Do you lock your doors?

[fixin]

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When the wife moved in,she asked me to make her copy's of the keys..HMMMMM...Three doors,not one key.Don't think the oll man I bought the house from ever had them either.Now we lock the doors even when we're home.

 

[FLATHEAD]

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If I think about it I will lock the house when we go out. My setting is such that you cant just happen by and find it unlocked, if someone comes up here they have to have a reason, if that reason is theft that lock aint going to stop them. Never lock the cars when they are at home even leave the keys in. <br /><br />At the old place we had no choice but to lock up.<br /><br />LMAO at Crabby,, I feel your pain bro!!!

 

[Terry H]

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No locks yet, but folks are discovering my little piece of paradise, civilization is moving in. I'm so absentminded I would prolly lose keys if I had to keep track of them.

 

[DJ]

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Locks keep, the honest people out. No seasoned crook is bothered by them. I use locks anyway. Piece of mind, I guess.<br /><br />JB,<br /><br />I've heard about those Texas sized "attack bunnies".

 

[Parrott_head]

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We have a fully functional alarm system with all the neccessary decals the city requires posted plainly.<br /><br />We lock up tight when we leave and when in for the night.<br /><br />Use to keep loaded firearms close by but having kids around the house changed that.

 

[JasonJ]

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I'm hearin' ya Cheif101, lots of new faces in my area. I have always locked my doors, being a California native and all. There are a lot of people in my area that don't bother, but theives are generally opportunists. You leave it open, they will exploit it. You lock it, they may move on. I live in a nice neighborhood, my house is not as nice as my neighbors around me. Plus, I leave my front porch light on at night, no one else does. I never worry about being broken into, too many other targets around. I do leave my truck unlocked though, and my CD player will just pull out. That way if someone wants to steal it, they wont destroy half my interior and break a window to get it. I do lock it away from home though.<br /><br />There are too many expensive lake homes in my area that no one is ever home at, so they tend to be the ones targeted. It probably helps that one of my neighbors is a cop, and I myself am in the process of training to be a cop. Nope, no worries here...

 

[Terry H]

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JasonJ, I do leave the radio on, and a holstered .44 hangin' on the back of a chair by the front door and a light on. The gun is just for decoration, but it is loaded and I do know how to use it. Every once in a while after I watch the news I get overwraught by paranoia, but that only last about 3 seconds. No worries.

 

[gibletts]

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Have a friend who lives in the Shetland Islands, he came to visit us in New Zealand for a few months, he didnt even bother to lock the front door to his house when he left. Everything was as he left it on his return home.

 

[SS MAYFLOAT]

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I have one of those insurance policies also. If a break in happens, there must be forced entry for them to pay out. WHen my son was around with his buddies, I had problems with stuff missing. The security cameras have put a major stop in stuff walking off now. Its not the thieves you worry about around here now, its those that burry bodies in you back yard.<br /><br />That incident about a month ago with them finding that body had us residents shook up. Then to just find out a day or so ago, the police had found another body under the first one. They didn't make any effort in releasing the news on the second body. Just crazy.....

 

[Dunaruna]

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Originally posted by SS MAYFLOAT:<br /> I have one of those insurance policies also. If a break in happens, there must be forced entry for them to pay out. WHen my son was around with his buddies, I had problems with stuff missing. .....

Same here but I'll take that one step further - my insurance company won't pay out if my son is LIVING at home - his priors are obviously on some sort of database that the insurance companies can access. I am fully alarmed and monitored but one day I locked myself out so I broke in without setting of the alarm (in through the roof tiles and dropped through the ceiling hatch in the laundry, then crawled like a dog up to the alarm keypad). My son witnessed this and stuff started going missing shortly after.<br /><br />Aldo

 

[Mark42]

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I don't have to lock my doors, but I do. I often go downtown and leave the house unlocked by accident but I don't worry about it.

 

[John Carpenter]

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I have friends that have not locked their house in over 30 years. I seldom lock the truck & sometimes leave it running. Never had a problem with anything going lost out of the truck or house.

 

[Triton II]

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I live in suburban Sydney and we lock up if we're going out. I never bother locking the car at home when we're there, but believe me that's not the norm in most neighbourhoods... when I go to the ramp I lock the car but it makes no difference... last year the junkies just bust the rear left passenger window to get at an empty briefcase... and the ramp's only half a mile away. Pity, it used to be different.

 

[NYMINUTE]

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Usually, I have two large dogs that kick in when I forget. They simply are not nice when a starnger shows up. It's friends I worry about

 

[brother chris]

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I am in the process of moving into my travel trailer right now and when we hooked up the electricity to the trailer, the whole trailer had power.<br />I mean, if you touched the window sill, you would get shocked, big time. Pretty much anywhere you touched the thing, it was live.<br />So, I usually leave it unlocked, but now I am thinking I might just plug the ole trailer in when I leave for the day, so if anyone does come to break into it, they will at least get a good shock before they steal anything.

 

[Throbbin Rods]

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I lock everything and keep a loaded 12 gauge next to the door. The dog is my alarm system. I live in the woods but have a couple of bad neighbors

 

[LadyFish]

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We don't lock the house or the cars. In fact, most of the time the keys are left in the cars.<br /><br />With a fulltime population of less than 600 and 8 police officers patrolling 24/7, our crime rate is nearly non-existent.<br /><br />We also have a neighborhood watch who's organizer lives right next door and the Police Chief used to live across the street.<br /><br />We live in a resort community and many homes are only used on the weekend, if that. So us fulltimers all keep a close watch on our surrounding neighbor's property and they do the same for us.<br /><br />In fact, I got a call at the office one day from my neighbor who told me there was a VERY buff guy sunning himself on my deck and she didn't think it was Mr. LF. I had forgotten to tell her our nephew was down for Spring Break and someone would be at the house when we weren't home.<br /><br />When we lived in Houston, we locked everything and double checked it before we went to sleep.

 

[Skiuseme]

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I do lock my doors to my house and my cars. But i feel that i have the best security system there is. Nosey Neighbors with retirement diease. All most of them do is sit in there chair and get into everyones business. They even let you know how long the mailperson was sitting at your mail box. One day I came home from work my nieghbors weresitting on my porch wait for me just to tell me that the contractors that were putting on a deck for me took a 47 minute lunch and they didnt feel that was accipectible. that they could have been done so much earlier.

 

[NYMINUTE]

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Originally posted by Skiuseme:<br /> I do lock my doors to my house and my cars. But i feel that i have the best security system there is. Nosey Neighbors with retirement diease. All most of them do is sit in there chair and get into everyones business. They even let you know how long the mailperson was sitting at your mail box. One day I came home from work my nieghbors weresitting on my porch wait for me just to tell me that the contractors that were putting on a deck for me took a 47 minute lunch and they didnt feel that was accipectible. that they could have been done so much earlier.

I think I know those peoples family.

 

[jtexas]

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I live in a nice single-family residential neighborhood, but stuff grows legs and walks out of open garage doors. News reports of thieves driving around just looking for open doors & taking what they want. So now we gotta be careful to close the dang garage even when we're home.<br /><br />Also been a couple home-invasion incidents recently, not in my neighborhood but in the metro area. You bet we lock the doors. At least they have to make noise to get in. Hopefully enough to wake the dog.