People who dont lock their doors
Discussion
MRichards99 said:
Spare tyre said:
When I was 18 I had some friend of a friend who wouldn’t wear his seatbelt incase he had an accident and got trapped in the car
Do you know if he's still alive? 
When the law came in, must have been 30 plus years back, I went to my G.P. to plead for an exemption, as I so disliked them, I was constantly wriggling and holding it away from me to try to get comfortable.
An Indian woman, marvellous doctor, she argued and cajoled me to bite the bullet, it might save my life etc., I said I’d try, but if I couldn’t get on with it, I’d leave it off and take my chances.
Eventually she acquiesced, and signed the exemption form.
In all that time I’ve only been pulled 3 times, and naturally the cops prevail upon me to see that they’re right, I should wear one, but I still don’t.
If I’ve had no choice but to drive my wife’s cars, which have all had the audible clicking warning when the seat belt’s not buckled in, I pull the passenger belt across and plug that in.
If she’s driving, I’ll sit in the back, no clicking.
If I’m abroad, and HAVE to drive, I hate it, but I’ll wear one.
When I was driving a Black Cab, there were different laws, if you had a job in the back, or you were cruising with the TAXI yellow light illuminated, you were exempt from wearing a seatbelt.
If the light was extinguished and you had no passenger, then you were subject to the same laws as civilians, but I had my exemption, so I was okay.
When I lived in Cornwall I almost never used to lock my car and regularly used to leave the window wound down when leaving it around.
Camping on one of the Isles of Scilly, there is a 'camping barn' with small honesty box shop, freezers and a place to charge phones, cameras etc... Its on the 'main road' accross the island and open all night and day. Always smile when I walked in at 7:3am to see a dozen+ top range smart phones and cameras all sat on the side charging
Of course the first boat off the island isn't gone until well after 9am so any thief wouldn't have got far.
Camping on one of the Isles of Scilly, there is a 'camping barn' with small honesty box shop, freezers and a place to charge phones, cameras etc... Its on the 'main road' accross the island and open all night and day. Always smile when I walked in at 7:3am to see a dozen+ top range smart phones and cameras all sat on the side charging
Of course the first boat off the island isn't gone until well after 9am so any thief wouldn't have got far.alorotom said:
I leave my house unlocked most of the time front and rear French doors ... the dog is a reasonably good deterrent
Cars as well ... the Megane currently has its roof down and the keys on the drivers seat in the garage. Left my Q7 at the train station recently as well, unlocked for like 10days lol
The Q7 is a theft deterrent in it's own right, who'd want to nick that Cars as well ... the Megane currently has its roof down and the keys on the drivers seat in the garage. Left my Q7 at the train station recently as well, unlocked for like 10days lol
Sorry couldn't resist.We've got an outside toilet at the bottom of the garden and there is no lock on that and in all the years I have lived here we have never had a bucket of s
t pinched yet.Frank7 said:
While I totally accept that they save lives, and they must have saved thousands since they became mandatory, I really despise wearing them, it’s like a kind of mini claustrophobia.
When the law came in, must have been 30 plus years back, I went to my G.P. to plead for an exemption, as I so disliked them, I was constantly wriggling and holding it away from me to try to get comfortable.
An Indian woman, marvellous doctor, she argued and cajoled me to bite the bullet, it might save my life etc., I said I’d try, but if I couldn’t get on with it, I’d leave it off and take my chances.
Eventually she acquiesced, and signed the exemption form.
In all that time I’ve only been pulled 3 times, and naturally the cops prevail upon me to see that they’re right, I should wear one, but I still don’t.
If I’ve had no choice but to drive my wife’s cars, which have all had the audible clicking warning when the seat belt’s not buckled in, I pull the passenger belt across and plug that in.
If she’s driving, I’ll sit in the back, no clicking.
If I’m abroad, and HAVE to drive, I hate it, but I’ll wear one.
When I was driving a Black Cab, there were different laws, if you had a job in the back, or you were cruising with the TAXI yellow light illuminated, you were exempt from wearing a seatbelt.
