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IamA man who has just found a secret building on my property. AMA!
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TheBonecollecta598 karma
That is literally the first thing that came to my mind when i opened this thread up.
Fuck_rAtheism_Mods23 karma
By which, I assume, we can rest assured that OP will actually deliver?
huntergdavis191 karma
hahah I hadn't heard that but I love the idea a guy is going to jump out. Waaay better than spiders.
keegan66747 karma
Ah snap be careful, you should dust the door handle for prints to see if its been used recently.
madcaplarks211 karma
Yeah op. Just dust the handle for prints. Head down to your local bag of dust and tiny brush warehouse if you dont have your own already. Tell them Jimmie sent you and he wants his coochie back. They'll know what it means.
huntergdavis55 karma
Not sure if buying anything from a local bag of dust warehouse is ever a good idea. Tiny brushes though...
wbeaty38 karma
Modern fingerprint dusting is performed using copier toner and a magnet on the end of a stick!
The magnet attracts a tuft of iron dust (that's included in all copier toner,) so it acts like infinitely small bristles. And ...this is exactly the way that copiers deposit the black dust onto the paper, the only difference being that the paper has little spots of electric charge rather than little spots of skin oil.
I've seen one fingerprint kit with that magnet thingie. They used little bottles of magenta and cyan toner from a color copier! I guess that's best for showing up prints on dark uncolored surfaces. You can also get a mixture of iron dust and UV-fluorescent powder.
torgis3034 karma
It'll be spiders. It will be just like the Well of Souls in Raiders, but full of goddamned spiders. Just you watch.
huntergdavis33 karma
Definitely why I'll let someone else try and pull the door open first :)
HaggisNeepsAnTatties-7 karma
Nice of you to whore it out over 2 parts. Was interested until i read stay tuned for part 2, eh no thanks.
huntergdavis2 karma
Let me know if you decide to check it out once the second part is up :)
huntergdavis63 karma
I wouldn't kick him out, I'd ask if he wanted to live there and landscape in exchange for rent.
ryankearney106 karma
I had a front page article like a year ago, ended with roughly 400,000 hits (just by Google Analytics count, so more when you count the people blocking GA) in the period of 4 hours.
Piece of shit VPS, 512mb RAM, and it never skipped a beat.
tl;dr people need to learn to use varnish cache and/or Wordpress caching plugins and/or cloudflare.
coahman4 karma
He also appears to be on Bluehost hosting (most likely just the a shared account) which is limited to 15 simultaneous database connections per user. Super easy to hit that limit if you have a substantial amount of traffic and your queries aren't optimized.
Inclaudwetrust350 karma
I only have one question:
How the hell can you be patient enough to wait until tomorrow to open up that secret hut?! I wouldnt be able to sleep knowing there was a likely bomb shelter/ strip club/ gangster gun shack/ underground tunnel to the batcave/ vault filled with gold in my back yard
huntergdavis349 karma
It's hard, really hard! But If it collapses on me or I get bit by something I'd prefer it happens in broad daylight and I'm surround by people who can rush me to the hospital. Plus I can dangle it like a carrot to get certain less helpful friends to move boxes.
Inclaudwetrust94 karma
What do you think it is?? Seriously
It has a flat roof, not a slanted roof like a typical shed. Sturdy door and walls. My honest guess is some sort of shelter.
huntergdavis118 karma
Seriously, I'm wondering if it's either a canning shed or it's holding some old lawn equipment. The other side of that is the highway was built around the same time, and is not far away, it could lead to an old access tunnel? Trying not to get my hopes up..
THE-SCUM-OF-REDDIT288 karma
Get off reddit, grab a flashlight, go outside and show us what the fuck is in there, or you're a motherfucker. Officially, I said it.
I'm sorry, but you're a motherfucker for doing this to us.
huntergdavis145 karma
Nah I am kind of a motherfucker for splitting this up into 2 parts...
therealabefrohman51 karma
You're a smart guy, OP. I'm calling it now that OP will deliver.
OswegoWriter154 karma
DB Cooper, it has to be. A corpse wearing an old parachute, and a bunch of really old $100 bills. What would you do if it was DB Cooper?
Edit: apparently it was all $20s, not $100s
huntergdavis109 karma
If it was DB Cooper, I'd call Anderson Cooper for the scoop and we'd have a hell of a catchy title for a story.
manboydad148 karma
Tomorrow, OP finds a shitty old lawnmower and a mostly empty bag of topsoil.
