To the dumb bitch who went to bed and left her house unlocked despite all the warnings from police, are you asking to be murdered or raped? You went to sleep with the doors/windows unlocked so why does it surprise you that you wake up at night to find the SleepWatcher in your room? You’re really truly fucking dumb. Too bad you can’t be charged for that. —Secured
This article appears in Sep 15-21, 2011.
Okay, who let Sebastian join “Neighborhood Watch”?
While I agree that leaving your door unlocked isn’t the brightest move, there are likely a whole lot of students new to town that don’t know about that loser. But really, blaming the victim? Come on. Door locking only keeps honest people honest anyway.
see also: slutwalk.
Hey, just sayin’
“:there are likely a whole lot of students new to town that don’t know about that loser.”
true….
but perhaps they should know that you lock your doors when living in the bar district of a (albeit small) city.
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Ugh.. I hate that phrase “victim blaming”
Lock your fucking doors people. That’s why doors have locks. If you are unaware that creeps exist in every city on earth, yes, I’ll say it, you DESERVE an awakening. Too bad it had to come to this. She’s lucky it was the sleepwatcher and not a rapist or murderer.
Seriously how fuckin hard is it to lock the door? If you don’t care about your safety and well being, why should anyone else?
There are sick SICK people in this world and why on earth you would neglect to lock your doors and windows at night is beyond me.
It’s just sheer stupidity. Plain and simple.
I keep my door locked all the time — even in the daytime when I’m at home, and the only time the sliding patio doors get left open is if someone’s in the living room/kitchen/dining room.
The knob on my bedroom door broke and jammed last week and I had to break into my room through the window. The window was up all the way and it was EASY to break in. Too easy, in fact, which is why I always only open it up to the safety lock (a little lever which allows the window to open about three inches and then stops it from opening any further).
I’m not gonna say this chick deserved this, but she does have SOME responsibility.
But hay, if she hadn’t been a victim here, that shitsack wouldn’t’ve been caught.
Seriously though, lock your doors and windows. There are plenty of cases of serial murderers who broke into homes only to rape, torture and/or murder the dwelling’s occupants. The Sleepwatcher could’ve just as easily been a Ted Bundy.
He’s touching now. Or is that old news?
– “…an ounce of prevention…”
Recognize him?
http://media.metronews.topscms.com/images/…
http://www.motifake.com/image/demotivation…
Dude is lucky he isn’t in Malaysia or Singapore. He needs a few strokes…
Wait, he was caught?
*checks the interwebs*
And released!?!!?!
Double-U, Tee, Eff
18 hours of questioning and they couldn’t charge him? Could the victim identify him? Were there no footprints/impressions in the house that matched his?
Man this guy should be robbing banks or something he sounds like a master criminal.
The Herald article also says that this woman decided to get an apartment on the second floor and live with several room mates, BECAUSE of this sleep watcher character. All that means nothing if you don’t lock the door.
To be fair it could have been one of the room mates who neglected to lock it but it’s still her responsibility.
http://thechronicleherald.ca/Front/1263375…
Yup, tommy! I always check the door before I go to bed because my dad has a nasty habit of neglecting to lock the door when he gets in. It’s annnnnoying.
she wasn’t dumb o.p., just hoping to get laid by some stranger in the night. i have an idea about this peson that has been doing this shit. there are a bunch of different lookiing people, from pics i saw. i think it is college students doing this, for some sort of an initiation.
IF you want to leave the doors unlocked move out here.
Earlier this summer I forgot my back door was open (the screen door was shut) & I went away over night…came home the next day & everything was in the same place.
But there isn’t a lot of traffic around here, homes front on the road, but there’s no one living behind any of us…unless you go back through the woods a couple of miles. Plus there’s not a lot of foot traffic anyway.
THere was a better chance of an animal coming into my place than a person.
