Neat way to hide a key.

[MossRoad]

This thread jixed my luck.....Just yesterday, I lost or misplaced my house keys that I usually carry with me when working around the place. Usually hey show up............ ....somewhere...........but I spent most of the day outdoors.....and no sign of them yet.

Last year I found some keys in the yard that I lost about 2 years earlier. They were corroded to heck. Just glad the lawnmower didn't fling them into the siding.

 

[garry1p]

10 Day vacation last Aug when I got back I couldn't find the hidden tractor key.

I figured I would never hide it on the tractor and it had to be somewhere close by but well concealed.

I have a spare so at least once a week I would spend half a day looking, finally last week I was thinking I would never hide the key on the tractor but what the heck, so I emptied the tool box and there in the bottom was the key.

 

[Tinhack]

Plus I'm a pretty handy burglar. From past experience, burgling is faster than waiting for a friend with a key.

That's the thing. The key is for you. If someone wants in bad enough, they don't need a key. My front door lock doesn't even work--Just pull on the knob and it opens. I have a lockable storm door but that's worthless too.

 

[Midniteoyl]

I bought one of these weatherproof magnetic boxes and hid a truck fob and house key in it on the back side of a metal rack in an out building..

Amazon.com

 

[Jstpssng]

Last year I found some keys in the yard that I lost about 2 years earlier. They were corroded to heck. Just glad the lawnmower didn't fling them into the siding.

Before I got my first puppy I lost a set of keys and had no idea where. She was about 4 months old when I saw her flinging something up into the air, watching it drop onto the lawn and doing it again.
At first I thought she'd found a frog and went over to try to discourage that behaviour. It turned out to be my missing keys.

 

[deserteagle71]

I guess I still live in a "high trust" part of the US. I have never locked my door and my keys are always in the vehicle.

I feel bad for people that don't get to experience high trust society livin...it's pleasant.

Same here!

 

[Fuddyduddy1952]

In the 1970s my Mother worked at an antique shop near home. The owner would lock up, put keys in a paper bag & toss it near the door.
She said thieves don't mess with a junkyard looking place and never look in a trash bag.

 

[ponytug]

That's the thing. The key is for you. If someone wants in bad enough, they don't need a key. My front door lock doesn't even work--Just pull on the knob and it opens. I have a lockable storm door but that's worthless too.

Once I saw how fast a burglar can get into a house other than a door, and how fast a professional locksmith can get through a lock made me come to peace with locks being there just to keep four legged critters out. The typical time to steal the catalytic converter from one of our vehicles is reportedly less than a minute. I think that angle grinders are just amazingly quick and effective against locks.

All the best,

Peter

 

[MossRoad]

That's the thing. The key is for you. If someone wants in bad enough, they don't need a key. My front door lock doesn't even work--Just pull on the knob and it opens. I have a lockable storm door but that's worthless too.

The art of burglaring is to not damage anything. Any hack can toss a rock through a window.

 

[MossRoad]

Same here!

On year on our block in the late 60s or early 70s, a single divorced mom with two kids got attacked in her own house, and a house down the street got vandalized heavily a couple times. After that, my folks gave me a house key on a chain around my neck and we had to lock the doors every time we left the house empty. All the neighbors pretty much did the same thing. It was a very secluded small block with 17 houses surrounded by a lake and farm. Sad end to innocence.

Around 1989 we bought 20 acres out in the country. There were only two houses across the highway, and about half a mile to any others. I spoke to the elderly lady across the street and introduced myself. I told her we were looking forward to building out of town. She said her husband was knocked unconscious and robbed on their front porch a couple years earlier.

No place is safe. Bad people have transportation.

 

[MossRoad]

Once I saw how fast a burglar can get into a house other than a door, and how fast a professional locksmith can get through a lock made me come to peace with locks being there just to keep four legged critters out. The typical time to steal the catalytic converter from one of our vehicles is reportedly less than a minute. I think that angle grinders are just amazingly quick and effective against locks.

All the best,

Peter

Back in high school a friend was given his grandfather's old Valiant. (cool car!). Only had an ignition key. No glovebox or trunk key. We went to this old locksmith to get keys made.

He walks out to the car, pulls out a little leather zipper pouch from his vest pocket, opens it up, and pulls out two flat wires. One is bent at a 90, the other has a bump on the end.

He puts the angled wire into the trunk lock and put some twisting pressure on it with his left thumb. Then he took the wire with the bump in his right hand and pushed it into the lock, then slowly pulled it out and it popped open just like that, one movement.

The spring tension of the 90 held slight pressure while the bump pushed the pins up. Took maybe 10 seconds at most.

Then he removed the lock from inside the trunk lid, took it inside, took it apart, measured the pins and made a key for it. That worked in the glovebox as well. I think he charged something like $5 for the service and a buck a key.

 

[MossRoad]

Yep! It's very easy to break into a house.

What happens after that is another story....

 

[Topzide]

As they say, "locks are for the honest."

 

[dougtrr2]

We lived in a house that had a low fence leading up to the front door made of landscaping timbers. It was only four or five layers high. At the ends there were short sections of timber for spacers. I took one of those, put it on a pivot, hollowed out the underside and hid a key in the space.

I showed my kids how to pretend like they were tying their shoe if they needed to use the key. They thought it was a really neat idea....... and showed all their friends.

Doug in SW IA

 

[garry1p]

Battery operated tools was a big advancement to burglars.

 

[Jstpssng]

Battery operated tools was a big advancement to burglars.

I think too small. When I saw my first cordless reciprocating saw I thought "what a great moose poaching tool."

I have never poached a moose in my life, or any other animal for that matter. Yet it's always good to know the tools of the trade.

 

[Fuddyduddy1952]

Here's what I know:
Honest people can't imagine things criminals do. The honest mind works differently than the criminal's. A policeman years ago told me they're opportunists, so at your home or garage they'll look for a rock or pipe close by to break in. It's hard for the honest to outsmart a crook because they think differently.

 

[Jstpssng]

Here's what I know:
Honest people can't imagine things criminals do. The honest mind works differently than the criminal's. A policeman years ago told me they're opportunists, so at your home or garage they'll look for a rock or pipe close by to break in. It's hard for the honest to outsmart a crook because they think differently.

A coworker's house was broken into while he and his wife were at work. They smashed his patio door with the splitting maul he had by the woodpile.
I think that bothered him more than anything.

 

[Dftodd]

In the 1970s my Mother worked at an antique shop near home. The owner would lock up, put keys in a paper bag & toss it near the door.
She said thieves don't mess with a junkyard looking place and never look in a trash bag.

I purchased some furniture from a little shop in town.

I got a call about 20 minutes after I got home.

Lady asked me if I had her keys

She had her keys laying on the counter right about where someone doing buisiness with her would set theirs.

I accidently picked up her keys without realizing it

She tore the place apart looking for her keys before she thought to check the security camera.

When I paid, I set my keys right next to hers. Was finishing up the paperwork, when I put her keys in my pocket instead of mine. We both had very similar rings with similar amount of keys.

When I went to leave, she stopped me and handed me my keys

 

[Dftodd]

Once I saw how fast a burglar can get into a house other than a door, and how fast a professional locksmith can get through a lock made me come to peace with locks being there just to keep four legged critters out. The typical time to steal the catalytic converter from one of our vehicles is reportedly less than a minute. I think that angle grinders are just amazingly quick and effective against locks.

All the best,

Peter

Years ago, my grandparents had a break in at their home and a bunch of guns stolen.

Theif cut a large hole in their screened in porch and walked right in.

If they had checked, the doors weren't locked.