The Police Raid Your House....

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**Easy E**

Let's pretend the police raid you house, confiscate your computer to poke around in it, and do a general search. Since none of us have anything to hide (

). What do they find that would be embarassing to you?

In my house they would of course find...

1. Racks and racks of little toy men
2. Xena: Warrior Princess Action Figures
3. A Michael Bolton CD
4. Terrible Barbarian/Gladiator movies on DVD- Kull the Conqueror, Ator the Fighting Eagle, Sword and the Sorceror, The Barbarians, etc.
5. Broken faucets that I should be able to fix but haven't
6. Several large commercial grade freezers full of.... cake

How about you?

**reds8n**

.................. Comment removed after legal advice. ulcanized rubber. Least the straps are new.

**Dreadclaw69**

Surely the NSA already knows our secrets?

**Frazzled**

A curious abundance of dog treats and shotgun shells.

**Chancetragedy**

Children's toys everywhere.... From my little ponies to Barbies to warhammer dudesman to a 47" flat screen with multiple gaming systems. The joys of havig a 3-1/2 year old girl and 29 year old manchild.

**hotsauceman1**

A variety of home alone esque traps

**Iron_Captain**

Secret Russian plans for glorious World Revolution and a secret stockpile of nuclear weapons.

Also, a suspiciously large collection of all kinds of stuff related to KV-tanks.

**Co'tor Shas**

If the police raided my house they would find surprisingly large amount of edged weapons.

**PrehistoricUFO**

A large collection of Warhammer miniatures, boxes upon boxes of them.

Tons of books.

My pride and joy - many, many external hard drives totaling 10TB of data. I have it all organized nicely within each drive, and I constantly update a master text file that contains my entire collection indexed by date acquired. Ctrl+F ensures I find things I need quickly, and to check if I'm acquiring duplicates.

**kronk**

A very big collection of miniature, futuristic space men and orks, a bunch of D&D models, more board games than I can play in a year, and the most boring internet history file ever:

Dakka
Dakka
Dakka
ratemywife'sboobs
dakka
40kradio
dakka
dakka
IndependentCharacters
Dakka
Dakka
ratemywife'sboobs
Dakka

And so on...

**Da Boss**

I have:
Piles of minis
Comic books
about 30 beer bottles.

I think that's it!

**lord_blackfang**

That I have no life.

**Platuan4th**

They'd find lots of stuff, but nothing that would be embarrassing to me.

I don't hide my hobbies, everything's on display, even my terrible horror movies and my ponies. In fact, my ponies stand proudly above my terribad horror movies, soooo...

Everyone already gets a tour of my toy room, to be stared at by thousands of man dollies and hundreds of Transformers and Halo Megablocks.

**4oursword**

Cheap toy guns, skittles, and Pokémon mange in abundance. Also a couple of lightsabers and a carnivorous rabbit named Archimedes.

I'm good.

**Frazzled**

So thats where the vorpal bunny ran off to.

**AndrewC**

Frazzled wrote:
A curious abundance of dog treats and shotgun shells.

I'd hate to see the mess if you get those two mixed up.....

Cheers

Andrew

**4oursword**

Frazzled wrote:
So thats where the vorpal bunny ran off to.

He fled to the UK for the free healthcare.

**Nocturn**

Easy E wrote:

>Michael Bolton CD

On our way.

**timetowaste85**

They would find way too many minis, Batman and Superman from the Injustice action figure line duking it out on top of my Xbox, a weight bench being used as a hobby shelf, skis, a compound bow....hmmm, I guess my room isn't too embarrassing. They might also find catnip. Of course, I only use it recreationally...meow *twitch*

**SagesStone**

Depends, are they the sandwich police?

**Tannhauser42**

Apart from an embaressing amount of unassembled minis stockpiled in one bedroom, there wouldn't be much else for them to find.

Except maybe for a few sex toys. Or, "novelty adult items," as we have to call them in Texas.

**Jimsolo**

I have several boxes filled with materials to make terrain/conversion bits out of that I've squirreled away over the years, which might look suspicious at first glance.

I've got a small collection of homemade machetes (what some folks call the leafspring katana) in my garage. I love picking those little gems up at yard sales. I've had one of these confiscated by the cops before, so I wouldn't be surprised if it happened again.

I use my basement as a paint room, so if they went down there, I might expect to get arrested. I've got it wrapped up like a Dexter-style kill room. And the basement itself looks pretty Freddy Krueger-y, so that isn't going to help my case any.

**Ouze**

Easy E wrote:
Let's pretend the police raid you house, confiscate your computer to poke around in it, and do a general search. Since none of us have anything to hide (). What do they find that would be embarassing to you?

1.) At least 10,000 points of unassembled and unpainted models intended for warhams.

2.) A big bag of glass micro-spheres, which are used to lighten resin. It looks like a big bag of blow, though.

3.) The MP3 for "My Heart Will Go On" by Celine Dion.

4.) A photograph of me dressed up as Clifford, The Big Red Dog.

5.) My desk drawer contains, among other things a switchblade, a taser, a dog collar, and a small tub of vaseline. The vaseline is for my dog's nose - my previous dog (the owner of the collar) once got to a tub of it that was on my desk rather than in it, and ate it, leading to consequences better imagined than described - and after vowing never again, I keep it put away, but handy for when she comes over to say hi and I see how dry her nose is.

However absent this context it looks like a very specific and bizarre fetish.

**DogofWar1**

Nothing they find will be embarrassing because I will sue them and get a motion to suppress if there are any criminal charges involved.

THEY DON'T GOT A WARRANT!

Besides my computer is password locked with the most impenetrable of passwords.

**Co'tor Shas**

DogofWar1 wrote:
Nothing they find will be embarrassing because I will sue them and get a motion to suppress if there are any criminal charges involved.

THEY DON'T GOT A WARRANT!

Besides my computer is password locked with the most impenetrable of passwords.

Is it PASSWORD?

**feeder**

DogofWar1 wrote:
Nothing they find will be embarrassing because I will sue them and get a motion to suppress if there are any criminal charges involved.

THEY DON'T GOT A WARRANT!

Besides my computer is password locked with the most impenetrable of passwords.

Is it 1 2 3 4 5 ?

**Overlord Thraka**

DogofWar1 wrote:
Nothing they find will be embarrassing because I will sue them and get a motion to suppress if there are any criminal charges involved.

THEY DON'T GOT A WARRANT!

Besides my computer is password locked with the most impenetrable of passwords.

Is it DogofWar1?

**Steve steveson**

Embarising things? Not my minis. I'm not embarrassed by them.

What they would find:

My wife's stack of porn (she has something against internet porn for some reason. Not the content, but the concept, like its illegal, in a pirate music way)
Sex toys
My wife's CD collection. Mine is awesome. She has horrid taste in music.
A large selection of weapons. Bows, guns, knives, both real and toy. All legally held, but knowing UK police... If it's a rural copper it's all good, but if the response is from one of the city coppers I dread to think what conclusions they would make.
Far to many half finished projects.
Motorbike parts

On my PC... Well, my history is something along the lines of:

Dakka
Facebook
Faite 212
Gun shop
Forgeworld
Archery shop
Hunting site
Motorbike site
Porn

**squidhills**

Erm... well, they wouldn't find anything illegal, no. But I would have a LOT of explaining to do down at the station. My computer just has some smut on it... okay "some" meaning "half a terabyte", but honestly who doesn't have at least a few dirty pictures on their computer these days? And none of the subject matter is unusual or even a little bit weird.

But the pile of comics hidden in my room? The one under my bed that nobody, not even my cat, knows about? Yeah, that would raise more than a few eyebrows.

And then there is my airsoft collection. Most have the obligatory orange tips on them, but a few do not (and my gas-operated Broomhandle Mauser does a glorious impersonation of a real gun, even in good light) and that might cause some problems (all were purchased legally and none were subsequently modified... I just bought them in places that didn't require orange tips). I don't have any REAL firearms for the police to have problems with (as often as I accidentally shoot myself with 6mm plastic pellets, I try to avoid things that fire real bullets) so I'm good there.

The carpet of wargaming miniatures on every flat surface in my house wouldn't even elicit a snide remark from the police (law enforcement and my miniatures have met each other in the past), but the gun cases I use for transporting my models would likely be confiscated (and then quickly returned to me once the officers had opened them and looked inside).

I have an anime collection, but anime is so mainstream these days, the cops would probably ask me for suggestions about what series are good to watch.

Ditto my Doctor Who DVDs.

**Kavik_Whitescar**

hmmm Tons of miniatures and Halo Battle scenes made from the Mega blox sets all over my apartment...like everywhere
Fire arms hidden in all kinds of places (woo eyebrows)
My SCA armor and tunics (I like to call em my super hero costumes)
My SCA swords and shield (that might cause some eyebrows as well)
If they look hard enough a bunch of nudie mags and cash hidden behind a Bad Religion flag in a hole in my wall
normal college nerd stuff that I have no intrest in explaining
My laptop, a decent amount of the skanky pictures
some Dakka
Gun threads
instructables
oh man, Tumblr that would be the most awkward thing to have to explain