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This week my car got broken into (they didn't steal my waffle maker, so I win bitch!) The majority of people I've told this to have asked me if I left my doors unlocked. I said no, obviously, because that's insanity: but apparently that's a thing most people do in big cities? Leaving it open because it's going to get broken into anyway. That's madness. That's like leaving your front door unlocked because a murderer is just going to break in and wear your skin anyway. I feel like I'm being gaslighted. Set the record straight goons.
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Aug 3, 2019 21:43
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Well, how else are you expected to play GTA?
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Aug 3, 2019 21:44
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I always lock my doors. I used to live in Milwaukee 15 years ago and there's a neighborhood called River West where everyone had this philosophy - leave your doors unlocked or else they'll just break a window. For me, my secret is to just not have anything worth stealing.
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Aug 3, 2019 21:57
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i have a friend who does this because he reasons that it’s better to have something stolen out of your car rather than have a window smashed + something stolen from your car. however i feel like your window is only going to get smashed if you have something of value that’s visible personally i keep my doors locked. i’m out in baltimore and where i’m at it’s way more common for people to go from car to car, checking if anyone left their doors unlocked. if there’s something valuable in my car i cover it with a blanket if i can’t hide it in the center console/glove box
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Aug 3, 2019 22:00
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LabyaMynora posted:I always lock my doors. I lived just passed River west (Booth and Chambers) and every one of my car windows was eventually broken and replaced with hard plastic
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Aug 3, 2019 22:04
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I attach an electrical box to my car so touching it zaps your rear end but I still lock my car doors.
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Aug 3, 2019 22:04
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LabyaMynora posted:For me, my secret is to just not have anything worth stealing. My strategy too. Never leave anything in your car more valuable than a broken window.
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Aug 3, 2019 22:05
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You probably know people who live or lived in very lovely neighborhoods. Bad neighborhood or not it is a thing with soft top convertibles though since its so easy to slice those open without making a lot of noise or setting off an alarm. They can be crazy expensive, better to just let someone rifle through your poo poo. Course doing this can backfire to, I've heard multiple anecdotes of homeless people deciding to sleep in unlocked cars when its freezing out(maybe fibs to demonize the indigent) or street addicts turning them into overnight drug dens. Nothing like coming out to your car in the morning and discovering used needles on the seat!
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Aug 3, 2019 22:06
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If my car is in my garage, no I don't lock it. If it's parked anywhere else, I lock it.
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Aug 3, 2019 22:06
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My car is from the goddamn future OP I can't even tell if it's locked I think it does it itself
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Aug 3, 2019 22:12
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I lock it while I'm out and about. Then, when home, I park them in the garage like a well-adjusted adult.
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Aug 3, 2019 22:22
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Yes but I also park my car indoors.
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Aug 3, 2019 22:22
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Sometimes I do. Sometimes I don't Get the odd time where someone comes around testing doors looking for change and I lost an iPod that way but Buddha tells me to not worry about these things
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Aug 3, 2019 22:27
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When I walk away from it with the key fob in my pocket it locks automatically so I don't really get a say in the matter. It's a cheap french econobox so it probably doesn't garner a second look. Also don't leave valuables in plain sight but that's just common sense
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Aug 3, 2019 22:33
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Lol at my friend who left his iPad in a carrier bag in his gf's Jeep which only had those zippers around the translucent windows as protection. The iPad got stolen obviously then he like cried and moaned about it everywhere, it also had his artwork on it, none of which he backed up despite there literally being a feature that does it with minimal effort but this is also a guy who complains about back pain but never fixes his terrible posture and always says he's going to start cooking his own food but then buys stuff and lets it expire in the fridge while continuing to buy take out. Basically makes his life miserable by being preposterously lazy. He then proceeded to buy another overpriced iPad by borrowing money from his GF and again doesn't use the automatic backup feature. Also he allowed his art, which was really good for his age when he was younger, to stagnate by refusing to actually learn anything more, so he still couldn't do landscapes or backgrounds after fifteen years. Now he just uses mirroring poo poo and prefab tools on his iPad to make mediocre hippy art he makes prints of and sells. He's a big fan of No Man's Sky too, not really relevant but it's a major character flaw. All I'm saying is don't be this guy.
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Aug 3, 2019 22:34
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Anyone looking to break in to your car is going to break a window anyway, either to get in or as a general "gently caress you rear end in a top hat" because you had something worth stealing in plain sight or they felt blue balled because it seemed like you would but you didn't.
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Aug 3, 2019 22:48
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I lock my car because that's where I dump all my change
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Aug 3, 2019 23:12
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I typically have a lot of valuable sexual devices in my car so no I do not leave my car doors unlocked under any circumstances.
