She says she had a flat tire trying to get home. You look out a bordered window, see her car a block away with a flat tire. The Purge starts in 55 seconds. You don’t see anyone else out anywhere. She’s sounds very desperate. If the Purge start and she is out there, she will be slaughtered. Or is it a trick? You still have time to open the door, let her in and the resecure it. What’s your move?
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She says she had a flat tire trying to get home. You look out a bordered window, see her car a block away with a flat tire. The Purge starts in 55 seconds. You don’t see anyone else out anywhere. She’s sounds very desperate. If the Purge start and she is out there, she will be slaughtered. Or is it a trick? You still have time to open the door, let her in and the resecure it. What’s your move?
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My ex was emotionally and physically abusive. I’m pretty sure she’s here to kill me in this scenario.
If the purge is real, there are only 3 people in the world I’m opening my door for; My wife and kids.
My most hated ex is still not the kind of person to kill me, so I would let them in, I’m sure it would be…..oh no it was a trap, she got me, send help!!!
If it’s your hated ex, and it’s the purge, why would you let them in?
A solid no from me.
I’m popping some popcorn and watching through the Windows.
If it was my ex alone, I’d tell her to find a good hiding place elsewhere. If she was with my kid (who is an adult and smart enough to already be in a safe place, but whatever), I’d let them in.
How are they going to prove they illegally murdered you 55 seconds before the purge. The answer is no, and my hypothetical ex, I’m going to immediately gun down if the moment calls for violence.
I’d leave them outside.
I’m not interested in harming them but their issues are not my problem.
No? Who the fuck would be driving around 55 seconds before The Purge starts? And right in front of my house? No. What an insanely obvious plot.
I’d definitely let him in, but he’d be locked in a room alone till it finishes.
They’re welcome to stay locked in my garage overnight, but there’s no chance in hell they’re coming into the house.
In a universe in which purging is part of the law , I’m not at home and if I am at home. I certainly have no way of knowing someone is at the door.
I’m hidden away from society with my family and I’m not risking them period.
I wave through the window and blow a kiss
My ex hubby is mma and a great shot. I let him in and we arm up. Hes also brought Kevlar vests and a rocket launcher with him
Got the German Shepherds too.
Ready to rock and roll! Bring it!
I’m not taking the chance.
I have been married for 22 years, me and my ex before my wife broke up in 1997, at this point I might not recognize her.
Yeah. I hated my ex because he was a horrible communicator and kinda selfish, not because he was a terrible person.
I don’t hate my exes.
So, sure, they can come in.
Maybe we can discuss why she thought it was a good idea to still be out that close to Purge time, and catch up on things.
I don’t hate any of my exes. I can think of one that may still dislike me, but probably not hate. I’ll take the chance
Only if I’m 100%certain she doesn’t intend to harm us or cause harm. And, everyone else has to be OK with it.
If it were my actual ex I’d let her in. If it were a hypothetical “hated” ex that I couldn’t trust, nope, they are on their own. Also during any sort of purge there’s a 0% chance I’d lock myself in my house. That’s a stupid idea. I’d be at the top of a tree wearing full camo like 20 miles out into a remote forest and zero people would know where I was.
Yes because my wife & I are not monsters and wouldn’t live with ourselves if we heard her being slaughtered and then have to clean up the mess the next day.
She will be locked in the bathroom with our big anxiety bitey dog on the other side 🫡
My least liked ex isn’t a bad person, just unbearably annoying. I would really hate to subject my family to her in close quarters for hours and hours but she doesn’t deserve to die over being annoying.
As an aside “my lack of common sense and foresight has turned into a problem for those around me” is 100% on brand for her so this is a very believable premise. Especially if the background was “the flat happened like three hours ago, I didn’t know what to do so I watched some TV on my phone and had a nap and checked out product reviews for replacement tires”.
I’ve only got one ex and it’s my ex wife. I don’t hate her, actually happy to say I don’t care about her anymore considering it’s been less than a year. But yes, I would let her in.
Depends why I hate her. Did she cheat on me or somehow mistreat me, to the point of hatred? She’s on her own. Do I hate her because she wouldn’t sleep with me or some other petty bullshit? I let her in.
My ex is still my daughter’s dad and gramps to my grandkids. Plus I don’t hate him. He’s in.
If there’s a purge and she was on my street 1 minute before it starts, either she lives really close and can run there, or if she lives far, she was dead anyway
I’m question opening the door for my mother let alone an ex if the purge is about to start.
She can go hang out in the barn but no house.
Best of luck Melissa
I ask WTF she’s even doing in this state. Then I open the non attached garage for her.
Haha! jokes on that person! I have no ex! *drops the anvil I had suspended above the front door*
No, she’s probably plotting to kill me
Fuck no he already tried to kill me once
Sorry about his luck!
