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| How would you hide a person in your home? | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Apr 28 2018, 03:24 PM (328 Views) | |
| Klaus | Apr 28 2018, 03:24 PM Post #1 |
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Imagine you are in a “must hide a Jew from the Nazis” like situation, I.e. you have to hide somebody for a long period of time, but any moment somebody may come in and search your home, and if the person is found, that person and you are likely dead. How would you organize that? |
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| Kincaid | Apr 28 2018, 03:34 PM Post #2 |
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Our master bedroom has a little "bump out" where we have a small book case, an antique chair, and a little table - for a little reading spot. I think we would put in a false book case from floor to ceiling. Would not offer much hiding space but it would be sufficient to hide in while the house is being searched. |
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| MainerMikeBrown | Apr 28 2018, 03:49 PM Post #3 |
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Fortunately for me I'd never have to hide anyone in my house since I don't live in World War Two Europe where my country is occupied by the Nazis. |
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| Mark | Apr 28 2018, 04:10 PM Post #4 |
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I could do it. And knowing that a search would most likely end in torture and death, I am armed to the teeth and will take out as many Nazi bastards as I can, before I leave this world. |
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| Horace | Apr 28 2018, 04:11 PM Post #5 |
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Dave Chappelle has a bit about this. Something about hide it in your books. |
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| Axtremus | Apr 28 2018, 04:16 PM Post #6 |
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I do not have any hiding place that would get the job done. |
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| Rainman | Apr 28 2018, 04:18 PM Post #7 |
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Interesting mind game. I thought about it. Nothing. There would be no place to hide that someone searching (or their trained dog) could not find. To be safe, I'd hide someone at my neighbor's house. |
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| Luke's Dad | Apr 28 2018, 04:22 PM Post #8 |
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Will they hear my chainsaw? |
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| brenda | Apr 28 2018, 04:22 PM Post #9 |
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Yes, I think we could also do a false wall type of thing in a couple rooms, the new office and the library. Could perhaps do something in the basement, too. And then there's the second floor of the garage. We have two workshops there, his-n-hers, and another false wall might work. |
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| jon-nyc | Apr 28 2018, 04:29 PM Post #10 |
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Grind ‘em up and put them in the freezer. |
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| Copper | Apr 28 2018, 05:30 PM Post #11 |
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I would put them in the inmost recesses of the catacombs. Then simply provide them with food and drink and build a brick wall around their position. I'm sure fortune would smile on us. |
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| bachophile | Apr 28 2018, 06:29 PM Post #12 |
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I promise not to eat too much or make noise |
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| Mikhailoh | Apr 28 2018, 06:59 PM Post #13 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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Your eating standards though... tough to keep up with. |
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| Riley | Apr 28 2018, 07:42 PM Post #14 |
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Umm people probably said the same thing in 1938. |
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| Luke's Dad | Apr 28 2018, 07:56 PM Post #15 |
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I've got a teenage son. All I have to do is send them into his bedroom. They'll never be found. |
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| bachophile | Apr 28 2018, 09:28 PM Post #16 |
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Hide me in the wine cellar. And hope the war lasts a good long time. |
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| jon-nyc | Apr 29 2018, 01:57 AM Post #17 |
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Don’t laugh, no one’s found my ex-wives, and they’ve been looking for 20 years. |
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| Klaus | Apr 29 2018, 02:29 AM Post #18 |
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False walls are ok, but isn’t the weak spot how to hide the entrance? Also, how would one defend against modern technology, such as co2 detectors, x-rays etc.? Let’s assume you have time to prepare to, say, build secret rooms or holes or whatnot. |
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| Davis | Apr 29 2018, 03:48 AM Post #19 |
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Tunnel and cave. It’s done all the time. |
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| brenda | Apr 29 2018, 04:42 AM Post #20 |
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That's the reason the office and library would be good. We plan to add built-in bookcases to a couple of walls. A section of the case could also serve as the entry. The new office has a huge closet/storage area, and part has shelves. Build the room behind the shelves. The detection tools today would certainly be the challenge. Bach recently posted about a device to see through walls. I don't have the background to know how to make the space undetectable to the latest technology, but if there's enough time, I could find out. The next challenge would be how to not be caught acquiring the materials to make the space undetectable. Accessing the materials and arranging payment for them are both problems to solve. Neither one can be visible in any way. I see those two aspects as even more challenging. |
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| brenda | Apr 29 2018, 04:44 AM Post #21 |
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Use the excess soil to make a new raised bed garden.
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| George K | Apr 29 2018, 05:10 AM Post #22 |
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I think I've posted this before. One of the surgeons I worked with ended up buying Tony Accardo's house. It had at least one secret room that they discovered only after living there for a few months. The entrance was through a closet. It had a basement, as well a sub-basement, which had an exit into the backyard via a ladder. In the subbasement was a vault, bank-style, into which you could walk. The house was a four bedroom ranch - and 9500 square feet. ![]() Of course, this was built in 1963, iirc, and today's detection methods would make a lot of that stuff useless. Oh, also, supposedly the architect suddenly disappeared after the place was built. |
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| brenda | Apr 29 2018, 05:19 AM Post #23 |
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Funny, I was just thinking about tunneling under the crawl space of the new addition. Access could be either in the basement of the original part of the house by using the old stone steps and former bulkhead entry that connects the original basement to the crawl space, or from the office closet. Not as fancy as your example, George, but somewhat comparable in concept. |
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| Axtremus | Apr 29 2018, 05:56 AM Post #24 |
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I got it! We can hide some one in the transporter’s pattern buffer! |
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| Copper | Apr 29 2018, 07:36 AM Post #25 |
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Shortstop
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XK8CfyAlIYY |
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