Lock your doors, people

Maddy

Maddy

Shark
#41
#41
Beast Rabban said:
bad people come into buildings (delivery guys, even) and just walk by and check doors to see if they're unlocked. An unlocked door is like a birthday present for bad people!
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Okay, this is not an unlocked door story but read it like it was - because you know it could have been:

I am nosy and I went to my door to look through my peep hole at a grocery delivery loudly happening at the neighbors door. Ater she shut her door the delivery guy looked around to see if anyone was watching, put his ear to my neighbors door, I guess listening to make sure they weren't coming out right then. Then he started undoing his belt and walked toward the laundry room. At which point I opened my door and he hurried away. I looked out the window and saw him take a piss between cars in front of the building before heading back to the store with his empty dleivery cart.

That dude tried to pee in my laundry room.

I'm just reinforcing that "bad people" come into your building all the time.

Dude, just lock your feckin' door.
 
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Buster

Buster

Night Moves
#42
#42
youngcat said:
When I was visiting a friend in Atlanta in 1994, we woke up after a night of partying, arounnd 1:00 in the afternoon to find Lenny Dykstra, former center fielder for the Philles and Mets, passed out on our couch.

We woke him up and he asked "what time is it?" We told him, and he said, "Oh shit". Can you drive me to Turner field?
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If this was in 1994, then you drove him to Fulton-County Stadium. Not the Ted. I'm a stickler for stadium names.
 
brandon

brandon

be proud
#43
#43
This reminds me of something that happen to me ahwile back:

One night I locked my door and then nothing bad happened. I liked the results so much i continued to do it.
 
PatBaer

PatBaer

hey, that's me
#44
#44
My roomate likes to leave our front door unlocked when he walks his dog.

I'm not talking about our apartment door (which is sometimes left wide open), I'm talking about the APARTMENT BUILDING DOOR. And guess what? Most of the time, while he's out, someone else in building locks the door (maybe one of the people with children!) and when he can't get back in... he holds the buzzer down till I let him in. ALL THE TIME.

So lock your doors, and take your keys.
 
Music Poll Bit

Music Poll Bit

kwaking up
#45
#45
We're all having fun with this thread, and I don't mean to kill the frivolity, but I do think there is an important point that needs to be made: Lock your doors!
 
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mikelibrarian

Lost in the stacks.
#46
#46
Pat, I'd think that your roommate was my college roomate, by your description of his lax door locking habits. I know he's not because he's out living on a deserted island off the coast of Virginia as part of an Environmental Science Research Project. He used to like jogging while wearing an outfit without pockets. So he'd leave our room door unlocked. He'd also leave a note on the door saying that he was leaving the door unlocked and asking me to keep it unlocked. Aaaargh! He refused to stop leaving the notes or to compromise by leaving them in German, a language we both spoke. He also forgot to lock the door before leaving for Thanksgiving. Right after he had played a vicious prank on two of our hallmates by sealing their door shut.

He did that becaiuse one of the guys had tried to break into our room the night before, I think beacuse he wanted to beat someone up. he spent an hour throwing himself against our door in an attempt to break it down. My roomate and I spent the time waiting for him with weapons ready. I think he had a hammer and I had a pair of scissors. I don't normally advocate stabbing people, but this was a pretty extreme situation.

The idiot's innocent roomate stayed in the dorm for Thanksgiving and wandered into our room. He said that he would have stolen food or beer to get back at us for being locked in , but he didn't like our selection of stuff.
 
Jeremiah77

Jeremiah77

New Member
#47
#47
PatBaer said:
My roomate likes to leave our front door unlocked when he walks his dog.

I'm not talking about our apartment door (which is sometimes left wide open), I'm talking about the APARTMENT BUILDING DOOR. And guess what? Most of the time, while he's out, someone else in building locks the door (maybe one of the people with children!) and when he can't get back in... he holds the buzzer down till I let him in. ALL THE TIME.

So lock your doors, and take your keys.
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There's this guy in my building who operates (i'm not kidding) a small kennel from his apt. he's always leaving the door unlocked to our building. Why is that? What's so hard about keys when you walk a dog?
 
A

AdriB

Hungarian like a wolf
#48
#48
A few months ago, I left for work at around 9:00 AM and didn't lock the apartment door because my roommate was home. Stupid move, I know. After I left, some old guy came into my 4th floor walk up apartment and stole all of my jewelry. My roommate saw him leaving my bedroom and chased him out of the building. Luckily, nothing happened to her but my stuff is gone forever. The good news is the guy was caught a few days later trying to do the same thing in another building on my block.
 
Oldog

Oldog

do
#52
#52
Mr. Purnell,
I for one would like to apologize for stumbling into your apt. I wasn't certain it was me until you posted the photos. Rest assured it will not happen again, unless I get drunk again.
Best regards and happy holidays,
Viktor
 
Laser Battle

Laser Battle

top hat destruction
#53
#53
That's Dave Thomas from the ground breaking sketch show, SCTV. [sorta?]

My friend never locks his doors, he deserves to have drunk people stumble into his house, but never does!
 
mattpack

mattpack

Like a fat kid love cake
#54
#54
Lost in the shuffle here is the fact that Justin, he of the unlocked doors, has more expensive electronics in his apartment than 99.99999% of the developed world.
 
D

dcpierson

bits save lives.
#56
#56
matt pack said:
Lost in the shuffle here is the fact that Justin, he of the unlocked doors, has more expensive electronics in his apartment than 99.99999% of the developed world.
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These robots are currently on exhibition in Japan. After the new year, they will be returned to Purnell's apartment, where they are held in permanent collection.
 
Jeremiah77

Jeremiah77

New Member
#57
#57
What's the penalty for breaking and entering in new York State? it's a felony, isn't it?

Legal people: can you make a citizens arrest of someone breaking into your home? and what about that urban legend that you have to warn someone who has broken onto your property three times then you can shoot to kill?
 
cockofbenorbeen

cockofbenorbeen

full-blooded cock
#58
#58
Purnell said:
My friend Allegra once wandered into her friends room during parents weekend and thought the girl's mom sleeping on the couch was a toilet. I love that story to this day.
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I'm only joining this thread late because I've been stuck wondering if Allegra has a twin sister named Viagra.

Cock of Benorbeen
 
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