Do you leave windows open when you aren't home?

[kaneen]

Nov 8, 2022 18:01:25 GMT -5 wildrice said:

Nov 7, 2022 22:48:58 GMT -5 kaneen said:

“The people who steal from an unlocked car or garage are generally not the same people who are going to break into a vehicle or home that requires more effort like breaking window or disabling an alarm system.”

They are exactly the same people just at a different point of desperation.

Theft isn't always because of desperation, though. Often it's mischief or because it's a thrill to get away with it. I would guess a lot of stuff that is stolen out of cars doesn't have a ton of value.

Signed, someone who was carjacked and the kids who did it took it to buy soda and chips and drive around and then wreck it. They got absolutely no financial benefit from doing it. They just wanted to cause trouble.

Fair point. Not the one I was making but fair.

[sandandsea]

Never because I’d have to check under every bed and closet and corner when I got home.
Growing up in the country surrounded by fields and no neighbors we did this all the time.

[sent]

No. I don't even want to open the windows in my house anymore as an adult with a working air conditioner. I still shudder at the memory of having to run around the house to close all the windows if it started raining. My kids will never know.

[soccermama]

We sometimes leave a couple of our 2nd floor windows open while we run out places. Those windows are super high up, somebody would have to be really creative to get to them!

I don't think we have screens on our main floor windows (not sure why that is), we don't really open those windows anyway.