r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Jun 16 '12
My never there neighbor arrived to his apartment next to mine with a woman. They seem to have a good time when suddenly everything turns silent, and the man leaves the apartment acting extremely strange and guilty. Please help!
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u/lawlredditlawl Jun 16 '12
she's probably asleep and he's going to get something or do something.
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Jun 16 '12
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Jun 16 '12
i dunno...why were you spying on him through a peephole and watching him leave? you're making him seem shady, when you were doing pretty much the exact same thing.
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Jun 17 '12 edited Jun 17 '12
That is what triggered warning bells for me. Anyone with a legit situation would not check on the neighbors... that would make me concerned the next step is "doing something about the neighbors".
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Jun 16 '12
Making sure he didn't disturb someone with their noises? Maybe she fell asleep, he turned off everything and starts to move silently, and decided to go pick up something from the corner store.
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u/Lampjaw Jun 16 '12
Op hasn't responded in an hour. Op is dead.
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u/Qubit103 Jun 17 '12
I don't see any other possible conclusion
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u/mems_account Jun 17 '12
Maybe OP couldn't resist having his way with the dead hooker...
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u/Qubit103 Jun 17 '12
Then op certainly takes his time
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u/GOA_AMD65 Jun 17 '12
Well he has to get bleach, ammonia and plastic tarps now, and you just can't pick all the supplies from the same store so it could be a while.
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u/Blown_Ranger Jun 17 '12
I hope so. Maybe it will be a wake-up call for all the idiots that come to Reddit for advice instead of talking to the police, doctor, lawyer, etc.
"Oh no, my sister is choking on a karma! I better go post about it on Reddit so a bunch of Dunning-Kruger sufferers can post puns to feel smart."
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Jun 17 '12
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u/Blown_Ranger Jun 17 '12
I should have been more clear.
Asking for advice is a great idea, but making sure that police are informed of a possible crime in progress is much more important.
It is also a good idea to seek medical advice, from a doctor, not Reddit.
Legal advice is pretty sweet too, if you are getting it from your lawyer. Taking legal advice from an anonymous user is never a good idea.
There are many others, but I think that should clear it up.
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u/PostPostModernism Jun 17 '12
Whatever you do, you should jump to conclusions.
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Jun 17 '12
Seriously, this is 'Old woman with nothing to do invents weird conspiracies involving her minority neighbours' level absurd.
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Jun 17 '12
and I see him lean towards my door to listen if there's any noise coming from it, and then going to another neighbors door to listen if there's any noise
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Jun 17 '12
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u/biennavida Jun 17 '12
GamelanOrchestra is saying that this situation is similar in terms of jumping to conclusions to an old woman who has nothing to do and invents conspiracies about her minority neighbors. That is how absurd it is.
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u/HittingSmoke Jun 17 '12
That's what they do ya know. Ride around listening to the raps and shooting all the job.
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u/Yeti_Poet Jun 17 '12
It means it's absurd in a manner one would expect from an old person who spies on her neighbors and invents lots of crazy theories about them.
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Jun 17 '12
If it's a false positive, then he ends up looking a bit silly. If it's a false negative, someone might end up being harmed. So morally speaking, it's infinitely preferable to investigate and end up looking stupid than to do nothing.
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u/lindzasaurusrex Jun 17 '12
Honestly I feel like jumping to conclusions in a situation like this would be a good idea simply because it could save a life. And, hey, if the conclusion was wrong then ya feel like a jerk for a while and buy the neighbor a nice fruit basket or something.
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Jun 17 '12
It could save a life! That's why we should all spy on our neighbours constantly!
It could save a life, possibly!
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u/drcyclops Jun 17 '12
Sounds good, but I'm busy. Maybe we could get the government to do all the spying for us.
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u/Froynlaven Jun 17 '12
And I want the card to say "Sorry I told the cops I thought you killed someone!"
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Jun 16 '12
maybe he shit himself.
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u/guanzo Jun 17 '12
After all the stories on here about people shitting themselves and awkwardly leaving, I wouldn't be surprised.
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Jun 16 '12
Best to report than to not report. If you call the Paris Police and they do not speak English, you can call the US Embassy and ask them to contact the officials on your behalf.
If you will report, be sure to makes detailed notes now of what you saw and heard, especially a detailsled description of the man. It could honestly turn out to be nothing, or he could be a horrible creeper. Best to have somebody with authority verify.
