Twice Iâve locked myself out of my house. Had to take the glass slats out of the toilet window, scale up the down pipe, perch on the window sill and decide whether I wanted to take a giant leap missing the toilet or risk sliding off the lid and slamming into the closed door. We now have a spare key hidden in the yard.
Comment on Daily Discussion Thread:đWed 10 Apr 2024
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone â¨5⊠â¨months⊠ago
At the pâs clearing out their rain tank filters from on top about 2.5m up.
Reminded me when I was a teen scaling them (wasted) at night without a ladder full ninja to sneak in when I forgot my keys as the laundry window which was never locked is directly above one. Used to get in so much shit for doing that.
Now itâs sanctioned, with a ladder, sober and far less exciting.
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone â¨5⊠â¨months⊠ago
Catfish@aussie.zone â¨5⊠â¨months⊠ago
Spare keys somewhere useful, memorable, and not one of those dumb fake rocks is an art.
Baku@aussie.zone â¨5⊠â¨months⊠ago
I really wish theyâd let us have spare keys. So far I havenât locked myself out when nobodyâs home, but if I do Iâm probably fucked. I would just take the keys to Bunnings and get a spare one cut and hide in myself, but theyâre those stupid security ones no locksmith will duplicate. I guess thatâs good since they donât change the locks when people move out, but itâs also a PITA because they refuse to authorise a spare key
They gave some half arsed excuse about how people could break in by smashing a lockbox with a brick or a rock. They donât seem to realise that windows can also be broken with bricks and rocks
Catfish@aussie.zone â¨5⊠â¨months⊠ago
Truthfully, locks only stop honest or lazy people. If they really want in, things are getting broken. Get windows that look really noisy to smash đ¤ˇđťââď¸
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone â¨5⊠â¨months⊠ago
Donât worry itâs safe under the mat.
Catfish@aussie.zone â¨5⊠â¨months⊠ago
Totally. Number 32 wasnât itâŚ
Duenan@aussie.zone â¨5⊠â¨months⊠ago
In those instances itâs better to see if you can hold on to the ledge and scale or drop down instead of jumping or making a leap.
It would significantly reduce the height from which you come down if you did that or had room to do that.
Learnt this from if we ever had to escape a fire from out of a window.
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone â¨5⊠â¨months⊠ago
I think I did that the second time around.
anotherspringchicken@aussie.zone â¨5⊠â¨months⊠ago
I remember being accidentally locked out as a kid, and having no trouble breaking in through the aluminium-framed bathroom window. Bit of a worry in hindsight, and lucky there werenât more crims around at the time.