It would have been nice if that contractor had trusted his gut and informed the police. A friendly police visit with some probing questions being asked might have deterred the perp.
I haven't read any background on this, which makes it a lot easier to jump to erroneous conclusions (the best kind!!!), but is it possible that the contractor thought he was building a "Safe Room"? Aren't Safe Rooms all the rage now?
I have a Safe Room, and Costco helps me keep it well stocked! Warning: it's a Safe Room for me, but probably not for you...
summer Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Two details which bothered the contractor were > that the perp wanted the room sound-proofed, and > that there were to be hooks on the wall.
No kidding. Kind of a clue.
Too bad it is ingrained in most of us, as far as I know, to be courteous and mind our own business. If you're a decent person yourself you don't tend to think of others as evil, at least in my world.
It's starting to feel like there's an over-abundance of evil. I've always thought it was a far outlier of a phenomenon. One hour of watching daily news amply demonstrates that is not true. What it always this way or is there something in the water at this point in human history?
elderolddog Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I haven't read any background on this, which makes > it a lot easier to jump to erroneous conclusions > (the best kind!!!), but is it possible that the > contractor thought he was building a "Safe > Room"? Aren't Safe Rooms all the rage now? > > I have a Safe Room, and Costco helps me keep it > well stocked! Warning: it's a Safe Room for > me, but probably not for you...
Neither of those people were real Mormons. They were simply psychopaths adopting a new persona to fit their new environment. If they had lived in Nazi Germany or Maoist China, they'd have joined the ruling party; if they lived in evangelical world, they'd have tried to become Joel Orstein.
If you were baptized, you fulfilled your responsibility as a golden contact. The missionaries, the bishop, the stake president all got to tally an additional convert and were happy.
If you subsequently fell away, no one cares. The numbers will live on.
I've heard that St. George and it's surrounding developments have quite a few high end homes that are kitted out for Preppers, and those homes have both safe rooms (for nuclear fallout), etc. as well as water catchment and other survival systems in place. So the contractor would have probably installed quite a few and thought nothing about children being held hostage.
Can you point us to the information of just how the door locked in this instance? I have only seen some speculation that it only locked from the outside.
I just watched that podcast and they're not certain about the details either. But what I wonder is if the boy was locked in this room -- that locks from the outside only -- how did he escape? If it's a panic room, then it would also have a way to exit the room. That's the purpose of a panic room.