r/MaliciousCompliance - Karen Moves In and Thinks SHE OWNS Our Neighborhood! It Backfires.
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- r/maliciouscompiance - OP tells a tale about an entitled Karen neighbor who moves into the neighborhood and starts to to harass everyone! This entitled Karen demands OP's neighbor paint the color of his house because she doesn't like the color! In the end she gets taught a lesson!
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Stories in this episode of malicious compliance:
0:00 - Intro
0:30 - Story 1 (u/affablemisanthropist)
2:45 - Story 2 (u/-Krinxe-)
5:30 - Story 3 (u/HellaGenX)
12:40 - Story 4 (u/Evenlytoastedcatloaf)
#karenstories #funnykarenstories #entitledpeoplestories - ตลก
Do you leave your doors unlocked at home?
No! That's how you get robbed and unalived.
hell no!! my neighbor is mental! 😂
Not in this neighborhood, and I have 2 pitbulls.
Never.
NOPE i NEVER leave ANY DOORS UNLOCKED!
Story 4: It doesn't matter if it feels tedious to you, *always lock the doors, even if it's just for 5 minutes.* I find it funny how the dad's cocky ego was stabbed and swiftly deflated by a single robbery.
Yeah, that's crazy. Why wouldn't you just lock your doors?
5 minutes. Hell, If I am working in my backyard, both the front door AND the back door are locked. Yeah, even with me being in the back door, the door is locked. The key is in my pocket, so i know I can get back in. But no one else can.
Heck I locked myself out than I have digits on my body (aka 20) im thankful my parents have the spare key (I’m 3 decades old btw). I always lock my door even for 1 minute outside.
I seriously need to get into the habit of doing this. I live with my grandma in a neighborhood full of old people behind an elementary school, but when I move out I definitely won't be able to afford something safe. I always lock when I leave or before I go to bed, but I leave it unlocked when I'm hanging around the house...
I mean, the funniest thing is that he thinks that “just because the house is unlocked and empty that means any robber still is going to know exactly what I look like and how easy it would be for me to knock them out despite having XX amount of time head start”
The last story reminded me of a favorite saying of my Granddad: "Experience is a dear lesson, but a fool won't learn any other way."
Wife doesn’t lock, kids don’t lock, I DO. And she wonders why I keep MY stuff in the shop that isn’t attached to the house 🤔
i'm paranoid about not having my doors locked so i always make sure if were not outside the doors are locked and my dad has left the front door opened after he went somewhere and i've went off on him so one day he left it opened and went somewhere when we got home and saw it my brother clears the house shot gun in hand and when my dad gets home my mom chews him a new a one
@@mayapegues7666 good for your brother AND your mom. Way to go folks and GREAT jobs on not becoming a statistic to both of them AND you as well. 😉
Had a bit of a funny collision with someone many years ago, when a guy backed into my car. No one injured, and both of us had pretty much decrepit beaters. He looked at my car, I looked at his car, we both shrugged and said pretty much the same thing, 'nobody is gonna notice another dent'. Been friends ever since.
My husband and I were buying groceries at the local store on a windy day once, and we came outside to see another customer who was absolutely flipping out because the wind had blown her empty shopping cart right into the back of our SUV. Bit of a backstory: We were both volunteer firefighters at the time, and since it’s a rural area and we had a tendency to “squirrel” calls in whatever part of the county we were in, our cars tended to get pretty scratched up. Anyway, she was freaking out because not only was she worried about us being mad at the cart hitting our truck, she couldn’t find the new scratch! We told her, “Ma’am, we do worse than this on fire calls!” She immediately calmed down and burst out laughing!
@@dragondancer1814 Yeah. Like I said, 'who is gonna notice another dent?' 😂
@@dragondancer1814 love your name :)
@@skydragon84 Thank you! It comes from a saying that “Firefighters walk where the dragon dances,” so it’s a nod to my being a volunteer.
@@dragondancer1814 Nice! I've always supported the fire department. I love it when they came to my elementary school when I was young to teach us about fire safety. They even brought their mascot, a dalmation. (it was a guy in a suit and he always made us laugh)
I would be too nervous to be a firefighter, so I do my best to support them as a regular citizen.
Feed your 3 alligators, 1 donkey, and 7 koalas. Make sure you also feed the one steevo in your basement too!
Not just lying but lying to police. The Judge is going to love that.
I always lock the door! It only takes one person to ruin things. Even in safe areas, there could always be an entitled neighbor, rebellious teen, opportunistic robber, or generally confused person who you don’t want freely walking into your home.
