if you live in a place where you don't have to lock your doors you live in the most boring place in the world.

probably one of steels worse posts, you feelin okay today tex?

This is pretty odd, I was reading this topic late last night and when I woke up this morning I found my car had been broken into. Nothing taken though.

I live in Toronto and I don't lock my doors when I'm home. I live in a pretty nice neighbourhood, but I also live right next to a park that leads into a ravine so we have hoodlums streaming past my house pretty much every night that it's warm enough to go sniff glue in said ravine. My garage has been broken into (while we were home; I just thought it was my brother coming home from a late night) but not my house (yet). We have a lot of old people around here who just sit in their windows and watch the street, though, so maybe that deters the kids?

We lock the doors at night now, but when the sun is up sometimes we have all the doors in the house wide open (to air it out with a nice summer breeze, say) and none of us are really scared. We don't not lock the doors, we just don't worry about it too much.

Also once my dad found a wallet with $100 in it and tried to return it, but when he went to the guy's house he wouldn't answer the door (my dad could hear him inside) so he took the $100 out and mailed him the wallet instead.

I don't know, I guess I don't like LIVING IN FEAR or some other stupid thing.

Locks are for the honest person anyways. Somebody who really wants to get in is just going to smash a window, which ends up costing us more than if someone opened the door and grabbed, like, our stereo or something. I guess we don't have a lot of people running around testing doors or something!


East York 4 lyfeeee

As far as thefts go, I've never been personally robbed... accosted by pushy trenchcoat-wearing folks who tried to peddle CDs and Cellphones often, but never robbed. I know a lot of theft-victims though; my uncle had his trailer robbed twice (in different locations) and his car was broken into while in the far north (and the theif was probably disappointed to realize that the bottles they swiped were filled with ginger ale), and an old roommate had been knifed in the back of the head once in an attempted mugging before he gave the unfortunate fellow a smiley on the edge of the pavement.

As a side note....

...when i say honestly and seriously unless in the context of sarcasm it honestly seriously happened and this honestly seriously happened yes.

...we should probably have a tag or codeword for "climbtree is actually telling the truth".

did he steal a bike?

As far as thefts go, I've never been personally robbed... accosted by pushy trenchcoat-wearing folks who tried to peddle CDs and Cellphones often, but never robbed. I know a lot of theft-victims though; my uncle had his trailer robbed twice (in different locations) and his car was broken into while in the far north (and the theif was probably disappointed to realize that the bottles they swiped were filled with ginger ale), and an old roommate had been knifed in the back of the head once in an attempted mugging before he gave the unfortunate fellow a smiley on the edge of the pavement.

As a side note....

...we should probably have a tag or codeword for "climbtree is actually telling the truth".

robbers don't need to smash windows.  They'll just break the hinges of the door with a tire iron or crow bar and shift the door from there.  they go straight to where most of the valuable stuff are kept (jewelry, money, etc).  they only take what they can carry really fast.