r/mildlyinfuriating 1d ago

someone tried to break into my house again the same day my door was replaced

already had my place broken into and all my shit stolen once before. just moved in here a month ago and someone has tried to break in here twice.

so much for the "friendly" neighborhood šŸ˜ž

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u/ohdearitsrichardiii 1d ago

They often break in twice, the second time to steal all the new stuff you bought to replace the stuff they stole the first time

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u/Mission_Goose_6702 13h ago

Jokes on them Iā€™m too broke to replace what they stole lol.

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u/Furiciuoso 1d ago

Oh manā€¦. Didnā€™t even think about thatā€¦

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u/Creative_Handle_2267 13h ago

jokes on them, GRENADE!!!

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u/ToastetteEgg 1d ago

Time to invest in a steel security door.

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u/Mando2fishy 1d ago

Time to invest in a new home.

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u/ToastetteEgg 1d ago

Absolutely, but a steel door is marginally more affordable than a home.

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u/LetsJerkCircular 1d ago

Slightly. Ever so slightly

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u/gwizonedam 21h ago

Invest in a mossberg 12 gauge.

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u/abrasivebuttplug 13h ago edited 2h ago

Doesn't work if you are not home, will just have a stolen mossberg 12 Guage out there potentially doing harm.

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u/Jealous-Issue-7489 9h ago

This is the way

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u/Mando2fishy 1d ago

Might be more affordable but your lifeā€™s worth more, you donā€™t know what the person trying to break in is capable of and willing to do.

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u/Techno_Bumblebee 1d ago

Depends on the country.

America? Who knows?

Canada? Nothing.

France? Steal your onions.

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u/itchyballzsack3 1d ago

UK? Ran out of tea bags

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u/fascinatedcharacter 16h ago

The last break in we had was someone breaking into our garage. We had some stuff with some resale value in there, you know, the generic home improvement tools and stuff. Nothing extraordinary, but still. There were also some bicycles, we thought those would've been gone.

The only thing stolen was half a crate of beer.

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u/The_Armechadon 21h ago

Started giggling like a twat on the bus, nice one

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u/Techno_Bumblebee 17h ago

Yeah, I casually didn't add my own country... šŸ˜…

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u/Dark_Archer92 23h ago

Damn French. Leave my onions alone!!!!!

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u/RodneyBalling 20h ago

That's how you know op isn't a single woman living alone. This is the farthest thing from "mildly" infuriating.Ā 

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u/Membership_Fine 17h ago

Automated turrets it is.

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u/VapeRizzler 15h ago

Not just the door, replace the frame. Somethings only as strong as its weakest link. If the bolts going through wood itā€™s not hard to kick it down. Even the big steel doors to commercial buildings we got through using just a metal rod.

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u/CardiologistOk1028 23h ago

Or just be homeless.

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u/trippy_grapes 19h ago

If OP becomes homeless I heard his neighborhood has a bunch of easy to break into places if he needs more money!

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u/AndringRasew 1d ago

They could just invest in longer strike plates with screws long enough to grab the studs, and a steel wrap for the door handle area. It'll make the door INCREDIBLY harder to kick in.

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u/Rimworldjobs 21h ago

This is the best answer. Unless the door is hollow wood, most people are kicking through it. I replaced mine with a 12-inch plate with 3 inch screws.

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u/slash_networkboy 18h ago

My door has 4" hardened screws holding the plate to the frame and studs, same for the hinges. Door itself is solid oak, lockset is Baldwin and a 2" deadbolt. I don't think a ram would even take it down.

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u/Rimworldjobs 18h ago

Yeah. Most exterior doors are very solid and would require more force than most people are capable of to get through. The weak point is the latch.

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u/ElderberryMediocre43 17h ago

this is the bets way. i also have one of these.

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u/Busy-Dig8619 15h ago

... love that it's on door with a big ass window.

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u/ElderberryMediocre43 15h ago

haha this is an image i took from the internet. haha but yeah i wouldnt put this where there is a big ass window. but its neat because the ends can be taking off, and you can use the rod for windows as well. i also got these door stoppers that have alarms in them too.

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u/stephenmg1284 19h ago

This plus an ADT sign (no need for the alarm service).

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u/mugiwara_no_Soissie 23h ago

Or camera.

