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My friend just got swatted during a BFV session (UK)
- Thread starter Pankratous
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It seems obvious, but in OP's case the keys were upstairs for some reason.
This isn't a thing in NZ, for what it's worth, which is culturually similar.
What?
Is it to prevent random strangers from leaving your house?
LMFAO.
Tbh I'm English and our front door doesn't lock from the inside. It just has a latch that locks when door is closed.
Recently we had a second lock put in the door for extra security, but in general most houses I'm familiar with in the UK have a latch lock thst locks automatically when the door is closed without needing to be locked.
Recently we had a second lock put in the door for extra security, but in general most houses I'm familiar with in the UK have a latch lock thst locks automatically when the door is closed without needing to be locked.
That's on them. When I used to have flatmates I would crap on them for leaving keys out over night for that very reason.
It does! They may have been able to enter through the window but can they carry your TV out through the window? What if they sent a small guy through who can now open the door for the rest of the gang to enter?
but all the brits here are saying they always leave their key in the hole or next to their door anyway, so that completely invalidates the point...
That's not how my door works (Spain). If you close the door it can't be opened from outside but it can still be opened from the inside without a key. But you can also lock it using a key from the inside for more security.
This is a constant worry.
Especially because the windows have locks on them too.
Aaaaahhh
45% of resetera's visitors are from the US, 12% from the UK etc. so I don't think we Europeans or folks from other countries with the same door mechanics can win any argument here.
Twitch needs to do a better job at protecting its users from attacks like this including GIVING STREAMERS ACCESS TO A LIST OF ALL REGISTERED USERS AND IP ADDRESSES WHO VIEW EACH STREAM.Twitch already collects this information and users/law enforcement shouldn't have to jump through hoops to retrieve it.
Really, people think it is strange to use a key to unlock the door from inside?
What?
I'm not even from Europe and we have the same thing.
What?
I'm not even from Europe and we have the same thing.
And if they don't keep it next to the door and an emergency like a fire happens...
UK system is dumb as hell, and they need to get with the times.
Was just traveling between Paris, London, and amsterdam and can confirm this is a real thing. Also super fucking inconvenient if you only have one key. I'd step out for something and my wife would have to not fall asleep to let me back or just not lock the door while I was gone
Yeah, its called a deadbolt.....
There is a key on the outside to let yourself INTO the house.
Why the shit is there a key to GET OUT.
Fire in the house?
"Ohh shit, let me look for my stupid key to be able to leave"
"Oh no the house is on fire, I wonder where I put the keys! Perhaps they're... where I always put them?"
We don't leave them in random places each time we lock up you know!
You joke but not long ago a girl who had stopped over had to come back upstairs and wake me up going, 'I can't leave'.
When I clicked on the topic I was super confused by the poll. Then I read the post and it all made sense. I had no idea the doors were like this outside of America.
Also, I hope whoever called the cops gets in trouble.
Also, I hope whoever called the cops gets in trouble.
The key is usually not within arms reach and you can take it when you leave?
I get that, but OP says his friend had to go to a completely different area of his house just to open his door. That just seems kind of inefficient lol.
Okay and that's how US doors are. My contention is with always needing a key to either lock or unlock it on the inside
It may have been a system you're used to for your entire life but that doesn't mean it's not considerably outdated, dangerous and stupid, especially when you consider the alternative of a door that does the EXACT SAME THING as you describe but without a key being needed to let yourself out.
If you can't see why the former - or the way you currently lock your doors on the inside - is worse than what we have all described, then that's unfortunate
I just leave the keys in the front and back door ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
But yeah sounds like someone IRL rather than a typical swatting.
But yeah sounds like someone IRL rather than a typical swatting.
Terrifying. I've had people joke about doing this before, saying they could DDOS me and my friends, one time even tried to track our IP addresses, jokes about doxxing us and such but chose not to because we were so nice apparently. The idea of swatting someone is just so utterly insane to me, especially when you're just having fun enjoying a video game and you could wind up seriously injured or potentially dead.
People are fucked up sometimes.
People are fucked up sometimes.
