what would you do?

[natto fire]

Wow, there for a minute I thought I was the only person on AT that didn't lock my door. Hell, I even leave my keys in my car.

I personally would have laughed and told the guy he was in the wrong house, after asking him for a beer.

 

[meltdown75]

jersey

uppercuts

 

[preslove]

Say, "JD is in the basement," then lead him down to my basement dungeon, chloroform him & put him in the Gimp Chest.














J/K
...
I'm from florida. We don't have basements...

*shiftyeyes*

 

[waffleironhead]

Originally posted by: Ns1

Originally posted by: TechBoyJK

Originally posted by: Ns1
shoot first ask later


seriously, you don't keep your doors locked?

It wasn't me. I'm friends with both JD and our incredibly alcoholic, almost 30, still living at home in the same bed since he was a baby friend that walked into the house drunk.

JD just called me and said he is going to kick the guys ass because his neighbor was pretty livid.

his neighbor is an idiot then and is lucky it was just a friendly drunk and not Joe Cereal Rapist

Yeah, gotta watch out for those Frosted Flake Rapists.
Someone pour me a bowl of serial.

 

[randay]

"You can have my wife and daughter! Do anything you want to them! Just dont hurt me or the beer!"

but for serial, physical violence, until his face meets the asphalt outside my house.

 

[lizardboy]

Originally posted by: Ns1

Originally posted by: TechBoyJK

Originally posted by: Ns1
shoot first ask later


seriously, you don't keep your doors locked?

It wasn't me. I'm friends with both JD and our incredibly alcoholic, almost 30, still living at home in the same bed since he was a baby friend that walked into the house drunk.

JD just called me and said he is going to kick the guys ass because his neighbor was pretty livid.

his neighbor is an idiot then and is lucky it was just a friendly drunk and not Joe Cereal Rapist

He rapes cereal? Forces his Trix in her Frosted Flakes?

edit - too slow, multiple people beat me too it

 

[lizardboy]

Originally posted by: seemingly random
Wasn't there an episode of "homicide, life on the streets" like this? I think the homeowner ended up ending the drunk guy after he became abusive.

Based on an incident that happened in Houston in the early to mid 90's. Drunk Irish guy kept banging on someone's back door (he had the wrong house), homeowner finally shot him through the door & killed him. I'll try to dig up a link.

 

[torpid]

DrPizza and others... can you explain the motivation for leaving doors unlocked? If people are regularly stopping by ala Kramer from Seinfeld I could understand it. Otherwise it just seems like unnecessary risk to me, and teaching children a habit which in many locations would be bad and unsafe.

Of course, one point that could be made is that locking doors isn't useful if the door lock is flimsy and can be kicked in (which is often true).

 

[jjones]

Originally posted by: Ns1

Originally posted by: TechBoyJK

Originally posted by: Ns1
shoot first ask later


seriously, you don't keep your doors locked?

It wasn't me. I'm friends with both JD and our incredibly alcoholic, almost 30, still living at home in the same bed since he was a baby friend that walked into the house drunk.

JD just called me and said he is going to kick the guys ass because his neighbor was pretty livid.

his neighbor is an idiot then and is lucky it was just a friendly drunk and not Joe Cereal Rapist

That's why I keep my cereal locked up. Sure, the Apple O's complain on a regular basis about being locked up but it's much safer like that and the Apple O's really complain because they're just craving attention anyway.

 

[natto fire]

Originally posted by: torpid
DrPizza and others... can you explain the motivation for leaving doors unlocked? If people are regularly stopping by ala Kramer from Seinfeld I could understand it. Otherwise it just seems like unnecessary risk to me, and teaching children a habit which in many locations would be bad and unsafe.

Of course, one point that could be made is that locking doors isn't useful if the door lock is flimsy and can be kicked in (which is often true).

I don't have the ability to. I live in an old Airstream trailer on a farm and the latch is broken. I leave my keys in my car because then I always know where they are, and in case of emergency or my vehicle needs to be moved they are right there.

I don't have kids, and probably never will so I don't have to worry about that scenario.