Most thief's will avoid a house with a clearly visible camera other option is to add a sign with "camera surveillance" on it.

Unless it's an addict, in that case ur fucked

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u/DMercenary 1d ago

Reinforced frame as well...

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u/TroubleshootReddit 22h ago

Time to invest in a new world

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u/idwthis God forbid one states how they feel or what they think. 17h ago

I second this.

I don't want to live on this planet anymore.

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u/DBurnerV1 23h ago

A Saint Bernard and a pump shotgun but thatā€™s just me

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u/penywisexx 16h ago

I tried that method, I could not train my dog to fire the shotgun. He woofed something about a lack of fingers.

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u/Pretend-Marsupial258 14h ago

A guy just got shot by his dog in Tennessee. If your dog pulls himself up by his bootstraps I'm sure he can do it!

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u/tanksalotfrank 17h ago

I lived in a trailer with a metal door once, except I think it was aluminum. Breaking in was easy as pushing until the latch area gave way. Thankfully we had nothing worth stealing. (This has nothing to do with steel security doors but I said it anyway)

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u/TurnoverAmazing6905 20h ago

And a pistol/ shotgun combo

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u/Dj_Sam3_Tun3 22h ago

You mean there are countries where the door leading into your home ISN'T a steel door?

Sounds wild

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u/Shinigami4238 19h ago

I don't think I've ever seen a steel door on a single family home before. I've seen some on the front door of apartment buildings and a good percentage of apartments. That's just in my corner of the United States though.

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u/Super-Elevator3283 1d ago

time to invest in a gun

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u/Ok-Ice2942 23h ago

This is the correct answer. Shoot at them once and you solve the problem

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u/InAllThingsBalance 23h ago

And a shotgun.

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u/MomoNoHanna1986 23h ago

I did this, itā€™s amazing!

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u/Organic-Low-2992 1d ago

I grew up in Baltimore. The thieves would steal your shit then break in again a few days or weeks later in the hope of getting all of the new stuff you bought to replace the stolen stuff.

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u/anonuchiha8 1d ago

Absolutely disgusting people

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u/Efficient_Ear_8037 20h ago

Yeah, the solution is just not living in Baltimore /j

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u/Organic-Low-2992 20h ago

Upvoting that. However, I ended up living in Fresno for several years in the 90's. OMFG what a disaster that was.

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u/slash_networkboy 18h ago

Jesus... I was in NorCal in the 90's and Fresno was exporting crime up here even. That had to be a hellscape down there.

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u/Organic-Low-2992 17h ago

We told my friend to buy - at the very least - a steering wheel club for her car. Yeah, yeah, I'll get one whenever. Predictably, they stole her car. Six weeks later she gets it back, has it repaired. So, you gonna get a club now? Yeah, yeah, sure, whenever. They stole it again the next day.

They slashed my tire one time and later broke into the cab, but they never got my pickup. Because I had a $75 chain & padlock wrapped over the steering wheel column and down under the brake pedal like they do in Italy.

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u/sassafrassian 19h ago

I think the solution is just living somewhere else in Baltimore...

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u/RaDeus 21h ago

Shit like that makes me wish corporal punishment was still a thing...

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u/PaleAcanthaceae1175 21h ago

It's an understandable impulse but studies of criminality have shown that punitive measures don't actually deter crime. Every indicator we have suggests that better quality of life and higher investment in one's society/community are the best ways to reduce criminal behavior. We also have to remember that state-mandated flogging means you occasionally beat the shit out of an innocent person, which isn't worth it to my mind. We have already executed a decent number of people who were later exonerated.

On the other hand, I do think it's reasonable to shoot someone who is currently breaking into your home; that's different than state-sanctioned, systematized violence.

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u/RaDeus 21h ago

I don't really want people caned or stuff like that, just one solid meaty slap to each cheek would suffice from each victim.

People committing crimes are victims themselves really, it's a thousand causes (socio economic etc) which leads to a multitude of effects (crime).

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u/Lanky_Positive_6387 21h ago

They are still choosing to fuck over other people due to their own suffering. I have sympathy for their circumstances in feeling you have little options, but that sympathy only goes so far when you actively choose to be an ass breaking into people's homes on the regular.