But even so, people shouldn’t have to lock their doors…I understand its the intelligent thing to do especially in the city…but if someone invades their home, whether they have the doors or windows locked or not, IMO it is in no way their fault.
seriously??
you are seriously saying this?? (you = OP, and supporting commenters)
tommyjules…
the phrase “victim blaming” hates you.
no one DESERVES an awakening.
a door being left unlocked (probably accidentally from the sounds of it) does not equal not caring for one’s safety.
so if one of her roommates left the door unlocked, how is it still her responsibility???
what if a roommate went outside at 3am to smoke, but then forgot to lock the door when coming back in.. the phone rang, they were hit with a spontaneous case of diarrhea, they saw someone sleepwalking and about to fall down the stairs.. or their cat was on fire.. SOMETHING distracted them from re-locking the door when they came back inside..
so what you’re saying is… whatever has caused this door to be unlocked it is still HER responsibility to make sure that this door is re-locked. no. matter. what.
should she have an elaborate alarm system installed?
so that at any moment the deadbolt isn’t locked an alarm goes off, and she is given a mild electric shock.. cause what if she’s a heavy sleeper and would sleep through an audio alarm?
so instead she has electrodes wired directly into her spinal chord.
so that no matter where she is, if the door is EVER unlocked between sunset and sunrise she get’s a zap, her body spasms, but only for a moment, and she runs to check the door.
and just to be on the safe side, it even goes off when she unlocks the door, and repeats every 8 seconds until it is locked again.. because if it doesn’t go off EVERY TIME the door is unlocked then that might mean that the alarm can be turned off and so she could forget to turn on the alarm system!
and then she would be in a similar situation to having no alarm, and hoping that the door remains locked at all hours. she would go to sleep under the false assumption that her spinal alarm is turned on and she is safe. just as she went to sleep that night assuming that when she locked the door before going to bed that it would remain locked until she woke in the morning.
and i guess just to be safe, every window has a similar alarm system. as well as any wall that isn’t made of solid cement (reinforced with rebar of course) at least 1m thick. if a wall is just think plywood and some drywall it could be broken through.. so there needs to be some sort of electronic network wired to the same alarm system. so that if a single wire in the wall is breached the alarm goes off..
the whole alarm system is powered from a geothermal source that is located under the house, and is only accessible to from inside the house.. because what if the sleepwatcher could simply cut the power to her house from outside.
also the wires in her spine are hard wired to the house.. you can’t have it battery powered.. cause what if the batteries die! she might not notice!
but i guess by this point she might as well NOT have a door at all… and live in a biodome at some undisclosed location. the biodome would have NO points of entry. she would be sealed inside, and then also seal the initial entrance from the inside.
there! problem solved.
murderer/rapist, is that you?
nope.
i just work in the panic room construction business.
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so what you’re saying is… whatever has caused this door to be unlocked it is still HER responsibility to make sure that this door is re-locked. no. matter. what.
should she have an elaborate alarm system installed?
so that at any moment the deadbolt isn’t locked an alarm goes off, and she is given a mild electric shock.. cause what if she’s a heavy sleeper and would sleep through an audio alarm?
so instead she has electrodes wired directly into her spinal chord.
so that no matter where she is, if the door is EVER unlocked between sunset and sunrise she get’s a zap, her body spasms, but only for a moment, and she runs to check the door.
and just to be on the safe side, it even goes off when she unlocks the door, and repeats every 8 seconds until it is locked again.. because if it doesn’t go off EVERY TIME the door is unlocked then that might mean that the alarm can be turned off and so she could forget to turn on the alarm system!
and then she would be in a similar situation to having no alarm, and hoping that the door remains locked at all hours. she would go to sleep under the false assumption that her spinal alarm is turned on and she is safe. just as she went to sleep that night assuming that when she locked the door before going to bed that it would remain locked until she woke in the morning.
and i guess just to be safe, every window has a similar alarm system. as well as any wall that isn’t made of solid cement (reinforced with rebar of course) at least 1m thick. if a wall is just think plywood and some drywall it could be broken through.. so there needs to be some sort of electronic network wired to the same alarm system. so that if a single wire in the wall is breached the alarm goes off..
the whole alarm system is powered from a geothermal source that is located under the house, and is only accessible to from inside the house.. because what if the sleepwatcher could simply cut the power to her house from outside.
also the wires in her spine are hard wired to the house.. you can’t have it battery powered.. cause what if the batteries die! she might not notice!
but i guess by this point she might as well NOT have a door at all… and live in a biodome at some undisclosed location. the biodome would have NO points of entry. she would be sealed inside, and then also seal the initial entrance from the inside.
there! problem solved.
