Cars have historically been broken into and stolen a lot. Thus auto makers have put extra effort into good locks. Some hardware store deadbolts are so bad you anyone can pick them with lock picks - no instructions needed. Only the best deadbolts are equal what a car has. Likewise breaking a car window is typically harder than breaking a house window.
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fubo@lemmy.world 9 months agoIf you’re concerned about burglars, one problem is that if they decide to hit your house, they can just break a window.
Where I live, burglars often hit cars rather than houses; and they’re very willing to break windows to get in, especially if they see something valuable in the car. They spend no time trying to defeat the locks — hell, some don’t even check if the car is locked.
A lot of the loss due to burglary is the damage the burglar does on the way in, rather than the value of the things stolen. And upgrading locks does nothing to reduce this.
Maybe instead of upgrading your locks, you might be better off spending the same amount of money upgrading your insurance?
bluGill@kbin.social 9 months ago
MelodiousFunk@kbin.social 9 months ago
Likewise breaking a car window is typically harder than breaking a house window.
All it takes to break a car window is a single tap. There's specific tools available, or someone can just use a shard of ceramic. Shatters completely and instantly.
bluGill@kbin.social 9 months ago
Right, if you have that tool. If you don't have that tool though a rock you find won't work unlike many house windows.
MelodiousFunk@kbin.social 9 months ago
$10 on Amazon. Or just a piece of broken spark plug. Anyone who seriously wants to break a car window will have something handy.
Or maybe thieves are just walking down the street and see a fancy bag on a seat and a rock and just decide to do the deed on a whim and get foiled by tempered glass. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
SlightlyMad@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Are you an insurance salesman? Because this script probably would have worked on me!
fubo@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Here’s a sillier economic take on it:
Locks should be difficult enough to break that if you can develop the skills to break them, you’re smart enough to get a real job and not be a burglar.