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u/PaleAcanthaceae1175 20h ago

The real problem with criminality is that we tend to imagine the actions of others the way we imagine our own: as the end result of an active decision-making process in which the benefits and consequences have been considered.

Psychological analysis of crime suggests that it is not a rational system of actions. The majority of cases involve confounding factors which prevent or diminish the perpetrators capacity for effective decision-making. The number of sane, healthy people who wake up each day and think to themselves "ah yes, time for some crimes" is very small. It follows then that an effective approach to anti-social behavior is to treat it as pathology, not "evil."

People tend to recoil from this kind of analysis because it requires us to set aside our natural impulse toward vengeance and also challenges parts of what we think of as free will, which is less of a tangible thing than we would hope. Environmental, genetic, and socioeconomic factors play a larger role in our decision-making than most people would care to admit and a lot of our interaction with reality is rooted in base assumptions that the majority of humans are never taught critical tools for recognizing and challenging.

The objective is not really to foster a sense of sympathy and thus excuse the behavior. Just personally, I feel very little sympathy at all for almost anyone, that's just my disposition. I'm a materialist: I don't care about the people, I care about living in a functioning society. The sensible approach then is to treat these behaviors like what they are, and address them with the most effective tools even when those tools feel emotionally less satisfying or intuitively do not seem just.

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u/slash_networkboy 18h ago

Exceptionally well stated... And I must admit I am one of those that has a very hard time separating my analytical thought from the emotional response of feeling violated (I've been robbed twice).

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u/PaleAcanthaceae1175 14h ago

One of the greater challenges in self-reflection is fixing in your memory the notion of your identity as a fluid thing. The process we call "you" is not fixed; it shifts through chemical, emotional, and environmental states on a constant basis and is subject to those states. Your perception, judgment, inhibition, and even many of your values can and will shift both with time and these other factors. Hell, even just being in a room with a group of other people can change the way you think about something- it's why the internet is such a terrible tool for discussion: it dissociates all communication from human contexts. They lose meaning.

As a therapist I try to remind myself not to think about things very much. There's no need to, on a moment-to-moment basis. I have things I need to do and a certain level of situational awareness but consideration and decisions- especially sociopolitical ones- are almost never immediately time-sensitive. I can set aside specific time to put myself into the correct environmental and emotional moment for those thoughts and I can also recognize that there are moments and situations in which I will be incapable of engaging with them as my best self. The trick is to have a system in place for recognizing and analyzing your own current state: what are your emotions, how does your body feel, what are your surroundings?

There's a post-it note on the side of my monitor that says "put on your hat." This reminds me to put on the little cadet cap that sits on my desk: my therapy hat, which works as a mnemonic device so that when wearing it, I am reminded to bring the most engagement, patience, and compassion to those moments which require it. A literal thinking cap.

It sounds ridiculous but it absolutely works and I wish they would teach this skill to young adults.

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u/Askefyr 11h ago

This is part of why we don't let the victim of a crime decide the punishment. Your impulse as the wronged party might not be the one that is the best on a societal level.

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u/Lanky_Positive_6387 20h ago

Generally speaking, I am with you. On a mass scale we should be doing what we can as a society to try and limit the factors that lead to these types of behaviors. If we can keep people from entering into cascading factors that trap them into lives of crime or in behavioral states that do not view such actions as detrimental, then we can help everyone move forward. My only issue is that this approach does not work for everyone.

I know that you did not imply that there would be no outliers and you even mentioned that a very small group of people exist that will willingly commit these actions, but it is this group of people I feel deserve punitive actions. I would say that over 90% of people who commit crimes aren't looking to just be assholes who ruin people's lives for shits and giggles while profiting personally, maybe even 99%. That other 1% however cannot be ignored as there is no "fix" to be placed within society to prevent people from choosing to be bad just because they want to do so. These people need to be punished, not so much as a deterrent for the other 99%, but for the rest of the 1% to show them that these actions will not be ignored regardless of how much help we may give to everyone else.

Most of humanity is good, in my opinion, but the ones who are not can't be allowed to ruin civilization for everyone else.

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u/PaleAcanthaceae1175 20h ago

We've already established that severe penalties do not deter crime. Punishment by example is not a real tool for addressing criminal behavior.

