primitives discuss locking doors

[franksolich]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022615182

Oh my.

ZombieHorde (23,311 posts)    Thu Apr 4, 2013, 04:08 PM

Do you lock the doors on your car and/or home?

RE: all men are potential rapists.

171 votes, 14 passes | Time left: Unlimited

Yes, because people could potentially try to rob me or hurt me.  136 (80%)
No, we should just give everyone the benefit of the doubt.  26 (15%)
I don\'t have a car or a home.  2 (1%)
All pets should be outlawed and confiscated, especially pretentious gold fish. (other)  7 (4%)
14 DU members did not wish to select any of the options provided.

Big campfire.  Ugly shows up:

Warpy (67,977 posts)    Thu Apr 4, 2013, 04:11 PM

4. I've always lived in shitty neighborhoods and I'm talking about the level of shitty that produces sporadic gunfire and deaths from ODs. I have a couple of floor looms to house and shitty neighborhoods have more bang for the real estate buck.
 
So yeah, everything is locked up tight. Even if it's a neighbor I like (and I do like mine now), I don't want to be surprised by a visitor when I'm getting out of the shower or taking a dump.

JVS (60,374 posts)  Thu Apr 4, 2013, 05:24 PM 

26. What do you weave?

Warpy (67,977 posts)    Thu Apr 4, 2013, 05:41 PM

36. These days I'm spinning more than weaving but eventually I'll do a series of hangings and runners from the luxury fiber I'm currently spinning up.
 
It's hard to get motivated to finish the last few rugs on my big rug loom because my ancient kitty isn't as precise in her toileting as she was in her youth and I'm being forced to live with bare floors while I contemplate a closet stuffed with hand woven rugs.

ismnotwasm (8,860 posts)    Thu Apr 4, 2013, 06:06 PM

44. Me too

Although I prefer to call them 'ethnically mixed working class neighborhoods'

Sounds better to suburbians.

I couldn't live in a neighborhood without a good mix, truth to tell.

One of the reasons I don't hide my last name at work as many nurses do is because a neighborhood like mine, in a way, carries its own protection. That being said, we lock up tight own a big Rottie/lab mix, and a small-yaps at everybody-pair of dogs.
 
My husband keeps track of where the registered sex offenders live-- there's always a lot of them in living in neighborhoods like mine. Other types of neighborhoods run Them out if they can. That's the registered ones. We help our Spanish-speaking neighbors with safety ideas as well and we actually have a nice little street, except for the gang wannabes next door. My husband yells at them to 'get your hand out of your pants and pull them up' then he used to hire one of them to mow the lawn. It was pretty funny.

Warpy (67,977 posts)    Thu Apr 4, 2013, 06:12 PM

47. I get along with the gangstas, the few that are left

because my neighborhood is coming up in the world a bit since it's a buffer zone between a fancy area and gang city. It's incredibly convenient to everything, so it's attractive for people who want to cut the commute, a lot of them with these gas prices.
 
Even gang city has improved a bit because of a bunch of people who banded together in the late 90s to gather outside known drug pits and bang pots and pans all night while they collected license plate numbers of the customers.
 
But yes, it's a rainbow area with a lot of immigrants from all over, including the Middle East.
 
I did hide my last name at work. I had a stalker. I didn't want another one. Living in a bad neighborhood doesn't prevent crazy people who hang your face on their fantasy life from doing what they do.

liberal_at_heart (3,524 posts)    Thu Apr 4, 2013, 08:58 PM

73. I was robbed once too, right before Christmas when my daughter was about 1.

It was just me and her at home. I was in the back bathroom cleaning. My daughter was in her bed asleep. I heard a noise and went into the living room. There were two young guys and they took off as soon as they saw me. They dropped the camara bag they were carrying as they went back out the window. My dad had left his window unlocked. That's how they got in. Now I make sure everything is always locked. I don't consider myself a paranoid person, but I am a cautious person. I lock my car and my house even when I'm home, my doors and windows are locked, and when I am out in public alone I am always aware of my surroundings.

CaliforniaPeggy (103,103 posts)    Thu Apr 4, 2013, 04:21 PM

13. We always lock our house and car.

But not because men are potential rapists. Because we don't want strangers who might harm us getting into our personal space.

pipi_k (15,904 posts)    Thu Apr 4, 2013, 06:47 PM

56. Out here...

in the middle of the woods, yes. We lock our vehicles up.

Doors...the one in the cellar rec room leading up to the master bedroom and the one out on the sun porch are locked all the time. The front door is locked at night and when we leave.
 
There are motion alarms and cameras scattered all over the house and yard.

One of the cameras is for our amusement, like the one pointed at the deer feeder. Four others are for monitoring the dogs in their fenced yard because one of us has to go out and clean up dog poo whenever one of the girls leaves a pile...or else they'll eat it. The rest show various places in the house and driveway and back yard.
 
I don't worry all that much about human intruders, but do keep in mind what happened in 2001 to the Zantops in New Hampshire. My neighbors are even farther away than theirs were. Can't take chances.

^^^the primitive who's been riding the social security disability gravy train for a long time and is now trying to decide whether to continue riding it, or switching over to social security early retirement; sounds like some pretty lavish digs for someone getting by on disability.

The Straight Story (40,816 posts)    Fri Apr 5, 2013, 12:41 AM

78. No

I have not done so for years, and I live in a 'bad' area.

My dad does though, he is a RW'er and thinks there is always someone out to get him,us, etc.

MADem (84,323 posts)    Fri Apr 5, 2013, 02:33 AM

83. I do not lock my car in winter. I don't leave anything worth stealing in it, though, either.

It is over a quarter century old and the locks freeze shut when I lock them. I have to play a mad game with WD 40 to try to unlock the damn things--it's just too much of a pain in the ass.
 