If the light was extinguished and you had no passenger, then you were subject to the same laws as civilians, but I had my exemption, so I was okay.
I was once shown a photo of a passenger in a car that hadn’t been wearing a belt and nutted the windscreen with some considerable force. They were sat back in their seat with a head like a dippy egg and their brain sat on the dashboard - I have worn mine religiously since!When the law came in, must have been 30 plus years back, I went to my G.P. to plead for an exemption, as I so disliked them, I was constantly wriggling and holding it away from me to try to get comfortable.
An Indian woman, marvellous doctor, she argued and cajoled me to bite the bullet, it might save my life etc., I said I’d try, but if I couldn’t get on with it, I’d leave it off and take my chances.
Eventually she acquiesced, and signed the exemption form.
In all that time I’ve only been pulled 3 times, and naturally the cops prevail upon me to see that they’re right, I should wear one, but I still don’t.
If I’ve had no choice but to drive my wife’s cars, which have all had the audible clicking warning when the seat belt’s not buckled in, I pull the passenger belt across and plug that in.
If she’s driving, I’ll sit in the back, no clicking.
If I’m abroad, and HAVE to drive, I hate it, but I’ll wear one.
When I was driving a Black Cab, there were different laws, if you had a job in the back, or you were cruising with the TAXI yellow light illuminated, you were exempt from wearing a seatbelt.
If the light was extinguished and you had no passenger, then you were subject to the same laws as civilians, but I had my exemption, so I was okay.
A word of caution - if your wife rolls the car and you’re thrown into her there’s a good chance you’ll break her neck.
80sMatchbox said:
I spent many years in South Africa. We'd do a double check that all doors and windows were locked before leaving the house. Double check the doors and gates were locked before going to bed, etc.
It stays with you.
SA friends who moved to the UK had their SA friends staying during a really hot spell, they told the visitors to leave the bedroom windows open but they wouldn't / couldn't, so when every other room and every house in the road had the top windows open the Saffers were sweating it out - they just couldn't handle the idea of open windows (and no AirCon!)It stays with you.
My friends also said they occasionally forgotten to lock the house or car and always come back fearing the worst and find nothing had been stolen - despite what the Red Tops would have us believe, we're still fortunate to live in a very safe country.
Frank7 said:
MRichards99 said:
Spare tyre said:
When I was 18 I had some friend of a friend who wouldn’t wear his seatbelt incase he had an accident and got trapped in the car
Do you know if he's still alive? When the law came in, must have been 30 plus years back, I went to my G.P. to plead for an exemption, as I so disliked them, I was constantly wriggling and holding it away from me to try to get comfortable.
An Indian woman, marvellous doctor, she argued and cajoled me to bite the bullet, it might save my life etc., I said I’d try, but if I couldn’t get on with it, I’d leave it off and take my chances.
Eventually she acquiesced, and signed the exemption form.
In all that time I’ve only been pulled 3 times, and naturally the cops prevail upon me to see that they’re right, I should wear one, but I still don’t.
If I’ve had no choice but to drive my wife’s cars, which have all had the audible clicking warning when the seat belt’s not buckled in, I pull the passenger belt across and plug that in.
If she’s driving, I’ll sit in the back, no clicking.
If I’m abroad, and HAVE to drive, I hate it, but I’ll wear one.
When I was driving a Black Cab, there were different laws, if you had a job in the back, or you were cruising with the TAXI yellow light illuminated, you were exempt from wearing a seatbelt.
If the light was extinguished and you had no passenger, then you were subject to the same laws as civilians, but I had my exemption, so I was okay.
its what I used to do at work driving around the airport before they required us to all wear seatbelts, you'd get in and the drivers seatbelt was permanently "in" but everyone sits on them. You could do the same in the passenger seat?
Shakermaker said:
Frank7 said:
MRichards99 said:
Spare tyre said:
When I was 18 I had some friend of a friend who wouldn’t wear his seatbelt incase he had an accident and got trapped in the car
Do you know if he's still alive? When the law came in, must have been 30 plus years back, I went to my G.P. to plead for an exemption, as I so disliked them, I was constantly wriggling and holding it away from me to try to get comfortable.
