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fubo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

If you’re concerned about burglars, one problem is that if they decide to hit your house, they can just break a window.

Where I live, burglars often hit cars rather than houses; and they’re very willing to break windows to get in, especially if they see something valuable in the car. They spend no time trying to defeat the locks — hell, some don’t even check if the car is locked.

A lot of the loss due to burglary is the damage the burglar does on the way in, rather than the value of the things stolen. And upgrading locks does nothing to reduce this.

Maybe instead of upgrading your locks, you might be better off spending the same amount of money upgrading your insurance?

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