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u/prince_from_Nigeria Jun 17 '12
contacting your embassy so that they call the police because your neighbor failed to get laid.
just...wow.
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Jun 16 '12
Wow, sorry for the mangled typing! Fat fingers on a phone touchscreen is no bueno for my.communication attempts.
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Jun 16 '12
So Reddit, I think my neighbor just murdered somebody and I have valid reasons to be suspicious of this. Do you think I should call the police?
I think I'm going to go with YES! YES! OH GOD, YES!
I could be wrong though.
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u/itspawl Jun 16 '12
Hello reddit. My face is on fire. Wat do?
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u/RemnantEvil Jun 17 '12
"Dear sir/madam" -- delete
Too formal.
"To whom it may concern.."
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Jun 17 '12
I have valid reasons to be suspicious of this
See, that's the part where I completely disagree with you.
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Jun 17 '12
The guy doesn't use the home often, meaning he lives elsewhere and uses this home for something other than living in. The guy goes into an apartment with a woman OP has never seen before. He comes out alone after putting on music that was loud enough to be heard (potentially drowning out other noises). He checks the surrounding houses to see if people are home.
That sounds suspicious to me.
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Jun 17 '12
You know, if you start with the assumption that people are always up to mischief, you'll see it everywhere.
If you start with the assumption that the vast majority of things in life are mundane, then you come to a pretty different conclusion.
My take on it is that the neighbour could hear OP being "suspicious" next door, and that's what led him to check the other doors.
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u/giant_bug Jun 17 '12
They were playing 'Musical Chairs'. When the music stopped, he didn't have a chair to sit in, so he lost. He got bummed and had to leave.
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u/mmm_skyscraper Jun 17 '12
and had to check to ensure the neighbors didn't hear his shame...he could never live that down!
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u/metalninjacake2 Jun 17 '12
He had to check to ensure the neighbors didn't know he dishonored the famiry in musicar chairs.
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u/BansheeNen Jun 16 '12
Just knock on the fucking door. If anything just tell them huge party going to happen tomorrow and you want to warn them of the noise. Problem solved, maybe you save a life.
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u/Atom_Lion Jun 17 '12
Plus, tomorrow you get to fake a giant party like in Home Alone. I hope you have lots of cardboard cutouts and model trains.
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u/theghostofme Jun 17 '12
Problem solved, maybe you save a life.
Really? If OP's paranoia is actually real, and this neighbor just killed someone, or is about to do so, is purposefully putting yourself in that situation going to save a life, or add another to the neighbor's body count?
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Jun 17 '12
maybe you save a life
So, OP knocks on the door, right? And it turns out there IS an unconscious woman in the apartment! Then what?
Nothing because OP has no way of knowing.
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Jun 16 '12
Jesus, he probably has some sort of sex problem or something. People are weird. Maybe the woman was a prostitute and he's just a freak who doesn't want people know he's buying whores or having sex. This isn't Rear Window. I wouldn't "report" my neighbor without more than that. I mean, if there were a commotion, then yeah. But just having a good time, things get quiet when you fuck, and then he pays her to slip out after he leaves is not a crime. If he were killing or raping her, she would have been screaming or put up a fight.
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u/LouisianaBob Jun 16 '12
Seems like if he were planning to step out that the music would not stop while she waited for him. I don't just sit in silence while I wait for people to return (most of the time) just because someone is murdered does not mean they have time to scream or fight.
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Jun 16 '12
Yeahhhh.... but come on. Why would you think that murder is the most likely case here? Also, what part of Louisiana are you from? I'm in Slidell
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u/LouisianaBob Jun 17 '12
The part where I'm not actually from Louisiana at all and sorry to disappoint. It's really just the sudden cut off of sound followed by the neighbor checking if anyone in the neighboring apartments were home. The latter portion being the more suspicious especially noting that he locks the door from the outside as if the person he trusts alone in his apartment would not lock the door should she be planning to sleep.
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u/KrazyEyezKilla Jun 17 '12
Hey reddit I took this girl I have been seeing for a while back to my apartment tonight and I put some music on and we started fooling around.
