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General Discussion => Essentially Flyertalk => Topic started by: nicname on July 17, 2014, 01:44:01 AM
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At night: No, not really.
When away from home: During the day, nah. Not usually. When gone for a few days, yes.
Vehicle: depends where I'm at, usually not at home.
I used to live in an apartment in MHK that I always locked, landlord said we had break-in probs when I moved in.
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At night: No, not really.
When away from home: During the day, nah. Not usually. When gone for a few days, yes.
Vehicle: depends where I'm at, usually not at home.
I used to live in an apartment in MHK that I always locked, landlord said we had break-in probs when I moved in.
My house and car are pretty much locked all of the time.
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My dorm key in college was the first house key I ever had. My parents still don't lock their doors and they also leave the keys in all the vehicles.
When I visit, worlds collide inside my head and I invariably lock my keys in my car at least once.
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I live in Overland Park, so yea, I lock everything all the time.
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At my last house, no, but that was because I did not have a house key. I did not keep anything of real value there. Otherwise, yes, of course.
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when i'm home in the daytime or after work/before bed i do not lock the door. all the other times, yes. car door all the time
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When asleep or gone, yes. Why wouldn't you? I get why ppl like to say they don't. It makes them feel good about how safe they feel their community is, but, the house came with locks and we are talking about an additional 4-5seconds a day to actually use them. No matter where you live, that just makes sense.
I don't see the down side.
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Gooch left the garage door open last night. :sdeek:
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Gooch left the garage door open last night. :sdeek:
Hope no one jacked the IROC.
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My wife ripped my ass because I left the front door unlocked two nights ago when we went to bed. My two year old daughter likes to check the doors to see if they are open and if so will go ahead and decide to go outside to play.
Luckily that didn't happen but man oh man was I in trouble.
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of course
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Gooch left the garage door open last night. :sdeek:
Hope no one jacked the IROC.
:lol:
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yes. although bear left my door wide open all night* last weekend.
*from about 5 am when he went to bed till 7:30 am when i woke up.
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yes. although bear left my door wide open all night* last weekend.
*from about 5 am when he went to bed till 7:30 am when i woke up.
does that surprise you?
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Gooch left the garage door open last night. :sdeek:
I always thought an alarm that would trigger at a user-specified time to alert you that your garage door was open would be a good idea
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Gooch left the garage door open last night. :sdeek:
Hope no one jacked the IROC.
:lol:
But seriously, our garage is full of remodel stuff including our new kitchen cabinets.
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Gooch left the garage door open last night. :sdeek:
I always thought an alarm that would trigger at a user-specified time to alert you that your garage door was open would be a good idea
Growing up, my parents were always close enough with the neighbors that they would let us know.
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Gooch left the garage door open last night. :sdeek:
Hope no one jacked the IROC.
:lol:
But seriously, our garage is full of remodel stuff including our new kitchen cabinets.
I thought the joke was funny. Leaving your garage door open, not so much.
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Unlocked doors and a loaded burglar alarm. :gocho:
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Unlocked doors and a loaded burglar alarm. :gocho:
that's so emo :lol:
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Gooch left the garage door open last night. :sdeek:
Hope no one jacked the IROC.
my next door neighbor left his garage open Sunday night and some one stole his Tahoe and his table saw
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When we went on vacation as a kid it was always my job to lock the front door. I forgot once when we went to Florida. Came home with the front door wide open for the whole week. :horrorsurprise:
Nothing was taken though. :Woot:
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But to answer the original question, yes always lock our doors if we're asleep or gone. And always set the alarm system anytime we're gone. Mrs kcfd is way more anal about this than I am. (sometimes I forget to set the alarm when I leave)
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we live in Topeka and always lock our doors. we did forget and left the garage door open tuesday night, it was all good though.
as a kid in NNY, we never locked the doors and my dad (who i didn't live) never locks his to this day; and he should, he's got lots of guns and illegal crap in there, but that part of NY is as podunk as leoti, KS.
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i usually don't if there's someone home or if we're just running out for an hour or two, but my wife is all paranoid about being raped and killed, so she does and then yells at me about it.
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Not locking your doors is the sophisticated cousin of not wearing your seatbelt.
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:lol: Like a thief is going to haul off kitchen cabinets. Is there a huge black market (seems like a racist term?) I'm not aware of for cabinets?
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i wear my seatbelt too!
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i lock my car and house regularly
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:lol: Like a thief is going to haul off kitchen cabinets. Is there a huge black market (seems like a racist term?) I'm not aware of for cabinets?
Some punk kids could come vandalize them.