May i present you with a time honoroed and well documented solver of those problems: AXE!!
it may just be a cultural difference but im still baffled why american house doors just freely open unless locked
where i live our doors, once closed, require a key to open, and can be further locked to i guess make sure its extra closed lol
either way no risk of a random person waltzing in uninvited
@@mrroboshadow That's also common in most of Europe. On Iceland, people rarely lock their doors, even when not home. Then again, when the total population of a people only number around 300k, it becomes difficult to become a successful criminal. Add to that the fact that Iceland produces the most successful strongmen for competition, there just might be a reason things are so calm
@@scar445 yeah i know i live in Europe
Story 3… I’m more worried about not being assaulted or worse in my home, not being robbed! What a horrible parent!!!!!
I lock my doors all the time, even if I am just going to the bins to dump rubbish. The days of leaving your door unlocked in a great neighbourhood are LONG gone.
When I was a kid we would have our front door open almost all night and there was a store across the street that sold donuts. We could smell the donuts coming in our front door. I lived on a fairly busy Street so you constantly heard cars even all through the night. That was back in a time when you never locked your door and no one ever bothered you.
I swear, people think things were just safed back when they were a kid but the truth is, they just didn’t know about the crime. No wonder serial killers were so abundant in the 70’s,
@@Nevertoleave Look up the reports about 'Bible John' in Glasgow UK back in the day.
Story 3: Man, imagine having a problem with the color of someone else's house because "house value" or some BS
Neon orange wouldn’t look great in the neighborhood or to look at. Inhabitants don’t have to look out at an ugly house because they’re inside it.
I have the nicest house and biggest nicest yard in my deteriorating neighborhood. My family has owned it since 1964. I inherited it from my late parents, and pay a good yard guy/neighbor to do my yardwork. Bad health prevents me from doing it myself, but I keep it up. Had a mental case a few years back trying to get an HOA going, but I and everyone else on this road told her basically to eff off! We are all lower-middle class, and many of us on limited incomes. Just NO HOA! 😡
Obviously she didn't have a problem with the property value when she paid for it, so it must not have been a problem before...
@@michellewest4796 That's what I thought. Then it hit me, I wonder if the Karen got the price knocked down some because of the neighbors paint color? Then they said the Karen's house was a darker shade of blue, but she wanted the neighbor's to be neutral colors.
And then the real reason came to me. Oh! Karen is just a nut job!
That gentleman speaking loud, slow Spanish with exaggerated gestures was one of the best things I’ve ever heard
I had to keep reminding my husband to lock the doors when we first got married. He grew up in the country and the closest city was very small, my high school had more people. I grew up in a good sized city and locking your doors (ALL DOORS, house, car, etc) was a given.
if some karen tried to tell me that i had to repaint my house, i’d intentionally repaint it either Fluorescent Red, Fluorescent Orange, or Fluorescent Yellow just to royally piss her off
I'll just tell her where to go and to pound sand when she gets down there! 😡
Don't forget to install uv lights outside to turn on at night.
What about that awful neon green?
In Denver, Colorado there is (or used to be) a house I'm convinced was painted with yellow road paint. I often wondered if the person living there has a neighbor dispute. Loved the house. Hated the near-nonexistant front yard, though.
Why not all 3?
I ALWAYS lock my doors. And my closest neighbors live at 100 m from my house
I've lived on my own for a while now, but I'm sure my family would still disown me for sheer stupidity if I left my doors unlocked. I've had people argue "oh, it's small town mentality" and I can't help but retort that most horror movies take place in small/isolated towns....
