On 28/06/2009 21:21 Scott M wrote:

Then lock it when you've come in. Not that burglars go round trying
front doors on the off chance - they go round the back. Only something
like 4% of burglaries are through the front door.

Heard something from the front door one afternoon a couple of years ago
and got up to investigate. As I did so I saw a car outside the house
with a couple or three yoofs inside it who, when they saw me, motioned
towards what turned out to be a fourth on the drive. When I got to the
front door it was off the latch and slightly open. Went outside and the
car load asked a pointless question about the route to town. Pointless
because the roads into our estate go nowhere but the estate. They left,
grinning.

Looks like they were after anything the could find in the hallway once
they had opened the unlocked door: bags, car keys. A call to the police
informed us they had had a bag from a house round the corner.

We now lock the door when we're in.

As an aside, previous 'events' with being locked out after a door with a
Yale lock has blown shut has led me not to use them.

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F