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Rainmaker said:
Not to mention, my ever so charming home town experienced a spate of vicious in-car robberies last year. The victim stops at a junction or traffic lights, at which point hooded/masked yobs open the passenger and/or rear door, throw a Rottweiler at you, then smash your face in with a brick before removing any valuables and legging it.

Locked doors for the proverbial win!
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MotherMayI said:
...if you're scared of getting car jacked in England you have serious paranoia issues.
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Or just live in a place where this stuff happens.
 
Rainmaker said:
Or just live in a place where this stuff happens.
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Ive lived in Brighton, London and Bristol. If this stuff is going to happen anywhere in the UK at any frequency, I imagine those 3 cities have a good chance of being the location. And guess what, I've never been car jacked once.

EDIT: Nor witnessed one. Nor heard of one. It worries me how much people allow themselves to be scared by jumped up media reportings of crime etc.
 
rypt said:
This is the UK; not Brazil...
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MotherMayI said:
And guess what, I've never been car jacked once.

EDIT: Nor witnessed one. Nor heard of one. It worries me how much people allow themselves to be scared by jumped up media reportings of crime etc.
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My home town is St Helens, Merseyside. Just because it hasn't happened to you doesn't mean it's somehow a mythical event or something that only happens abroad. MotherMayI, I can apply ALL your criteria to armed robbery, but I'm pretty sure it happens rather regularly around the UK. Not as often as in, say, the US, but regularly enough.
 
Rainmaker said:
My home town is St Helens, Merseyside. Just because it hasn't happened to you doesn't mean it's somehow a mythical event or something that only happens abroad. MotherMayI, I can apply ALL your criteria to armed robbery, but I'm pretty sure it happens rather regularly around the UK. Not as often as in, say, the US, but regularly enough.
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Sure, your right, but I would rather keep my doors unlocked because of the much more likely event of a crash, rather than locking them for the infinitely more unlikely brick in the face scenario.

Tbh though, I make a stupid point of not living/acting in fear of other people.. I think its because I spent far too much of my younter years being scared of getting beaten up and whatever else, sort of ingrained it in myself to not worry about things like that anymore.
 
I do in Crawley due to the ridiculous number of traffic lights I invariably have to stop at on my way home from college in the evening. Not so bad in the summer though.
 
I do in some dodgey areas and in Liverpool at night.

Interesting about saftey if you crashed.. it would inhibit exit..? Any torsion/damage to the locking system would surely make trying to get out 10 times harder?
 
Street said:
Mine lock automatically as I drive off.. So yes I do! :)
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This.

Good feature, I've had 2 dodgy people try to open the rear and front passenger doors of the car while just pulling off at traffic lights late at night in crewe. Made me jump when they did it.
 
Don't do this during the day but like many others if I'm stopped in a dodgy area I normally lock my doors.
 
Never have

On the cars we've had where it does it automatically we've always got the dealer to disable it, annoys the crap out of me.

(Of course in some areas it is necessary but where I live it really isn't)
 
Nope. It's never really occurred to me although I do make sure that I don't keep valuables lying in plain sight on the passenger seat as that does seem a bit like tempting fate.
 
At night I do (in London), my mates had a drunk person try to get into the back of his car before, luckily it was locked.
 
Freefaller said:
I do only as to protect the person that tries to open my door to have a go at me. If that door opens it would be a very dark day for that said person. I also cannot afford to be prosecuted so it's for my safety as well.

My mother does it if she leaves her bag in the passenger footwell to stop any opportunists. A lot of cars nowadays have autolocking doors anyway.
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I wish to know more please enlighten me.
 
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