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Seems a little complicated. Wouldn’t it be easier to just lock the door?
Seriously eh, Ivan! This was totally a sebastian post. Probably angry no guys are sneaking into his room to watch him sleep … and we know his misogyny.
For all the OP knows, the victim always locks her door and this one time she forgot to lock it. Or that someone else left it unlocked. For that, she gets called a ‘dumb bitch’ who is ‘asking’ to get murdered or raped (happens all the time, so I hear). It’s like clockwork every time one of these sleep watching incidents happens, a bitch then pops up all “you worthless whore, how stupids cans you be.” Sounds like whoever writes these bitches hates women just as much as the jackass who thinks it’s cool to break in their houses and creep on them at night. Can someone please explain to me how leaving your door unlocked is more bitchworthy than entering someone’s house without permission and sitting in the dark staring at them like some Creepy McCreeperson? Oh wait, I forgot. He couldn’t help himself, that unlocked door just sucked him in.
I’m curious about this whole being charged for leaving your door unlocked thing. Would that be a blanket ban or just for women. Anything to avoid criminals having to take full responsibility for their own actions, I guess.
totally invalid bitch. in the wild west, a man could go to sleep next to a campfire, and it was common knowledge that if someone come into your camp ( there’s no locked doors, asshole!) it was their fault not your fault.
Great Value…I guess everyone in the South end had best start campfires each evening.
The firewood sellers of the HRM region are going to be celebrating wildly ~;)
if someone would kablaam the sob with a 12 gauge shotgun, he’d be dead and wouldn’t be murdering and raping people.
“there are likely a whole lot of students new to town that don’t know about that loser.”
When I moved back to the city it was before the sleepwatcher was around but I locked my doors. Why? I guess I didn’t come from a hippy commune or viking fishing village like these students apparently have. Even the south end has crackheads, crack houses, halfway houses, sex offenders, muggers, etc.
“Door locking only keeps honest people honest anyway.”
Huh? Door locking is the first step in curtailing crackheads crackily engaging in crack-related mischief.
sodeypop – “Door locking only keeps honest people honest anyway” is a commonly used phrase that means criminals are going to break in whether or not you lock the door. And my point was that perhaps those student DID come from a hippy commune or a viking fishing village. Go out side and play now.
Funny that nobody mentioned that these girls slept with a baseball bat under the bed. Having that would be a prerequisite to feeling that there was some danger in the area. So why not lock the door?
That’s what makes me feel that it was an accident. That they usually lock the door.
“criminals are going to break in whether or not you lock the door. “
Not necessarily, because some go around looking for windows they can slide open rather than smash, or a door to open rather than kick down. Unlocking just makes it’s easier for them.
And I will NOT go out and play until I have my apple juice.
… but there’s arsenic in Apple Juice. Didntchaknow. Lolzzz
Maybe in Allen’s juice because their employees put bodily fluids and solids in the juice.
Boo hoo Grant, we all have to take precautions to ensure our safety. I’ve lived with room mates before and my stupid gf at the time would leave and not lock the door and I caught hell over it. Regardless of who left the door open it is your responsibility to make sure it gets locked. Had this not happened, something worse could have happened down the road.
I find this “victim blaming” phrase only gets tossed around when the victim is female. If he’s male he always “deserved” it or “had it coming” or “should have known better”
If my flat screen gets stolen and my door wasn’t locked, the insurance company will tell me to go fuck myself and that I should have locked the door. Are they victim blaming?
Mole Rat, if OP hated women wouldn’t he encourage them to leave their doors unlocked?
I don’t want to see any women murdered or raped, or sleepwatched, so I wish they’d give enough of a fuck to lock their doors. If they don’t however, I have trouble feeling sorry for them. If they don’t lock their doors there’s not much anyone can do to protect them. That’s why it’s up to them and only them.