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

http://forums.anandtech.com/me...did=1559634&arctab=arc

 

[Perknose]

Originally posted by: torpid
DrPizza and others... can you explain the motivation for leaving doors unlocked? If people are regularly stopping by ala Kramer from Seinfeld I could understand it. Otherwise it just seems like unnecessary risk to me, and teaching children a habit which in many locations would be bad and unsafe.

Of course, one point that could be made is that locking doors isn't useful if the door lock is flimsy and can be kicked in (which is often true).

You live in fear. I don't. It's as simple as that. I live where I am able to leave my doors unlocked and my keys in my car. In your fear inflamed mind, locking doors is the default mode. I grew up differently. I don't expect you to understand.

 

[torpid]

Originally posted by: Perknose

Originally posted by: torpid
DrPizza and others... can you explain the motivation for leaving doors unlocked? If people are regularly stopping by ala Kramer from Seinfeld I could understand it. Otherwise it just seems like unnecessary risk to me, and teaching children a habit which in many locations would be bad and unsafe.

Of course, one point that could be made is that locking doors isn't useful if the door lock is flimsy and can be kicked in (which is often true).

You live in fear. I don't. It's as simple as that. I live where I am able to leave my doors unlocked and my keys in my car. In your fear inflamed mind, locking doors is the default mode. I grew up differently. I don't expect you to understand.

You grew up in a hippie commune where people spew bullshit like what you just posted, in other words? In my mind, locking doors when you have a family teaches your children to be mindful of personal safety. There's a big difference between being mindful of personal safety versus living in constant fear. Maybe in your bizzarro world they are the same thing, but not in the reality the rest of us inhabit. Now maybe in your wacky peace-pipe world this is not an important thing to instill in children. Over here on planet earth it is. Good to know that you appear to be ready to pass down personal stupidity over personal safety to your family. I see a future Darwin award winner in your family line.

 

[olds]

Originally posted by: txrandom
Steal his beer/wallet and bring him to his friend's house. He would probably be somewhat harmless, so I wouldn't worry about him killing or stealing.

I'd kick his ass because it is justified. The popo seems to frown on random ass kickings.

 

[thepd7]

Originally posted by: Gothgar
You asked this question on ATOT where every member owns 13 handguns, 3 rifles and a shotgun.

Most people would probably have blown his fucking head off...

Originally posted by: Bateluer
He's lucky he's not in Texas.

True.

Originally posted by: antyler
If someone is in my house i think i wouldnt be calm enough to ask him what he needs, rather arm myself with something, and defend my home and my wife.

Depends. It's just me and my roommate so I would have my gun but talk to him first. Late at night with a family? No promises.

 

[Foxery]

Originally posted by: torpid
DrPizza and others... can you explain the motivation for leaving doors unlocked?

Because I don't like feeling trapped and paranoid in my own HOME.

Or, for the more logical reasoning: Most felons will only enter vacant houses. They don't want a confrontation any more than you do. I'm safer simply by virtue of being here.

Of course, one point that could be made is that locking doors isn't useful if the door lock is flimsy and can be kicked in (which is often true).

Well, yes. The one time I was robbed, the lock didn't slow them down at all. The entire door and frame had to be replaced.

 

[TehMac]

Originally posted by: cheezy321I swear people have no balls anymore. Its not that hard to talk to someone.

Try telling that to a drunk Mexican. Or anybody for that matter. These days, it's better to just get the law involved because of all the pansies running around passing around "holier than thou" sentiments.

 

[miketheidiot]

i'm used to having people breaking into/trying to break into my house, normally i just call the cops and round up a posse real quick just in case. All of them have spent the night in jail.

<---lives in a fraternity on a campus full of drunk idiots

 

[DrPizza]

Originally posted by: torpid
DrPizza and others... can you explain the motivation for leaving doors unlocked? If people are regularly stopping by ala Kramer from Seinfeld I could understand it. Otherwise it just seems like unnecessary risk to me, and teaching children a habit which in many locations would be bad and unsafe.

Of course, one point that could be made is that locking doors isn't useful if the door lock is flimsy and can be kicked in (which is often true).