ConcordApes18 karma
Make sure you check the expiration date before you try to use it. It may have gone bad.
huntergdavis149 karma
Yep, karma. That and I wasn't ballsy enough to open it up myself tonight.
monsto107 karma
Karma whoring is only bad if there's nothing in return. A repost, shitty story, ugly cat, etc.
This is an ACTUAL story. A guy has something that is unique, meme-worthy (the safe) and that people are genuinely interested in.
As a reader, it's the 1 of 1000 posts around here that's actually worth talking about and the 1 out of 1000 of those that's actually worth remembering and following up on.
I for one will GLADLY give him an upvote that costs and means nothing.
dutchguilder2139 karma
Do not go in there unless you want to be pushing buttons every 108 minutes for the rest of your life.
huntergdavis10 karma
Luke: "What's in there?" Yoda: "Only what you take with you." Hunter: Umm, doesn't that mean it's empty, and isn't that true for every damn empty room ever?
switchblade_sal59 karma
You realize this ama pretty much makes you a crack dealer and we are the crackheads who NEED to know what's inside.
syrupp_30 karma
My bro found a safe in a property he bought, it had krugerrands and silver dollars when he busted it open. Hope you fare well with yours as well.
dkmdlb26 karma
Dude I live in the area and I'm taking my kids to the science center tomorrow. What time do you want us over for the shed opening party?
hmsmela14 karma
This is now going to be the highlight of my weekend...finding out what's in the shed.
thephoton12 karma
huntergdavis14 karma
I was a kid when that aired but I remember the letdown. Did Capone ever travel to Seattle?
monsto10 karma
You should Twitch your reveal . . . why? just cuz!
I'd fucking watch it.
edit: I've since learned that uStream is a better idea. FUCKING STREAM IT.
monsto4 karma
Well, I'm just saying to use Twitch to do the live broadcast. Fuck a theme.
I just thought it'd be cool to see it opened up live. If it's just a shed, great. a :05 broadcast. But if it's something more, an actual video chronicle would be quite cool.
feindish8 karma
- How old is your house?
- What part of the world are you in, as it may be an old military post if your on the eastern part of the U.S..
evilcindy8 karma
Question:
If this mystery shed is full of millions of dollars, do you plan to share with your coworkers?
If it is full if spiders or poop, no sharing would be necessary.
huntergdavis13 karma
Answer:
Either way I'll be sure to share with my coworkers :) They get enough of my shit anyway. ba-dum-bum.
dave_v7 karma
My short bio: I write software and post articles on hunterdavis.com
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[Huntergdavis]
If hidden_bunker = full_of_loot;
Then huntergdavis_comment_karma = huntergdavis_comment_karma + reddit_gold
Endif
If user_huntergdavis = Fail_to_deliver
Then huntergdavis_comment_karma = (huntergdavis_comment_karma - reddit_gold) + Fuck_you * sunsthousands
Endif
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huntergdavis9 karma
Do you work for my hosting provider? Seems like there's quite a few of these unbounded loops without exit conditions running...
killerzizi5 karma
are you sure these photos weren't from the 1988 secret garden movie!?! uncanny! :)
huntergdavis5 karma
They seem less interested... http://www.reddit.com/r/WhatsInThisThing/comments/2404ay/i_found_a_secret_building_on_my_property_and_a/
nishith78923 karma
Have you informed the authorities about this?! And open the vault already!
huntergdavis2 karma
That's definitely the plan with the safe, after I try some drills on it. The "shed" though, I'm cracking that open this weekend!
nutbastard8 karma
Nah don't drill the safe, just get a locksmith. Odds are you won't be able to open it by drilling anyway, and you may damage the safe to the point where a locksmith can't really help you. Get a locksmith straight away and at least you'll end up with a functioning safe.
huntergdavis1 karma
Good call, it's in there pretty good and so I may as well try and use it.
huntergdavis2 karma
Nope, I literally took those photos a couple hours ago. I'm going to crack it open this weekend.
3MB4Life3 karma
I am gong to be fairly disappointed if it's just lawn equipment. Unless that vintage lawn mower is worth hundreds on Pawn Stars.
huntergdavis1 karma
Vintage lawn mower would be a big win. I'd chrome it up and show it off on reddit for even more karma :)
kateykmck1457 karma
Does anybody else think of the guy in that secrets thread who still lives in the bunker of a house he sold to someone...?
Edit: Okay, okay, apparently I haven't posted the link enough times! http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/t0ynr/throwaway_time_whats_your_secret_that_could/c4zrenn
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