We've lived in this particular house for 21 years now. Bought cheap as housing prices started to skyrocket within 6 months (the house across the street is exactly the same minus the fence and garage - and it went from $55 grand to $125 grand in six months). Three houses down, about 2 years ago, a new family purchased and moved in. I was taking the garbage bin out one Sunday night and the woman saw me and came over. With a stern look on her face, she informed me that she didn't "want" me to park "that old rusty truck" on the street as it would "bring down property values". I shrugged and said "We don't have room anywhere else to park it and it is a work truck." Then she pulled the "I will have to contact your landlord about it." I told her "Go ahead." "Well, WHO is your landlord?" Figure it out yourself. The next day, she showed up again as I was bringing the bin back into the yard. "You don't have a landlord! I will just have to contact your bank about it!" Go ahead. And good luck. We've lived here almost 20 years now and haven't made a single mortgage payment in almost 9 years (I didn't tell her we paid off the mortgage in 11 years.) She finally figured it out. Christmas? She went around telling everyone she did NOT want "those low class blow up decorations" in the neighbourhood and wanted to "make sure" that we all adhered to "more classy displays". I am pretty sure that year EVERYONE had at least 3 of the biggest blow up Christmas decorations they could afford. I know MY yard was decorated with a blow up train, blow up gnomes, a giant blow up Santa waving from my roof, as well as a giant blow up polar bear with a Christmas hat. Even the neighbour across the street who is Muslim suddenly had a giant display of Christmas decorations that included lights set to Christmas music. Meanwhile, her house had two decorations - cheap dollar store plastic "wreath" type things that are about 12" across and she put one under each front window. I'm still trying to decide just how that is "classy". Last Halloween, she tried demanding that the entire neighbourhood NOT put up Halloween decorations OR hand out treats (no, she is not religious). Our old (in his 80s) neighbour put up the biggest display of Halloween decorations that looked like a giant haunted house maze AND posted on any local social media FB page inviting everyone to visit our area Halloween night for treats (he did let us all in on it - except for Karen.) She told us she doesn't like leaves in her yard in the fall and was going to speak to the city about cutting down the trees - and everyone who owns a house around here showed up at city hall the next morning to tell them if trees started to be cut down there would be consequences. She showed up just as we were all walking out. I don't think she even went in when she realized who "we" all were. It is always something with her trying to "run" the neighbourhood. We don't have an HOA but she's deemed herself "President" and tries to tell us all what to do.
Actually I think that's fun thwarting her. I'd be out in my yard putting up the worst crap I could find. Good for you and your neighbors.
Regarding the lock doors question, my household is 2/3 good at locking up. I say 2/3 as we're a household of three adults (me - 29F, mom - 65F, and older brother - 33M).
Mom is good at remembering to lock one of the locks on front and back door but forgets the second lock. Brother forgets to lock either, says we have nothing to worry about. That because of his size no one would dare break in.
I'm generally good at remembering both locks on the doors as well as locking the screen door.
One of the houses we lived in before, I was 16 when this happened, was broken into. My dog and I were sleeping in the basement living room as recent pipe break flooded my bedroom. Anyway, doggo and I fended off a robber, mostly doggo.
About 2 years ago, while not a break in, we did have someone pounding on our door at 3am. I had just gotten up for work at 4a when this happened. Mom answered the door after I had gotten in a position to defend if the guy tried to something. He saw me standing there with my bow and an arrow nocked, and he turned and ran off. Mom closed and locked the door and I called my boss explaining the situation. She had no issues with me working a later shift that day.
The doggo was a very good pup that day. "THIS IS MY HOUSE!"
I always lock my front door!
Seriously...in this day and age who DOESN'T lock their doors?? I mean there are mistakes but that's just plain STUPID!🤦♀️ You may as well put a sign in the yard saying "Rob me, please".
Some people may not think to, depending on the environment they used to. I was raised in a pretty safe neighborhood where we knew everybody around, and the doors were rarely locked unless we were leaving town or something. It was only when I got older and my family moved into a less friendly area that I was taught to make sure the doors were consistent locked, and it took a long time to build the habit.
Especially since if your Home Insurance Provider finds out you left a door or window unlocked, they WILL Deny the Claim because of your Negligence...
We had a rash of car break-ins in my neighborhood over a period of several days, because idiots in my neighborhood refused to lock their cars
our back door is always locked, luckily our front door locks automatically when it's shut, you just have to push the handle up for the safety lock but even still! even our windows are locked! I find it so odd when people don't lock the doors.
"but we live in the safest neighborhood"
yeah but the thieves probably don't! 🤷🏻♀️
Tell me you are from a large city without telling me you are from a large city
Oh I love story 3, we get that where I live every damn college semester! College kids rent a place in this neighborhood, because its clean and the rents cheap. Well there's a reason why. You're next to a major highway, 3 sets of parallel train tracks, an international airport and depending what way the wind blows down wind of a water treatment plant. Due to all this, its populated mostly with gear heads, and people who generally don't care about that stuff.
And for as smart as they may be, apparently these college kids didn't bother to check on any of that before renting, and oh gosh do they whine and complain lol! The best one was when one of these groups complained to me, since I happened to be outside, about the airplanes so early in the morning. The look of pure shock and surprise when I told them, well if it was around this time yesterday, odds are I was flying it, were damn priceless.
