Break and Enter - Is your home safe?
By barehugs
@barehugs (8973)
Canada
March 6, 2011 1:42pm CST
I grew up in a house my Grandfather bought in 1905, with no provision whatsoever for locking the outside doors, and at that time nobody in rural Canada ever thought of locking the doors on a house.It wasn't until sometime after I was married in 1955 when we heard of a neighbor being burgled, that we decided to install door locks.
In 2004 we purchased a Mobile Home in an RV Park in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas where we come to enjoy the warm winter sunshine while Ontario, basks, under several feet of snow in subzero temperatures. This mobile has all the amenities of home, including locks on the doors, but we don't use them while we are living there. There are about 1000 people in this park, mostly from the cold north, enjoying the tropical sunshine, and these seniors are honest. Many of them think nothing of leaving their home unlocked for an hour, or a day, while they are shopping or visiting away. Its a wonderful feeling to know you are among friends who do not envy you your valuables!
Can you leave your house open without a worry,or a care?
Do you know of others who can?
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@barehugs (8973)
• Canada
8 Mar 11
Oh! Now this is a horse of a different color! When you neighbor is light-fingered you will not only have to lock the house doors, but the windows also. Quite a few mobiles in the Park have iron bars on the windows and doors. These were installed quite a while ago before we had a security gate on the park!
@zandi458 (28102)
• Malaysia
7 Mar 11
My place used to be very safe before the influx of the illegal immigrants in the early 70s. Even during the night the doors are left ajar when the weather was unbearable. It was so peaceful. The only intruders that dared to enter the house were the mosquitoes. Now it has become a cowboy town. These robbers come with dangerous weapons and once they managed to enter the house, they will cart away everything and the owners can't do anything but watch with sadness seeing they are being fleeced off their possessions. Only after the robbery can the owners report to the police. No body can sleep peacefully if they don't have iron grills installed in their houses. But even with grills it is not 100% safe as the robbers are professional and they have all the tools to ply open the grills. But it will take longer time before they can enter the house. By then the police would have been alerted.
@lilaclady (28206)
• Australia
6 Mar 11
I have been robbed twice and after the first time I had windo locks pu on every opening window but again I got robbed, they just basically pulled the screws out of a wind out window, someone told me if they want to get in they will get in no matter what you do but I am a firm believer you have to make it harder for them, I now have window grills on every opening window, but I guess they would only have to break a window without the grills...
@barehugs (8973)
• Canada
7 Mar 11
Oh how scary! I can't imagine the trauma of your life! Some of the mobile homes in this park are outfitted with iron bars over the windows and doors. I'm sure these would stop all but the most persistent of robbers. Occasionally there are break-ins in the summer when very few are here. However these are usually just kids with nothing better to do. The homes are quite empty then and the kids don't get much.
@barehugs (8973)
• Canada
6 Mar 11
We are quite safe back home in Ontario Canada too, but that's because we live out in the country. We are so isolated we can't see a neighbors house from out front yard. But there are lots of cars going by on the road, and we never know who's going to stop in when we are away.
@soapies1973 (931)
• United States
6 Mar 11
NO never not in this day and age. I guess in a senior community though. A lot of people watching. don't think anyone be that bold.
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