I don’t think ANYONE on this board or elsewhere is suggesting that this criminal was “sucked in” by the open doors, or that he “couldn’t help himself” or that leaving your door unlocked is worse than entering someone’s house uninvited, unlocked or not.
No matter how much responsibility this creep does or doesn’t take for his actions, it is your responsibility to ensure your safety and locking the door is an easy and effective way to do so. If you don’t do it you’re either lazy, stupid or neglectful.
Your narrative really pisses me off, people like you always want to make it about something it’s not. This is not about hating women, or blaming victims, it’s about using this incident as an example of just why you should take simple precautions to ensure your safety. If creeps didn’t exist, neither would locks.
I haven’t been following this case too closely, but I’m pretty sure all or most of the victims left their doors unlocked. It’s not like we’re suggesting that people should have 18 locks and a thousand dollar alarm system, just lock the GD door. If you can’t handle that I really don’t know what to tell you. I care about my safety, and my things, so I lock my door. Not rocket science.
If my friend was house sitting for me and they left my door unlocked and my house was burgled, I’d call my friend an idiot, and place some of the blame on him. Ultimately it’s my place though so it’s my fault for trusting him. See that? It’s called taking responsibility.
don’t hate the victim…
hate the game….
http://blogs.dailyprincetonian.com/interse…
NO, not that douche….
THE GAME
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dxo7fy29DxE/TejE…
lol WWE wrestlers, mainstream rappers… tomato, tomato.
To suggest that anyone, anywhere for any reason deserves to be violated or assaulted is disgusting. People have the right to their autonomy regardless of where they live or if they lock their doors or not.
Violating someone or enacting any actions towards them against their will is wrong. Not locking door isn’t a crime, entering into someone’s home while they are asleep without their consent is.
The fact that the coast is assisting to perpetrate this ideology is extremely disheartening.
No matter how stupid one’s actions, it is still ALWAYS the fault of the attacker when shit like this happens.
An analogy for you: My bicycle is currently sitting outside my house unchained because I forgot to take it down to the basement last night. if I come home and the bike is missing, is it *my* fault for not locking it up or a thief’s fault for stealing it?
What I did was stupid. What they did was wrong.
Girl goes to sleep with her window open. Not the smartest thing, no, but she didn’t put a sign out on the road saying “Please mr sleepwatcher, my window around back is open, please come into my home and violate my safety.”
This idiotic argument begins and ends with one simple fact: A creepy ass person with ill intent snuck into someone else’s home, violating their peace and possibly would have violated more than that had they the chance. Everything else is irrelevant.
All this bullshit victim blaming does is make victims feel worse than they already do, makes them not want to report when things happen because assholes like so many people in this thread will direct their anger towards the wrong source.
But then, it’s so much easier to bully the young girl that’s been scared by this incident than the guy that actually committed the crime, isn’t it folks?
This dude doesn’t have ‘unlocked door’ spidey senses people. He went out for a purpose, to invade someones privacy, be a creepy douche bag, and watch someone sleep without their consent. Thankfully for him, the community is going to spend all it’s energy chastising his victims and he’ll be able to continue violating people for years to come.
Her door not being locked didn’t make him go in there and do what he did. That’s why he was out there, if it hadn’t of been her it would have been someone else or maybe he would have broken a window or been more active in his home invasion.
The best way to prevent sexual assault, violating someone’s autonomy is still DON’T FUCKING DO IT. Period.
tommyjules
seriously?? insurance claims?
insurance companies don’t want to pay ANYBODY..
i was in a car accident years ago, they call you up and act friendly hoping to catch you saying ANYTHING they can use against you to not have to pay you a cent.
and guess what!
that person who entered your unlocked house and stole your tv STILL COMMITTED A CRIME.
if caught, the police will STILL ARREST THEM.
and if possible, you’ll get your tv back.
victim blaming does get thrown around when the victim is female because WHEN THE VICTIM IS FEMALE THEY OFTEN GET BLAMED.
our society is built on it.
look it up.
What’s the difference between a pickpocket and a Peeping Tom?
The pickpocket snatches your watch