My great aunt always had her doors unlocked. But she also lived in an EXTREMELY small town of at least 50 people before it grew, around the 1800s. No burglary at all, but did have neighbors come in just to talk, or say hi. She didn’t even care. But never left home without making sure the locks are on.
She's lucky I wasn't Ted Bundy 🤣🤣
Yes yes she was lol
I am physically incapable of imagining someone not locking their doors in any and all circumstances, home or not.
I always have my doors locked. Ever since a friend of mine fell asleep on her couch without the doors locked & someone came in & beat the hell outta her. If it is open, it’s because my dogs are laying there looking out the glass door, but I don’t think anyone wants to mess with 200 lbs of dog coming at them either.
The loud, slow Spanish portion of the house painting story is making me howl laughing. 😆
Honey, I live in a very safe community and I keep my doors locked WHEN I AM HOME! It's called 'common sense' but it's in very short supply nowadays!
I always lock my doors and turn on the alarm at night or when we’re out. I live in a safe neighborhood on the outskirts with a few acres each yard.
The "Better safe than sorry" adage springs to mind there.
I always keep our door locked when I'm home or not
I keep my doors locked even when I am home. I don't cotton to the idea of uninvited visitors/intruders. Case in point. Many years ago, my next door neighbor called me in a panic once day because she found a teenager in her house ...... she had a habit of not only leaving her doors unlocked, but leaving the inside door open, not even locking the screen door ...... hence the kid just walked in when she was upstairs ..... she heard a noise in the kitchen, and thinking it was her son having stopped at her house for lunch without called before hand, she called his name while standing at the top of the stairs, when she got no answer, she started coming down and when she was half way down, she saw the intruder pass at the bottom of the stairs and go out the front door. Then she called me, which she had to go back upstairs to do, because the kid had taken her cordless phone from the kitchen. When I went over I took a napkin with me cuz I didn't want to touch anything ...... I took her back to my house and call the police. .... she gave them a description of the kid as best she could ...... then they went out and started canvasing the area ...... they found him walking down the road with the cordless phone in his pocket (this was back in 1989 .... way before cell phones that would fit in a pocket) ...... they didn't bother dusting for prints .... the phone was evidence enough ..... and damned if after that, and even after her son reading her the riot act (partly from an insurance loss aspect .... ironically he was her insurance agent) ..... she still would leave her doors unlocked. She was so naive for her age.
It wasn't the last arguments, that he ever lost. He didn't win the argument with the police, or the prosecutor, either. :P
I always lock my doors, windows, etc.
I've seen a number of houses painted brightly, in very non neutral colors. I like them as they are not same old same old white. And I knew a lady who was blind, and had her house painted purple. She had sight at one time, so she knew what she was doing. It seems cab drivers would drop her off at the wrong house, but if she told them the house was purple the drivers never missed.
Story 4: How are you going to intimidate people into not robbing your house when you leave with the doors unlocked, if the person who robs you isn't even from around the area and doesn't know you from a bar of soap? And that's after we discuss the absurdity of OP's dad in thinking that he had enough of a reputation to intimidate anyone in the first place.
Fluff, I appreciate you taking the time to record these for us. Your voice has a very calming effect. I think everyone else will agree with that.
Thanks for the stories DF. There's a house on the edge of our town that is painted peptol bismol pink. Has been for years. That's how you know you're almost home lol
Story 3: What Karen did was the surest-fire way of turning herself into a pariah.
Story 4: ALWAYS LOCK THE DOORS. Better to become tired locking all the doors for a few minutes than to become tired working forever to recover what you lost in a theft.
I was born/raised in a small town in the south. Back when my parents were young 1930s, nobody bothered with locking the doors. But when I grew, we were one of the only houses that did lock up. When I moved to NYC, I got into a very precise routine of locking my doors/windows. I still have this habit! Couldn't sleep without it!
The bossy Karen story reminds me of the time self-appointed 'Neighborhood watch president of non-existent organization I never heard of and take note I resided in this house over 60 years at the time of this post. Tellin me I had to do thing in my yard, move a vehicle to hide it from the view of the street excreta. coming to the end of my "stellar" self Controle, told her to buzz off unless she was willing to pay my taxes on this property, I MIGHT consider not calling the cops for harassment
I don't often lock my door but noon will live long enough to exit if they did.
The last story reminded me of something that happened at work last month. I had put my cleaning supplies in the shed (I’m a janitor at a warehouse) and locked it up at the end of my shift. I then went on vacation for a little over a week. When I came back to work, I discovered that the lock on the shed was stolen along with a long hose (I think it was 20 feet long or something).
