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Do you lock your doors?
danny_galaga:
house and car. but i will leave the car unlocked at certain times when im away from it for a short while. like drew, nothing to steal from it. overnight because it is potentially easy to hotwire and who knows, some kids might do it just for a laugh...
crashwg:
I lock the car because I don't live in the type of neighborhood that has a lot of "breaking in" to cars and the locks keep the people not determined enough to break windows and such from stealing my radar detector which is the only thing worth anything in my car. I couldn't afford another if it got stolen and I believe speed limits are almost always 10+ mph slower than they should be so locking the doors solves any potential problems in that area.
Home the doors are almost always locked. Especially the back door because it would probably be forgotten about when leaving. The front door is usually only unlocked when someone is in the living room which is the room you first enter.
A little over a year ago now I believe there was an acquaintance of mine that had found out where I lived... I knew he was a less-than-honest person but I had always been friendly to him in the past so I was under the impression that I was on his "do not steal from" list, so I let him in. We talked for a short time before I had to kick him out (in a polite way) because we were heading out. Little did we know that his only intention coming over was to case the joint. We forgot something, had to come back less than 2 minutes up the road and when my GF came in to get whatever it was he was at the back door trying to credit card the door! He claimed that he was trying to come in just to leave me a note for some thing or other. I don't recall exactly why I didn't pursue it legally beyond calling the police from the aforementioned prior obligation's house... They said they'd keep an eye out or something to that effect. Anyway, he's never come back and hopefully never will.
Whenever I consider the inconvenience that is locking doors/windows/etc. I just have to think about how much more inconvenient it would be to file police reports and try to replace/repair anything that was stolen or destroyed.
patrickl:
I don't think my insurance covers break-ins if I don't lock the house.
My dad left his car doors unlocked for a while because he got fed up with thiefs breaking his windows just to check that there was nothing valuable inside his car. Until one morning he found a sleeping homeless guy in his car :P He still insist on living in the center of Amsterdam though.
shardian:
I'd have to read my homeowners policy again to be sure, but I don't think they pay unless there is physical damge/evidence of forced entry.
patrickl:
--- Quote from: shardian on November 21, 2007, 07:15:40 am ---I'd have to read my homeowners policy again to be sure, but I don't think they pay unless there is physical damge/evidence of forced entry.
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Yeah sorry, that's what I meant too.
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