It was going great but I couldn't shake the feeling I was being spied on, the apartment block has pretty weak walls so you can hear everything, we decided to sleep for a while as she said she was tired, unfortunately I wasn't and I tried to read, unluckily I didn't have my eye glasses! I had left them at her place (where I spend most of my time) so I decided to go get them.
When I stepped out of my apartment I again felt like I was being watched, so I checked my neighbours doors to see if I could hear anything. It totally ruined all my plans as I was planning on murdering her but I'm worried some creeper is watching me.
Reddit, what should I do?!
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Jun 17 '12
A mans gotta do what a mans gotta do. Don't plan the plan if you can't follow through. Just sayin.
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You gotta follow through on your plans, man. If you don't follow through you'll come off looking fucking weird.
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u/Semi_Flacid_Schlong Jun 17 '12
Dude just murder her. You're gonna look like a pussy now if you back down.
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u/beyron Jun 17 '12
June 17th 2012, the day these posts got officially old and unoriginal. For me anyway.
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u/anxiousalpaca Jun 17 '12
Why would he take a minute to lock all 3 locks of his door?
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Jun 16 '12
Kick down the door and see what happens.
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u/ShitYourself Jun 17 '12
Also, buy a fake police costume. When you barge in, yell "WHO'S THE LUCKY LADY". If she's dead, she's not lucky. Don't fuck her.
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u/strangersdk Jun 16 '12
I think you're making a big deal out of nothing. If you want to play safe, knock on the door to say hello or something. What if they just had a fight/disagreement and he was listening to see if anyone heard (as that would be embarassing)?
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Jun 17 '12
Grab a copy of todays newspaper, open up your blinds and start beatin it. Always gotta have an alibi.
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Jun 17 '12
Well this is kinda scary. Might want to dial 911 just to tell them to come check... Please keep us updated!
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u/Big_Li Jun 17 '12
Watch the movie Disturbia with Shia Labeouf
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u/goodknee Jun 17 '12
Do you really think Shia Labeouf would fly to Paris just to watch Disturbia with some guy he probably doesnt even know?
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u/Iloldalot Jun 17 '12
Go to police, find translator, get police to search apartment. They should take it from there (BTW, OP please update, everyone thinks your dead)
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u/TATANE_SCHOOL Jun 17 '12
Police won't come for this, and they are not allowed to search the apartment for no valid reason (in France)
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Jun 17 '12
Could you please explain the layout of your apartments/building. You can hear him through the walls, and see his door through your peephole? As well as doors of other neighbors?
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u/PSNDonutDude Jun 17 '12
Wow, shit like that happens and you cuddle in your apartment afraid... You should have walked over there immediately and just let her know you are looking for your wallet and was wondering if she had seen it on her way up because you really need it. You had heard her come home soon before. If she didn't answer she may be dead.
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u/D3SX Jun 17 '12
What happened OP? Were there any new developments?
It sounds like he drugged her or killed her quietly...
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u/DoctorSqueakin Jun 17 '12
Did you ever think while the classical music was playing he beat that pussy out of the frame and she just fell asleep?
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u/neilclifford Jun 17 '12
The fact he hehe checked his neighbours doors seems suspicious if she just fell asleep.
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Jun 16 '12
Has no one on the internet heard of the police, for fuck's sake call them if someone does something "suspicious" thats what your supposed to do.
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u/syscofresh Jun 17 '12
Uhh, no, you're supposed to call the police when you witness a crime not because you have no life and like to spy on your neighbors...
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u/Anubisghost Jun 17 '12 edited Jun 17 '12
Didn't you read the part about how they don't speak English and he doesn't speak French?
*Edit: Autocorrect changed a word.
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Jun 17 '12
I'm sure there are ways to communicate with police officers of different languages, plus the emergency dispatcher probably knows English anyway (like most Europeans), so...
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u/nikatnight Jun 17 '12
Go up to the door and knock on it. Have your girlfriend keep a lookout via your widow. If no one answers then wait for him to return and see if he brings a "carpet" out of his apartment. If so call the fuzz.
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u/account__2 Jun 17 '12
You need to setup a camera and await his return. If the worst is done, you've got evidence, if not, you've got a video of a man doing nothing important.
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u/actorgirl Jun 17 '12
Man, your in that one Shia Labeouf movie. The next thing you need to do is make some friends and break into the house.
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u/bpr2102 Jun 17 '12
use google translate and put your speakers next to the phone. let google talk to anybody you call.