Story 4: "everyone in this neighborhood is too scared to rob me"
That's just the thing. It's not going to be your neighbor.
And the dad learned exactly why you always lock your door, even if you're just going to get the mail at the mailbox at the end of your drive or working in your back yard.
Story 1, pretty sure the dad tore into his kid when he heard the truth because the brat tried to lie to him that it was op's fault.
Story 2, neighbor: I never lose an argument
Gets arrested, fined, and fork over a lot of money
Neighbor: surprised Pikachu face
Always have my doors locked when I’m going to bed or leaving. One time when I was living in a “quiet” neighborhood, a bunch of cars got broken into and my FIL’s registered handgun and his wallet were stolen. Like nope nope nope. He got a scolding from the police about locking his car and about keeping a firearm in there.
We've had a lot of car breaks-ins recently around here. And some were reported to have had handguns stolen from them. I never understood that. If you're going in for the night, take your handgun in with you! It's not doing you any good left in your vehicle.
My doors are always locked regardless of whether I'm home or out. My sister and I were living together for a while and she had a tendency to leave the front door unlocked when she was home. She figured nothing would happen if someone was home. But as steevo pointed out, that makes no difference.
Once, after my sister got her own place, I was awakened at 5AM to someone trying to get into my apartment. The guy knocked and then tried the door knob. He was clearly drunk. After I shouted at him a few times and said I was calling the police, he muttered "where the hell am I?" and then left. Sheesh.
last story: statistically, a few things are relevant here:
1. Crime rates are actually higher in gated communities than surrounding areas
2. When someone robs your house, its typically someone you know, or someone they know. its too risky and way too little of a reward for random strangers to do that most times
so the image of their neighbors seeing that vulnerability and coming in and swiping their stuff is hilarious
My mom's friend was stabbed 27 times by someone who let themself in through an open door. She lives out of state and stays with us when she has medical appointments in town, and she leaves our doors unlocked ALL THE TIME. It freaks me out.
I've gotten in the habit of locking my door even when I'm in the house. There's crazies out there and I've seen too many videos of people getting robbed while asleep in their home because they didn't lock the doors.
I find it hard to believe that the 3rd story is real..... How can someone be that horrible?
Story 2: The drunk guy who set off the car alarm and blamed the car's owner sounds like someone who punches people and then says, "how dare you hit my fist with your face?!"
ALWAYS LOCK YOUR DOORS!!! Even if it's for a few minutes! Also, do NOT give a neighbor your house key either as I was robbed one day while I was at work!
I will admit that I sometimes leave the front door unlocked when I go to get groceries across the street. I usually have lots of bags. But the house isn't empty, we have dogs, and we have cameras.
My nest door neighbors consistently leave their living room windows open ..... windows that someone could easily ripe out of their frames while standing on the porch. I guess they figure their 2 pussy cats of dogs would intimidate anyone who would try to get in. When I approach my front porch, both dogs will rush to the window and Doc will bark at me (Bear just sits next to him quietly). I always tell Doc, "It's okay. You are doing a good job guarding the house." Then he starts to whimper ever slow quietly. The worst that would happen to an intruder is being licked to death. The only time they don't leave those windows open is during the winter when it is bitter cold.
Story 4: I don't blame getting angry about the doors being unlocked cause leaving the doors unlocked while you're away just invites robbers.
It blows my mind that there are people who don't keep their doors locked. That's just asking for trouble, since you never know who might walk in.
In Japan, it's actually common to not lock your door but that's what I've heard from a friend who lived there as a child for almost 5 years.
I lived in Japan in a building with only 3 apartments. I also visited Japanese friends. AFAIK, everyone opened their doors with keys.
@@quix66hiya22 Yeah, my friend didn't live in an apartment. I'm guessing that it's different between apartments and houses and the region but I'm not sure.
The closest thing of being an unlocked door was our backyard gate. I was maybe 14 or 15 when this happened. I was just pacing in the backyard in my own imaginary world, the gate was wide open. When a neighbor's dogs, a black dog and a tan pitbull, had escaped his yard and entered our backyard. Note that the neighbor wasn't around at this time. I stood still for a couple minutes until it looked like the dogs were leaving the yard. Big mistake. I didn't even take one step and the pitbull whipped around and ran at me top speed and tried the bite my leg, but grabbed my shorts and started to drag me halfway the yard. I was screaming bloody murder. My mom came running out of the house with a hatchet and started shouting at the dogs. The dogs backed off of me and my mom chased them out of the yard and closed the gate door and locked it until they were gone. I was fine, other than being shaken up and had a bruise from where the dog's tooth almost broke skin on my thigh. Later that day, the neighbor came back, rounded up the dogs and did apologize for what happened and did take into account of my mom threatening to kill them. Understand that these pups were abused by the previous owners and my neighbor was trying to raise them right.
