Right before I got married, I lived in (what I thought) was a nice, safe security apartment building with a guarded entrance and locked outside doors — that people would prop open all the time.
I was home alone one day and heard someone go down the hallway trying to open every door — including mine!!
I was scared out of my wits, and Thanked God that I knew enough to lock the front door at all times.
I called the cops but by then the perp was long gone - the cops told me that people leaving their front door unlocked is how burglars and thieves often get inside homes - because so many people don’t bother to lock their front door. If someone is home (according to the cops), they may be assaulted or killed.
I’ve never forgotten it.
Recently, my daughter told me her former roommates were burglarized in the middle of the night by a criminal who got in through an unlocked door that one of the roommates had left unlocked inadvertently. Thank God, none of them woke up, they might have been killed (according to the police). My daughter had moved out the day before.
It shook us all up to the bone, and Thank God none of them woke up during the burglary.
I will NEVER be in my home without the front door being locked - and I have two large dogs, am armed and trained.
Why set yourself up?
Well I grew up in NYC, so locking doors is my stock in trade.
It is instructive, however, to note that none of you picked up on that, you just went for the red meat of my seeming stupidity.
Again, I apologize. I guess my post was a continuing reaction to the attacks on my country as a socialist bastion. They used to be posted frequently here, not so much anymore.
Truly, my heart goes out to the family of this young girl. In some ways I was simply pointing out that living in so much fear that you always have to lock your doors was not a great way to live.
Please, no flaming, I already flamed myself.
my father always left the keys to the car on his unlocked front seat....never ever had a problem...then again, it was mostly russkies,pokes,italianos etc in our area...