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Aug 3, 2019 23:50
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leave car unlocked but filled with poison gas, bombs, and venomous bugs
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Aug 3, 2019 23:59
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if you are rich enough to own a car you deserve getting it stolen
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Aug 4, 2019 00:06
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I don't have a car but I lock my bike
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Aug 4, 2019 00:08
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I live in a remote enough part of Oregon that I don’t lock my car and just leave the keys in the ignition. I don’t live close enough to a town to worry about it.
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Aug 4, 2019 00:09
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Tony Snark posted:Anyone looking to break in to your car is going to break a window anyway, either to get in or as a general "gently caress you rear end in a top hat" because you had something worth stealing in plain sight or they felt blue balled because it seemed like you would but you didn't. This. My roommate kept his car unlocked and completely empty of personal items except for some change in the cupholders, it was parked next to my car that was locked and full of random poo poo. Someone smashed the windows of his unlocked car for what amounted to less than 5 dollars in change lol. They only took the quarters and dimes. We lived in a horrible neighborhood and both of our cars were completely worthless trash that barely ran.
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Aug 4, 2019 00:10
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Lol My first car was a Pinto given to me for free by my best friend when she upgraded and "You are 19 time for you to get your license!" (She was the best friend I ever had.) Not only did I leave it unlocked, I left the keys in the ignition when I was at work. In town. It was so ugly it did not occur to me it would get stolen. She used to haul hay in it and I never bothered to clean it.  Maybe 9 months later it WAS stolen. I bought a used Celica. Then a couple months later I got a phone call from a rural police dept. They'd found it deep in the woods, would I come get it? Kids I assume had a good time, tree boughs were entwined in the bumpers. The Car That Would Not Die started right up even though it had no oil when we arrived, and I sold it for $250 to two guys who were excited to get the motor.
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Aug 4, 2019 00:39
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I dated a girl who lived on a rough street that left her POS car unlocked because it wouldn't be worth fixing a broken window. I guess that makes some kind of sense. Her place was next to a townie bar so drunk people rifled through her cassettes often but the tapes were only there as a joke, each one worse than the last. Moments after walking away from my locked car in Baltimore I looked back and saw an extremely drunk man walking along trying every car door handle. Dr Strangepants fucked around with this message at 00:53 on Aug 4, 2019 |
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Aug 4, 2019 00:45
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Macnult posted:personally i keep my doors locked. i’m out in baltimore and where i’m at it’s way more common for people to go from car to car, checking if anyone left their doors unlocked. Lol didn't notice my own story had been posted.
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Aug 4, 2019 00:47
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I mean if you leave it unlocked you're just being an npc leaving a loot chest for someone else's adventure
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Aug 4, 2019 00:49
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I find the idea of someone who gets smashed and habitually tries to open every car door really funny for some reason
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Aug 4, 2019 00:50
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I’ve seen several cars with notes on them that say something like “The doors are open, please don’t break the windows (again).
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Aug 4, 2019 01:48
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I drive the flintstones car
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Aug 4, 2019 01:59
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DeadFatDuckFat posted:I drive the flintstones car That's so cool
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Aug 4, 2019 02:02
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How many pages will it take for enlightened goons to reach the conclusion that locking your doors is terrible because preventing homeless people from stealing your poo poo is class suppression, and start unironically making GBS threads on selfish bootlickers for doing so?
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Aug 4, 2019 02:22
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I wish someone would steal my car and total it
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Aug 4, 2019 02:23
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counterfeitsaint posted:How many pages will it take for enlightened goons to reach the conclusion that locking your doors is terrible because preventing homeless people from stealing your poo poo is class suppression, and start unironically making GBS threads on selfish bootlickers for doing so? The joy someone received from stealing my empty water bottles and taped up poor condition paperback copy of Tantras, book two of the Forgotten Realms Avatar Trilogy is much greater than the sadness I experienced in losing them.
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Aug 4, 2019 02:31
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hey i think we'd live in a better society if the inside of everyones car was like a bring a book, take a book station
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Aug 4, 2019 02:35
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My car is inert.
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Aug 4, 2019 02:36
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anyone who leaves valuables in a car overnight is a moron and deserves no sympathy if they are stolen hth
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Aug 4, 2019 02:37
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You can steal what you want from my car but you just gotta be willing to rummage through my pile of off color sex toys.
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Aug 4, 2019 02:47
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LabyaMynora posted:I always lock my doors. Clearly there is a market for windows filled with a gas that explodes into fire if broken
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Aug 4, 2019 02:49
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There's a bingo raffle in my car take one and scrawl your card into my dash with a supplied boning knife and if you return to my unlocked car a week later you might win a keychain provided it wasn't stolen first.
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