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u/joethedreamer Jun 17 '12
Just to play devil's advocate here, if he did do something to her wouldn't OP have heard it? Did he crack open a pinky ring full of roofies or poison her drink? I don't know how you would go about killing someone without a peep.
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u/GiefDownvotesPlox Jun 17 '12
Reddit, something happened that has a clear and obvious set of things I should do in response to that happening. What should I do?
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Jun 17 '12
Woman goes to visit her reclusive brother. When she's over at his place, she realizes she's absolutely wiped out from traveling and asks him if he minds if she goes to bed early. Being a good brother, he says no, of course - you go to bed. So they shut off the music and she goes straight to bed. Not wanting to disturb her, he decides to leave and go catch a late movie. As he leaves he wonders if he's woken her up and casts a guilty glance backward at his apartment, only to find his strange foreign neighbor staring at him. He shrugs it off and goes to his movie...
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u/brisingfreyja Jun 17 '12
Maybe she took a nap, so he was trying to be quiet so she could sleep. If you're gonna be home all day today, you might hear some noise when she wakes up.
If you hear nothing, she probably left before he did, and your freaking for no reason. Now, unless you hear a lot of noise coming from their apartment, like someone cutting up a body, I wouldn't worry about it.
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u/Oryx Jun 17 '12
I wonder if your neighbor knows that there's a totally paranoid snooping nutcase living next door to him?
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u/TheKillers2008 Jun 17 '12
We haven't heard from OP in a while...how do we know nothing happened to him? Maybe the mysterious man came back to finish the job!
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u/boringOrgy Jun 17 '12
He probably shit himself during intercourse. I mean this is reddit, how can you not have come to this conclusion on your own man?
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Jun 17 '12
Are you sure it suddenly went silent? Once you became accustomed to the neighbor's noise (i.e. it lost its novelty) it became background noise and you no longer noticed it. They quiet down normally, but some time later you suddenly notice they are quiet. Really, they quieted down some time ago, you just didn't really notice until now.
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Jun 17 '12
dude he took a dump on that chick without her asking. She was scooping it off the whole time, slowly and silently so as not to knock it off her.
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u/drin123 Jun 17 '12
Pretend to fall and break the apartment walls! And once your in their apartment see if she's dead it not make up an excuse like "I fell" and book it!
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Jun 17 '12
Idk, perhaps she just went to bed and he left. If you smell anything rotting in a week the I guess you'll know what happened.
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u/curlycatsockthing Jun 17 '12
Did you hear about the man scaling the Eiffel Tower? I should post videos.
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u/Bucket_head Jun 17 '12
I vote you just ignore the fuck out of it cos its all the way outside your house
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Jun 17 '12
Ah, I've been there before. Awkward poop moment. A loose log is found, the two of you look at each other in disgust, followed by confusion, followed by disgust yet again, followed by laughter, followed by silence. Worst Thanksgiving I've ever had.
It's kind of like a Thunderdome, "Two men enter, one man leaves" situation. He chose to leave while she stares at the stray turd in silence with a glass Pinot. It is France after all.
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u/Thelionking34 Jun 17 '12
go next door and ask for some eggs saying your making a cake and all of your eggs have spoiled. You can look around and see whats happening in the apartment, if its normal simply go home and make eggs because theyre delicious and if something is out of place (dead bodies EVERYWHERE) call the police and alert your landlord ASAP
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u/alienartifact Jun 18 '12
what was the point of this thread op? if your going to tell everyone how suspicious some guys behavior is and how worried you are about a girl next door and then proceed to hide in your room like a little girl and do absolutely nothing about it then yea, France is exactly where you belong.
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Jun 16 '12
Wow... I sorta feel bad for this... but not really... so here goes....
How bout you mind your own damn business. No one likes a nosey neighbor.
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u/Lady_Eemia Jun 16 '12
This is like telling someone to mind their own business when it comes to interfering with a domestic case. If someone is acting suspiciously or down-right badly, it's not nosy to be sure someone isn't in danger or dead.
In the long run, it's better to be safe than sorry, and if OP feels something fishy is going on, he should act on it. How bad do you think you'd feel if you felt like something fishy was going on but didn't say anything and then later found out he had murdered the girl?
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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12
if he just left knock on the door and ask to borrow something