Also, there are 2 motorcycles with keys in them. :shakesfist:
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i wear my seatbelt too!
1 seatbelt conveniently located right where you are already sitting vs like 20 doors and windows scattered all around the house. stupid analogy.
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i lock my car and house regularly
When you do this, you have to then say "just keeping honest folks honest."
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I lock all the things with locks
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:lol: Like a thief is going to haul off kitchen cabinets. Is there a huge black market (seems like a racist term?) I'm not aware of for cabinets?
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:lol: Like a thief is going to haul off kitchen cabinets. Is there a huge black market (seems like a racist term?) I'm not aware of for cabinets?
In my experience, people who steal crap will steal whatever's not nailed down behind a closed garage door. Also, lol at night/shadows being racist.
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I've always figured that if someone wants to break into your house, they're going to break in no matter what.
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I've always figured that if someone wants to break into your house, they're going to break in no matter what.
I've always figured they went for the easiest/highest value target.
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I live in a relatively rough part of town that's directly off of the interstate that serves as the major north-south artery for goods moving between mexico and the rest of the us so yes, everything's locked 24/7.
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I've always figured that if someone wants to break into your house, they're going to break in no matter what.
I've always figured they went for the easiest/highest value target.
locked house with the house dwellers not being in town is a much, much, much easier target than an unlocked, occupied house.
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I've always figured that if someone wants to break into your house, they're going to break in no matter what.
I've always figured they went for the easiest/highest value target.
locked house with the house dwellers not being in town is a much, much, much easier target than an unlocked, occupied house.
for sure, but unlocked unoccupied house is an easier target than a locked occupied house.
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for sure, but unlocked unoccupied house is an easier target than a locked occupied house.
everything in life is a tradeoff.
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You were on the right track, michcat, but I think that the 'I don't lock' people are more similar to the 'I don't have a tv' people
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You were on the right track, michcat, but I think that the 'I don't lock' people are more similar to the 'I don't have a tv' people
more accurate.
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the seatbelt analogy was used because it also reduces risk with minimal effort. not watching tv doesn't reduce risk of anything, although it is kind of lifestyle braggy.
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comparing not locking your door with not wearing seatbelt is lol worthy. similar to not building bunker for meteor strike/nuclear bombing to not wearing sunblock.
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Heck yes I lock things up.
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OK guys
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I don't see any downside to locking doors. it doesn't take any more effort than shutting the door and has some benefits (level of benefit determined by how shitty of a neighborhood you live in I guess).
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I thought Michcat's comparison was apt.
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Since we moved into our new neighborhood I've been hanging out outside with my shirt off quite a bit, just so if anyone is scoping out our house to rob it they know exactly what they're signing up for.
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Since we moved into our new neighborhood I've been hanging out outside with my shirt off quite a bit, just so if anyone is scoping out our house to rob it they know exactly what they're signing up for.
You should get some (more) tattoos.
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I thought Michcat's comparison was apt.
yeah, he even disclaimer'ed it properly. people just can't handle them some michigancat sometimes.
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Since we moved into our new neighborhood I've been hanging out outside with my shirt off quite a bit, just so if anyone is scoping out our house to rob it they know exactly what they're signing up for.
Maybe take up smoking as well (if you haven't already).
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I don't lock my doors but I enjoy watching TV and am fanatical about using my seatbelt. Try and wrap your heads around that. :don'tcare:
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I don't lock my doors but I enjoy watching TV and am fanatical about using my seatbelt.
this is the default kansan position on this subject I'd assume
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the deadbolt knobs in our house are horizontal=unlocked vertical=locked which is the opposite of every other place i have lived and every other place in the world. this has led me to accidentally leave a door unlocked numerous times.
also, whenever I uknowningly leave the garage door open, I am punished with horrible, restless sleep. like my subconcious knows but refuses to tell me.
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I don't see any downside to locking doors. it doesn't take any more effort than shutting the door and has some benefits (level of benefit determined by how shitty of a neighborhood you live in I guess).
it depends on your setup. and maybe whether you're a little ocd about how it's stupid to lock your doors if you don't also lock the windows. for me it's like 2 minutes to lock and another 2 minutes to unlock. plus having to carry my house keys with me if i lock, instead of just my car key. if it was just hitting a button on your key fob to lock/unlock everything all at once, it'd be a different story. i always lock my car (except where i can't/don't need to).
