

The no garden, right on the street thing is so the mansion can sprawl and take up as much of the lot as possible with its many italianate TV rooms and extra kitchens.

Sounds about right. Assholes tend to have terrible taste.

@ConstanceSalinger Apparently the lawyers "feared for their lives" but given they were the only ones openly threatening to murder other people by pointing deadly weapons at them, let's maybe not strain to see both sides of this issue? The road is private because they live in a gated white community. The protesters were headed for the Mayor's house, in the same gated community, because she had just published the names and addresses of multiple constituents who wrote to her with their concerns just ahead of a local KKK rally (handy!). She later apologised - woops, butterfingers! The protesters were just passing by the lawyers' McMansion. www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2020/06/29/St-Louis-couple-point-guns-at-protesters/3121593457001/

America's racism problem is embarrassingly apparent at the moment...

[TheGoldenApplesOfTheSun]

My personal favourite item from their house is the pheasant-atop-a-stack-of-scones display. Do you think the scones are edible??

[HotMessTryNotToStress]

Disgusting tacky people!

What’s the betting if that was an African American man stood outside his house with a gun like that he’d be surrounded by a Swat team and dead within seconds?

[Davodia]

The news said the protestors were trespassing on private property and making threats of violence. I don’t particularly like the style of their house but I do think they’re entitled to live there in peace.

[DuineArBith]

@Davodia

The news said the protestors were trespassing on private property and making threats of violence. I don’t particularly like the style of their house but I do think they’re entitled to live there in peace.

But no-one else within the gated community felt it necessary to go out with guns and threaten the people walking past to another destination, so frankly I'd take that one with a massive pinch of salt.

[FizzyGreenWater]

I don’t particularly like the style of their house but I do think they’re entitled to live there in peace.

I can't imagine anyone who would choose a house like that to have ever known true peace.

[TiddlestheCat]

I like it. I don't think that it's vulgar. It's been done sympathetically using antiques of the time. You're allowed to defend your property in the US. I have no problems with them warning to protestors to keep on moving. They were clear with their instructions and weren't aggressively pointing them at individuals. They should be allowed to live their lives in peace and not be targeted simply because they are very wealthy.

[1Pinkfluffyelephant]

All I thought looking at that was it is definitely haunted

[veryvery]

I think the house looks attractive in its own way. Not my own personal style, though. And I certainly don't agree with threatening people with guns like they did. It's sad that their property and protection of it has lead them to the degree of fear that they would sink to the level they have.

[veryvery]

It's one of the reasons I would be very reticent about living anywhere where there is a huge sociopath economic gap. People that are successful are also very fearful that their wealth makes them a target.

[veryvery]

Socio not sociopath. Auto correct fail!

[SunbathingDragon]

I agree with a PP that they probably have a few rooms they live in and those ones don’t look anything like the ones pictured.

[DuineArBith]

I like it. I don't think that it's vulgar. It's been done sympathetically using antiques of the time.

No, it hasn't. It's a house built in the 1890s trying and failing to pretend to be a Renaissance (i.e. 15th/16th century) house in a country which didn't have a renaissance.

You're allowed to defend your property in the US.

You're allowed to defend your property in the UK. But the point is here that they weren't defending it, because it wasn't being attacked.

I have no problems with them warning to protestors to keep on moving. They were clear with their instructions and weren't aggressively pointing them at individuals.

Seriously? So, if you were in the US exercising your lawful right to walk to a particular address in order to protest, you would be perfectly happy with perfect strangers waving a gun at you when you did not pose any threat to them? It's utterly irrelevant that you claim they were not being pointed at individuals: they had in their possession something that was capable of killing people whether it was being pointed at them a moment beforehand or not.

[ConstanceSalinger]

It's utterly irrelevant that you claim they were not being pointed at individuals: they had in their possession something that was capable of killing people whether it was being pointed at them a moment beforehand or not

The internet suggests that potentially 88 out of 100 people in America have a gun. I quite agree that in the UK it would be shocking but in America it is much more accepted that there's guns everywhere.

[RJnomore1]

It’s the house that Scarlett Ohara built!

[echodot]

The names Karen. Double 0 Karen