Potential threat of snipers

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Does anyone else always close curtains/blinds before turning on lights in a dark room just in case there's a sniper lurking outside? I'm not a woman who's likely to have a hit on me, but I feel like it's a sensible thing to do nonetheless.

No. That would be silly.

I do rely on on my duvet to protect against chainsaws though.

God MN is on fire tonight! Another brilliant thread.

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What is it about snipers' willies that should scare me?

"walking my dog" ... 🤔

You're a sniper, aren't you?
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I point all my IKEA directional and task lighting out of the window to dazzle them.

I read this as potential threat of spiders and was about to start to panic imagining an army of spiders making their way over here lead by Aragog snipers you say? That's fine comparered to that alternative!

WHAT

I’ve seen it! Wouldn’t mind the actor outside my window though 🙈

Nah, it’s not snipers you need to worry about. Too far-fetched. No, it’s so the serial killer lurking in the garden can’t see in to stake you out before he breaks in. I’ve seen Manhunter. I know the score.

Well yes of course. That's why I run everywhere in a zigzag.

No 😆 but I won’t put my hand out of the window to close it at night for fear of the (incredibly patient) murderer waiting to grab me (even though he could have just climbed in). And obviously I don’t flush the loo late at night for fear of summoning the ghouls.

Very far fetched, to be scared of snipers and murderers, you lot.

It's all the ghosts that are waiting to come out the minute I turn off the lights that are the problem.

Snipers willies? 🤔

My bedside lightbulb has just blown tonight, and so I obviously can't get out of bed to go to the loo because there's definitely a murderer on the landing waiting for me.

Is no-one worried about the wild boars?
A woman in northern Spain was killed in her own flat by hunters earlier this year. They kill and maim people every year, usually other hunters but there are always a couple of passers by. This past January they surpassed themselves by shooting the poor woman through her window. They then had a spokesman repeat the usual line about how they're doing a service by killing wild boars, which are a menace to society. That gave rise to a lot of jokes on Twitter noting the bitter irony of shooting people to save them from wild boars.

That's bloody daft. Of course there are no snipers - honestly.

It's the monsters waiting to eat uncovered toes you should be worrying about.

I think I must too! I once slept through a chainsaw cutting the top of a tree right outside my bedroom window!!

I'd be fucked if there was a sniper! Anyway I thought snipers were associated with the likes of Lebanon and Belfast in the 60s-80s?

I've always been way more worried about the monsters under my bed! (I have a divan, but same difference!)

I was working at night by a window (in a lonely building) once when I saw a red laser sight flicker over my computer screen and across my body. Of course, I think SNIPER! but it most likely some creep playing with a laser pointer. 😂

No I don’t. But I am convinced my house was built for the purposes of war. It pops into my head atleast 3 or 4 times a week.

Built early 1930s as a custom build bought during sales for standard semi plot. the foyer is triple brick bond - cavity - triple brick bond. Surrounded by 3 chimney stacks and double bond internal brick walls. With sniper slots situated to look up and down the street.

The price to build the house in 1930s was nearly 40k. It’s a paradox. There has to be a reason someone went to that much effort.

And it’s certainly given the internet men a laugh trying to get their drills through.

Our cheap, plastic curtain rail tended to cause the curtains to judder and jam and so we no longer even try to close them now.

Consequently, once it is dark, we all crawl about below the window sill level. It is actually quite convivial when you meet other family members slinking along, rather like dogs meeting I suppose - but without the sniffing.

There is the added bonus of finding things that have thought to have been lost, for example, an earring, a cream cracker, a teaspoon and on one occasion a rather rude Lego Minifigure.

Of course, adapt as we now are at moving around on our hands and knees, gardening knee pads are the order of the day once the sun goes down.

No. I can't be arsed to shut my curtains unless I'm getting naked in the room, and even the I sometimes can't be bothered if I'm going to be quick about it. Sniper or no sniper.

Blown, you say?

Are you sure it wasn't shot at by a sniper?

Are you related to Bob Mortimer’s friend Gary Cheeseman aka snipers dream on account of his large head?

You are wrong sorry, the murderers love hedges, they hide in them!

You're much more in danger if you hedges.

Bank holiday job is to remove hedges!

I'm more concerned with lurking serial killers but snipers have crossed my mind and yes, I shut curtains so they can't shoot me in the head for absolutely no reason.