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I don't see any downside to locking doors. it doesn't take any more effort than shutting the door and has some benefits (level of benefit determined by how shitty of a neighborhood you live in I guess).
it depends on your setup. and maybe whether you're a little ocd about how it's stupid to lock your doors if you don't also lock the windows. for me it's like 2 minutes to lock and another 2 minutes to unlock. plus having to carry my house keys with me if i lock, instead of just my car key. if it was just hitting a button on your key fob to lock/unlock everything all at once, it'd be a different story. i always lock my car (except where i can't/don't need to).
why on earth do you have your windows open when you constantly whine about how hot it is? Keep your windows closed, man.
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Where can't you lock your car?
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why on earth do you have your windows open when you constantly whine about how hot it is? Keep your windows closed, man.
i open them at night, close them during the day so i don't have to pay my entire salary to pg&e to keep the house semi-livable.
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Where can't you lock your car?
job site. keys have to stay in vehicle so it can be moved if it's parked in someone's way.
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that makes more sense. omaha has about a 4 day window the entire year where the AC or heat isn't running so it's just a couple doors for us. actually, I think my new house has about 1 ground level window that opens not counting the basement so it wouldn't matter even if we left them open.
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We keep all our doors locked pretty much all the time, and only go in/out through the garage. So it is just one click (of the garage door opener) to lock/unlock the house.
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why on earth do you have your windows open when you constantly whine about how hot it is? Keep your windows closed, man.
i open them at night, close them during the day so i don't have to pay my entire salary to pg&e to keep the house semi-livable.
so you're closing them anyway ya big goof
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why on earth do you have your windows open when you constantly whine about how hot it is? Keep your windows closed, man.
i open them at night, close them during the day so i don't have to pay my entire salary to pg&e to keep the house semi-livable.
so you're closing them anyway ya big goof
rus makes a good point sys!
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would add at least a minute to the open/closing them routine. and they'd still be open at night (prime house breaking/entering time).
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would add at least a minute to the open/closing them routine. and they'd still be open at night (prime house breaking/entering time).
but does just having them closed during the day satisfy your wife?
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would add at least a minute to the open/closing them routine. and they'd still be open at night (prime house breaking/entering time).
but does just having them closed during the day satisfy your wife?
not sure where rus is going with this one sys!
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but does just having them closed during the day satisfy your wife?
she's ok with the house being unlocked during the day. not super ok with it, but puts up with it at night when i'm home because she knows i'm right about how it's better to cool the house without paying for it. she gets really paranoid about it being open when she's there alone at night.
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would add at least a minute to the open/closing them routine. and they'd still be open at night (prime house breaking/entering time).
but does just having them closed during the day satisfy your wife?
not sure where rus is going with this one sys!
I'm thinking that even though sys doesn't feel as secure with an unlocked or open window, his wife might, and moving forward sys would only have to lock the doors.
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Just had a really strange deja vu moment...
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Seem to always lock it up although I wonder if it really matters....if a bad guy decides he wants in to my condo or car, I feel like they've already went that far, why not break a window to get in if the door is locked. A friend of mine subscribes to that theory that he would rather not deal with a broken window so just leaves truck unlocked.
That said, I can't count the number of times pak'd friends have crashed and leave in the middle of the night or earlier than I wake up and barely even get the door shut. Kind of a weird feeling waking up hungover in the middle of downtown with door open.
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Car, usually because of keyfob, never did when I had a car without it
House, only when gone for like 3+ days, but I did lock them when I lived in centralish topeka and it was a huge pain in the ass to remember to do.
Garage door + numberpad opener outside seems like best way to go, :thumbs: to the gooches
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I would love to be able to cool my apartment in the evening by opening the windows. The window unit really runs up the electricity bill. However, it's the only utility I pay, so I suppose I shouldn't complain.
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I would love to be able to cool my apartment in the evening by opening the windows. The window unit really runs up the electricity bill. However, it's the only utility I pay, so I suppose I shouldn't complain.
ya, would be pretty sweet. i don't pay the electric bill so i just run the ac with the windows open, unless it's like a hellish 85+
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Did we as a society learn nothing from The Bling Ring?
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Gooch left the garage door open last night. :sdeek:
I always thought an alarm that would trigger at a user-specified time to alert you that your garage door was open would be a good idea
My Chamberlain 1 1/4 hp belt drive garage door opener with MyQ Technology alerts me whenever the garage door has been open for 1 hour.
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I usually lock everything, my parents don't lock crap(house,cars). My former roommates GF(now wife) used to lock the door for us everynight. Was very nice.
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FWIW, I lock everything once I leave it for even a short time.
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I've started locking my doors when I leave the house. My new neighbors are pretty sketchy.
FWIW, I don't wear my non-locking as a badge of honor. I'm just pretty lazy.