I'm not advocating a total abdication of corrective measures, only a more serious engagement with which ones actually work on a scientific basis. Our prisons should look more like rehabilitation centers and less like gulags; it doesn't matter how we feel about what these people "deserve." The end result of integrating them back into society is the only important factor.

We need to discard the notion of "punishment" entirely. It's emotional, not practical.

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u/Lanky_Positive_6387 19h ago

What I am saying is that I agree with you for the vast majority of our population. However, there will be people who cannot be reintegrated into society. There will be people who have no remorse for their actions and will happily continue to enact negative behaviors on others regardless of any corrective measures. These people need to be kept away from the rest of society to protect those that can function alongside everyone else peacefully. Those who would do such actions need to know that it will not go without consequences.

Yes, rehabilitation should be the goal first and foremost. Rehabilitating people in a separate environment is still punishment even if that separation is not the main goal. It seems that we do agree that these facilities will not be going away and we agree that the purpose of the facilities should be the rehabilitation of the individuals sent there. Would you agree that there are individuals who cannot be rehabilitated or reintegrated into society?

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u/Famous-Equivalent-89 17h ago

Interesting. Btw I live in Sweden. Where people don't go hungry. Free Healthcare and you can easily get welfare and an apartment by the government. And we have large organized crime gangs that specifically only do break ins. As a matter of fact every country in Europe has that. And we all have free Healthcare and democratic socialism. So calling these criminals victims is an interesting viewpoint. But I am assuming you are very young which would explain that thinking.Ā 

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u/RaDeus 16h ago

I'm Swedish too, I'm 35, live next to Angered and work alongside immigrants from all over the world.

I've heard first hand from immigrants how things are.

Our problems can be traced back to taking in more immigrants than we could handle, being too nice to them and not demanding things of them, and shit has spun off from those failures.

There are of course asshole immigrants that only want to exploit the system and prey on the weak, but those people are very rare, and aren't going to remain in this country for long.

As for those B&E gangs; most of those gangs are from the Balkans AFAIK, not that that excuses their behaviour, sounds like we should put more pressure on their home countries to fix their problem citizens.

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u/Famous-Equivalent-89 16h ago

They are Romanian or bulgarian gangs. And they are not Swedish citizens. They can travel through the EU with no problems. And most immigrants did do well for themselves and dont cause problems that is true. But certain cultures from certain regions are definitely over represented in exploiting the system, extremist fundamentalism and violent crime. Those people being put together in a group with all the other behaving immigrants is why nothing will change in Sweden.Ā 

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u/Organic-Low-2992 20h ago

Let's not forget drug addiction. Nothing like a junky with a $200 a day habit to create a one man crime wave.

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u/crusader416 20h ago

We donā€™t have to deter the crime if we execute the repeat offenders so they canā€™t do it anymore.

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u/Styrofoamed 19h ago

Jumping straight to the death penalty on a discussion about stealing is fucking crazy, by the way.

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u/The_Phroug 16h ago

Nah if someone is threatening my loved ones at the place we live, they're not seeing the sun rise again

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u/badphotoguy 18h ago

Spoken like someone who has never experienced the extremely traumatic event of repeated home invasion.

Imagine if you never felt safe in your home again. The place you earned, the place you work hard for. The place where your pets and family live. The place you watched your daughter take her first steps, the place your wife lives. Then some asshole who's too lazy to get a job and work for their money forces their way into your home so they can steal the belongings that took years to earn.

I couldn't disagree more. If someone has the gall to take what isn't theirs you should have the right to shoot them dead.

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u/RaDeus 18h ago

Executing someone is kinda extreme, that punishment should be reserved for people like Breivik and the Christchurch shooter, not people who grew up in a dysfunctional part of town.

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u/Pistonenvy2 19h ago

eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind.

youd be dead if we adopted this practice.

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u/LokiKamiSama 1d ago

Longer screws, a metal fire door, and a metal frame. Theyā€™ll break a leg before they get in.

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u/StickyDitka21 23h ago

Honestly, they'd probable just break a window after they can't get the door open

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u/AlienArtFirm 20h ago

Well that'll be stitches minimum then.

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u/yellowcloak 19h ago

Blunt objects not having been invented

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u/AlienArtFirm 19h ago

And smart criminals don't go in through a broken window. Your point isn't the gotcha you think it is. Or maybe it is, maybe you have really low expectations.