We divorced over I was tired of him giving me bruises. So nope it’s a trap and the first person that I would shoot on purge day.
Nope, I would pretend I wasn’t home just incase they tried breaking in
Nope, she’s going to try to kill me.
It’s a trap.
Natasha? I guess so it might make sense to have extra bodies
I’m not even answering the door
I don’t have an ex, but if I did I guess it would depend on the level of crazy.
Having only seen the first film, the problem I have with its premise is that like… A LOT of people participate. Like who the fuck sees “all crimes are allowed” and thinks “great! I’ll murder!”?
Go steal some shit, break some stuff, sure… But an IRL Purge would be like a couple of horror stories and then a bunch of people staying inside feeling like this is a bad idea.
I live nowhere near my ex so if she prowling these streets, then there is danger afoot…
No. I’d wait out the 55 seconds and watch what happens to her.
My hated ex is a man who does not live in this same country as me. He deserves whatever is coming to him and if he is there specifically then I would be suspicious. He was a horrible person and abusive so I wouldn’t want to help and also why the fuck would he be there when he lives nowhere near, would have no way of knowing my address, and would have no reason to expect me to help him? He can suffer.
Yeah my ex-wife is a narcissist and wouldn’t believe a word she said.
I’m waiting 55 seconds then watching her panic and run off
Only reason I can think of is to purge them myself
Loved ones and close friends only. Bye.
No. My ex was a physical abuser.
I wouldn’t even open the door 55 seconds before the purge starts.
Anyway since I haven’t seen my ex in 15 years. I would look at her and say: “Who the fuck are you?”
If my ex-wife knocked on my door in those circumstances, the only reason would be if she’s either coming to drop off my son or to pick him up. I hate her cheating guts, but she’s still my son’s mother, so I’m letting her in.
I have given her no reason to hate me, and if she’s going to try and purge me, she’s going to have a bad time. Not just because she loses child support, but because she’d have to purge me in front of our child.
And despite my hate for her, I still wouldn’t harm her in any way, so she’s not in any danger either.
So yeah, I’d let her in and even go as far as protecting her (even if she lost that privilege from me directly) for the sake of our son.
I’m sorry I’m wearing noise cancelling headphones and don’t hear the door.
It’s gonna be a long night and a lot of whiskey, but yep, he’s in…
If it’s a hated ex, so sorry about your luck. May the odds be ever in your favor.
Hell no, I’d help the other people get her
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‘wait, i forgot the keys’
*goes to the kitchen make some microwave popcorn*
I have a few exs I don’t hate, life just took us in different directions. I would let them in.
But the HATED ex? Hellllll no, no entry!
Do you understand what purge means lol hell yeah come on in dummy
Probably, but she’ll be checked for weapons and immobilized in some way. Probably chained in a spare bedroom or something like that. Not going to make it sexual or anything like that, but I don’t trust her where I sleep.
I would let her in, charm her, get a little sex in and put her out before the purge starts.
Nope, but she’s about to become pink mist on my front patio and I’m a straight, female. What are you doing out 1 minute before the purge?
My ex is a pathological liar and would tell me anything to get inside, so no.
If I hate her a little? No. If I really hate her? Yup. She chose the wrooooong house.
Is it ever explained how they know exactly when the purge crimes are committed? What if you killed the ex 1 minute before the purge? Not like any forensics is that exact.
My ex is here to kill me, so I’m getting her before she gets me
shoot n loot
I do have a couple exes that use she/her pronouns but none that I hate. I have a couple he/him exes too but the one I hated is already dead. So I’m not letting his corpse in lol. And then there’s one that I don’t hate but we were bad for eachother & brought out the worst in eachother, & we haven’t spoken in years. He has no reason to be in this state as far as I’m aware so. I dunno that I’d let him in.
I would maybe unlock the basement window & lock the door at the top of the stairs. I wouldn’t tell him I’m unlocking the window, I’d tell him to wait there, then tell him when I get back. That way there’s always a locked door between us, as far as he knows. That way he can be safe but not a threat.
Luckily my camera system will give me a front row seat to her getting Purged 🤣🤷🏾
yes, in wrist and ankle shackles with a hood, secured to an impossibly heavy to move object
It depends on what ex. Some of them from when I was younger and things ended amicably? Sure, and they can bring their so or kids if they’re with them. If it’s the abusive alcoholic one or the dead beat? Frankly, it’d probs be a net positive to leave the door shut, and I wouldn’t trust the former wasn’t actively trying to kill me, I already moved states to get away from that so not letting that back into my life much less my home
She might be at my house. I’m on the streets with a Mickey mouse mask on and a katana
If the purge were real, I wouldn’t even be in my house, I’d be in the middle of a dense forest with a rifle, wearing a ghillie suit.
