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AsiaESLbound
Joined: 07 Jan 2010
Location: Truck Stop Missouri
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 Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2010 10:46 am Post subject: The Weekend Burglar - Door lock picker caught in the act. |
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Ever been sleeping or just quietly sitting on your PC having a quiet evening and hear your door lock being picked? Unlike my very young neighbors, I'm often in my apartment on Friday and Saturday nights, especially Friday to rest up. The burglar knows just about every one leaves out for the weekend so he's on the prowl picking locks in my 3 floor small block. I'm wondering how pickable these locks might be since he worked for like 15 minutes as I lay in bed listening half awake denying it for a few minutes, but realized I was not imagining things as this wasn't the first time so I quietly get up, pick up my security phone thingy with a black and white video screen only to observe the same dam young man or teenage kid I scared off 5 times already in one month attempting it on Friday and Saturday nights. Usually it happens around 9:30, but this time it was 2:45AM. Probably changed timing since I scared him off before by simply unlocking the door to confront him, but he runs fast. I got something for him waiting in the kitchen next to the door if he were to attempt robbing me by force which is extremely unlikely as he's only a scrawny kid; not an athletic tough man type. I know he would never come on a weeknight, because everyone are home then. Boy he's a nimble one. He got a loud, "Ya! Hajima!" from me tonight which scared the bejibbas out of him. This was the 6th time in a month I scared him off, but he keeps trying it. Weekends are usually dead silent while the week nights are noisy so it's obvious that just about no one is here on weekend nights.
This place is a typical place with metal doors and such. It's doesn't take one of those keys with dimples, but a standard aluminum ordinary key. The Korean lock and door looks to be much better quality than the wooden doors and weak locks you typically see back home that only require a good shove to defeat.
How pickable really is a Korean door lock? Young man only dreaming pink elephants about getting his hands on electronics and cash? Any of you been robbed with no signs of forced entry? |
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Murakano
Joined: 10 Sep 2009
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| Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2010 11:28 am Post subject: |
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| where was this? I know of a few people who have been robbed in HBC (not surprisingly)....but not other places yet. |
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AsiaESLbound
Joined: 07 Jan 2010
Location: Truck Stop Missouri
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| Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2010 11:47 am Post subject: |
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| Murakano wrote: |
| where was this? I know of a few people who have been robbed in HBC (not surprisingly)....but not other places yet. |
City center of a smallish city without a college; not Seoul. Young working class people live in the building, but there are also many retirees on other properties nearby as well as 2 groups of large high rise public housing. Just a poor working class average place. A hagwon teacher nearby actually lives in one of those crappy, but huge public housing units.
What happened in HBC? Was it door lock picking or guys just popping out for a beer at a nearby mart leaving their doors unlocked? I also keep my front sliding doors locked when I leave, because I know it's possible for a young man to scale the building up to my 2nd floor apartment, especially if he grapple hooks the railing.
I remember how a professor in a college class about Asian culture told us you could leave something expensive sitting out in Tokyo to come back hours later and find it still sitting there. How could this be so? Korea is full of thieves and unscrupulous people just like Western countries. Well, Korea isn't Japan, but I expected it to have a high level of honesty and no relentless door lock picking thiefs working the weekends. I'll be packing my valuables in my bag at all times instead of leaving them in my apartment. Luckily, I'm only talking 10 pounds of small things. Like a motel, I no longer have faith in leaving things in my apartment which is an inconvenience. I doubt if he packs off my schools heavy antiquated cathode ray TV stored under my desk. |
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BringTheRain
Joined: 26 Apr 2010
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| Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2010 2:58 pm Post subject: |
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| Robbery rate is much higher in Seoul than Tokyo? I want numbers! Google failed me cuz I suck. |
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Underwaterbob
Joined: 08 Jan 2005
Location: In Cognito
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| Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2010 2:59 pm Post subject: |
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Electrify your doorknob. It's not safe and probably not legal, but fun. Making tasers (or electric door knobs) out of disposable camera capacitors is all the rage right now. You could set it up on a switch so you could make sure it's him and not "accidentally" zap any Mother of God proselytizers.  |
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crossmr
Joined: 22 Nov 2008
Location: Hwayangdong, Seoul
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| Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2010 4:09 pm Post subject: |
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| better yet if you know it's him and he's alone, let him pick it if he can, wait for him to get in and then grab him and sit on him. give the cops a call. That'll end any dreams he had. |
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jvalmer
Joined: 06 Jun 2003
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| Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2010 5:41 pm Post subject: |