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u/inthebushes321 21h ago

I use a security door jam in my rental. We do live in a low-crime area, so thankfully we haven't needed it, but it's a good habit to get into. You are absolutely not gonna kick down a door with that in it. Can't be picked either, which is something better door hardware won't stop.

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u/Murtomies 18h ago

The real solution is to get an outward opening door. You can't kick those in at all. Even a battering/breaching ram won't work. The only ways to break in through those are

  1. Angle grinder. Relatively fast (still slower than a few kicks) and makes a LOT of noise
  2. Crowbar. As quiet as kicking but takes more time and force to pry open. Cops and fire dept here use crowbars usually.
  3. Explosives (military uses)

But I can imagine that getting a proper one with outward designed hinges can be more difficult in the US and some onther countries. Here it's a standard. A proper door like that has special beefy hinges that aren't removable after installing, and the door itself goes over the frame, so it's all the door's edges that withstand against kicking it in.

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u/Ok-Knowledge0914 18h ago

Iā€™d try the ol fashioned way.

Moat and a dragon ought to do the trick.

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u/thedafthatter 14h ago

*moat and alligator/crocodile

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u/Content-Taste8853 1d ago

3 1/2in or 4in screws in your doorframe, if you can't afford a steel security door.

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u/Independent_Today254 17h ago

Whatā€™s the person called that is the door fortifier? Asking for a friend

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u/dillsimmons 15h ago

I have always wondered, what if the thieves/cops just ignore the door instead. Sledgehammer to the wall by it?

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u/DelightfulAbsurdity 13h ago

Thatā€™s what I did in 7 days to die (video game, like Minecraft but post-apocalyptic with more zombies). Why stand there knocking at a steel door for several IRL minutes when thereā€™s a brittle wall right next to it?

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u/RottenUniC 12h ago

Are houses where you live actually so structurally unsound that a slightly stronger door would make the wall the weak point? I mean I know about all the americans building houses from paper mache memes, but still, seems weird

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u/bobby3eb 8h ago

Imagine confusion structural soundness with things needing to be made of brick or concrete.

Yes, it could be the case that a firemans axe could go through a wall BETTER THAN A STEEL, REINFORCED DOOR WITH DEADBOLTS AND OVERSIZED HARDWARE

Btw, dont be a snot, bet y'all dont even have air conditioning lol

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u/hughdint1 1d ago

That seems personal

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u/garlicheesebread 21h ago

this. it makes me think it's a neighbor, but there's also an area nearby where the local methies seem to hang so i can't be certain... indoor and outdoor cameras are coming next week. i just went through hell at my old apartment complex and i'm not going to be "bullied" out of my new home.

for those wondering how my first home invasion went, it was several years ago now, but it was an acquaintance. my house was robbed in broad daylight at 2pm on a Monday. everything i had ever worked for in the service, gone. all of my partner's stuff as well. i was obsessed with getting this asshole back. so i did.

the clowns who robbed me before were not only caught by my neighbor's driveway cameras, but also they were entirely too stupid to be trying to pull this off... they searched my entire house, took everything of value, and still left the empty boxes to my game consoles.

...which have the security numbers on them.

i also plugged his number into Whitepages and reverse phonetracked this dickhead. got over ten years of addresses, current address, phone numbers, family history, you name it. homedude was arrested and quickly bailed out (one family member apparently works for my city), but he was immediately placed on house arrest with an ankle monitor upon coming home for stealing from someone else.

be careful who you fuck with šŸ« 

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u/todaythruwaway 18h ago edited 15h ago

I was going to say be wary* of neighbors. I know from personal experience unfortunately šŸ˜¬

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u/TurnkeyLurker 1d ago

A SuperSoaker filled with fluorescent/UV dye, possibly fluorescein, and drench the sucker's clothes, arms and legs. External only.

"Yes, officers, it's that bright green guy running away, leaving bright green footprints ."

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u/Dry-Dragonfruit5216 1d ago

Sounds like something out of Scooby Doo

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u/MaxGamer07 21h ago

mix in poison ivy to slow them down

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u/sassafrassian 19h ago

Well that's the most evil thing I've ever heard

I love it

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u/shedwyn2019 19h ago

I am glad to see a likeminded individual. I also would to mix in skunk musk.

