Parked in Your Driveway Do You Lock Car ?

[Nyboy]

Yesterday I called my dad, he said he was talking to the police and would call me back. I was climing the walls till he called back, 2 cars parked in driveway where broken in durning the night. One car they only got some change, the other a credit card and exspenive sunglasses. Because they where parked near house in driveway both where not locked. Do you lock your car when parked in your own driveway?

 

[Ridgerunner]

When I lived in suburbia, yes. I had a friend there with an MG Midget that never locked his car. It had a rag top and he did not want someone slashing his top to get inside. It still happened. He had it parked in a commercial parking lot downtown after dark and someone slashed the top without even checking the doors to see if they were unlocked. They got a few pennies, not even a quarter's worth.

I now live in the middle of not much about half a mile from the gravel county road on a dead-end private road. The neighbors have no problems nicely asking strangers what they are doing up here if they act suspicious at all. I may have even done that a time or two myself. I don't keep anything valuable in the car. I don't even own pair of sunglasses, let alone expensive ones. I have a dog that lets the world know if anyone comes around. She's not vicious, just so happy to have a visitor she wants the world to know how glad she is. No, I don't lock the car out here.

 

[digitS']

Yes.

I have had a stereo stolen, way back when ...

During a brief time in an apartment, I had change taken. Both times I'd forgotten to lock the doors, even left the window down when I lost the stereo. Neither episode can be blamed on olde age - I hasten to add! I was once young and forgetful.

Most recently, several years ago, a watch was taken from the glove box. The pickup was parked on the road, something I almost never do. The driveway affords no more protection; it is just a matter of feet. The watch stopped, I replaced the battery, it still wouldn't run - I figure the thief got a new battery off me.

I hope the credit card loss was dealt with immediately.

Steve

 

[Nyboy]

Credit card stopped before any charges. When I was 17 I had a 1963 MG one day after school I loaded 2 friends in car even though 2 seater. Cop pulled me over, said he would give me a break, if I could tell him what MG stood for I willn't get a ticket. I had no idea and got ticket.

 

[digitS']

I thought I knew what the M stands for. Right.

... had to look in Wikipedia to come up with the G ...



Steve

 

[Nyboy]

I will never forget it Morris Garages

 

[flowerweaver]

I once fixed up and lived in a house for eleven years in an urban crime-ridden neighborhood close to the university where I worked. People slept in their back bedrooms because of drive-by shootings. (It's now totally gentrified and my former home is worth 14x what I paid for it). If it wasn't locked or bolted down it would be stolen. Even sprinklers and hoses, and newly planted rose bushes!--except in the backyard, where I had a mixture of small yappy dogs and large ferocious looking dogs. Someone I knew had their car stolen and got a ticket when they called the cops because they admitted they had not locked the car doors. Most people in the rural area where I live now don't lock anything, but I still do as a carry over. I remember when I first moved here I bought wicker furniture for my front porch and was amazed each day it wasn't stolen. It's still there 14 years later!

 

[ninnymary]

I always lock my car. I even lock it when I'm at the bank and I parked right in front of the glass wall where I can see it. Though I'm tempted not too, I want it to become an automatic habit.

Mary

 

[canesisters]

<--- Never lock the truck at home... rarely remember to lock it when away. But then.. the only things of any value are usually in the back anyway.
Heck - I've been known to leave the house without locking it.
My roommate, on the other hand, has to take her keys when she goes to the mailbox. She never goes through a door without locking it or past one without checking to see if it's locked.... (which has gotten her threatened with evection more than once)

 

[bobm]

When I was a teenager, we lived next door the the Police Chief in a small University town. One morning my car, as well as my parents', Police chief's, and his next door neighbors' cars were broken into by breaking the side windows and radios and other items stolen.