It's Not What It Looks Like!Cawl wrote two years ago, "People seem to have a knack for walking in at just the wrong time:
"Well, my clothes got wet, so did his... Yes, officer, huddling together to conserve body heat... Yes officer, he's five... No Officer... I'm not his Dad."
What have you done that, in retrospect, you'd really rather nobody had seen, mostly as things just get worse the more you try to explain it?
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chthonic, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 21:56)
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A bloke I knowis a builder/decorator/landlord sort of person. He buys knackered old houses cheap, fixes them up and rents them out.
About 10 years ago, he bought a large house for about £15k cash. Spent another £15k doing it up and then decided to move in with his family. The place is now worth about 6 times what he's spent on it.
Anyway, being an old house, it doesn't sit on a concrete slab foundation like newer houses are, and as such has a sub-floor void. If you take the floor up, there's a 30" drop and then just the bare earth.
In that crawl-space beneath the front room, there are three piles of earth about 6ft long and maybe 3ft wide. Each one is headed by a small wooden cross with some illegible scrawl on it. I imagine, they'll be living in that house for at least another 30 years, then one of their kids may take it. There's a good chance it could be anywhere up to 80 years before that floor needs to be taken up by some workman or other, who will discover what look like 3 shallow graves.
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sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 9:29,
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sowhat are they then?
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Just piles of earthnothing under them. Not to my knowledge anyway
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sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 10:46,
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oicI have similar piles of earth in my garden, but they contain flowers and a hedge....
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Quagaar warriors, perhaps?(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 17:47, closed)
ahathe old "fake grave for a joke" method of hiding the bodies.
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Need to contain a time capsule or some other amusementAssuming the cops get called in in 2100 to dig them up, it seems a pity if they don't contain a biscuit tin or glass bottle of memorabilia or something interesting to justify all that forensics. Maybe even a bottle of whisky or something. Maybe they'd still be pissed off on one level but I think they'd appreciate the joke. Unless the bits aren't buried along with dismembered bodies.
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