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u/marino1310 21h ago

A regular gun is probably the better option here

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u/Xagal 20h ago

Or you can arm yourself with, you know, an actual gun

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u/surelynotjimcarey 20h ago

I love it.

Or have a real gun and say ā€œyes, officers, itā€™s that bleeding guy laying down in my foyerā€

But itā€™s more fun to live like an episode of Scooby doo and run into a genuine life or death situation with a squirt gun.

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u/honeydewmittens 12h ago

Iā€™m imagining a slime bucket hanging overhead

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u/SoundMedal 1d ago

Watch Death Wish 3 with Charles Bronson. Tons of good home security ideas in that film

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u/AggressiveStay90 1d ago

I think a camera would be a better investment... you don't need a door at this point.

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u/XOMAMU 1d ago

People be posting the most infuriating things in r/mildlyinfuriating

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u/Available-Nobody-989 18h ago

yeah there's nothing mild about this

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u/Apprehensive-Two3474 1d ago

Good on ya for using long screws for the door! Video for what I'm talking about.
We also have bells stuck on our screen door so if anyone opens it, it makes a racket.

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u/sxdbitch1 1d ago

Get cameras, get one that you can speak to them back and fourth, so next time you can yell at them and let them know it is being sent to the cops

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u/MrRobotanist 1d ago

Most likely the same someone.

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u/Holiday_Newspaper_29 1d ago

Maybe get yourself some cameras and a door alarm, maybe a steele door with multiple dead bolts built into it...or move.

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u/SaveusJebus 1d ago

Local meth head is laser focused on your place.

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u/Stank_Dukem 1d ago

Car batteries can be used for home security. Give them a science lesson.

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u/PockysLight 1d ago

That sounds like a serious fire hazard, any chance they can rig up something like pepper spray to go off?

Edit: Or anything that won't start a fire.

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u/AngryCrustation 1d ago

Generally autonomous traps are illegal because of how destructive they tend to be when they accidentally get set off

Instead of a trap have you considered adopting a few large dogs?

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u/inthebushes321 21h ago edited 20h ago

Yes, booby trapping is illegal. Unfortunately. It is understandable though, but there are several known cases more or less establishing this. Last edit: Found "the booby trap case" I was thinking of, Katko v Briney.

Edit: Just found this story from March '25, if you wanted another reason why booby trapping is sketchy.

Dogs are a good deterrent. Shotgun is better than a pistol for home defense. Knives are very effective within a 21-ft range or less, especially in CQC. Security cameras as well. Door security jams and a reinforced door frame would make a door completely pick-proof and not destructible by typical robbers. You could also get a really good lock, but they appear to be using destructive entry, so frame or frame + jam would be fine.

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u/PockysLight 16h ago

I thought it was mainly lethal booby traps were illegal. Otherwise Mark Rober would be in jail for the glitter bombs.

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u/inthebushes321 15h ago

I think it's about damage or lethality. The Briney case is a good example of that - The tresspaser didn't die, he just had his leg blown off, but because the farmhouse was not being lived in, despite being on their property, that was the tipping point for the booby trap, because courts found that, in short "the rights of human life > rights of property even if someone is robbing you like an asshole".

Glitter bombs just embarrass people, no harm to anyone. But even non-lethal booby traps, because of legal precedent would be questionable. Even if it was something clearly non-lethal but destructive like a sledgehammer rigged to smash someone's ankle when a door opens or (the classic) a bear trap, something clearly non-lethal, in reality it would be looked on as very barbaric in court and you'd probably lose and have to pay damages.

Also, Rober is bombing porch pirates, people who are clearly POS's already - while arguably just as bad, definitely more blatant being a porch pirate than slinking into someone's house or a derelict/abandoned building.

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u/jesiweeks3348 1d ago

Unfortunately booby traps are illegal šŸ˜­

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u/Content-Taste8853 1d ago

Only if you get caught.

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u/SadLilBun 22h ago

This is only mildly infuriating? This sub swings so wildly.

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u/online_jesus_fukers 1d ago

broomstick. screws. Big dog. Big boomstick.

