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Girls on the ground floor with me - isn't that not allowed?

hey guys, I'm at Bangor Uni. My room is on the ground floor and I was shocked to find that 5/8 of us in my flat are girls. I was always told that girls weren't put on the ground floor uni for obvious reasons (attack, rape, abduction). I was told a story once about a girl getting into bed at Cambridge, read a magazine, threw it on the floor, and when she went to switch off her lamp the magazine slid under her bed, so she got up , ran along the bed and jumped to the door and got out while the guy under her bed got out her window.

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Reply 1

M_E_X

AnthonyShock

At my uni there are heaps of girls on the ground floor. It sounds like an 'urban myth' which you fell for.

Reply 2

Tomato_Soup1992

XD They're terrible at hiding.

Oh, you silly boy.

i heard that before i went to uni as well
but ive found that most of the halls dont care as security is enough to protect them
so you have nothing to be worried about

Reply 5

Sithius

Poor guy just couldn't afford to buy the latest edition of OK magazine. Maybe a bit drastic but still, have some compassion!

Reply 6

Bunkd

Lol OP wtf was that story about?

Can people only hide under ground-floor beds?

Reply 7

BabyGirl92

Yeah it is allowed.. loads of people on the ground floor here, but most of the rooms face inwards anyway. And the windows don't open fully so it'd be impossible to get out. Bangor is a safe place anyway I'm from there so I wouldn't worry tbh :smile:

Define: gullible

You've been hoodwinked.

Reply 10

PasserBy9

You are questioning there being 5 girls to 3 guys in your flat?

...

Are you sure you're a student?

Reply 11

-kit-kat-

AnthonyShock

hmmm people are making fun but what you said sounds reasonable...

Reply 12

Lamptastic

Once in halls at UCL a tramp wondered in and fell asleep in one of the toilets during the year I stayed there. It actually made it into the Uni magazine!

Reply 13

angelmxxx

It totally depends on the uni/housing company. At Durham there aren't any girls on the ground floor in several of the colleges, but it depends on what the uni/unite/whoever wants to do.

Reply 14

GodspeedGehenna

AnthonyShock

Is English your first language?

Reply 15

AnthonyShock

-kit-kat-

hmmm people are making fun but what you said sounds reasonable...

Yeah, I don't get what is so stupid about it :s-smilie:

I've never been to Uni before, bloody hell.

Reply 16

Sabriella

Let's be honest; if they can get into the building in the first place, what's to stop them going to any floor? No one should leave their window open wide enough for someone to get in, whether they're on the ground floor or not.

Anyway. They should be fine. They've got you big strong boys to look after them, right? =]

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Reply 17

thatwhichiam

Rape happens upstairs as well, in some halls a few weeks back near my flat some guy got in and raped a girl on the second floor. Halls windows are reasonably secure, aren't they?

Reply 18

RyanT

I thought it was a sensible idea and if iirc was practised at my old uni.

It's not the law or anything. Just common sense. Same principles of having hounds sat in the back of a pub where all the booze is stored.