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covent.gardens
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PostPosted: 16:09 - 06 Nov 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote

It seems to me he's done you a favour by highlighting your security, nobody should be able to just walk in like that. As a delivery driver I sometimes try handles if I'm not getting a response and sometimes they open, I do the same thing, shout to get attention with a loud "Hello?". Granted, I don't think I'd try the handle of a neighbours property but if I saw it ajar I might.

He's hardly snuck in as he was making noise, I don't think you can seriously suggest he broke in either, so you must have left your door ajar or unlocked, a lot of people do, surprising how many keys I've seen left in doors as well.

TL/DR fix your security, if a boots delivery driver can get in so can an opportunistic burglar.
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PostPosted: 16:11 - 06 Nov 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote

Amazon logistics used to open the front door and chuck the parcel in. I wonder how many times a dog/cat could get out with those tricks.
I now keep the door locked.
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PostPosted: 16:23 - 06 Nov 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote

covent.gardens wrote:
...fix your security, if a boots delivery driver can get in so can an opportunistic burglar.

Plus you may also find unlocked door will invalidate any contents insurance. Insurance companies are like that.
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PostPosted: 16:57 - 06 Nov 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote

Vincent wrote:
covent.gardens wrote:


TL/DR fix your security, if a boots delivery driver can get in so can an opportunistic burglar.


Anyone entering any of my places uninvited does so at their own risk.......I'm not going to start locking myself in, I've seen other people live like that and it's not for me.


If I'm in the house I lock the front door and leave the key in the lock so it's just a quick turn of the key to open it. Doesn't make ''feel'' locked in so I don't see a problem.
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PostPosted: 17:04 - 06 Nov 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote

Meh, if I'm in, generally my door is unlocked. That said, I'm not very far from the door as my place isn't massive, and they'd have to get through the locked communal door first.
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PostPosted: 19:01 - 06 Nov 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote

Might have mentioned, but a copper chum once walked into my home (invited, like a vampire) and purely by habit locked the door behind her.

Because so, so, so many call outs to walk-in burglaries and vehicle thefts.
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PostPosted: 20:11 - 06 Nov 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote

Our front and back doors are normally unlocked, the beggar will have life filled with regret if I where to find him/her indoors
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PostPosted: 20:29 - 06 Nov 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote

Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner, but I don't have a front door that opens without the aid of a key. You lot are weird.
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PostPosted: 21:18 - 06 Nov 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner, but I don't have a front door that opens without the aid of a key. You lot are weird.


Custom title all of a sudden?
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PostPosted: 21:46 - 06 Nov 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote

Wafer_Thin_Ham wrote:
Custom title all of a sudden?
Been there a week or two. Largely thanks to my 'all-you-can-eat' shenanigans.
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PostPosted: 22:11 - 06 Nov 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote

NashGT wrote:
Our front and back doors are normally unlocked, the beggar will have life filled with regret if I where to find him/her indoors

You keep telling yourself that.
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PostPosted: 23:43 - 06 Nov 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote

Rogerborg wrote:
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Our front and back doors are normally unlocked, the beggar will have life filled with regret if I where to find him/her indoors

You keep telling yourself that.


Been there done that, trespassers have been dealt with in the past

All I have to do is show them some of the links that STE posts on here Shocked
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PostPosted: 08:02 - 07 Nov 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote

if im in the house the door is unlocked but if im in the garage/back garden then it gets locked

same when i have a shower just in case

or if the daughters down stairs on her own to stop her going out on her own
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PostPosted: 08:30 - 07 Nov 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote

I leave all my doors wide open.
Then my dogs can come and go as they please.

Funny I've never had intruder probs..... Wink
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PostPosted: 08:44 - 07 Nov 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote

Pikeys will nick anything, including dogs. Wink
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PostPosted: 09:42 - 07 Nov 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote

nowhere.elysium wrote:
Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner, but I don't have a front door that opens without the aid of a key. You lot are weird.


When we had our front door replaced with a new PVC one, they didn't have one available with a pre-fitted latch needed a key to unlock it every time you want to open it from outside.

So we had to fit our own Yale lock latch.


When I go round to peoples houses, I'm always surprised by how many of them never bother to lock the door, or who leave house and car keys clearly visible from the doorstep and within arms reach of the front door... opportunistic smash and grab and the car is gone before you can react.
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PostPosted: 10:17 - 07 Nov 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote

Back door is usually locked unless I am out the back.

Front door won't open without a key anyway so I guess it's always locked.
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PostPosted: 10:53 - 07 Nov 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote

lihp wrote:
Front door won't open without a key anyway so I guess it's always locked.

If you just close a UPVC style door and don't pull the handle up to make the latches go into the frame, then lock it, you can't consider it locked, as they can pop the door open in 3 seconds without even damaging the door, using a lever. Yes, we found out the hard way on that one, and always lock it now. Some newer and more expensive doors apparently have the latches activate automatically when the door is shut, but there's not many of these around except maybe on new builds etc.
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