This evening I had a visit from one of Halifax’s Finest. The visit left me wondering when the motto, “to Serve and Protect” was changed to ” to Scoff and Dismiss”.
Earlier today, I phoned to report that the so-called Sleepwatcher may have paid me a visit. I say “may” because at the time I believed the incident had been just a very vivid and disturbing dream. When I saw a picture of the “man of my dreams” in today’s newspaper, I thought perhaps it wasn’t a dream after all.
I wasn’t asking anyone to come to my house and dust for fingerprints. I knew there was nothing they could do, especially after several days. My only reason for reporting the incident was that I live nowhere near the South End, and IF this guy is expanding his range, the police need to be aware of it. I tried repeatedly to explain this to the officer, but he was too busy pooh-poohing my story to hear me.
I realize that tact is not an essential law enforcement job skill, but I don’t think it was necessary to be quite so condescending and dismissive. Today I took almost an hour out of my very busy day to offer what little help I could. I’ll think twice before doing so again. —Sleepwatched
This article appears in Oct 14-20, 2010.
He’s climbing in your windows
He’s snatchin your people up
Tryna rape em so y’all need to
Hide your kids, hide your wife
And hide your husband
Cuz they’re rapin errbody out there
OMG that song will never get old for me hahaha
In all seriousness, this happened to me a few weeks ago only they didn’t come in my locked bedroom door, but I heard them come in my balcony door. The cops basically said I was crazy and that the wind blew our locked balcony door open… riiight.
That song makes me think of this ridiculous clip I saw the other day:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fqq051BU2MY…
Well, I just hope they friggin catch the guy. It’s about time, really.
I’m sorry to hear that, PF. I, for one, offer my shoulder for you to cry/lean on if needed (as I’m sure others will).
LOL thanks… but I’m all good. They gave us a bolt lock for our balcony!
What kind of lock did you have previously?
They had a bathroom foor lock on our balcony door. How ridiculous is that? We could just pop a hanger or bobby pin in that little hole from the outside and it would pop open!!
LOL wow. Well the important thing is that’s everything’s ok now. 🙂
As long as no one sneeks in my open window which overlooks the balcony LOL
lol Posting about it on the internet certainly doesn’t draw attention to it. 😛
Lol good thing I’m not posting my address! Ha ha
Yeah but if it was him he already knows your address…
PF you’ve stolen my heart — that song won’t ever get old for me either. I just started singing it under my breath at work and my co workers probably think I’m crazier than already think I am 😛
The lesson here is simply lock your doors, since there is a crazy creeper roaming the streets. I, as much as any other young person feel that most timse cops in HRM are a waste of skin. But in this case, I can see where they were coming from. I have a long work history of having to listen to people drone on about senseless matters, and feel that this might fall into such a category. I see your concern but perhaps you should have run it by a friend, or coworker to validate your concern before involving law enforcement.
I donno call crime stoppers…?
The guy obviously knows the neighbourhoods. Probably checking them out in the daytime. Get a cheap digital camera, when you see a guy around that you don’t recognize, call out “hey cutie” & take his photo. If he smiles and waves, probably nothing, if he takes off send the cops his picture.
Also, summer is over, no excuses (except stupidity/laziness) for leaving doors and windows un-locked and open.
I bet you liked it. That’s why you took so long to report it.
i less than three your new avatar disturbed donkey…squack
Let’s see you tell them it may be a vivid dream (you’re not sure yourself), it seems (correct me if I’m wrong), that you called next morning and not at the time of the incident. Add to it your “dream boy” was in newspaper. Sounds sorta whack to me. If you don’t know if it was real or nothow do you expect them to know.
I love how everyone blames the victim when women get attacked. It’s either “dumb bitch didn’t lock her windows/doors” or “dumb bitch dressed like a slut” when she gets attacked.
Y’all make it seem like they deserved to get attacked!
It is good to be vigilant for sure but it isn’t the women’s fault that there are creeps in the world. Maybe all first floor apartment rooms should automatically get an A/C installed so women won’t have to keep their windows open on hot summer nights.
I see what your saying PK but, this girl had a dream and reported it to the police. Its a bit extreme if it didn’t really happen. I’m not blaming anyone for being a victim just calling it as I see it. Plus there should be some evidence of it actually happening in your apt, OP.
If I lived in the city, even with my dog, I would lock my doors and at least block my windows.
Just common sen…. nevermind.
As I understand this Bitch, the OP didn’t report a dream to the police. She only reported it to the police after seeing evidence that it may not have been a dream. If I opened my eyes in the middle of the night and saw a man, or a woman, or a child, or a cow, standing by my bed, I might also dismiss it as a dream.
No no, ashley, I don’t mean in this instance of the OP reporting a dream, what I mean is, in EVERY sleepwatcher bitch it’s somehow turned around on the victim. Can you imagine waking up and finding some random dude there staring at you? Or worse yet — the CH article on saturday, i think, said he’s escalating to touching and the criminologist they interviewed said there’s reason to be concerned that he might take it even further. Sure it’s dumb to leave first floor (or second floor) windows wide open, but that doesn’t excuse this disturbed man from breaking into their apartment.
But for all OP knows, she saw the three sketches that were on the front of the paper over the weekend and had a dream about it — they’re pretty similar to the fourth sketch.
Amen Pretty Kitty. This city’s fucked up attitudes towards women and sexual assault needs an overhaul. Starting with the police department.
“B_A_D,” you and me0w good fem-buddies by any chance?
Anyway, I think it applies to everyone, not just women: lock your windows, lock your doors! Now living in one of the highest crime-rate cities in Canada, I have noted this even moreso. On the other hand, a lot of it is still a bit hyped up by the media. Edmonton’s not even really that scary, just don’t fuck with the wrong people.
Donkeys new avatar reminds me of the annual Dunder-Mifflin Passion Play. On the Thursday before Good Friday I take 2 pieces of a broken shipping pallet, hoist them over my shoulder and parade around the warehouse wailing “This is just the worst Easter ever”. I was going to add a loincloth and a crown of doritos, but the boss nixed that on that grounds that it might be offensive to some. Gotta see his point. >; )
So does anyone else think that the latest sleepwatcher sketch (http://www.metronews.ca//halifax/local/art…) looks like Edward Cullen?
I can’t see Edward Cullen….But I do love that stupid coming through your windows song….n I love the tag line for this bitch. I bet the dude was really in her apartment…..she’s just second guessing herself. Police don’t follow through on a lot of tips that later down the road they find out were very useful. (I love real crime shows like cold case files).
i had to look up edward cullen, that is one not-scary blood sucker V V
lol Yeah he’s not exactly supposed to be scary.
grace jones made a good vampire
William Henry Pratt, aka Boris Karloff
gary oldman
Dear Q,
While I find it endlessly delightful that you continually expend the energy usually reserved for manipulating your microphallus on conjuring up weak jabs to direct at me, I truly think that your efforts would be better spent attempting to mitigate your ignorance and immaturity by removing your cranium from your anal cavity. The fact that you consider feminist ideals and the defense of minorities to be something that you need vehemently oppose speaks volumes about your character. By the way, I hope you’re enjoying Deadmonton, it seems like the perfect place for someone like you – no shortage of intolerant, white males there! In closing, please go die in a fire 🙂
Sincerely,
me0w
he knows when you are sleeping,
he knows when you are awake,
you better locks your windows and doors,
hurry you stupid shits, for fuck’s sake.
thank you, thank you verry much, elvis just fucked off.
holy fuck q, ole buddy, that was harsh on you from meow. be a good little bitcher meow, and tell us you are sorry for that rant. we are almost all family here now,right gang. and if something that someone says, pisses you off, don’t go all ballistic on them. p.f., you need a bodygaurd, i’m for rent, contact me for details hon. sorry fat,better hurry here bud.
loverly prose lifey. la lettre q est est impuissante meow…rawr
hey Q she said you have a big thingy 🙂
Seems like Annie had kids after all. Who’d a thunk, eh? So…LS, how long do we have to play nice :~)
LS, don’t be a hypocrite. We’ve all been subject to your all-caps rants and barely comprehensible vulgarities, so I’d appreciate it if you’d refrain from telling me how to express myself. For whatever reason, Q has decided that I’m his interweb “Feminazi” nemesis, so I’m merely engaging him on his level. Frankly, considering the nature of the things that are said on LTWWB on a daily basis, I feel I’m entirely within my rights to say pretty much whatever I please.
