Do you lock your doors? (aka. trust the outside world?)

[insane]

Just curious who "trusts" the outside world when they're away ;)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For my house, our doors are unlocked when we're not home, but at night and when we're at work/school during the day, the doors are locked.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If my dad is the only one home and he leaves for 10mins, he'll lock there door, whereas if I am home alone and leave for an hour, I'll leave it unlocked.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

However, I have friends that leave their doors unlocked even when they go on vacation.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Where do you stand? :)

[Purepehmo]

Well, I really can't answer it that RIGHT, but our doors are always locked, and I live in a big house(can't get the real word of it to my head atm)where lives alot of other people, a 5 floor house or something and we have our own apartment in it.

 

 

 

The door to the apartments is locked always. So yeah. :/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And no, I'd have my door always locked anyways.

[Phil]

Wouldn't even think to leave the house without locking the doors and closing the windows. Just not worth it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It's not a high crime rate around here but burglaries do happen every so often.

[assassin_696]

I don't exactly live in a rough area but i would always lock my doors, just as second nature. Our garage was once broken into and a few bikes knicked, since then we've had large padlocks put on the garage doors and we always lock the doors, even if someone is in. Thieves are opportunists, it's not worth risking it. We also often leave the radio in our kitchen on throughout the day, apparently a radio on deters burglars.

[Rizla]

If i'm home the doors will be unlocked, but if i'm out i'd definitely lock them all. Your average thief/burglar isn't going to come onto a property armed, they just hope for an empty house and my guess is they'd run as soon as they saw someone around.

[SAGE]

Well I live in a Suburb off Sydney and our town is split up into two sides, one side is housing commition and the other side for normal suburbian layout. I live not to far away from the housing commision so it is locked windows and doors at night, same for going out. We have to make sure we keep everything is inside aswell. Dam shoe theives

[Necromagus]

Meh, we usually leave our doors unlocked during the day, unless the entire family is gone for more than an hour or so. My parents lock the doors at night, but that's mostly because before we moved here, we lived in a pretty high crime area.

[AThousandLies]

We don't live in a rough suburb ... it's fairly mid-market. But we always lock our doors ... all of them.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Is it true that many Canadians leave their doors unlocked?

[Phil]

Forgot to add that our doors are always unlocked when there is someone in the house during the day. They get locked at night.

[snyper_freak]

I live no the North Shore of Sydney, for anyone who knows where that is, it's a fairly wealthy area, so my mum is pedantic about locking our doors. I make sure they're locked, but she checks everything over and over and over.. :roll:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I just don't see the big dela with putting a key in a few doors/windows.. It's worth the 30 seconds it takes, just on the slight chance that someone does try and rob you.

[Purepehmo]

 

 

 

Is it true that many Canadians leave their doors unlocked?

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Yeah, I was gonna ask that too :o

[Bubsa]

I live near Liverpool, what ya think? :P

 

 

 

Actually, to be honest, my doors are hardly ever locked, only if I go out for a few days. But then again, I have a big scary rottweiler :D

[Peace]

If people are inside in my house, the doors will be unlocked but when everyones asleep/out the doors are locked. Its not so bad round my end for burglaries, more cars get stolen than houses broken into, but call me a bit paranoid but if I hear a noise at night the first thing ill think of is a burglar, thats probably why I sleep with a baseball bat next to my bed! :P

[Pete_the_Viscous]

It depends on how long for, but I usually don't bother locking the back door -- it's a small town, and I just can't see someone breaking in. The front door has a yale lock, so I don't have to worry about that.

[How2PK]

When there's nobody home the doors are locked. If there's somebody home everything is open. :)

[insane]

 

 

 

 

Is it true that many Canadians leave their doors unlocked?

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Yeah, I was gonna ask that too :o

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I live in Canada,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

However, I have friends that leave their doors unlocked even when they go on vacation.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

:) I consider my dad paranoid for locking the doors are night.

[krunkthemonk]

 

 

 

 

Is it true that many Canadians leave their doors unlocked?

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Yeah, I was gonna ask that too :o

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I always lock the doors to my house whenever I leave. However I don't lock my car.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2 years ago I was finishing my shift at work and was going to drive home. My friend also works the same shifts as me usually so we park beside eachother most of the time. He always locks his car doors. Well on this day he left 2 cans of coke sitting on the armrest. Someone smashed the windows in to steal 2 cans of coke. Leaving your doors unlocked is just saving you a broken window. I never keep valubles in my car other than my insurance papers.

[adthegreat-]

My house is always locked up, my Dad even tells me to lock the back door if i'm not using it :? .

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Its funny, because when i went to New Zealand to my uncles house, we went away for 2 weeks and he didnt lock his doors at all 8) .

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And when my New Zealand Family stayed with me in England they wanted to leave thier bikes on the drive, and we had to explain to them that they couldnt.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Its a sad truth, but urbanisation comes at a price...

[weezcake]

I don't see why you'd leave them unlocked at all. :?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I leave my house locked, at or away from home. Car too.

[indy500fan]

my house gets locked at night. dotn think anyone would come around here to steal stuff, not very many rich people, and a lot of hicks. liable to get your head blown off if you start rummaging through somebodies house. i keep my katana next to my bed, if some one starts going through my room im cutting them :evil:

[Ape]

Wouldn't even think to leave the house without locking the doors and closing the windows. Just not worth it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It's not a high crime rate around here but burglaries do happen every so often.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You live in the UK, that's a good enough reason to lock your doors even when you're at home or not. :P

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Anyways, onto my house. I'm only 14, but when I'm at the house alone, either in bed(early morning) or at day... Not usually allowed to stay in my house alone for all of the night. But yeah, my parents lock the doors at night, and when I'm asleep in the house alone or something.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

But some of my mate's houses are constantly unlocked, or even the door is left open for the dog or something silly, like that.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Anyways, that's all for me.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

//Mitch

[Lionheart_0]

Im Canadian, and i lock my door when ever going out and no one is home. But if im just going out side or not far, then nah.

[VOV]

Door is locked when we are not home and at night.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Car is locked whenever we are not in it.

[Peter]

I don't know of any robberies or break-ins in the area, but we always have the doors locked, home or away.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Well the door to the garage is unlocked except at night, because we're constantly going in and out. Front door is locked too. In the summer when we have windows or doors open, needless to say we leave them unlocked during that time, but not at night except for a few windows.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It's just easier, if they have to be locked later anyway, to just keep them locked unless there's a reason for them not to be. Besides, locks are expensive and we wouldn't want them to go to waste :P.

[MyPurpleCrayon]

Well...My mom grew up in Memphis so she is constantly worried....Every house on her street was robbed including hers. Now that we live in a really nice neighborhood that is practically crime free she still makes us lock everything. On top of that we have an alarm.... :roll: