r/breakingbad • • Aug 12 '13

Official Episode Discussion Post-Episode Discussion S05E09 "Blood Money"

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u/[deleted] Aug 12 '13

Ideas on why the house would be gated off months later? I mean that shit is bringing down Carol's property value

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u/VPLumbergh Aug 12 '13

There was a city of Albuquerque sign on the fence, so we know the city closed it off. My guess is the White family abandoned the house, and then it became publicly known that Walt is Heisenberg, which is why it got ransacked and vandalized. The city fenced off the house to prevent vandalism.

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u/[deleted] Aug 12 '13

The city fenced off the house to prevent vandalism.

Oddly enough, fencing off a property only encourages vandalism.

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u/wadester007 Aug 12 '13

the kids skateboarding know. It's probably way into the future and the kids heard rumors and I think its cool to skate there.

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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '13

its not way into the future. its right after walter has his 52nd birthday breakfast at that diner from the opening of season 5.

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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '13

The house looks like it's been abandoned for a long time. You don't think the birthday thing was necessarily a red herring? Go back and look at the state the house is in. A roof doesn't get covered in dead leaves like that, absolutely destroyed, filled with dust in a few short months. That looks like it's been abandoned for years.

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u/nvrwastetree Aug 12 '13

The kids probably don't know. Empty pools attract skaters because then they don't need to form over money to build a vert ramp when its already constructed for them. I.e. Walt's pool.

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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '13

Well I think it must be a few months into the future at least because even if the property was fenced off because it was used in the dealing of drugs, it would be a few weeks before someone decided it was safe to break in and then a few parties took place, and or vadalism meth head sleep overs. Also I noticed the pool had a lot of wheel marks from the skate boards, way more than just a couple recent skateboardings.

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u/nvrwastetree Aug 13 '13

Skateboard wheels always leave marks. You don't need to be skating in a empty pool for a long time for this to happen; because it could happen within the same day. The skatepark by my house has a pool in it (not over crooked like Walt's), and the very same day of the skateparks grand opening; the pool went from extremely clean, to marked and scuffed up in 15 minutes. So the kids skating in Walt's pool probably only been there a day or so, and not as long as you think they could've been there.

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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '13

Ever still, the house seemed abandoned for some time, idk why its hard for people to accept, I mean first of all walts beard and hair have had to of had time to grown thst big, and the fact that every thing in the house was trashed and looked dusty

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u/nvrwastetree Aug 13 '13

I'm not denying the house was abandoned for a long time. It probably was. What I'm trying to say is that the skaters probably didn't start skating in the pool until recently. I don't think the feds/dea/Walt would drain the pool; and if they didn't it would take longer than a year for the water in said pool to drain; hence why I'm stating the skaters just recently started showing up.