PG, si les petits garçons perturber le chat assez souvent, elle mord.
mmm…the first bilingual bitch board. language rawks
mais certainement, pg! 😉
oh gee whiz, please fucking excuse me. bullshit and shingles meow. you probly just got your undies in a bunch. anyhoo, i don’t give a flying fandango what anyone says, last time i checked, this was sposed to be a free(ha ha fucking ha) country. rant on meow, you must have the hots for q, and just won’t admit it. right q?
A ‘vivid’ dream.
Reminds me of Peter Duffy who was raped by a ghost.
Hey she had a hate on for me first no fair!!! 🙂
Really LS, that was a quite a moronic grade school reply.. Is that all you got??
It never ceases to amaze me, how intimidated and insecure a majority of men are when it comes to women..
so who the hell is intimidated, not me? i shrug this shit off all the time. just some fool with a computer who think that they are queen shit, or in some cases, king shit. i don’t give two fiddling fucks what anyone says, but if you do, be ready to back up, with facts or fists babies.
What’s with all the misandry lately?
Guess sexism is alive and well :>(
I think I’ll call you Annies’ Kids, like Jerry’s Kids, but more of a “summer hockey helmet” kind of special.
Cheers, redzone.
No misandry here, Hugo. Some of the boys here just like to play a little game in which I call them out on some blatantly offensive shit that they say, and then they accuse me of being a man-hating hardline feminist. Although entertaining, it’s hardly an original tactic and I think the whole ‘angry feminist’ stereotype is a bit played out.
Anyway, huzzah, hockey helmets for all!
Funny, I type out one line about me0w, and in several paragraph she accuses me of being obsessed with her. I love how you display your ignorance about Edmonton as well. So who’s the hypocrite?
Hardcore feminism is slowly making its way to the grave it belongs. Along with, hopefully, pseudo-intellectuals like me0w.
Keep on rockin’ LS buddy! And thank you martym, I’m flattered as always.
In no way did I infer you are “obsessed” with me, q. However, in the past week or so, you’ve dealt me several unprovoked insults, so I think it’s pretty fair in assuming you have some sort of issue. I rarely even post here anymore, except to chime in on issues I’m passionate about or to give props to posters I appreciate, so I’m actually a bit baffled as to why your juvenile hostility has been directed my way. In any case, the fact that you think feminism is a dirty word will probably continue to put us at odds, and that’s fine by me.
As far as Edmonton goes, I’ve spent enough time there to know I don’t ever want to spend any time there. Alberta in general and the pervasive close-minded attitudes I’ve encountered there make up the basis for my opinions, and I know I’m not alone in my observations. But hey, it’s real swell that you like it there. Kay does too.
Ya Hugo,
If it were thefts to both sexes that were going on, the women here would feel justified in saying things like “they should have locked their doors” but since the situation involves women as victims, hearing that from men is somehow a “fuck-up attitude towards women” re. PK&BAD .
Me0w and the likes, like to use these posts to further their general discontent towards men. Things like ”It never ceases to amaze me, how intimidated and insecure a majority of men are when it comes to women..” Sure we have our issues but, majority? And how so? anything to back that up? It must be true because me0w agrees with the misandry.
I don’t understand the sexes generalisation, especially when it comes from me0w. Because, she claims not to be extreme but fair.
Balls you beat me to it about the generalizations. It just says to me that the author of the statement is closed-minded and not very perceptive.
And the man-hate isn’t just one person or just today, it’s been happeing for a couple of weeks now. I could go into specifics, but I won’t.