Nope nope nope
::hidden gun emplacements open up and lock on target::
“Womp fucking womp”
I don’t have a hated ex. The only ex I have is someone I actually care about, so I will let her in.
My ‘hated’ ex? The one things ended the worst with? No. If I open the door it’s to kick her ass off my porch.
Nope. She lives 5 states away if she is here purge night it means nothing good.
Are you crazy? Of course not. I have an ex-wife that I get along with really well and I wouldn’t even let her in.
Wife, kids, my mom, and my best friend with his family. Those are the only people getting in.
I move to a slightly more comfortable position on the couch and turn the tv up.
Based on my neighborhood, she is only there for one reason. My street isn’t a cut through, you’re not being let it.
She’s literally feigning an emergency to get in to murder me. That door is staying locked.
If she is there to kill you, you already have a problem. Leaving her outside reduces your options to solve the problem of her wanting to kill you.
For example, she can just pour gas on your house and light it on fire.
Invite her in and physically restrain her. She can hang out for the next 12 hours with a sock in her mouth.
Nah. Don’t get me wrong, I no longer hate the fucker. But I’m just saying, if he was on fire and I could put him out with a bucket… I’d use the water on the grass around him so it didn’t spread.
I’m gonna grab popcorn and watch his ass get murderized.
Of course, I wouldn’t be there anyway, my door would be unlocked for all and I would be at a first aid station
No? why is the bitch even outside knowing that the purge will start
If she has my kid with her she can stay
I’m letting anyone who knocks in; I’m crazier than they are.
No. Lol
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I live in an apartment complex that doesn’t have another exit road. And they don’t know my address, so they could only be there to kill me, definitely not as through traffic. Good luck out there
My ex? Not a damned chance.
Wait 55 sec and shoot them
Nah
Depends on the ex. However All My exes live hours from me so it would be very suspicious that they are showing up at my doorstep.
While I don’t THINK he would kill me, and the lack of planning is definitely on par with his brand of stupid, I’d definitely tell him he’s on his own. Not risking myself and my husband just because dumbass decided to be on the road within 24 hours of the purge. Nope, nope, nope. Since I’m not a complete monster, I might toss him a kitchen knife to protect himself with, but it’s getting tossed from the highest window since that’s the only one I haven’t boarded up.
55 seconds on whose clock? Lol no chance.
Getting the time wrong for the Purge would be a matter of life and death. Just opening the door is an invitation to be noticed and murdered. Anyone doing this is already trying to kill your entire family.
The door to my place would be insulated and completely blocked, and anything that makes sound disabled. In the event of a fire, I’m going out a window, which would otherwise be locked (and loud). Outside lights would be on, interior off.
An hour before the purge, an obvious bear trap would be set directly in front of my front door, to suggest I have some agency in defending my house, or to catch the most dangerous people – idiots.
Yea I’d let her in once it starts and pull an uno reverse card…
Sorry. The Purge is about to begin, why would you go to someones house you know hates you?
A long huff, and fuck, I guess so.
Leave her out there. She’d kill me at the first chance she got.
Bye Felicia
Sure. I know she isn’t armed. She knows I am. She isn’t a physical threat to me. And she would get to see how happy my wife and I are together, and see what she would have had if she hadn’t cheated on me, while we were engaged “to get it out of her system.”
Why not? All my exes are women. And I don’t think any of them hate me. Not enough to kill me anyways. Plus none of them can fight.
Nah. Think I’ll purge her instead
I wouldn’t be walking up anyone’s driveway during the purge as a general rule
Opening the door, and shot to the head if need be
One more round of hate sex with a possibility of getting stabbed? 🤔
I mean… I shouldn’t…. Right?
Why would I open the door for my most hated ex😭💀 sounds like a them problem
Nah, but I’d wait 55 seconds with the cameras on him to see who ganks him and then send them a gift basket when it was all over.
I don’t understand why people have hated ex’s. I don’t have an ex I wouldn’t let in.
If I did (and I was evil), of course I’d let them in. The Purge is about to start, and there are scales to be balanced.
It’s the purge. I’d just shoot her.
I don’t hate any of my exes – we’re all friends.
Except the one that tried to stab me and she was over 30 years ago in a different city. I sure as shit ain’t opening THAT door.
It’s the purge and it’s been established that this is my hated ex. Why wouldn’t I let her in and just get a little purge fix?
Who tf goes out the day the purge starts? I’d be at home at least 6 hours before. Also my ex lives in a different state now and he’d be pretty dumb to think id fall for him “just happening” to be near my house.
I’d be someplace else with my family and our fur babies. I’d book a hotel off the Canadian border a year in advance for three days. The day before, day of, and day after.
Yeah.
If the purge is about to start that means me, my wife, and out kids all have a holster on ready to shoot.
There’s literally nothing she can do in my house besides die.
