Do you lock your doors?

[Cruddy]

Originally posted by Tingkai


That sucks. I've never heard of this one before. Is it common where you live? What did they steal? How long did the kid at the front door keep you distracted?

Not that I need to worry about it. I doubt any kid would be able to climb up 18 storeys to get in my back window.

They didn't steal much - just a jacket containing my entire stash of cigarette papers. Sentimental value only (the jacket that is - a gift from my Dad).

At the time, I didn't have a cat flap, so left the back door open when the cat was out (and I was in). Now I have a cat flap (and the cat loves it) so it's not really an issue any more. The joys of ground floor flats - although I'm glad it's me and not some defenceless old lady.

As for the distraction time, maybe 2 minutes? The kid at the front had a line of sight on the back door so he could see when he could stop play acting.

Yep, pretty common occurrence in my area - all though things are quieter now the local crime family has been locked up (guns, heroin, prostitution).

One down, a dozen to go.

[Pekka]

Well I have to lock my door because it gets locked by default. Though in my parents house, door is never locked, except when there's no one there. Well, backdoor is open all the time, even when there's no one there. Same with all the people I know, no one locks their doors while they're IN the house. That's kind of weird to lock your door, lock yourself in.

However my mom locks her door in the US all the time. She didn't want to do that, but one time there was a stranger in her living room, so .. after that incident she decided to listen and lock the damn doors at all times .
Now she also has a dog and a baseball bat. People change I guess .

[Adagio]

I always lock the door (to the outside), when leaving house, or going to sleep, when living downtown, this is needed...

Back in the days as I lived in a smaller town, we never locked our car (We locked the door to the house though)

[Solly]

Are you daft? Gets locked all the time. If it's unlocked, back room door is open to listen out (say if someone is due home).

[Brundlefly]

I never lock my door. If someone is so desperate that they are willing to break the law because they need something of mine to survive, then go ahead and take it. Watch your karma, though....

Life is about relationships not objects. I accumulate objects but I don't have a significant attachment to anything I own.

[Traianvs]

when I go to class, or leave for a long time I lock my door, but that's basicly because I live in a big building that is accessible to anyone (the floor underneath my place is an aula, so hundreds of people get in and out my building everyday...)

it wouldn't do much good though, if I really wanted I could just break into my own place by kicking the door (and not even hurting myself )

[Pekka]

Feephi, where do you live?

[Guest]

Wow
in my family we never locked any door except if there was nobody home, even at night....

[Zero]

When I dormed in school, I locked my room, but we didnt lock the suite door.

(On the living room theres was only an old TV not worth ur effort and a fridge that always had no food in it. )

Leaving the living room open allows guests to freely come in. If you want privacy you can still go into ur own room.

[Ted Striker]

Hell yeah I lock all my doors are you crazy there are all sorts of thugs out there...

[mindseye]

My apartment has uniformed guards (two to five or them on duty 24/7 to cover one doorway), keypad access to the elevator lobby, then a deadbolt on the apt door. It all seems rather silly, the crime rate is laughably low here. For example, folks hang their laundry in places where any pedestrian could walk off with it, and vendors routinely place merchandise on the sidewalks ahead of their store, often completely unattended. Women can walk alone at night in the darkest of alleys.

This is a very strange thing about Shanghai - even though it's China's largest city, it's also one of the safest. Imagine if New York City was one of the quietest, safest places to live in the US.

There is joke here that when you see an apartment way up at the twentieth storey with cages and bars over the windows, you know someone from Hong Kong owns it.

[Al B. Sure!]

I don't think Feephi lives on the same planet as us...

[SlowwHand]

Locks only deter honest people anyway.
I lock and load.

[Al B. Sure!]

my mother was always real paranoid about locking the doors in our apartment though... locking the handle lock and the heavy duty lock above it everytime she left the apt (and putting on the chain lock when she was at home)... it made no sense to me though because it's an apartment building! what is the chances that someone would go up a couple floors and just happen to choose our unlocked apt. to break into?


thanks

[Dinner]

It depends on the area. If it's a bad area then I'll lock my car doors if not then the windows stay down. At home my room mate locks the front door at night but I don't bother.