As I said to another bitch(er), you know nothing about me.
*cough* not cool mr. more…rooooo
Wow! I mean, uh, wow!
You’ve just confirmed what women have suspected all along. That shallow men like you mr more (or less), consider women to be nothing more than a life support system for female genitalia, which is, if you’ll be man enough to admit it, all you really want from females. That you prefer to rent female genitalia speaks for itself.
Calling redzone’s comment misandry is a bit of a stretch, Balls, and since we don’t even know for sure which gender redzone is, that seems to be a big ol’ assumption on your part. I agree that the statement probably represents an unfair generalization, but I didn’t make the comment, so I’m not sure how that makes me a man-hater. I said cheers to redzone because he/she took the time to call LS out on his lame response, nothing more. Redzone’s opinions represent his/her own perspective, not mine, so please don’t attempt to attribute attitudes to me that I have never once displayed here. I don’t have a general discontent with men. As a general rule, I love men. I date men. Most of my friends are men. My dad (a man) is my friggin hero, and gave me a prime example how awesome dudes can be from a very early age. The continued accusations that I have a issues with men are blatantly false and basically ridiculous, and all because I’ve defended myself against juvenile attacks, or spoken up about women’s and minority issues in the past. I’ve got no beef with anyone, unless you’re an intolerant douchebag. As for More’s post, I’m not even going to dignify that with a response. I think it speaks for itself.
More, once again you talk shit and act like the greatest man to walk the earth.
You are by far the most ignorant, deplorable person on this bitch board.
“When a man speaks his mind in a forest and no woman hears him, is he still wrong?” from Sir Ken Robinson’s TED presentation
Yeah, it was a bit of a generalization, I admit; but it was a bit like a psych experiment in that the hypothesis itself, skewed the findings..kind of fun to watch.
My apologies to the women on here that took more flak because of it..
“Which is why after my marriage broke up …” Yeah, you just answered my question.
No wonder he makes salsa salsa!
You just sound bitter. I used to like Mr. and now I’m not so sure.
Sad days, sad days.
Sure rape is terrible and blaming the victim is wrong. However, if there is a series of events going on within a city that is causing fear and concern and where proper precaution can prevent some of these things then not taking precaution is rather ‘stupid’. It’s like watching someone do the same thing incorrectly over and over again and assuming you will have a different result by following the same pattern.
Albert Einstein once said that insanity was doing the same thing repeatedly while expecting different results. I’m not blaming the victim by any means but if you are leaving windows and doors open and/or unlocked then you are somewhat welcoming a bad situation to happen.
It sounds terrible to say that (perhaps) but sometimes truth is the most painful medicine to digest.
FTP
? for the point?^^
file transfer protocol?
Meow, its nice to hear your dad has kept that secret so close to his heart for so long…good for him, whatever makes you happy is the way to live, I always say.
Purp…thanks, its hard to believe I knocked LS off the perch, it took work & I’ve never been afraid of hard work.
Ocean…it goes both ways, you need a life support system if your not going to use batteries.
Donkey, like me, hate me…what’s the difference ? I don’t know you & you don’t know me, so how can it make a difference ??
~:)
fuck the people? fear the pope? fight the power?
FTP Flowers :>)
I think Mr. More has not received the responses that he was looking for, and I must admit that I am impressed by lack of acerbic replys.
As I’ve heard it before “it’s not what you say, but how you say it”.
More, I don’t suppose you were trying to address the whole “men are shit – wome are whores” issue, were you?
Guess not.
i thought it was “men are pigs women are stupid” ^^^
No its all men are STUPID & all women are CRAZY…
The reason all women are crazy…is because all the men are stupid !
Perhaps I shouldn’t have lumped you with the rest of them me0w, this time;) I read it as cheers to redzone’s comment, not just part of it. That wasn’t clear, now it is, excusez-moi.
Moving on, to entertain more’s comment; I do believe there is some truth to the stereotype of men looking at women as sex objects and women looking at men as bankbooks. But, there’re some good finds out there, which you’ll deny yourself of if you don’t take a chance.
