A broken window is clear indication of theft for insurance purposes. If your lock gets picked, you might be fucked depending on how your policy is written.
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kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 9 months agoA lock is never weaker than a window. If someone wants in your house, there are ways that don’t have anything to do with your locks. Locks of any quality largely work by deterrence, rather than actual pickability or durability. If I have to literally break something to get in, I’m drawing attention to myself and immediately putting a count down on my robbery before a cop shows up or witnesses get a better look at me, my vehicle, etc. So it’s already not worth it for most petty thieves.
TheIllustrativeMan@lemmy.world 9 months ago
schmidtster@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Where is this a thing?
variants@possumpat.io 9 months ago
when some thieves broke into my neighbors house they first rang the door bell a few times to make sure no one was home, after that they hopped the fence and went window to window until they found one that was unlocked and went in that way
kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Yup. Path of least resistance
Wahots@pawb.social 9 months ago
This could go badly for would-be thieves, I usually don’t answer the door if I’m naked, lol. Hopefully, they like gay shit when they break in. ✨️
variants@possumpat.io 9 months ago
Haha the dudes that broke in left a big knife on their pillow too not sure if they actually would have used it or was just as a scare tactic, they were like two high school aged dudes that most likely were the kids who lived across the street