You can bust through a wall to escape a house...

[elehhhhna]

not so much in an older home, like the Cleveland girls were held in, but more recently built it's not that hard.

Interior wall - piece of cake. Exterior more difficult but doable.

Pass it on.

[Scootaloo]

1. And the DU victim-blaming concern trolls rev their engines...

[Gravitycollapse]

11. No.

[NightWatcher]

2. Or break water fixtures so badly that it'd flood

Then they'll have to send repairmen out and the kidnapper will have to explain.

[magical thyme]

6. um, no he wouldn't have to explain

the women were kept locked in attic or basement. He had guests over who never suspected a thing.

[Ninga]

3. You might have second thoughts if your captors threatened to slice open one of the

Other captives.

On second thought, I think this OP in not worth the time.

[southernyankeebelle]

4. These girls didn't have a choice to do anything. The doctor said they girls were

weak.

[newmember]

5. The report said they were in the basement.

You can't bust through concrete with packed dirt around it.

It's possible if you have the tools and enough time but I doubt they did in that basement.

[elehhhhna]

9. no shit. but this is info you might want to share with your kids

since everybody's talking about it. could be handy in the future.

[Junkdrawer]

8. My home is a brick-faced, lath and mortar frame home built in 1929....

We changed a window into a door to add a deck. Not easy.

They built them to last then.

[elehhhhna]

12. I kniow - I said that.

My hubs is a builder and I assure you that recently built homes are nothing like yours.

[Junkdrawer]

14. I know. One of the reasons I bought an old home.

Lived for a while in DC and saw how 10 yr. old "New Homes" were cracking and settling.

[nolabear]

10. The walls they were facing weren't only physical ones.

Trust me on this. The mind can be dominated in ways you cannot imagine. It's a terrible thing to contemplate but it happens.

[NYC_SKP]

17. ^^^ Best response to the OP. ^^^

Period.

[Phentex]

21. Yes! It is so much more complicated than people realize.

and wasn't one of them only 14 at the time of kidnapping?

Survival was the name of the game.

[pnwmom]

23. Yup. Elizabeth Smart was just talking about that. n/t

[NYC_SKP]

13. I predict....

...dramatic exchanges in this thread.

If the advice helps then I see nothing wrong with the OP.

But it's already going sideways with tension.

[Gravitycollapse]

15. Probably because the OP is ridiculous and not so veiled victim blaming.

[sufrommich]

16. These women were so fearful of their torturers that

there was no way they would react like that. I hate this kind of shit, it's easy to be brave from your comfortable living room,when you're being tortured by madmen,not so much.

[AverageJoe90]

20. That much is true, sadly. n/t

[Arctic Dave]

18. It's called a donkey kick. Firefighters are taught how to do it.

Yes. It can be helpful.

[NYC_SKP]

19. 1/2" drywall is easy. 1/2' plywood siding is not so easy.

And, obviously, stucco on lath or brick facing would be even harder.

In any event, as indicated above (nolabear) the psychological walls are probably what kept these victims from even trying to get through a wall.

[Arctic Dave]

24. Not as easy but doable.

I agree, the psychological barrier is tremendous. No telling what horrors these ladies went through.

[pnwmom]

22. That would depend on where you were chained. n/t