Training you for the future they envision, and crave, for all of us.
Posted on 12/09/2017 6:38:17 AM PST by bgill
30 years ago or so, when I lived in So. California there was a similar incident with a funnier ending. In those days, Souther California, was then the leader in quickly constructed housing tracts, where many homes were “cookie cutter” duplicates of several basic types.
A guy gets arrested for attempted burglary. He had come home late from work. In order to not wake his wife he was quiet in the downstairs kitchen. Left the lights off as he went up the stairs and started to get into his side of the bed. His wife wakes up screaming her head off. It turns out it is neither his wife nor his house! His house is one street over, but set up identically to the one he entered erroneously, down to the lock on the door! He ran out of the house but waited on the lawn for the police. All ended well and eventually the parties had a good laugh. Locks were changed.
Mechanical keys and locks still work when the power is off or batteries dead.
It is always POSSIBLE the previous owner of your car or house kept a spare ket by intent or accident.
The story doesnt have enough information. The man may have arrived home tired or after stopping at a bar and tried the wrong door but when the key worked assumed it was his apartment.
Used to keep the back window unlocked at home. Climbed through it many a time after school. Today you'd be shot.
At fort Riley, If you knew how to do it, you could open the barracks room doors with a plastic card.
They have those iron bars for apartment doors all over South Africa.
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in the 70’s my friends and I all had Motorcycles, none of them were the same bike. Kawasaki’s, Suzuki’s, Honda’s. One day while sitting around drinking beer someone noticed his key looked like mine. Out of 9 of us, every one of our keys fit each others Motorcycle, they All worked in all of them!!!
“Woman wakes to man staring at her, finds she has same lock and key as neighbor”
He must’ve thought it was his Birthday.
A typical door key only has about 5000 combinations.
I haven’t seen a $200,000.00 house in 20 years.
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Training you for the future they envision, and crave, for all of us.
Am I the only one who doesn’t believe this happened? She has a go fund me page.
When I lived on Elm Street it was a nightmare.
Come see my house, ma’am...
My after school and summers job in high school was as a junior mechanic at a Honda - Suzuki shop, in that era. I never noted that level of key interoperabilty, but will say they were pretty rudimentary keys, not particularly complex. I have a friend who messed around with lockpicking as a hobby for a bit, and I have little doubt he could easily pick one of those motorcycle locks from back then.
Before electronic keys GM had something like 60 keys. So said my acquaintances in the auto theft investigation unit.
In Minneapolis a viking player went to a store, came out with his groceries, jumped into his car and drove off.
As he was driving he was pulled over by police, he looked into the back seat and discovered stuff that wasnt in his vehicle.
He had jumped into the same make, color and model car thsr was keyed the same as his
There was a guy watering his flowers at the mailbox when all of a sudden his garage door opened. He looked around puzzled as to why it had just opened up.
It was real funny. So, we turned around and decided to close his garage door for him. By that time he was scratching his head.
I still laugh every time I think about it and so do my sisters.
Did the same.
Are you saying it’s hard to find a house for $200k or less? It’s hard to find a new one in Texas under $200k. I bought mine 10 years ago, and it was 2 years old, for $140k. Now there are new ones across the street not near as nice as mine and a little bit smaller for $220k. Nothing but inflation.
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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.
Training you for the future they envision, and crave, for all of us.
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Day late, FRiend.
Can not the police detain/arrest someone for failure to provide one’s ‘license’\identification (in some/most States IIRC)?
Govt already considers itself the *master* (just enter any of their facilities), the ‘law-enforcement’ officer handles the same on the streets. Soon comes the *mandate*.
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