Posted on 12/09/2017 6:38:17 AM PST by bgill
A south Austin woman says she is terrified to go to sleep at night after a man walked into her apartment and stared at her while she slept. She says it happened on Nov. 20 after the apartment complex, located near the intersection of Slaughter Lane and Manchaca Road, changed all of the locks and some tenants ended up with the same key. “He walked past the couch, he walked past the fireplace and then he gets to here,” said Ronda, who asked us not to use her last name since there hasn’t been an arrest. “He’s walking to me and then he trips, and when he trips I know I’m no longer alone.” That’s when Ronda remembered a text she got from her landlord. “We will have all units re-keyed and we will get you new keys today,” she read from her phone. Ronda says she immediately went next door and was able to unlock her neighbor’s door with her key.
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Keys are going the way of the dodo bird, they are being replaced with codes or thumbprint scans.
Or cards. E-keys will probably be on your cellphone soon.
Hint: if you live on or near Slaughter Lane it’s time to move out anyway.
Or course there will be potential issues with those as well.
Poor guy. Comes home to find a woman in his bed.
Probably thought it was his lucky day.
several years ago a friend walks out a 7-11 to find his car gone. looking in the parking lot he finds his car(he thinks). gets in and cranks it up, but realizes it’s not his car. calls police, they arrive, and they receive a call from an elderly lady down the street saying she is in a car but doesn’t think it’s hers. long story short, same model car, same color and same key in same parking lot.
What movie was it where the hero put in door blocks and iron bars in his New York apartment to stop the gangs?
This goes way back.
My dad’s key to his brand new 1958 Chevy Bel Air opened his friend’s 1956 Buick.
A few years ago I went home to visit my parents. They weren’t there when I arrived and the door was locked. So I tried my house key - it worked.
legend has it that for a few years ford had only 7 different keys for all cars. no doubt GM did the same.
Maybe the guy was a neighbor who had someone walk into his apartment, so he immediately went next door and opened this lady's door.
I think that must be true. The same ignition key worked both my grandma’s 1952 Chevy and 1956 Pontiac.
I used to live less than a mile from there. Built a house for $93,000 in 1993. Now it’s appraised at well over $200,000. I sold it long ago. I couldn’t afford the taxes today. My point being it’s not a slum area.
Most disconcerting.
I used my school ID card to get into the house after school. Quicker than using a key. Before ID cards, I’d climb through my window. Thankfully, that was back in the days when people respected others’ property.
Never did understand why the school went to the expense of ID cards. We only had about 40 in each class so everyone knew everyone else.
We had all the locked doors to the houses keyed with the same key. Made it easier on us when we had to get in. We didn't have a half a dozen keys to carry around.
All of the houses were in the same town but not near each other. Tenants would never have known the their keys worked on 5 other houses in town and vice versa.
Probably thought it was his lucky day.
“He walked past the couch, he walked past the fireplace and then he gets to here,” said Ronda, who asked us not to use her last name
He would have thought that BRIEFLY... if the Ronda's last name were Rousey.
But if that were the case, we'd be reading an entirely different story.
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