An Indian woman, marvellous doctor, she argued and cajoled me to bite the bullet, it might save my life etc., I said I’d try, but if I couldn’t get on with it, I’d leave it off and take my chances.
Eventually she acquiesced, and signed the exemption form.
In all that time I’ve only been pulled 3 times, and naturally the cops prevail upon me to see that they’re right, I should wear one, but I still don’t.
If I’ve had no choice but to drive my wife’s cars, which have all had the audible clicking warning when the seat belt’s not buckled in, I pull the passenger belt across and plug that in.
If she’s driving, I’ll sit in the back, no clicking.
If I’m abroad, and HAVE to drive, I hate it, but I’ll wear one.
When I was driving a Black Cab, there were different laws, if you had a job in the back, or you were cruising with the TAXI yellow light illuminated, you were exempt from wearing a seatbelt.
If the light was extinguished and you had no passenger, then you were subject to the same laws as civilians, but I had my exemption, so I was okay.
its what I used to do at work driving around the airport before they required us to all wear seatbelts, you'd get in and the drivers seatbelt was permanently "in" but everyone sits on them. You could do the same in the passenger seat?
The only down side I envisage, is that now, if I suddenly encounter a cop car I can pull the seatbelt across me, and give the appearance of wearing it, to avoid being stopped and having to produce my exemption, wouldn’t be easy to do that if I’m sitting on it.
fttm said:
Sept 1st 2006 was the last time my house was locked , moving in day . Maybe having a GS gives peace of mind but break ins just don't happen around our way .
I can't say I've generally heard of this but a colleague of my wife's went home one lunchtime to let their GS out and found the front door wide open and the house having been burgled. She called the police and set off looking for the dog.Police called her after a little while - they'd arrived and found the dog asleep on the bathroom floor having been fed doped meat. They told her it was common for this to happen.
brrapp said:
In bad weather I occasionally leave an old 4x4 at the end of our (1.2km) drive with the keys in to allow car driving visitors to reach us (includes the postie in really bad conditions).
It has been known to disappear for a few hours at a time as neighbours use it to get into town for emergency supplies. I don't mind, they'd help us out too. It sometimes even comes back with a wee bottle of something on the seat to say thanks.
Don't know why, but I initially read that as a bottle of wee... It has been known to disappear for a few hours at a time as neighbours use it to get into town for emergency supplies. I don't mind, they'd help us out too. It sometimes even comes back with a wee bottle of something on the seat to say thanks.
brrapp said:
When we sold our last house the new owners solicitors insisted on a full set of keys and we had to search for door keys as they hadn't been used for years. We eventually found keys for two of the doors but had to fit new locks to three more house doors and about five or six to outbuildings.
Four years on, the new owners have never used any of the locks yet and the huge bundle of keys is still in the drawer we left them in.
Not many people lock doors round here.
Some legal people are twunts.Four years on, the new owners have never used any of the locks yet and the huge bundle of keys is still in the drawer we left them in.
Not many people lock doors round here.
First thing i do when buying a house is change every single outside lock. Not hard if you know what you are ding and have a couple of tools, only the price of a meal for two with a bottle to get someone else to do it if you can't.
If you are never going to use them then fair enough, but even though the only thing i have had go missing from here in 16 years is a buddleia (care in the community meets bank holiday desire to do up their garden apparently, although the neighbours cctv showed she'd also picked up a 4" Grecian urn on her trike...), we still lock the doors.
john2443 said:
Friends had a terraced house in Brighton in the 90s where there was no access to the back garden without going through a house - the terrace went all the way round the block, so faced 4 different roads.
When they bought it, it didn't have a lock on the back door!
Unlocked back door in Brighton... hmmmWhen they bought it, it didn't have a lock on the back door!
Rude-boy said:
First thing i do when buying a house is change every single outside lock.