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| AsiaESLbound wrote: |
| I remember how a professor in a college class about Asian culture told us you could leave something expensive sitting out in Tokyo to come back hours later and find it still sitting there. How could this be so? |
I think that professor is living in a dream world. You leave a wallet full of cash somewhere for a few hours, the cash is gone, even in Tokyo. Although the wallet still might be there, minus the cash. |
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Philkaz
Joined: 19 Sep 2009
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| Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2010 6:12 pm Post subject: |
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| can you explain why you dont just kick his ass? He obviously needs to learn a lesson. |
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Murakano
Joined: 10 Sep 2009
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| Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2010 6:23 pm Post subject: |
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| AsiaESLbound wrote: |
| You leave a wallet full of cash somewhere for a few hours, the cash is gone, even in Tokyo. Although the wallet still might be there, minus the cash. |
happened to me  |
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AsiaESLbound
Joined: 07 Jan 2010
Location: Truck Stop Missouri
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| Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2010 6:53 pm Post subject: |
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| Philkaz wrote: |
| can you explain why you dont just kick his ass? He obviously needs to learn a lesson. |
He runs fast once he hears me. Catching him would be like catching a scardy cat. |
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ulsanchris
Joined: 19 Jun 2003
Location: take a wild guess
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| Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2010 7:27 pm Post subject: |
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| why not call the cops? |
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crossmr
Joined: 22 Nov 2008
Location: Hwayangdong, Seoul
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| Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2010 7:49 pm Post subject: |
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| jvalmer wrote: |
| AsiaESLbound wrote: |
| I remember how a professor in a college class about Asian culture told us you could leave something expensive sitting out in Tokyo to come back hours later and find it still sitting there. How could this be so? |
I think that professor is living in a dream world. You leave a wallet full of cash somewhere for a few hours, the cash is gone, even in Tokyo. Although the wallet still might be there, minus the cash. |
It happens, but the opposite also happens. I've read several threads where people have mentioned losing their wallet only to have it show up in the mail a couple days later with everything intact.
Random theft like that seems to be significantly lower here than in North America. if it wasn't you wouldn't see people leaving stuff just laying around all the time. Also I think other petty crimes like vandalism seem to be less as well. It is one of the reasons some of the things exist here that don't exist back home. Like giant fire extinguishers in the subway. It'd be less than an hour back home before some teens would grab that and spray it all over the place. |
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ED209
Joined: 17 Oct 2006
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| Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2010 8:33 pm Post subject: |
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You're wallet's safe, if you're Derren Brown. Though you could try drawing a huge yellow chalk line around your apt building.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxYCh_p2Mjs |
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cmr
Joined: 22 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2010 10:32 pm Post subject: |
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| ulsanchris wrote: |
| why not call the cops? |
I was going to ask the same thing.
Also, if you can see him doing it, then film him with your phone.
If you can't call the cops because you can't speak Korean, then once you've filmed the boy go to the nearest police station with a Korean who will translate for you so you can explain what happened. |
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jvalmer
Joined: 06 Jun 2003
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| Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2010 10:38 pm Post subject: |
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| crossmr wrote: |
| jvalmer wrote: |
| AsiaESLbound wrote: |
| I remember how a professor in a college class about Asian culture told us you could leave something expensive sitting out in Tokyo to come back hours later and find it still sitting there. How could this be so? |
I think that professor is living in a dream world. You leave a wallet full of cash somewhere for a few hours, the cash is gone, even in Tokyo. Although the wallet still might be there, minus the cash. |
It happens, but the opposite also happens. I've read several threads where people have mentioned losing their wallet only to have it show up in the mail a couple days later with everything intact.
Random theft like that seems to be significantly lower here than in North America. if it wasn't you wouldn't see people leaving stuff just laying around all the time. Also I think other petty crimes like vandalism seem to be less as well. It is one of the reasons some of the things exist here that don't exist back home. Like giant fire extinguishers in the subway. It'd be less than an hour back home before some teens would grab that and spray it all over the place. |
I've routinely seen Korean teachers leave their car on and unlocked, go into a place with them for a few minutes and come back out and the car untouched. Back home, in a place as densly populated as Korea, it would be gone. But strangely enough, if you leave your bicycle unlocked, it's gone. Contradictions.  |
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