I'm no locksmith and I have never considered why we use a key to lock from the inside but if US TV and movies are at all realistic when it comes to doors I do know that my UK door is a lot more secure than the average US door. You couldn't reasonably boot it open. I've also never been inside my house and not known where the keys are so dying in a fire is not a major concern for me. The rest of you must be just walking in your house and throwing your keys in a random direction.
As for the subject of the thread just be grateful that in the UK the armed police are well trained and aren't going to shoot first and ask questions later in a situation like this. It's scary but at least your friend was never really in any danger.
As for the subject of the thread just be grateful that in the UK the armed police are well trained and aren't going to shoot first and ask questions later in a situation like this. It's scary but at least your friend was never really in any danger.
That's user error, man. You can't blame the system for that :). In theory it should be more secure...
OP's friend shouldn't feel embarrassed, military and police are going to go what they got to do. Defensively, it's just a door you get into.
if it's in the keyhole it is, like a lot of people in this thread said that's where they keep it
as for taking it when you leave, plenty of break-ins also occur when someone is in the house
I hate that the thread was derailed, but I admit the door and lock talk is fascinating to me as well. I talk regularly to several people in the UK, I've traveled a lot, including to Europe, and somehow I've never encountered this except in some British horror movies come to think of it, but I don't think I realized what exactly was going on when I saw those films until now.
I don't know, it just sounds useless to me? The doors I've always used lock automatically when you close them and you just need to turn the knob from the inside, and then may have an additional lock like a bolt or something if you want to lock it additionally from the inside, but nothing like a key locking the door from the inside. That just seems like it'd be an inconvenience, it's not a big deal but like an extra step that I don't really understand why it's even there. That'd also mean if you had guests you'd have to go and unlock the door for them if they wanted to leave? Someone mentioned it was to stop someone trying to break in from breaking the windows in the front door to access inside your place, but what's stopping them from breaking into a normal window then? I just don't really get the use of this?
I don't know, it just sounds useless to me? The doors I've always used lock automatically when you close them and you just need to turn the knob from the inside, and then may have an additional lock like a bolt or something if you want to lock it additionally from the inside, but nothing like a key locking the door from the inside. That just seems like it'd be an inconvenience, it's not a big deal but like an extra step that I don't really understand why it's even there. That'd also mean if you had guests you'd have to go and unlock the door for them if they wanted to leave? Someone mentioned it was to stop someone trying to break in from breaking the windows in the front door to access inside your place, but what's stopping them from breaking into a normal window then? I just don't really get the use of this?
More than double the number of people per 100k due in the US in fires vs the UK
We've done this before, but depending on your digital presence and footprint. It's actually quite easy to figure out who people are. We did it as a "proof/game" in a thread back on Neogaf after people were prompting others to see (Via PM)/(Talking about digital footprints). I bet if you're relatively competent with google given my footprint, username etc. You could find out who I am, and then my address pretty easily.
Oh, I guess you're right, I didn't realize people in the UK never under any circumstances lose their keys. Gotcha.
Let's throw in Japanese and Chinese and the majority of South East Asia while we are at it because I live in Japan and have been to the others and it's nothing like the UK. Gotta love them saying it's all Americans in their "bubble" when they're the ones on a tiny ass island with a couple neighbors doing the same thing and flabbergasted that a majority of the world's population doesn't do the same as them.
THAT SAID... my house growing up had some of these locks that required a key from both sides, namely the bathroom. But our house was ancient and as a previous poster said they definitely have older structures in the UK so I can see it still being common.
EDIT: I'd really like to know how the Middle-East and the many countries of Africa do this too, if anyone is from those two world regions and can chime in, I gotta know.
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All those conceited Americans with their fire safe door locks. But then there's a fire and you panic and you forget that you need to turn the knob into the wrong direction, in a closing motion to open it. Durr, crispy American.
If he had never found the key to the front door, he could have died of thirst within a few days. He's lucky to be alive, and your frivolous nonchalant attitude towards his experience is outrageous.
No no, you don't understand, in a life or death situation, you will be calm and rational, and the quickest way out of your house is by finding and unlocking your door with a key, which will conveniently be floating in front of your face.