When our newish neighbours locked themselves out they were somewhat horrified to find we still had a spare key.They also managed to set the alarm off which they'd never used before and didn't have the code to hand - was OK, we had that too!
bongtom said:
fttm said:
Sept 1st 2006 was the last time my house was locked , moving in day . Maybe having a GS gives peace of mind but break ins just don't happen around our way .
Well Ewan McGregor and Charlie Boorman had one and they've never been burglarised so I guess you’re right!
The guy that bought our last house asked an old neighbour to ring me when he locked himself out... To see if I still had a key. Yeah Im really going to admit that
lucky another neighbour admitted to having a spare key before he put a window through. Frank7 said:
While I totally accept that they save lives, and they must have saved thousands since they became mandatory, I really despise wearing them, it’s like a kind of mini claustrophobia.
When the law came in, must have been 30 plus years back, I went to my G.P. to plead for an exemption, as I so disliked them, I was constantly wriggling and holding it away from me to try to get comfortable.
An Indian woman, marvellous doctor, she argued and cajoled me to bite the bullet, it might save my life etc., I said I’d try, but if I couldn’t get on with it, I’d leave it off and take my chances.
Eventually she acquiesced, and signed the exemption form.
In all that time I’ve only been pulled 3 times, and naturally the cops prevail upon me to see that they’re right, I should wear one, but I still don’t.
If I’ve had no choice but to drive my wife’s cars, which have all had the audible clicking warning when the seat belt’s not buckled in, I pull the passenger belt across and plug that in.
If she’s driving, I’ll sit in the back, no clicking.
If I’m abroad, and HAVE to drive, I hate it, but I’ll wear one.
When I was driving a Black Cab, there were different laws, if you had a job in the back, or you were cruising with the TAXI yellow light illuminated, you were exempt from wearing a seatbelt.
If the light was extinguished and you had no passenger, then you were subject to the same laws as civilians, but I had my exemption, so I was okay.
Early 70's short while before they became compulsory, I knew a guy who crashed his Ford Anglia into IIRC a bridge support.When the law came in, must have been 30 plus years back, I went to my G.P. to plead for an exemption, as I so disliked them, I was constantly wriggling and holding it away from me to try to get comfortable.
An Indian woman, marvellous doctor, she argued and cajoled me to bite the bullet, it might save my life etc., I said I’d try, but if I couldn’t get on with it, I’d leave it off and take my chances.
Eventually she acquiesced, and signed the exemption form.
In all that time I’ve only been pulled 3 times, and naturally the cops prevail upon me to see that they’re right, I should wear one, but I still don’t.
If I’ve had no choice but to drive my wife’s cars, which have all had the audible clicking warning when the seat belt’s not buckled in, I pull the passenger belt across and plug that in.
If she’s driving, I’ll sit in the back, no clicking.
If I’m abroad, and HAVE to drive, I hate it, but I’ll wear one.
When I was driving a Black Cab, there were different laws, if you had a job in the back, or you were cruising with the TAXI yellow light illuminated, you were exempt from wearing a seatbelt.
If the light was extinguished and you had no passenger, then you were subject to the same laws as civilians, but I had my exemption, so I was okay.
He wasn't wearing a belt and was thrown across the passenger seat.
The non collapsible steering column and steering wheel came back into the seat back......
talkssense said:
Hardly anyone round here locks their doors. Postmen leave things in the hall or on kitchen table when people are out.
I work in other people’s house most of the time, the majority just tell us the door will be open or where the key is hidden (normally under the door mat or a pot by the front door)
Very little crime. Tbh I would hate the idea of feeling like I needed to lock up all the time.
I was a postie on the Isle of Skye about 12 year ago and very few locked their doors. Not in> Just open the door and leave the post here.I work in other people’s house most of the time, the majority just tell us the door will be open or where the key is hidden (normally under the door mat or a pot by the front door)
Very little crime. Tbh I would hate the idea of feeling like I needed to lock up all the time.
Changed now due to the Bridge being free and more and more undesirables coming onto the island I believe.
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