The vehicle is a standard--most thieves can't drive them these days, and why would they want the old thing, anyway? In the winter, they'd have to spend a half hour chipping all the damn ice off the windshield....and the windshield washer distribution mechanism is a bit squirrelly; you've got to know how to play with it to get some fluid over on the driver's side.
 
Of course, my two Shitting Burglar Alarms (very alert terriers) would be barking to beat the band and wake the neighborhood if anyone tried to make off with my car, too. Plus, as often as not, a household member who locks their car is most often parked behind me in the drive, making it difficult if not impossible to swipe my car.

[GOBUCKS]

Warpy (67,977 posts)    Thu Apr 4, 2013, 06:12 PM

I did hide my last name at work. I had a stalker. I didn't want another one. Living in a bad neighborhood doesn't prevent crazy people who hang your face on their fantasy life from doing what they do.

Can you imagine how awful someone's fantasy life must be if he hangs DUmmy Warpy's hideous face on it?


(She hides her name to stymie background checks that might turn up her criminal past in New England.)

[JohnnyReb]

Well, way back when you were allowed to shoot an uninvited guest(as buglers are now known) we never locked doors and nothing got stolen. Since liberals have taken pity on criminals, everything is locked up tight but getting stolen anyway if you aren't sitting on it holding a gun.

[BlueStateSaint]

I always lock my car and house doors.  My wife said that, since we've moved, she didn't feel the need to lock the cars.  I told her, "This ain't Mayberry, or Walton Mountain.  The locks get used."  She's seeing it my way now.

[Chris_]

ismnotwasm (8,860 posts)    Thu Apr 4, 2013, 06:06 PM

44. Me too

Although I prefer to call them 'ethnically mixed working class neighborhoods'

What kind of pretentious dickbag talks like this?

[JohnnyReb]

What kind of pretentious dickbag talks like this?

Liberal racist covering up his/her racism in coded language.

[GOBUCKS]

What kind of pretentious dickbag talks like this?

It's real estate speak.

Most people would just say "the hood".

[Evil_Conservative]

I live in the suburbs and lock my doors all the time.  Even when we are home.  Car doors stay locked at all times too, except when they are in the garage.  But, our garage door is always closed if we are not out front.

[vesta111]

It's real estate speak.

Most people would just say "the hood".

Ha I never lock the doors on my cars, nothing of value to steal and on the jeep better then have someone with a knife ripping into the canvas.

House is another thing. windows and in back rooms, and windows in outside doors are an invite to
to others.  Heck I got locked out and it was no problem to break a Window to  get back  in.

The really fun stuff happend when my little dogs hit the lock button on the car. My purse was inside the car and we finally got ahold of Mom that came to take me home to get the extra keys.

We got to the my home, I had no keys to get in and had to crawl in the bed room window only to face my huge Rottie, she drove me nuts with her licking and all happy dog stuff to see me.

Big dog spent his time wandering about the house , over seeing all security and depending on the little dogs to wake him up when he was sleeping when the little guys heard a noise.

No reason for us to own a Gun, we had backup from our big dog.   Then big dog died,  left us unprotected and feeling venerable.    

[franksolich]

You know, this is really gross on Ugly's part:

Warpy (67,977 posts)    Thu Apr 4, 2013, 04:11 PM

4. I've always lived in shitty neighborhoods and I'm talking about the level of shitty that produces sporadic gunfire and deaths from ODs. I have a couple of floor looms to house and shitty neighborhoods have more bang for the real estate buck.
 
So yeah, everything is locked up tight. Even if it's a neighbor I like (and I do like mine now), I don't want to be surprised by a visitor when I'm getting out of the shower or taking a dump.

I'd die of sheer fright if I ever ran into Ugly not adequately covered.

It's gross because she apparently locks her front door but not her bathroom door.

<<always locks the bathroom door when in there, and so's never been caught.

[chitownchica]

The Straight Story (40,816 posts)    Fri Apr 5, 2013, 12:41 AM

78. No

I have not done so for years, and I live in a 'bad' area.

My dad does though, he is a RW'er and thinks there is always someone out to get him,us, etc.

What in the world does locking doors have to do with political persuasion? So crazy.

[GOBUCKS]

What in the world does locking doors have to do with political persuasion? So crazy.

Locking doors has nothing to do with politics.

It also has nothing to do with preventing a break-in, but it makes people feel better to lock up.

In suburban areas with no 0bamaites, you're more likely to be hit by a falling tree than to have a home burglary.

And if the one-in-a-bazillion chance happens, a lock just means he'll wreck your door frame.

[Vagabond]

I watched a documentary on Cuba the other weekend and it was stunning what the film maker left in and out of his documentary.  In the commentary, he mentioned how everything is handled at the community level and that, everyone had their doors open at night.  He failed to mention how the regime looked down upon closed doors because people might be plotting behind them, and that the neighborhood watchers would be sure to report it.

All the DUmmies should leave their doors open.  Acording to their ideology their supposed to share whatever they have, right?

[Delmar]

What in the world does locking doors have to do with political persuasion? So crazy.

Because, according to the DUmmies, every decision made by conservatives is fear based.

[chitownchica]

Locking doors has nothing to do with politics.

It also has nothing to do with preventing a break-in, but it makes people feel better to lock up.

In suburban areas with no 0bamaites, you're more likely to be hit by a falling tree than to have a home burglary.

And if the one-in-a-bazillion chance happens, a lock just means he'll wreck your door frame.

 

Because, according to the DUmmies, every decision made by conservatives is fear based.

I guess so.  This came from the guy who begged for money so his ex-wife could go skydiving. 

[Tucker]

Asked of Warpy:

JVS (60,374 posts)  Thu Apr 4, 2013, 05:24 PM

26. What do you weave?

Tall tales.