Knocked LS off the perch? NGF still holds that title, you’ll have to do alot of work to move his fat ass.
today the CBC reported 18 women killed by a mystery serial killer operating near Prince George BC over the past 38 years. Ever wonder how 18 cases can go unsolved for so long? Ask the OP
thanks for the info hg, she was 94! t.v. moms rawk too
Fuck The Phallacy? 😛
feeling the python? screee-off we go
Frottage Tolerablement Procurer? Le rawwwwwwk, soeur-de-douleur!
Friedrich the Pendulous, the Franc Tireur et Partisan leader of the Federated Territories of Pellucidar?
Forget This Pizzle, I’m off to Forage for Timely Provender to Feed Ten Pistoleros from the Fir-lined Trails of Portugal.
*SQUACK*
Fuckin’ Too Phunny Ivan-Le-Dude Forager Tres Partagers! Le chirp:)
Good point there Balls, about the rare ‘good find’.
May be as rare as hen’s teeth, but keeping an eye out is better than admitting defeat.
As my buddy Dave says about this girl he sees on occassion…”she’s not into more than the missionary position in bed, & she’s pretty passive…but that’s still better than self abuse…. & I can’t argue with that.
Shallow is as shallow does. Likely explains why all the good ones go running fast as they can in the opposite direction.
Glad to give you a giggle Oceanchick. Since most of our bitchbuds are off at Spamalot – we just have to make our own fun this afternoon. >; )
well that was fun, my gutty wutts hurt from cackling…lots of empty seats, ours were boffo. the french knights were my fave, could have done without so much lady of the lake chick. thanks for the tickets ma. heehaw
RAWK! Hey did you see zZz?
Fuck The Police?
They added more Lady of the Lake from the TO performance.
NO ONE DESERVES TO BE RAPED! IT IS NOT OUR FAULTS! FUCK OFF!
Okay… I’m done.
i think you might have it rosie…i looked for himself but there were lots o lads that fit his description. some call me tim. i’m trying to get the bear to dress-up as the enchanter, he already has the beard…beardos rawk
huge pointy teeth!
Tell the bear he’d look awesome as the Enchanter! (So, I’ve heard). Never actually dated a beardo… ‘stache yes, beard, no.
People are taking this sleep watching bullshit too serioulsy. If you lock your windows and doors, YOU HAVE NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT!
Ever hear of Richard Ramirez?
Sebastian thinks his “one answer fits all” approach is fool proof and it merely demonstrates how stupid he really is. Good point, Funk; The Nightstalker was able to get into the homes of victims who had locked doors/windows too but he’s a special case.
Russell Williams began with home invasions and taking trophies. If 20 years of Bill Kurtis docs on A&E have taught us anything – this behavior will escalate.
I believe it already started to escalate…I think at for one instance he actually removed a screen from a window and is making contact with the women he watches instead of just watching.
I wouldn’t have missed it… though the two seats beside us were surprisingly empty.
Lady of the Lake and her Laker girls were awesome!
and they balanced it out with Gay Lancelot.
for my money, patsy and robin were the best of the bunch.
NGF, your comment pretty much said the same thing as sebastard’s! Lock your windows and doors and you have nothing to worry about. Jus’ sayin’ 😛
Thankfully, my windows have a lock that will allow the window to open about 2 or 3 inches but no more. All the ground floor and second floor windows have that option in my building. Even still, during the warmer spring/early summer nights before I put my A/C in, I make sure I have a fan in my room because there’s no freaking WAY I’m going to leave my window wide open for any idiot to crawl through. Frig, I even make sure my door is locked when I’m awake and at home. Ain’t no raping, thieving, murdering mother fucker’s gonna get in my place. Sure I live in a secure building, but for some reason there are idiots who’ll let anyone into the building and/or leave the front door open.
You never CAN be too careful.
good on ya PK.
can’t have raping, thieving, murdering mother fuckers in a pants optional environment…
Well this thread certainly got heated over the weekend…