Actually, I think the question is: can you explain the motivation for bothering to lock the doors? Why are you so paranoid? Do you envision that people are going around your neighborhood, door to door every night, looking for the doors that are unlocked? If so, your neighborhood sucks. Are your doors locked 24/7, or do you think that someone will break in only when you're sleeping? "Okay, kids, go play in the back yard, but take your keys with you because I'm locking the door!"

 

[Joemonkey]

Originally posted by: cheezy321

Originally posted by: Joemonkey
somewhat similar situation happened to me. I parked at an old apartment (really a big old house made into 4 apartments) and as my wife and i were getting out of the car we spotted a cornered raccoon. so we just slammed the doors and ran up the stairs. never occured to me we left the doors unlocked, was an old 1993 Tercel with no key fob to lock the doors, and no automatic locks

After we go to bed, the guys in the apartment below us call me and say someone was in my car. Grabbed baseball bat, and looked over the deck. Sure enough, passed out frat boy in the passenger seat of my car with the door wide open. We call the cops, they rouse him up and he pukes MAINLY out the door. Cops ask if we have something to clean it up with, and we bring down some 409 and a roll of paper towels and they make him clean it up to our liking

Turns out he was the president of a frat that had been kicked off campus the year before and were renting a house next door to us. He got taken away in the paddy wagon, which was quite a site once the frat boys in the house next door say him sitting on the curb in cuffs.

You showed him! Why didnt you just wake him up yourself and tell him to get the hell out of your car? The police didnt need to be involved at all. Hes drunk and sleeping. Hes obviously harmless

I swear people have no balls anymore. Its not that hard to talk to someone.

Yes, getting woken up out of bed at 2am means you are thinking completely rationally, and walking down 3 flights of stairs to confront a stranger that is in your car is a GREAT idea! At the time I didn't realize it was a passed out frat boy, looking down from 3 stories could have been anyone

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: DrPizza

Originally posted by: torpid
DrPizza and others... can you explain the motivation for leaving doors unlocked? If people are regularly stopping by ala Kramer from Seinfeld I could understand it. Otherwise it just seems like unnecessary risk to me, and teaching children a habit which in many locations would be bad and unsafe.

Of course, one point that could be made is that locking doors isn't useful if the door lock is flimsy and can be kicked in (which is often true).

Actually, I think the question is: can you explain the motivation for bothering to lock the doors? Why are you so paranoid? Do you envision that people are going around your neighborhood, door to door every night, looking for the doors that are unlocked? If so, your neighborhood sucks. Are your doors locked 24/7, or do you think that someone will break in only when you're sleeping? "Okay, kids, go play in the back yard, but take your keys with you because I'm locking the door!"

I always lock my doors because it takes about 5 seconds to do, and it's an easy deterrent to anyone just coming in. I've got a number of valuables in the livingroom which is about 10 feet from the door. And depending on the time of day, I could be upstairs in my woodshop with earplugs in.

My door stays locked pretty much all the time. Minimal effort for protection against a low-probability problem that would have high consequences. In simple terms of payoff, that sounds like a no-brainer to me.

Originally posted by: cheezy321
You showed him! Why didnt you just wake him up yourself and tell him to get the hell out of your car? The police didnt need to be involved at all. Hes drunk and sleeping. Hes obviously harmless

I swear people have no balls anymore. Its not that hard to talk to someone.

Joemonkey's X-ray vision wasn't working, so he wasn't able to tell at a glance if the guy had a gun or not. Mine's not working right either, I should probably get to a doctor to have it checked out.

 

[ViviTheMage]

everyone's so trigger happy in this thread

 

[slag]

Originally posted by: KMc
Cereal Rapist?

Yeah, imagine walking in on this guy in your wife's cocoa puffs.

Ewww.

LOL.. quote of the year material..

 

[Riverhound777]

This reminds me of something that happened to my roommate in the dorms. It was a 3 story dorm split into 4-bedroom apartments, we were on the second floor. One night a guy from the room above us walked into our apt right past my roommate obviously drunk as hell and walks into my roommates bedroom and passes out on his bed. I guess he had the same bedroom, just one floor up which is understandable. The problem was this guy was fuckin huge and completely passed out. Not a damn thing they could do. I don't remember what they did since I wasn't home at the time, but I thought it was pretty funny.

 

[hiromizu]

Ask him where the party really was and party on.