When you're in a section of the city known for crime....

[Josie]

Do you lock your car doors?

 

[clownboy]

When I had a car I locked my doors whenever and wherever I parked it.

Just occurred to me you may be asking if we lock the doors when driving through a rough neighborhood. Same answer as above - I always drove with the doors locked. One of the safety things I was taught way back when I learned to drive. Seat belts on, doors locked.

 

[Josie]

When I had a car I locked my doors whenever and wherever I parked it.

I mean as you're driving through the city, stopping at stoplights, etc.

 

[Aderleth]

I don't drive, but it's a good idea to lock your car doors wherever you are. The only time I've every had anything stolen out of a car, it was parked in one of the most affluent suburbs in the country.

 

[OscarB63]

I mean as you're driving through the city, stopping at stoplights, etc.

regardless of the neighborhood, if I'm driving in my car the doors are locked. when I was in HS, one night me and some of my buddies were on the way to town. stopped at a stopsign in the middle of nowhere and this random creepy dude came out of the bushes and tried to get into the car.

 

[digsbe]

I always lock my car doors wherever I'm at.

 

[Dirt Racer]

Most new cars have auto lock after the car moves forward 10 feet. So yes my doors are locked even in good neighborhoods! But to answer your question yes I would lock my doors if I was going through a bad part of town. Whether that be a ghetto or trailer park!

 

[americanwoman]

I always lock my car doors wherever I'm at.

Me too.

 

[rocket88]

Not anymore. I'm just not scared. I also figured that it's not like I have bulletproof glass, so it's not stopping anyone.

 

[Superfly]

I live in a gated community and still lock my cars. And driving? Yeah, my doors auto-lock at 15mph so I don't have to do it. It always made me feel weird, though, locking car doors when I drove up on somebody sketchy looking. :lol:

 

[molten_dragon]

I pretty much always have my car doors locked, regardless of where I am.

 

[Goshin]

Do you lock your car doors?

I's a door-locking fool, all the time. It takes a conscious effort of will to go thru a lockable door and NOT lock it.

 

[Rainman05]

Do you lock your car doors?

I Always lock my car doors.

 

[Medusa]

l try to avoid such places

 

[MaggieD]

Do you lock your car doors?

My car doors are always locked. I flip the master control button as I step into the car. Great habit.

Come on, folks, have you ever been at a stoplight with your doors unlocked, seen a group of people (or one person) and tried to "quietly" lock your doors? Sooooo embarrassing.

 

[Mr.Nick]

I blend in...

As a Sicilian and my skin tint in the summer I may as well be a Mexican (or some dark skinned ethnicity)... I suppose I'm cloaked in my own skin..

It's actually pretty funny because people don't get what they're expecting when they talk to me... It's so fun to toy with tho...

 

[Cephus]

I mean as you're driving through the city, stopping at stoplights, etc.

The doors on my cars automatically lock when the car is started, it's not an option not to.

 

[Medusa]

The doors on my cars automatically lock when the car is started, it's not an option not to.

cephus do you know which country has teh highest murder rates ?

 

[Cephus]

cephus do you know which country has teh highest murder rates ?

What does that have to do with this thread?

 

[Medusa]

What does that have to do with this thread?

it reminds me of oen of your interesting comments about it

 

[Mr.Nick]

What does that have to do with this thread?

I know 100 places where you would be dead if you were a customer.


That's what disturbs me about the Zimmerman ****.

 

[Mr.Nick]

it reminds me of oen of your interesting comments about it

I love how you post using free speech as your security as you throw your authoritarian (or I suppose totalitarian) flag..

 

[Arbo]

Do you lock your car doors?

If you have a modern car, they lock themselves when you get to about 10 or 15mph...

 

[CanadaJohn]

I guess I'm naive because I'm trusting of all people until such time as they show me I shouldn't - and I don't really travel around all parts of Toronto and I don't really know the "crime" areas. That said, when I drive, my car automatically locks the doors when the transmission is in drive and doesn't unlock them until it's in park. When I leave the car, I always lock it, unless I'm just popping into the store to pick up a paper or something like that.

I'm lucky, I guess - I can't remember ever being the victim of a crime.

 

[Fisher]

On a few occasions I drove through SE DC in the biggest redneckiest truck DC has surely ever seen usually because I was lost, sometimes requiring me to ask someone for directions. I never had a problem and my town's bad areas are no where even remotely as bad as SE DC. For the most part, I believe that unless you give somebody a reason to be confrontational with you, the odds of you just being a random victim of violence are pretty slim. Even in SE DC it is mostly drug/gang related. It is often about using your common sense.