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Post by the4thpip on Dec 14, 2014 14:41:57 GMT -5
Could be kids having fun. Makes more sense than the criminal who doesn't steal, the escaped lunatic, or the visiting alien. Do kids in the US still do that for "fun"? A German exchange student who went into a guy's garage on a dare got shot dead this year. |
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Post by BigPapaJoe on Dec 14, 2014 15:55:33 GMT -5
How long have you resided there? Perhaps someone did find that key you were talking about. It is very strange that none of your big ticket items were taken. I'm guessing it's either kids playing a cruel joke and/or some loon that just has a desire to screw with people. I don't want to go too off the rails here, but it could be something of a paranormal/unexplained nature. Unlikely, but just saying. Have you thought about getting a security camera? If you change the locks and someone still has access to your place then I would start getting pretty concerned. Obviously that changes solves your problem.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 14, 2014 18:41:19 GMT -5
The things one learns about one's front door when one tries to remove the lock, handle & knob: Apparently, my deadbolt ... isn't. That is, the deadbolt lock doesn't engage that bolt, but rather the regular tongue (or whatever it's called) that a non-deadbolt lock normally would control . Which could explain how someone might be getting in, regardless of whether he or she found a key.
lso, the lock/handle/knob unit won't come out of the door. Period. All I succeeded in doing when I tired prying it out of the door was bending out the top & bottom of the metal plate facing the door jam. Makes me wonder if in the old days the doors didn't come with the units already built in. (The house dates from the mid-'40s; for all I know, the door does, too.)
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Dec 14, 2014 19:57:33 GMT -5
I never would attempt fooling around with my front door's locking mechanisms on my own. I always relied on a locksmith. Expensive, yes, but otherwise I know I'd just make things worse by trying it myself. Good luck with that.
I seem to recall an early 60s Batman story where first a camera was stolen from a mansion but nothing else was missing. Then the thief returned and stole a clock and only a clock. It was a Bill Finger plot and turned out to be the Joker with Batman finally confronting him in a factory with giant typewriters and Robin hopping around on the giant typewriter keys and Bats wrapping up the henchmen in giant typewriter ribbons. Does your town still have one of those factories? Could be your housebreaker's lair. Makes more sense than a poltergeist
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Post by Deleted on Dec 14, 2014 20:04:45 GMT -5
How long have you resided there? Perhaps someone did find that key you were talking about. It is very strange that none of your big ticket items were taken. I'm guessing it's either kids playing a cruel joke and/or some loon that just has a desire to screw with people. I don't want to go too off the rails here, but it could be something of a paranormal/unexplained nature. Unlikely, but just saying. Have you thought about getting a security camera? If you change the locks and someone still has access to your place then I would start getting pretty concerned. Obviously that changes solves your problem. I've been here 13 years as of about 2 1/2 weeks ago. As noted above, though, turns out that for someone who knows how to get around a non-deadbolt lock (not that difficult to do), the deadbolt lock on my front door doesn't actually engage the deadbolt, but rather a regular ol' lock tongue. If I'd realized that, I'd have been locking the security door on the front entrance all along. I certainly will now. |
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