I keep my doors locked at all times. You can't trust anyone anymore.
I refuse to leave my door unlocked, I always double check it just to make sure it's secure before I leave.
I had an accident in April, and it was me accidentally rear-ending a car as I was trying to merge out from behind them. I was distracted getting something off my seat next to me. This accident WAS my fault, and I let those in the car ahead of me, the police, and my insurance. Be honest, ALWAYS.
Remember kids, always lock your door when leaving your house.
Locked door may not keep bad people away,
but it will keep good people from doing bad things.
Heck, I lock the door of my apartment when I take the garbage out. It's just a couple minutes, but you never know.
First time on my own always locked the doors. Now one day I didn’t because everyone was home. My sister and kids in the living room and me in the kitchen. My niece was at work and it was a little after 5p. She took a double shift and we thought she was coming home to grab dinner. Well, the door was open. We heard the keys, thinking it was her and thought nothing of it. The door opens, a guy walks in. He’s not paying attention and when he realized he walked into the wrong apartment, was about to shut the door. He was in the living room, startled and confused. And we literally just looked at each other like deer in headlights. The kids went silent and my baby just stared this stranger down. Mind you, he’s about 8 months when this happened but very aware who he knows and don’t know. After what seemed like minutes, the guy realized his mistake and left. His apartment was on the other side diagonal from mine. He came in from the parking area and got confused and since my door opened when he put his key in and turned it, he thought it was his apartment. He apologized a lot and left and ran into his apartment without looking back at us. Me and my sister kept the door locked even when we were home afterward. Deadbolt at night. I put a decoration on the door that my other sister made a few years back so everyone knew the door, and no one attempted to enter my apartment again.
Growing up, we never locked our doors cause it was a nice neighbor that literally no one knew existed cause it was hidden.
Once I moved, I kept the habit of never locking my back door cause my new neighborhood is even nicer than my old where everyone watches out for each other
@Allen Banks I'll be fine. If that happens I'll be on the Mr.Ballen podcast and all my coworkers will finally know what happened to me.
I used to leave the backdoor open over the summer but since I stepped on the hedgehog one night we have been keeping the door closed and locked.
I have a habit of locking the doors even when i dont need to and as a result i have locked my mum outside while she was gardening.
Dude. I was born and raised in East LA. Yeah, I lock my doors. My husband, on the other hand was raised in a nicer neighborhood, doesn’t always. He got stuff stolen out of his truck because he didn’t think it necessary to lock it. Needless to say, I am a nag about it.
Bedtime Darkfluff! Looks like I’m staying up.
My own version of that last story: My little brother is a bit of an audiophile, so he always has a really nice aftermarket sound system in his cars. He also refused to ever lock his car when he was at home. If he was out somewhere, it was kind of 50/50 on whether or not he locked it. He would tease me about being paranoid because my cars were always locked, regardless of where they're parked.
Then, one day, the obvious happened. He walked out of his house to find his car emptied. His radio and speakers were all gone, along with a lot of the stuff he kept inside. I did my best not to laugh at him or tell him "I told you so", but he learnt his lesson. HIs car doors are always locked now.
Locking doors:
I always lock my doors, even if I'm just taking the bins out. If my door leaves my eyesight even for a second it will be locked (so I won't lock it if like grabbing a package from the communal flats door which is literally 2 meters from my personal front door)
I also always double check it's locked after locking by testing the handle. And will occasionally do the same from inside the house, like before bed
Only time shit's gotten stolen is from people inside the house already. They were immediately kicked out and banned from ever entering again
I always lock my doors now. My parents did not. When I was in high school I came home from the gun range and there was a man in the kitchen with a bag of our goodies. I turned to my buddy as the man opened the knife drawer and asked my friend whether to us my 9mm or 45 handgun and the burglar dropped out things as I was chambering a round in the 9mm, my friend was right it would have left less of a mess. We held him in the garage until the police arrived.
Your friend is very wise.
I always lock the doors. My husband not so much...he has the small town middle no nowhere mindset. "That's how I grow up" type of crap he got a bit better when we moved west for his work and we had our cars broken into but still I'm locking the doors all the time.
"A centipede that lost 98 legs" Love it!
In this society today?! Doors locked and keys in pocket even for a brief run to Wal-Mart.
When it comes to locking doors I kinda fall into both camps. I grew up in a really small town so we didn't lock the doors there. After mom and I moved to a city, a man tried to climb into the house via an open window until he saw our dogs and backed out. After that I keep doors and windows shut and locked(or braced). Most recently I had to leave my doors and windows open and unlocked because of damage from hurricane Ian. As that damage is repaired I'm locking things more.
First of all what person that has a brain leaves their door unlocked?
Second of all I'm ready to watch a another great video by darkfluff
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@Wyatt Borden still stupid why not play it safe
Who the hell doesn't lock their doors??? I'm already paranoid as it is but damn, that's borderline dangerous.
Story #2: “3 am in the morning” as opposed to 3 AM in the afternoon?
Yeah you didn't have to tell me you were white when you said progressive and liberal that automatically said you were
SHould have added "self righteous" to it.
I lock my doors all the time. Nothing bad has ever happened but it's always a precaution. The problem is my Mom's boyfriend would also lock the doorknob and not just the deadbolt so there were times I walked out to take out the trash and realized the knob was locked and couldn't get back in.
Story 4 - How "intimidating" can you be to thieves when you're not even home? LOL!!!!
Story 3 reminds me of a gentleman who painted his house neon purple with black trim after a neighbor tried to tell him what color to paint his home.🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
My mom never had anything that was worth stealing, so she never locked her doors, even when she was out of town. I don't know if anyone had ever broken in because nothing was ever stolen and there were no signs of forced entry.
Sounds like OP had a "convenient" alibi, after telling a bunch of people that they doors weren't locked.
Growing up we frequently left our doors unlocked, but we're talking a small town in the 60s/70s. As an adult, I lived almost 30 years in a 2nd floor apartment and always locked my doors. My sister lived on the 1st floor and never locked hers. People just walked in, bc half the time her door wasn't even closed. Crazy.
My dad moved to Montana after he retired and I moved up there with him for 20 years. It was a house a 20 minute drive from the nearest town (30-40 minutes inbwinter) with no neighbors in sight. The door facing the highway was locked because it was practically never used. Because there was almost always someone home we didn't lock the back door which opened into the mudroom. In fact, during warm months we left the door open during the day for the cats while we were at home. Of course we got the occasional chipmunk and less frequently but more alarmingly bears. I started locking the door after my dad passed the last few years before moving back down to California.
I grew up in the DC-Metro area, and consequently I have ALWAYS had the habit of locking up my house and cars to the point where my husband used to tease me about “living like we’re Fort Knox” even though we’re in a small town in a rural county! Well, my Rule #3 is “If I don’t know you, I don’t trust you!” and my Rule #33 is “You say ‘paranoid,’ I say ‘justifiably cautious!’” When you combine that with creeps breaking into houses and cars for cash or hockable items to feed their drug habits (yes, we have an opioid crisis here too!), it’s easy to see why I’m not taking chances!
Oh yeah, and did I mention that we live in black bear country? Yep, definitely not leaving the doors unlocked!
I lock my doors without fail any and every time I leave to go anywhere. Even if I'm only intending to be gone 10 minutes, everything gets locked. I also have cameras watching all entry points to the house, I've been robbed 3 times in the 13 years I've lived in my house. Take. No. Chances.
I remember a time when you didn't have to lock the doors of your home, but not anymore! I ALWAYS lock my doors now. 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
I live in Florida... the last time I even heard about anyone going into anyone else's place, without prior knowledge, they were debating whether or not it was classified as legitimate self defense because while Florida does have a Castle Doctrine, it technically only applies if, and I quote, "if he or she reasonably believes that using or threatening to use such force is necessary to prevent imminent death or great bodily harm to himself or herself or another or to prevent the imminent commission of a forcible felony."
Aka if you're alone in your house and suddenly find someone poke their head through your doorway, while you have ZERO idea what they person is doing, other than breaking into your home, it MIGHT not be legal to use whatever weapon you have to defend yourself. But given the circumstances, it would be a VERY hard case to prove that it doesn't apply.
When I was growing up, being petty was a bad thing, but with all these crazy entitled people we have anymore, being petty is the only way to handle them.
I always lock my doors, house and car. Years ago we would go on vacation for 1 or 2 weeks and think nothing of leaving the house open but you sure can't do it now!
My parents never locked their doors when I was growing up. The weirdest thing that ever happened was on a bright, sunny day when a dude entered from the front door, looked around at my family and held his finger up to his mouth in the "shush" position. He then went out the backdoor and a few seconds later several cops also entered through our front door and asked us if we had seen a man. We all kind of blankly nodded and they proceeded to chase him out the back. I never felt like I was in any danger from that dude and to this day I'm still curious as to what happened.
I lock every door in my house when I’m home and when I’m not home. I use to live in a neighborhood that was very sketchy and that thankfully prevented robbery for me anyways.
I grew up just outside of Philadelphia, we learned that stuff like break-ins happen often. we locked every door & window when no one was home.
1st story: EVERY TIME, every time, the person in the wrong wants to tell the police their version of the truth first. Loudly and constantly interrupting the other side of the argument
3rd story: Why the hell do people think that talking super slow and loud when they think that the person they're talking about doesn't speak English?
I like the fact that the neighbor does the same thing to her
Side note, the revenge paint job CAN come back to bite you on the ass sometimes
I got out of the US Army in 1993 and the first place I lived in was one of my father's rental homes
Whoever lived there before painted every single room a sickly color
One room was purple, one salmon, one neon green and so forth
I became physically ill just being in that house until I painted it all white
4th story: My doors are open while I'm there but locked when I'm gone
Story 3: A good quip would be "It must be awful to look at a house that's brighter than you."
When I was in the Army our platoon leader, a lieutenant, had a big sign on the front of his desk that read "The smart man knows when to keep his big mouth shut". I learned later that he had the sign put there because of the number of men he had had to put into non-judicial punishment because while mouthing off they had inadvertently admitted to illegal conduct that he had to take official notice of.
Re: "Karen and the Blue House" 🤣🤣🤣 I LOVE IT!! I was laughing so hard I couldn't breathe!! 🤣🤣🤣 Now, glow in the dark paint would have been the perfect touch 🤣🤣🤣
I have a touch of OCD. I NEVER leave my doors unlocked and check their multiple times day or night.
Husband never locks his car doors. I always lock mine. I used to live way out in the boondocks and hardly anyone ever came down there. I would lock mine out there and my dad would yell at me that no one was going to steal my car out there and how the dogs would get so loud barking and wake him up before the thief had time to do anything.
I just let him keep yelling and I lock my doors at my new place because we don't have dogs, we have cats. The cats would probably just ask for food in exchange for my car. Lol
I have heard too many stories and I actually had a stranger come up to our house at 9pm and ask for a ride home. The first time, I was outside and knew I wouldn't be able to run back in and lock door (door knob lock sticks). So I drove him "home." He came back a couple weeks later. Again, I was expecting someone and opened the door because I thought it was the friend. Nope. Same guy with a pipe in his hand. I was scared out of my mind as he just strolled inside and asked for drink and snack before I took him home.
Third time he showed up, we had friends over and one friend is huge. Over 6ft and reminds me of a thinner (slightly) version of Kingpin (old Spiderman cartoons). He didn't tell us until later on, but he went outside to smoke and the guy walked up. Now...he had heard about it from my husband and he pretended to be my husband and took the guy home. Never talked, stayed silent and I never saw the guy again. Asked our friend if he really "took him home" or not. Lol! But after the pipe incident? Nah...I am thankful to our friend and I ALWAYS lock my doors.
There story about the Latino homes is funny. I'm Mexican American and I absolutely LOVE the muli-color brightness of the neighborhoods! When I was a kid I used to think the houses were made is tres-leches cake!
Story 4: My husbands family ALWAYS used to leave the doors unlocked until I lived there with my baby! Then I’d lock it all the time. Their reasoning was because we live on a main road no one‘s going to try to stop here and break it because everyone would see. Oh you mean the people going 60 mph past the house who might glance and see someone walking in and just assume they live there and probably aren’t going to do anything about it🤦♀️. I accidentally left my door unlocked in my apartment one time when I just got back from grocery shopping I was sitting on my computer doing stuff and a random guy walked into the apartment and it freaked me out so bad I looked at him he looked at me and he was like “ is so-and-so here“ and I said no nobody lives here by that name and he said “ oh I guess I walked into the wrong apartment“…. I NEVER Forgot to unlock my doors after that for sure. Who just walks into someone’s apartment even if it’s someone you know wouldn’t you knock first? It also left me wondering if it was just a miscommunication or if he was thinking he was lucky to find an unlocked door and was going to steal stuff but then once he got up the stairs and found somebody sitting there he made up his own story. Either way I still had a random stranger walk into my apartment just because the door was unlocked. Never again.