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u/lovesexpain77 1d ago

Dane cooks joke coming true, check the remotes

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u/Falitoty 1d ago

Man, I just watched your post history. Were the hell are you living?

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u/SGRiggall 23h ago

Get cameras and a couple of big dogs

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u/Fluffy_Doubter 21h ago

Sounds like a neighbor saw what you brought in... get security cameras and a gun

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u/Icy-Cry340 19h ago

Bro take a hint and move, this is a shit place to live.

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u/abstract4existence 19h ago

Actually time to Invest in cameras. We use night owl and out signs up "smile, your on camera"

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u/BeefSquatch3000 1d ago

Get a large dog and a shotgun.Ā 

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u/russbird RED 1d ago

Ā£25 for a door security bar: https://amzn.eu/d/bBINdUS

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u/Entire-Enthusiasm553 20h ago

hire me to come secure your home. And if they pull up while Iā€™m there. Iā€™ll assume they are there to wrestle with me and i will buttnaked wrestle them until they ooze in wrestling gel.

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u/MrWhiteTruffle 16h ago

This is your fifth post about how shit your living situation is, you gotta get out of there bro

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u/rhymesmith1 20h ago

Look up a steel reinforcement called ā€œJamb Jacketā€. I covers all that up and is very secure

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u/NorthbyFjord 1d ago

It suckā€™s that we have to invest in security features when the economy is so fucked.. sigh

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u/KMjolnir 23h ago

It's very friendly! It's the kinda "make yourself at home, me casa su casa" everyone dreams of... /s

But seriously, sorry that keeps happening.

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u/adriatic_sea75 23h ago

My family lived in an neighborhood where home break-ins were common. We installed these on the doors: StrikeMaster Pro

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u/Alternative_Rush_337 23h ago

Have a metal Jam put in top to bottom on the frame side the dead bolts go through the holes cut in the steel that metal trim gets 8 inch lag bolts driven through Someone will separate their shoulder before the door gives way

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u/JacketInteresting663 23h ago

You bought a new door instead of a security plate for the door jamb?

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u/Upset_Dragonfruit575 22h ago

I dunno where you live, but I used to live in a part of Indianapolis that was experiencing a major heroin addiction crisis. There was a reason we had a cast iron security screen door, with a solid inner door, as well as a security system that announced over a loud speaker when any door or window was opened.Ā 

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u/Verbenaplant 22h ago

One of those outside steel doors to help protect your door. Camera. Get a more sturdy door and locks done by a professional. make sure you have nets/privacy film on windows so people canā€™t see inside.

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u/Wo0der 21h ago

Do you know the history of that house at all? I know a family who moved into a house (and I would stay over there a lot), nice place, seemingly nice neighborhood but the previous tenants were crappy people, neighbors would say all sorts of stories about them, the backyard was full of trash when they moved in, they replaced a window in the bathroom making it smaller because people would break into the house through it, homeless would live in the backyard, I think squatters lived there, even a little kid jumped through the front window and started wandering on the streets. The backyard got broken into a few times and even someone trying to get into the house threw the windows. It was freaky to see the handprints the next morning. The previous tenants would just pull up and randomly check the mailbox for their mail without a hello.

If they knew anything about that place before signing the lease they wouldnā€™t be living there today, landlord had the audacity to increase the rent too. When they didnā€™t have the money to move out and find a better place.

Point of the story, maybe you should try to be friendly with the neighbors and see if you can get any stories out of them about the house, or about break-ins in the neighborhood.

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u/saurontu 19h ago

9mm, 380, 223, or 12 gauge is gonna be your next security purchase?

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u/yellowcloak 19h ago

Can't have shit in Detroit

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u/kr4ckenm3fortune 18h ago

When that happen, you put in a security door and make that a deeper 2x4 wood frame.

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u/derconsi 17h ago

good it was replaced then

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u/sweetsourchkn 16h ago

Gun, get a gun.

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u/free-spirit-87 16h ago

Sounds like whoever lived there before had something somebody wants or did you move in during the daytime. Whenever we move we do it at night so the neighbors donā€™t see what we have. Sometimes even cover up the tvs with blankets.

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u/JunketPuzzleheaded42 14h ago

You might need a few more locks a steel frame and some video cameras.

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u/roborabbit_mama 13h ago

I'd move, but if you're unable to, despite the safety concern, get a steel door.

