In Your Neighborhood.........

[LixyChick]

I've only ever lived in one area where I had to multi-lock my doors. I now live in such a rural area that it's dawned on me that I haven't locked my back door in two days/nights.

I do lock it when I leave for work or if I am home alone (old habits), but it's not really all that necessary round here. I feel safe if it's locked or unlocked.

How safe is your neighborhood? Do you lock your doors always? Multi-locks required? Do you keep weapons just in case? Security systems? Lighting?

No...I'm not casing the joint to make a big heist! Just curious if we are a safe bunch or do we fear for our lives and property.

[Lilith]

I lock the door when I leave but often the slding glass doors are left unsecured. I rarely lock the doors if home during the day but always at night. No security system, no weapons. I do have two larger dogs but they are sweet not mean.

[jseal]

LixyChick,

We lock our doors, but entrust our possessions to 3 prowling beasts, Sox, Mischief, and Loper, while we are out.

[maddy]

I have double locks on three of my four doors - all are double locked at all times. I wish I had a security system - I had one previously and I liked the added comfort. No weapons and my cat does absolutely nothing to protect my dwelling, even though he's not friendly.

[SexKittten_18]

I live in an apartment building... so the door is always locked unless my brother forgets to lock it or we leave it unlocked when we go down to the gas station or something.

[Loulabelle]

I am in the habit of locking all doors when I'm out, and we do have an alarm systen, but it's not used anymore because the movement sensors would be set off by the cats.

Having said that, plenty of times I've left the sliding doors undone and even the car door unlocked overnight without incident.

The trouble with leaving windows/doors unlocked is that your insurance may be invalid if you were burgled without forced entry.

[moose]

i live in a town of 3000 or so, we are 77kms north of a major city and have live here for 19 years and i have never locked my doors, infact i joke with some of my friends and say you can pin $50.00 to the door and it would stil be there in a year (unless my kids see it first)

[wyndhy]

we lock up every night, although there have been occasions when we forgot to do so.

when bigbad is away i always lock them, and put the 2x on the slider, and the deadbolt on the front.

we recently had a peeping tom in the neighborhood who, if you believe the eye witnesses (which i do), was pretty close to taking his fetish a leap forward to rape...a few of the women who saw him (while walking their dogs) said he would start toward them, falter, and then start forward again. of course these smart cookies hightailed it inside asap, but still...seems like the dude is getting ready to up the ante, so to speak.

a woman was also raped about a month ago - less than a football field's length away from our front door.

[WildIrish]

Our town has a population under 10,000 and up to three years ago there were more cows than people.

Crime usually consists of people driving through our town doing something stupid on the road, but there have been a few burglaries time and again. The doors had locks and deadbolts when we purchased the house and we lock up when we're not around and at night. During the day, Mrs. WI only locks the door when she's alone. She gets spooked easily and locking the door is more for her peace of mind than out of neccessity.

Don't need weapons to protect us, and the cats are...well, cats. :p

[gekkogecko]

Not only do I lock my doors, but there's a sign on my lizards enclosure which reads "Beware of Attack Iguana".

[osuche]

Two locks on the front door, and a chain. I use both locks all the time, and the chain goes on at night. All the windows are always locked.

We live in a small city of about 150,000 but near a big metro area, and homelessness is a BIG problem here. There is some burglury, although I live in the "nice" side of town...it's only about 2 miles away from the "bad side of town. Which is not a hard walk, really....especially when you can get better stuff in the nice neighborhood. :D

[alspals69]

Well, i live on the outskirts of a town of over 100,000. I have 3 sets of french doors and 2 normal doors all of which are secured with 5 lever locks.

When we moved in we didn't get around to figuring out the alarm system right away and promptly got burgled while we were asleep, lol.

We set the alarm now!! Of course it would have helped if we hadn't left the downstairs window open too, lol.

[lizzardbits]

Not only do I lock my doors, but there's a sign on my lizards enclosure which reads "Beware of Attack Iguana".
HAHAHAHA! I have a sign in the front window of my van that reads "Beware of Attack Lizard!" *bobs head at other lizard*

We leave the doors unlocked all the time. Mostly because if we don't, the Amish will leave their fresh baked goodies for my Dad out on the front porch and in the weather. They know that the door is unlocked and open anytime and sometimes when we are out, we will come back to homemade pies/cakes/bread/donuts or fresh garden veggies on our table. Usually without a note, but the understood "thank you" to my Dad for something that he has done.

Our "alarm System" is our kind but nosey 92 y/o neighbor lady, K****. She watches us like a hawk, and the one time that there were kids in town stealing from cars, she saw them and called 911. My mom's purse and all of the contents were discovered and returned Thanks to K****.

Mayhem was SHOCKED that we didn't lock our house and cars, where i live. There were places that we went that i did, or he asked me specifically that he wanted the van locked. Otherwise, I don't do it.

I feel pretty safe here amongst the Amish :D

[Scarecrow]

I feel pretty safe here amongst the Amish :D

Have you every seen buggy road kill, I'd feel safe also. We live about 10 miles from an Amish comunity. We lock the doors at night but it is just habbit, I have a window or two that are never locked. And if I think of it I'll lock the Jeep, but most times I forget. We live in a rural community of around 4,700 and its the county seat. :D

[scotzoidman]

As the City of Music is holding at about half a million strong, so we have always had our share of big city crime...& since I inherited my house in one of the nicer sections (where there's always nicer stuff to steal), I also inherited my mother's security system, which we usually only arm when we leave, but with reports of more break-ins & home invasions, we've begun to arm it at night as well...after disabling the motion detector first, so we don't hafta crawl to the bathroom in the middle of the night...

[Sharni]

I dont lock up as much as i should to be honest

My dog alarm usually lets me know if anyone is about.....but home invasion is getting worse and well ya just never know eh

[LixyChick]

The answers surprise me a little. I was thinking that security without precaution was almost a lost feeling...what with all the horror stories one hears on the news reports day in and day out.

We do have the neighborhood "hooligans", but I've discovered that they are really just bored and no real sense of "belonging. I make it a point to say, "hello. how's it going?" whenever they ride/walk by my house. They'd NEVER initiate a conversation because I doubt that'd be cool to their peers, but they've never defaced my place or tried anything other than...stealing a pumpkin or two from our front porch...and once Mr. Lixy discovered that "someone" left a #2 in our outhouse potty...LMAO!

We now lock the outhouse...but the main house is always open! Go figure!

[dicksbro]

Usually our doors are unlocked. Seems like we're always coming or going and unless we're going to be out of town for some time, we leave them unlocked. Very safe community. You see ladies and guys out jogging or walking late at night and very earlly in the mornings while it's still dark. Only thing we've ever experienced was one of our kids left their bike down by the street one time (over night) and another kid took it. But that's kids ... not really a crime wave. :)

Actually, Lixy, if you want to do that big heist, just tell me. I'll help load your truck ...

oh yeah ...

make it a big one, I've got a lot I'm trying to get rid of. :D

[PantyFanatic]

Come to my house Lixy. :) I have a lot of stuff that was suppose to go to WI in the first Pixie Box before the delays and my permit expired. It will be easy to find if you come at night. :D The glowing garage will be unlocked. :rolleyes: