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I'm going to study this and use it. Not for malicious purposes mind you, but I just moved into a new apartment where my door is ALWAYS locked. You can imagine
by jwingy 15y ago
I'm going to study this and use it. Not for malicious purposes mind you, but I just moved into a new apartment where my door is ALWAYS locked. You can imagine I've accidentally locked myself out a couple of times such as when a angry gust of wind slammed my door shut.
I will call the landlord no more!
- Bud 15y agoJust duct-tape an extra key somewhere weird. (Make sure it's weird enough. A block down the street underneath someone's front steps, under a mailbox that is not yours, something like that.)
- Deestan 15y agoThat's horrible advice. Firstly: Leaving your key in someone else's property is a good way to lose it. Secondly: Burglars are very aware of people leaving extra keys around, and what you may think is a super hiding place is actually #4 on the burglar's Typical Clever Hiding Place list. Duct-tape a set of lockpicks somewhere weird instead, if you're going with that. No biggie if you lose them, and a burglar is either not going to have the skill to use them, or carry his own, better set instead.
- cagey 15y agoDoesn't seem like horrible advice to me. Sure, if someone finds it, you're out your backup key. But unless the thief SAW YOU put it there (and you hid it a block away from your abode as instructed) how is a thief gonna establish the necessary link between the key and the lock it opens? Try it on every lock in the neighborhood? And a backup key costs what, $3-$4, and can be operated by anyone, neither of which are properties of a lockpick set.
- gjm11 15y ago> Try it on every lock in the neighborhood? Yup, quite possibly. The return/effort ratio for doing that is pretty good. The thief doesn't need to get in the same day as s/he finds the key, after all.
- minikomi 15y agohow about adding a tag with an address in the opposite direction to your house.. Of a non existent property or abandoned place
- MartinCron 15y agoTry it on every lock in the neighborhood? I once saw a shady character try the same key in every car in a parking lot.
- sliverstorm 15y agoSo long as you understand "under the doormat" and "in the flowerpot" are not Clever Hiding Places, you can probably come up with some pretty good spots. You can take advantage of logistics as well; for example, hide the key somewhere in/on your car. A potential thief would need to steal your key in advance, lest the key simply be gone when ever you're gone.
- pacaro 15y agoI keep a key under my front door mat, unfortunately it no longer fits any locks on my house. Once in a while I check whether it has been moved...
- giardini 15y agoHad to laugh! Another ruse: a quarter superglued to the sidewalk in front of a local university's library.
- Luyt 15y agoSeal a spare key in a plastic bag, then put it in the soil of a potted plant, possibly somewhere between its roots (or bury it somewhere shallow in the lawn). Potential burglars are not going to grub through all that dirt while they don't even know there's a key hidden in there. When you lose your key and have to recover the hidden spare, uprooting a potted plant is a small cost to pay ;-) Leaving a door key under a potted plant is indeed a bad idea.