So there were three break-ins recently in East Preston and it’s been in the news. I can’t imagine what it’s like to have someone break into your home in the middle of the night and feel like your privacy and personal haven has been invaded. I’m sure it’s terrifying.
But in at least two of these cases, the suspect entered through UNLOCKED doors! WTF?! LOCK YOUR FUCKING DOORS, PEOPLE! —It’s 2010 for Christ’s Sake
This article appears in Mar 4-10, 2010.
1) It wasn’t just East Preston.
2) People living out that way don’t lock their doors because they haven’t had to – very little crime in that area.
It was also while they were home and up. I don’t usually keep my door locked until I go to bed if I’m home
According to CBC – the guy who left his door unlocked has an infant in the house. Why anyone who lives close to Preston (either the GOOD Preston or the BAD Preston) would leave their doors unlocked must be nuts. I’d have a big nasty dog and a firearm on the premises.
Actually, Basil, that guy lives closer to Lawrencetown than Preston… 😉
still… doesn’t take much sense to figure that you should lock your shit up.
I still lock my car up when I go out to the boonies… and I don’t give a fuck who laughs at me… (always happens a few times)
by not locking your crap up, you’re inviting it to be taken.
I’m definately guilty of not locking my doors.
I have on more than 1 occassion in the summer gone to sleep with the door wide open & only the screen door closed !
It’s easy to be lulled into complacency, when you never see anyone come calling except friends & family. Week after week after month after month!
You get to be all comfortable, in your private space…or that’s how I am.
But yeah, the area out here is experienceing a building boom & an increase of people will bring some bad elements with it, unfortunately .
So I gotta get in the habit of locking up ! I suppose when I bring my canoe out this year I’ll lock it to a tree ~:x
yeah, i’m guilty of doors being unlocked too. coming from a small town to the city also wouldn’t help, and living in a good area of the city where not too much of that happens. stuff like that is a wake up call though for sure.
Locking your shit up only keeps the honest people out, if they want your shit, they’ll get it. There’s nothing you can do about it, pay your deductible, and the higher insurance premiums when they come due. Until the courts start making some of these fuckers pay with some serious time, it’ll never change. Use some motion sensor lights, and leave them on all the time, maybe some camera’s to deter these assholes.
big scary looking dogs work…even tho they only drool and sniff. i am surprised at the number of peoples who don’t lock their cars, even my bike has a big scary lock, but if someone really wants it they’ll get it
We need to have a Friday public Hanging event once the weather improves. One week it can be a squeegee guy, the following week an SGR bum, then maybe a barista with attitude, and then the good old stand-by bus bitchers, throw in a couple of snotty bike riders and we can easily fill the quota.
From my experience people in somewhat rural areas don’t lock anything…I had an ex whose parents would leave their cars unlocked with the key in the ignition. I have OCD over locking of things, so hopefully I’m safe <3. although, to quote my paranoid father, "If they want to get in a lock won't stop them". Greeaat.
When I moved out to Hillbilly Hollow 15 years ago I had an alarm system installed. Some of the people in the village thought I was fucking nuts because it was a safe neighbourhood but being city-bred I wasn’t going to take any chances. Who needs a drunken inbred trying to steal your waffle iron? Peace of mind for $25 a month is a pretty good deal.
is it a heart-shaped waffle iron ttfn? my ma has one of those
i have always said there people should have the right to have guns in their homes. barring that,a motherfucking big, mean, nasty dog, that is hungry. i pity the son bitch that comes into my place, there won’t be fuck all left to take away in a doggie bag.
Fucking idiots deserve to get their shit ganked sometimes as a learning experience. When I lived in Hammonds Plains my family locked their doors. Once in a while, people DO travel to the middle of nowhere to break into your cars, and an unlocked house when they get lucky. I guess this isn’t as bad as those airhead college students in downtown with their doors unlocked. “A spooky man snuck in and was watching me!” Well, Lazy Susan, lock your doors and say hi to reality! I mean seriously, when you go to sleep does it not cross your mind to lock your doors?
I am more afraid in the boonies than in the city…dunno why. I just think there is some crazy woodsman out there going to kill and/or rape me. I would make my ex walk me to my car which was right beside his house because I was so afraid! And there was this one time, I was with my dad in Greenwood, and he and my bro went out somewhere for a few hours and I stayed there in that scary house in the middle of no where and freaked out and locked myself in a room clutching the phone for dear life. I suck :D. If I was a criminal, the first place I would look to steal things, is the boonies.
I do agree with LS on this (I know, I know). You’re invading MY space, but melectric I sure as hell wouldn’t do it the boonies because all the mofos out there DO have guns.
I’m pretty sure that if you left your doors unlocked (house or car) your insurance won’t cover anything stolen…at least that was the case when my dad’s car was stolen out of the driveway (right under my bedroom window) — it was used as a get away car for a robbery across the street. And this was in Bumfuck, NS. The cops didn’t think it was locked until they took the door apart in their crime lab because if it hadn’t, the insurance company wouldn’t’ve paid to have the window and door fixed from the damage the robbers did to it.
On that note, I ALWAYS lock my doors whether I’m in bed or up. I live in a secure building, but there have been cases where people have gotten into apartment buildings and gone into people’s units (usually when they’re down the hall doing laundry, for example) and taken stuff. I have a lot of expensive shit in my apartment, and I’d like to keep it. My mom’s been psycho over locking the doors all the time, so it’s just automatic now — I’ve been doing it since I knew HOW to lock a door.
Well, having someone walk in isn’t ‘that scary. Try living in a house that the night before you moved in there was a dude that broke in and then got shot at by the military via ak47. We had the footprint on our couch to serve as a reminder to lock our doors after that one, not that we didn’t already.
Angel- can’t wait to see some of the crazy theories people come up with on how that happened to you…. LOL
geeez, you haven’t lived until you’ve stayed in a murder house….
AK-47, where were you? The Ukraine?
there are a few murder spots in halifax, some of the places have been torn/burned down…what if you didn’t know about the history of the place would you still be scared?^^ some places are creepy for no reason, but i like graveyards
Somewhere in Asia….that’s all I’m saying….
It was way back when I was a youngin’ though.
hell zzz, i lived in two, in sprytown years ago.almost was three, but wifey couldn’t handle the stress of knowing. the dead don’t bother me, it’s the living crap that does.
“AK-47. The very best there is. When you absolutely, positively got to kill every motherfucker in the room, accept no substitutes”
way more badass than the batbra!
A break-in in Preston you say? Shocking. LOL.
I live out in the boonies, and I lock my door.