Do you lock your doors?

[Nubclear]

I lock my doors, but thats cause I live in a high-risk area (For logan, that is).

And I have one lock on my doors. But I have an in-house secuirty system, too

[Gatekeeper]

Originally posted by MichaeltheGreat
The kind that just paints a little red dot where their balls would be?

Heh. Yeah. The "disabling" kind of lasers.

Seriously, I think it's just some sort of ID type of system that present outside/in some of the more fancy units around here. I'm not in that class just yet.

Gatekeeper

[Zkribbler]

I lock both my wooden doors and my metal security doors. They're locked even when someone's home. The house also came with bars on the windows.

When I'm at a gas (petrol) station and I go inside to pay, I lock my car doors.

I think this is more symptomatic of a large city rather than of a nation. I've heard that plenty of people who live in very tiny towns in America never lock their doors.

[Alexander's Horse]

I lock my wife and kids out of the house a lot - they always find a way in though.

[The Mad Monk]

In all seriousness, I have dead bolts I always use, but I will never use a self-lock latch again.

I still have to repair the door frame for the entrance to my apartment from the last time...

[The Mad Monk]

Btw, I'm astounded at how little force you need to break in a standard residential "fireproof security door".

[Fve Crathva]

My door has never been unlocked while I've lived in this room, because I don't trust anybody (especially people my own age).

SP

[The Mad Monk]

Which window do you use?

[Cruddy]

I always lock my doors. Always.

I've had a distraction burglary (kid comes round the front while his mate goes round the back) and I'm determined not to repeat the experience.

Only the one lock, with a chain to secure it.

Mind you, I have lived in places with no locks at all. The security came from a dozen or so squatters on hand ready to defend the place - long time ago now though.

Paranoid? You have no idea of my situation.

[MikeH]

Of course I lock my door. Well.. actually there's no choice. Most front doors in the UK have those yale locks where once you close them you need a key to get in from outside. I don't think I've lived in a house where that wasn't true.

In the UK houses are a lot closer together than in the US and either on or a lot closer to roads that people regularly walk/drive past. So if you leave your doors open you are likely to get all your stuff stolen. And the insurance companies won't pay for it because you can't get insurance that covers theft from an unlocked house (if there is no-one home).

[Dauphin]

My house has a latch lock too.

[FrustratedPoet]

Yep, I also have no choice. The door locks automatically when I close it.

Even if you have a manual lock, why NOT lock your door? It only takes 5 seconds.

[Spiffor]

I have had a latchlock in every place I lived, except for one year.

I'm not really a door-locker though : I have never locked the door when I was home, and I only lock when I'm away for some time. Besides, in this year's house (which I share with 3 roommates), I never lock the door of my individual room, ever.

I also have a friend living in a house without latchlocks, and he never locks the door. Simple reason : it doesn't hamper theft, and it feels much freeer (indeed)

[Skanky Burns]

If I have a lock for whatever, I will use it. Car, home, anything. I even had a deadlock installed on my back door. It is amazing how a crowbar can render most other locks ineffective, as demonstrated by the last person who burgled my house.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Tingkai
It gets a ridiculous in Hong Kong. I lived at a place where there was an eight-foot wall around two apartment buildings with a key-code locked front gate, then a key-code locked door for the lobby. Each apartment had a locked sliding gate, plus a door with two locks.

It just reeks of paranoia.

That's bog standard in the city. For large development projects there aren't any walls surrounding individual buildings, but the rest are always there.

Okay, so two locks may be a bit much