[Sorta OT] Address + keys...

[Ste]

Just been thinking after a shitty pikey thing today, who keeps thier house/ flat keys with thier wallet, and do you have your address on anything in your wallet?

A load of our stuff got nicked outta the college minibus, and a mates bag had thier keys and wallet in it, and a membership card had thier home address on it, to which then got broken into with the keys, and they then tried to nick thier new car

Just food for thought, cos I'm no longer carrying my address with me.

Any had problems like this before?

[M1ke]

thats a bit like carrying your pin number around with you next to your bank cards

I usually just have my keys in my pocket so if i did lose them no one would really know what to do with them. Although im getting so many keys to various different vehicles its getting rather uncomfortable

[Evilbob]

write the address of the local police station on a card and put it in ur wallet,


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[PsychoHippy]

The only thing I keep on my with my address on is my driving liscence, I figure that if I have a bad off then the Police have a chance of knowing who I am. But I keep my keys in a different pocket.

Something else you may what to think about on the same sort of topic.

How many of you keep your bike keys and alarm fob on the same key ring? I had to point out the foolishness of this to a mate, because he had done exctly that. I also keep my garage keys and my house keys on different rings, although it does mean I have four key rings.
Me paranoid, oh yeah!

[Ste]

I carry the fob on the same one as the bike key... Might change that now actually. Same key for the garage as the house, so cant do anything with that one.

On a similar note, will most key cutting places be able to cut me a copy of my bike key (or two)?

[PsychoHippy]

[PsychoHippy]

Something else I've seen is key fobs with the bike reg on!
Now how stupid is that!

[Annabella]

Well you all know about my wallet!

My keys were on that, and there wasn't an address for my flat at the moment, but my driving license was in there with my home address on it, so if they had have been my house keys, then I would have been stuffed.
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[Ste]

[Annabella]

It's probably best to change the locks anyway. Or at least start taking extra precautions, like bolting doors at night etc.

Especially if the cards have been used.
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[Scooby]

Stephen, I went to get another key cut for my NSR and they wouldn't cut me one without a copy of the V5 and then they said they had to send it off to Honda, something to do with people copying keys then going back to rob the car/bike a few days later.

Similar sort of thing happened to my uncle's car a few years back. He has a Nissan QX, which is like a 3 litre top of the range executive jobby, worth about £40k. He'd had it about a week, came out of work one day and some fucker had nicked his petrol cap Strange he thought, but what it was in the end, someone who knows how to cut keys can actually make a copy of a key from the lock on the petrol cap, and seeing as on his car the same key was for the ignition as the petrol cap, they basically have a spare key for the car. A couple of months went by, then woke up one morning and car gone. It was recovered, with no damage whatsoever, but the insurance company had already paid out and he'd got a new one.
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[Demonic69]

I don't keep anything with my addy on in my wallet, especially not my licence (nothing to do with the <25KW bit written on it). I keep my bike key seperate from the rest and fob as it's a hassle having keys dangling from the yoke. Lucky really considering the wallet nicking episode at BdB, at least I still had my bike!
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[Mrs_Hippy]

The thing that always buggs me is that keys always identify the bike / lock make. If I drop my keys (ok without the imoboliser fob which is in the other pocket) it identifies my bike as a cagiva with an oxford lock jus because manufacturers insist on branding the keys with their name!

I dont suppose I am paranoid enough to start soldring them off but in the giant fight against bike crime its a small point.
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[Ste]

Dunno how Im gonna get one cut if I need to send my only key off to have it cut

Just need to find a *dodgyer* key place to do it then

[Demonic69]

No, they send off for the blanks. You shouldn't need to send urs anywhere
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[zaknafien]

/me works with a master locksmith.

and it's very scary how fast he can get thru locks!
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