Viewing a single comment thread. View all comments

zsreport OP t1_jee6tw6 wrote

The name of the victim hasn't been released, but for those unfamiliar with Houston, River Oaks is the really rich neighborhood inside the 610 loop in Houston.

57

astanton1862 t1_jeeh0n6 wrote

Papa Bush and Ted Cruz

25

zsreport OP t1_jeeiqi1 wrote

I believe Papa Bush lived (at least for the last part of his life) in Tanglewood, also very upscale, but over in the Galleria/Uptown area. All the boys in ZZ Top grew up in that neighborhood, though I don't think it was as upscale then as it is now.

Enron evil doer Jeff Skilling lived in River Oaks before it all went bust. I believe prosperity gospel preacher Joel Osteen lives in River Oaks.

Honestly, not sure it's a neighborhood I'd want to live in if I could afford it.

23

sirfuzzitoes t1_jeep4p2 wrote

Sounds like there are a lot of cocksuckers living there.

30

jumosc t1_jeeh8er wrote

Used to live there, when I was a kid, in a gated home within a gated community that had armed guards at the front.

If guns made us safer, why did they need all of that and why did they install panic buttons 2 feet off the floor on most walls of the house?

So glad I left Texas.

11

bbroygbvgwwgvbgyorbb t1_jefwgj3 wrote

What’s the purpose of them being 2 ft off the floor? If you have to crawl to access them? Or kick them?

6

jumosc t1_jefxhyr wrote

The idea was that if there was an intruder or shooter you could stay low, crawl to the wall and hit one of the buttons without showing yourself through a window or be forced to go to the wall mounted alarm controller to hit the panic button.

I can’t remember if we also had remotes in addition to the buttons but I think not…

Problem we had with these buttons was furniture placement. Couches and beds might block access to some or even trigger the button if pressed too close to the wall. Some homes had pull strings instead of buttons, I always guessed that was the reason.

2

officialbigrob t1_jegukr4 wrote

Damn your parents were paranoid as fuck.

6

jumosc t1_jeguy8n wrote

We moved there in the early 2000s, those security upgrades happened long before we moved in (I think at least a decade). We were told a wealthy older woman (which was like 80% of the neighborhood population demographic…) was assaulted years earlier which prompted the upgrades to all the homes in the community.

6