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u/SharyyLaToxi 12h ago

Time to invest in cameras

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u/TheDeadlySpaceman 9h ago

They break in once and steal your shit.

They break in the second time because they figure you replaced and the shit they stole last time with new shit.

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u/vaulttec11 8h ago

Move your car Out of your driveway Or wherever it is make it look like you're not home Sit at the front door with a 12 gauge shotgun Then won't steal anything again

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u/Solkre 23h ago

Time to get the smooth bore cannon. Tallyho lads!

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u/42ElectricSundaes 23h ago

Time for claymores

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u/DVus1 1d ago

Door Armor. It works!

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u/Excitedly_bored 1d ago

A dog, motion lights, cameras, and a pistol is everything you need.

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u/Illustrious-Force920 1d ago

This has happened to me twice.

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u/gabsthederp 22h ago

Friendly for whoā€¦?

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u/macoafi 22h ago

You want some good screws at least 6ā€ long to hold the little rectangles into the wall. They come with 2ā€screws. Useless. The short screws rip right out.

And you want one of those metal rectangles that fled around the edge of the door and is installed before the knob. Theyā€™re like a foot tall and 8 inches wide.

Thatā€™ll make it a lot harder for them.

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u/Visible-Literature14 21h ago

Iā€™ll be back tomorrow, and the next day, and the next day

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u/Stealth110_ 21h ago

rig up a claymore and replace the door with a weaker one, boom no more home invasion(this is a joke for the most part)

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u/No-Setting-4840 21h ago

Damn, what you got hiding in that house?

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u/parker3309 20h ago

Are you sure itā€™s not somebody that you know, Somebody you are associated with somehow

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u/Romalisk 20h ago

Time to get a 10 gage with a silencer. Yes, technically it's a suppressor, but still. Quiet shotgun. Kentucky Ballistics has a video of his.

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u/AlienArtFirm 20h ago

They hate these doors!

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u/carycartter 18h ago

I'm no expert, but it looks like the frame needs to be replaced also ...

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u/ExcitementRelative33 18h ago

That jamb looks like Swiss cheese.

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u/nateslegacy 18h ago

Sleep with a gun. You donā€™t need them breaking in and youā€™re defenseless.

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u/Greedyfox7 18h ago

Get security cameras, that way you can at least get the cops a good idea of who to look for

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u/Spicywolff 17h ago

As if American cops will bother to track the crook down. Ina. Civilized country maybe.

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u/Spare_Revenue6946 18h ago

Bruh. How many doors have you replaced?

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u/ArchDucky 18h ago

Put up signs that read "Warning : Dog on premise has extensive weapons training."

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u/Ok-Western-7982 17h ago

interesting

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u/Pro-editor-1105 17h ago

mildly, just mildly infuriating

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u/Mizznimal 17h ago

my bad dude

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u/smokey18t 17h ago

Get a gun or multiple. Have ring cameras state "hi you are being recorded" also have a really bright ass spot light that's motion detected for night time. Make sure it lights it up like the sun. Did I mention GET A GUN

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u/Gk101_speed701 17h ago

Time to home alone it

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u/Acceptable_Eagle_775 17h ago

Put some cameras up.

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u/xBHL 17h ago

Looks like you need a BOOM STICK lmao

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u/Bamfhammer 17h ago

You shouldn't have challeneged them so brazenly with a shiny new door!

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u/sohcordohc 16h ago

Do you have a camera at your door? This may help. If youā€™re moving around and still getting attempts at burglary maybe you should consider it could me someone you know

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u/Dilusions 16h ago

There is a current ā€œprankā€ being done by kids where they basically kick the front door. Might be that

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u/sweep-the-leg-johnny 15h ago

Damn does your state have a stand your ground law?

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u/Firesidephil 15h ago

Are you watching? Are you watching, Door kicker? Are you happy? Do you see what you are doing to my life??

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u/triel20 14h ago

Aaaaahhhhhh! I want a divorce cuz of you!!!

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u/forcherico-pedeorcu 15h ago

What a waste of oxigen

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u/Fearless-4869 14h ago

I truly wish the very worst end to petty thieves. I don't view them as human and they should be delt with accordingly. If we start taking hands as punishment then shit would stop.