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Constantly see people online talk about "when the robber comes thru my door" or whatever, and some of it is memes, but a lot of it is just people legit discussing what the "best weapon" to fight robbers breaking into your house at night would be - Giving it so much thought as if it is a legitimate concern. So is it? Does it happen a lot?

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[–] sharedburdens@hexbear.net 84 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've lived in cities in the US most of my life and I routinely forget to lock my door, I've never had anything happen. Nobody is desperate enough to go rooting through my dirty laundry, shoes, and old electronics for something of value.

It's just suburban psychosis

[–] octobob@lemmy.ml 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I woke up from a nap to someone rooting through my shit in the living room in the middle of the day.

I think people like to fantasize about what they would do in certain scenarios, but the truth is you don't really know. It felt so surreal that I actually just passed him and went to the bathroom.

When it dawned on me what was happening, I just asked him to leave. He just said he meant no harm and actually asked me if he could stay a while to get out of the rain.

I was like well I don't know about that haha

[–] sharedburdens@hexbear.net 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I woke up from a nap to someone rooting through my shit in the living room in the middle of the day.

The only time I've had someone do something like that it was my landlord, fucker was trying to show off my apartment while I was still living there

[–] kristina@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Should have started blasting, free kill on a landlord and you missed it smh (this is a joke for whoever screenshots this)

[–] sharedburdens@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

frog-no-pretext TBH I wish I was armed but then I'd have something for people to steal too. Xi pls arm me

[–] quarrk@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago

I was on the other end of this once. I was being shown an apartment and the tenant was clearly not expecting it (or just didn’t give a fuck, which I respect). I just cut it short and left because there were several other red flags anyway