Would you sleep with your door unlocked at night.

IMO it's bad policy to leave doors and windows unlocked at the best of times, but when it comes to nighttime, I personally feel best knowing all is secure and locked.

Chances are good we all lock the doors of our vehicles when we park them... if they're of any value most do, so why wouldn't people lock the doors of their homes?

Just makes sense to go the extra.
 
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We do lock the front door at night,but the back doors might not always be locked. But our property is entirely fenced and gated and we are in the sticks. Also Gigi,my Great Pyrenees,sleeps in the living room,and would never,ever let anybody come through the door. They would not likely even try,as she would be barking long before they got to the door-and her bark is pretty scary.
 
applecruncher said:
I always lock my doors, always have.

:confused: Why would anyone want to leave their doors unlocked at night? What is the purpose of that?
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I have met enough fools who don't take common-sense precautions because they want to prove their faith that "God will protect them."
Manatee said:
It is so noisy when you have to shoot intruders, it is better to keep them out.
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Besides the noise, it's impossible to clean up all those splatters & sticky bits.......
 
There used to be such a thing as a "Nice Area" where crime was rare. Now, those nice areas have a little less crime.
 
It always makes me shake me head in wonder when I read things like "it's a community that never locked their doors at night." Wait. What? I can't imagine that even if you feel safe in your home or community that you would be naive enough to leave your house unlocked night and day. Even when I was growing up, we locked our doors at night. Abd thank heavens! When I was babysitting for my siblings at the age of 14 a man tried to enter our house that night. Our doors were locked AND chain locked. I was able to get to the phone and call the police. Why would anyone want to invite trouble?
 
Living at the end of a dead end road, surrounded by deep forest, and owning all the surrounding land, I don't lock the doors. (for that matter, the key's are in the car), Besides the 5 furry warning systems, I don't sleep well and I'm constantly up and I love to stand outside and take in the night sky. ā¤ Living far away from most folks, I can't rely on calling the law. Minimum 20 minutes to get here (if they are familiar with the area and don't get lost). I bought a backhoe so I can just dig a deep hole and that will take care of all that messy paperwork and reports someone would have to fill out. :eek: ;)
 
In 1980 my brother shot one of his neighbors through the window while the man was watching Billy Graham. The door was locked. He shot the knob. That didn't work. So he knocked in the front window with the butt of his gun, went inside and shot two adult. They died, as did two more neighbors down the road. He shot them through the window also. Thus began the most horrid nightmare. It nearly destroyed my loving parents, and I had to help them cope. They were at his house at the time he sneaked out his gun. I mentioned this on this site years ago. It not only destroyed the lives of his victims and their families, some of whom we knew, but also destroyed my marriage - my husband was ashamed of me because of my brother's actions. It destroyed everything I believed in. Except for my sister none of my family was there for me, and I was the one who took care of the legal stuff, etc. I'm bringing this up now because I want to dispel any illusion that there is safety. One can take precautions, but when someone is determined and mentally unbalanced because of prescriptions drugs they can do anything. My brother is a case in point. He finally died in prison in 2016, and I no longer had to fear him having me killed.
 
Phoenix said:
In 1980 my brother shot one of his neighbors through the window while the man was watching Billy Graham. The door was locked. He shot the knob. That didn't work. So he knocked in the front window with the butt of his gun, went inside and shot two adult. They died, as did two more neighbors down the road. He shot them through the window also. Thus began the most horrid nightmare. It nearly destroyed my loving parents, and I had to help them cope. They were at his house at the time he sneaked out his gun. I mentioned this on this site years ago. It not only destroyed the lives of his victims and their families, some of whom we knew, but also destroyed my marriage - my husband was ashamed of me because of my brother's actions. It destroyed everything I believed in. Except for my sister none of my family was there for me, and I was the one who took care of the legal stuff, etc. I'm bringing this up now because I want to dispel any illusion that there is safety. One can take precautions, but when someone is determined and mentally unbalanced because of prescriptions drugs they can do anything. My brother is a case in point. He finally died in prison in 2016, and I no longer had to fear him having me killed.
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I am so very sorry about this horrific ordeal for you, your family, his victims and their families, your neighbors, your town, even your brother. So many lives deeply affected by this tragedy.

You're right that if someone is hell-bent on getting into someone's house, they'll figure out a way.
 
I've always locked doors. A few times years ago I accidentally left the keys in the lock- twice, neighbors alerted me to it, the other time the keys stayed in the door til I noticed them the next day.

It wasn't too many years ago I kept the bedroom window open a few inches at night in the warm weather... can't safely do that anymore.
 
JaniceM said:
I've always locked doors. A few times years ago I accidentally left the keys in the lock- twice, neighbors alerted me to it, the other time the keys stayed in the door til I noticed them the next day.

It wasn't too many years ago I kept the bedroom window open a few inches at night in the warm weather... can't safely do that anymore.
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Janice. Your post knocks the wind out of me. :(

What a shame that our world has become what it is. I'd go crazy if we weren't able to live like dear husband and I do. We lock the storm doors, but leave the screens open at night, as well as all of the windows in the house, and when the kids were younger, they used to camp out back in the tent on weekends. No worries (ever) over anything happening.
 
I woke up one night in Hawaii around 3 in the morning to go to the bathroom and encountered a cat burglar at the top of the stairs. I was in my early 20's and not thinking too straight when I chased him down the stairs, out the back door, and down the sidewalk between the apartment buildings. He was pretty fast and I did not catch him which is probably a good thing as I soon realized that I was buck naked. He did look pretty worried, and I beat a hasty trip home.

This guy had done his homework. He hit the Navy housing complex on a payday night, and he knew where all the dogs lived ahead of time. He cut through the screened portion of the louvered windows on 13 back doors, reached through the gap and unlocked the doors. He extremely quiet and only went for cash. I did not have a dog at the time and it did not take long for me to correct that blatant deficiency.

I did learn a thing or two from that episode: 1 pay more attention to door security, and 2 that I was foolish in charging into battle without knowing what I was facing. He did have a knife, but then I probably convinced him that I was crazy. I am a little saner these days.
 
I always lock my door. I check it more than once during the evening just to make sure. That is because I have gotten up in the morning once or twice to discover I never locked my door. I never do that on purpose.
 

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