.. to think this would blow some minds?

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….. standing next to my van, loading my stuff into it when a black Volvo pulls up behind me and the female driver asks if I’m leaving. I tell her no not yet so she thanks me and reverses back a little and stops and asks if the two men in a van (having a tea break) are leaving. They tell her the same thing, so she asks if it’s okay to leave the car in front of the van as she only needs five minutes. They say it’s fine and she says great, I’ll leave the keys in it just in case they need to leave and then off she pops.
Two minutes later, a car opposite starts up and the driver can’t manoeuvre out. as her car is in the way. Van driver jumps out and gets in her car to move it. At which stage, two startled heads pop up in the back. She had left the keys and her two young kids in her car.
Van driver lets the other driver out and neatly parks Volvo in the now vacant space.
Could you see this happening in the UK? By this time it was about 10 minutes - I wonder what she thought as she came back to the car park and saw her car wasn’t sitting where she left it?

As long as they're actually in and can get the police there really fast when the intruders open your door and go in to trash your house and rob you.

Well, of course that’s a risk. But people could also come through a smashed window. If someone is determined to hurt you a door won’t bloody stop them! A serial killer doesn’t get to a locked door and think ‘ah fuck it - that’s a shame’ and walk off.
There’s also a risk in a locked door delaying you leave a burning building.
Theres risks in many things. I think an intruder planning to hurt me and my door being the obstacle that will surely prevent them is a small risk.

@BundleflowerChrist, I lock our doors whilst we’re IN the house, not just whilst we’re out and we live in what is supposedly the ‘happiest’ and most crime free town in the country. We still have crime!

I know its a risk, that's why I'm annoyed about the gluing but the likelihood where I am is very slim, there hasn't been any burglaries in my area the entire time I've lived here.

Some people just don't seem to think. A woman once asked would I keep an eye on her sleeping baby while she nipped into the shop, as I was waiting in the car next to them. I said I would, but with respect, she shouldn't leave him with me as she didn't have the foggiest who I was!! She still went!

Why on earth would anyone describe someone so stupid as this moronic mother as ‘the poor mum’ ?
I know on MN a woman can do no wrong but fgs that’s a pretty low bar to set even in here

I was left in a pram outside a shop in another European country and my mum came out to find someone running off with me, claiming that I was a child of that particular nation. Luckily, she had enough of the local language to argue with her and wrestle me back (despite being heavily pregnant at the time). It might have been common in the 1970s, but it was a terrible idea, even then.

Jfc

Yet it’s done all through Scandinavia very safely.

Chamonix is generally crime free, apart from bicycles being fair game and jackets being taken from bars either by mistake or not. Facebook page often has ‘iPhone found’ posts, also wallets, passes, keys.
I usually lock my door if I take the dogs out, but if I can’t find them, I leave the door unlocked. If I do lock it, I leave the keys under the mat if I’m out skiing, in case I have an accident and someone needs to sort the dogs out. Dog sitter left the door open once - it needs to click. I was miffed, but not furious - the three other apartments on my floor are airbnbs.
Leaving the keys & kids in the car was a first for me, but the car park was rammed - word had got round they were replacing the barrier and parking was free instead of €2.80 an hour, so it may have been totally unexpected that she wouldn’t get space and needed the bank or post office.
Parents often let their kids play happily with my dogs in the park, getting on with chatting or reading.
Violent crime is non-existent here.

I’m back home on the west coast now, but my friend who came to check the house for left the front door open for two weeks 😵‍💫

I bet you've never visited North Norfolk, then, lol

Or the high standard of education, the deeply ingrained sense of the importance of social behaviour, the general attitude of "we're all in this together"

Meanwhile also in France

78 staff suspended after sexual and physical abuse of children in their care

https://www.aol.co.uk/news/abuse-french-school-programmes-parents-135829949.html

It would, and am sure it does, happen here.
I was scolded by a local not long after moving here for asking where I could lock my bike up.
"We dont lock our bikes here. You city people come here and bring your fear with you."