My window wasn't locked-refund me! (long, as always)

[Andara Bledin]

SC: You don't understand! I didn't know how long it had been unlocked...who knows what could have entered my room in the meantime?

Hey, he's got a legitimate fear... Flying Zombie Birds!

Well, he did say he didn't know "what" could have entered...

^-.-^

[infinitemonkies]

SC: Give me the statistics of how many people are kidnapped each year out of Inns Holiday!

I don't have the statistics at hand, but I'm willing to bet a large amount of money the number adults kidnapped from their rooms in North America each year is significantly less than 1.

[BookstoreEscapee]

Most hotels I've stayed in have the kind of windows that are hinged and open into the room from the top, rather than slide up. They don't tend to be the type that would be easy to climb into, especially not without waking the person inside.

We keep our windows open all the time. Our living room has a sliding glass door, and we close that when we're out and at night, and my dad cut a piece of wood to put at the bottom to keep it from being forced open. There's a balcony, and while we're on the second floor and the area isn't exactly shady-looking, it wouldn't be too difficult for someone so inclined to climb up there (though I do actually feel safer for being in a building that faces a minor highway; there's generally enough traffic even at night that someone would be pretty stupid to try to break into the place). In warm weather, the kitchen, bathroom and bedroom windows are all open. Even in the winter my roommate keeps her window open a bit because her room gets stuffy, and the bathroom window is also almost always open at least a crack because there's no ventilation fan in there.

[Pagan]

SC: You...You...WINDOW OPENER!

Hey, I resemble that remark!

I sleep with my window and patio door open all the time. Helps that I'm on the 2nd floor. Speaking of which, sounds like SC didn't specify which floor he was on. He MAY have had a leg to stand on if it was a 1st floor room.

I'm on the bottom floor (building's only two levels) and leave my bedroom windows open 24/7. Of course, to get in that way, you'd have to go over the porch railing, the grill, and through the screen on the windows.

But why do that when you've got the nice, big window in the kitchen! I leave that one open, too, except when I go to work in the evening. Not because of someone breaking in (Extremely safe area, I have yet to hear of a break-in.), but because of the storms that have been popping in the evenings.

[Food Lady]

I'm from southern California, so I don't ever leave windows open while I'm sleeping unless I'm on the second floor. I am on the 2nd level now, and yet I still don't leave the sliding glass door open. (The stairs run right next to the balcony, and with a little effort even I could barrel myself over onto it.) I'm paranoid, maybe, but I was in CA at the time of Richard Ramirez.

[smileyeagle1021]

You know... I admit that I'm a bit paranoid about leaving windows open (one of these days I'm going to buy metal bars to put in the tracks so you can open the window only a little bit)... that said, and others have mentioned it, if this guy is as concerned about safety as he claims he is, the first thing he'd do when he checks in is what I do, check to see if the windows have stops on them, and if they don't, make sure it is closed and locked.
Oh, and who wants to bet that Mr. McWhineypants wasn't even on the first floor where it would be a concern at all?

[Andara Bledin]

I'm from southern California, so I don't ever leave windows open while I'm sleeping unless I'm on the second floor. I am on the 2nd level now, and yet I still don't leave the sliding glass door open. (The stairs run right next to the balcony, and with a little effort even I could barrel myself over onto it.) I'm paranoid, maybe, but I was in CA at the time of Richard Ramirez.

I work and (at the time) lived in Compton at the time of the riots. I did and still do open windows when it's warm out. If someone really wants to get in, a locked window isn't even going to begin to stop them.

You know... I admit that I'm a bit paranoid about leaving windows open (one of these days I'm going to buy metal bars to put in the tracks so you can open the window only a little bit)...

You do know that sliding windows and doors are incredibly easy to remove from the tracks, right? I used to "break in" to one of my homes that way when I got locked out (then-hubby lost his key and since he used it more often, he had mine... and then would leave it in the house ) Every spring cleaning, we'd just pull them out of their tracks to do the inside and outside of them more easily. The only way to really lock them down, is to have the pin through the track and the window/door or have the kind with the latch that hooks into the frame.

^-.-^

[Pagan]

You do know that sliding windows and doors are incredibly easy to remove from the tracks, right?

Of course, the big elephant in the room being that they are glass. Somebody wants in, they can just break the glass. Knowing how a lot of people are, they might hear it, but won't go investigate.

[tamezin]

SC: You...You...WINDOW OPENER!

I was literally rolling on the floor with this one. It reminded me of my younger brother.

He was not a very good child around age 9 or 10. One day he got mad at my mother over something silly. He had already called her every name he could think of and couldn't get a reaction so he said 'You...You...Hawk Nose'.

Unfortunately we all found it tremendously funny and he became terribly upset when we didn't take him seriously enough. Later he realized how absolutely ridiculous the whole situation was.

Oh and this became one of our wonderfully memorable moments that gets dredged up at nearly every family gathering.

[Food Lady]

I work and (at the time) lived in Compton at the time of the riots. I did and still do open windows when it's warm out. If someone really wants to get in, a locked window isn't even going to begin to stop them. You do know that sliding windows and doors are incredibly easy to remove from the tracks, right? I used to "break in" to one of my homes that way when I got locked out (then-hubby lost his key and since he used it more often, he had mine... and then would leave it in the house ) Every spring cleaning, we'd just pull them out of their tracks to do the inside and outside of them more easily. The only way to really lock them down, is to have the pin through the track and the window/door or have the kind with the latch that hooks into the frame. ^-.-^

All this is true, but I'm not going to make it even easier for him.