If you can’t keep yourself safe from a single ex you’re not surviving the purge.
idc when it is or isnt legally. You fuck with my family I’m killing you. The law isn’t going to save you.
Plus even my most hated ex doesn’t care enough to want to kill me. Tbh the bitch is probably happier not being with me lol
My only hated ex was a manipulative abuser. She also lives like 16 hours away. The only reason she’d make the drive would be to try to do some insanely transparent plot to kill me.
So, she’s got about 55 seconds to get out of range.
My “actual ex?” I’d probably let her in. She’s the mom of my kid so …. Plus we parted on good terms.
Not too worried except for fact I live on a cul de sac … WTH is she doing here when there’s noplace but my home she could be heading to
Hypothetical “hated” ex? Nope to the nope.
No? I wouldn’t let a stranger in, I wouldn’t even let most people I DON’T hate in, so why someone I hate?😂
None of mine would kill me. They might rob me though. I’ll risk it.
Considering he told me how much he wanted to know what it felt like to take a life. He’s staying outside. The simple fact that he showed up at my home right before the purge is enough for me to open that door as the purge starts and shoot that fucker. It would come down to me and my wife or him, and it’s certainly not gonna be me or my wife, so that only leaves us with one option.
If I let her in, my current wife would murder her once the purge starts (if she can wait that long)… so it depends on how I feel about that at the moment.
My most hated ex lives 6,000 miles away and I’ve moved twice since we dated. Absolutely not.
My only other ex wouldn’t kill me, but blames my husband for no less than 3 failed relationships. I’m not letting him in either.
If the purge was about to start i don’t think any of my ex would be that foolish to make it that easy for me to show up at my door 1 minute before the fun begins. I purposely ended all my previous relationships on pretty bad terms with each so there could never be any going back.
No, but only because all of my exes (there aren’t many) are either dead or were very abusive.
So for all I know, he’s here to kill me. He can fend for himself. (I also live in a very rural area so why the hell is he anywhere near me?!)
Open the door in 55 seconds and unleash a double barrel purge. Nobody gets in and I get to purge. It’s a win/win
If you knew one of my ex’s, you’d know the answer. Nope.
100% a setup!
Gun go boom
Depends on the ex. Most of them I would refuse. The one abusive one I have, I’d let in just for the sake of taking advantage of the purge.
Let her in, no….grab popcorn yes.
I would have bunkered down the day before. Everyone I care about would be with me or bunkered down themselves. I don’t care who’s knocking, I wouldn’t bother to look much less open the door.
There is only one ex I can think of that I wouldn’t let in. Honestly it wouldn’t be any safer in my house then it would be outside for him.
I would definitely do the women of the world a solid.
My husband and I are both answering the door with a gun pointed at them, telling them to keep their hands up, and then securing them to a chair to keep ourselves safe.
We’re going to take turns aiming our guns at them until we’re satisfied that they’re not secretly communicating with someone outside. Likely placing tape over their mouths.
I’m adding more restraints until they look like a mummy.
When The Purge is over, we’ll place them (still attached to the chair) outside and call the police to take care of assisting them out of it.
No. As she was moving out, she didn’t clean up the ant poison that she put out on her nightstand and where my cat would have stepped. She can be purged.
I don’t have a hated EX. Some I might be annoyed with. But I will let any EX I know in the door. Just a little frisking maybe.
WTF is the purge?
Absolutely not. That was planned lol. Also, my ex literally wants to kill me in this world. So extra no in a purge world.
I say I’m coming and open the door about five times small diameter holes centered chest high or possibly peephole If I catch her snooping.
I let her in and then purge her
Nope. I haven’t talked to my ex in 20 years. If she’s showing up on my doorstep on purge day there is zero chance it’s anything other than bait.
My door isn’t protecting me from the purgers…it’s to protect the purgers from me.
..she done fucked up thinking this is a safe space 😈
Look, I’m all for helping people, but I don’t live anywhere close to where my ex has any reason to be, so if they’re broke down in front of my house right before the Purge, they were absolutely otw to kill me. No way am I opening that door.
We broke up because he’s a liar! This is definitely a lie!
My hated ex was emotionally and physically abusive.. She also got me arrested. She can stay outside.
I let him in, lock the door and kill him when the siren goes off.
She can come in, but only if I can chain her hands and feet. I’m okay keeping her safe for the 12 hours or whatever, but if she doesn’t agree to terms that also keep my family safe, there’s no way. In one respect, it’s better to have her inside where I can keep an eye on her than to have her outside the house doing who knows what.
“Remember to tighten the lug nuts in a star pattern! Good luck!”
BUH-BYE slam
This bitch gonna die
I would tell her, “Fuck you Mariana, why dont you ask your other boyfrend to do it for you?!”
Why would I let the random masses have all the fun?
Come inside! Are you okay? I’m so glad you’re okay. Hey, will you look at what time it is?
Hold my beer.