DefinitelyKmart wrote:
eric76 wrote:
BirdInFlight wrote:
To be honest I've never lived anywhere that people didn't stay mindful about locking their doors. You don't even have to live in the worst neighborhood, just in any reasonably dense population.
I don't know anyone who doesn't lock their doors both when at home and when not. It's just common sense, unless you live in a truly rural or smalltown situation where everyone knows each other. Even then, that kind of situation is getting rarer in our world.
I don't even have a key to my doors. They haven't been locked in years whether anyone is around or not.
If someone wants to steal something, why would they come in the house? An old stereo? An old tv? Some old books? Some old furniture?
Nah. If they were going to steal anything, they would go out to the shop where they could make off with thousands of dollars in tools.
thats pretty illogical, does a would be burglar know you have nothing worth stealing? no..
also if someone could just rob a store.. then why do home invasions even happen?
To eric76:
So nobody has ever read about home invasion crimes, or opportunistic crimes where a thief tries their luck looking for open doors or windows, and robs a house? Or I'm just making it up that home burglaries happen and that police departments do advise people to not leave their doors unlocked?
When going out is the more prevalent advice, but it's also recommended
in some cities for when you're at home too.
While I totally understand that there are towns and areas where this still doesn't have to happen and you guys can feel secure, you're calling ME illogical and all but a liar because I've experienced a different "culture" or general local mindset on this specific situation.
Thanks a lot.
What seems crazy and laughable to you is the way I and people I'VE known have always lived.
And so, for me, it's YOUR idea on these things that seems crazy and laughable to
me, although I at least have not completely trashed what you're saying, the way you've trashed me, because I know there
are some places that can leave doors unlocked.
Well, that must be nice, but I live in London. Many locks on front doors here are self-locking anyway, but even when they aren't, like the ones in the block of flats I live in now, the general advice is not to leave them unlocked, even if you're in the house.
And as I said, my own building managers/landlords
have advised us to keep our doors locked even while at home. There has in fact been a couple of local incidents of someone slipping into a house and stealing their stuff.
Don't ask ME why they don't just rob a store where there's almost certainly better stuff to steal. I'm not a thief so I don't know why homes have always been robbed too......But they have and sometimes by use of the fact that doors and windows aren't locked, someone's in the bathroom or out in the garden. Summertime is a good time for thieves if it seems that people are all out in their backyard and the front of the house is unlocked and unpopulated.
There's a case you can google about people out in the back, barbecuing, and their home got robbed because someone just walked right in the front door.
There are lots of home robberies around me and some good stuff has in fact been stolen -- some people here keep what's known as "Asian gold" -- rather stupidly in their bedroom closet, but yes, it's there and it's valuable. People DO have new TVs, expensive stereo systems, laptops. A friend of mine had all that stuff stolen recently, albeit she wasn't at home but out at the time.
Here are some incidents just to illustrate that I'm not a liar. All involve access gained via an unlocked house door:
Robbery thwarted
Daylight robbery
Teenager 'crimewave' jailed
Thanks a lot for not understanding that not every geographical location experiences the same kind of crime and the same local zeitgeist....
The following advice may well be a bunch of things you are fortunate enough to never have had to do or fuss with, and wherever you live must be a haven of safety. I'm happy for you. But for many people this, below, is what even local police tell them to do, and while there must be lots of places whose happy residents truly do not have to take such precautions, personally I haven't had the privilege of living in those places, and in MY places in the world where I've wound up the kind of advice in this link was always told to people in general:
http://www.wikihow.com/Prevent-a-Robberyhttp://Web Page Name: How To Prevent a Robbery
22 Jun 2013, 6:54 am
