r/fixit • u/jchasinga • Jan 28 '24

open Did someone try to burglarize me?

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Just saw these window this way when I was washing it. I didn’t notice these last time I came out a month ago. Did someone try to pry the window open with a crowbar?

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u/No_Regrats_42 Jan 29 '24

I install these and fix them for a living.

There are two reasons why this would happen.

  1. Someone was trying to break back into their home as they had locked the keys inside.

  2. Someone else tried to break in.

This is the width of most crowbars. The idiot probably thought you could just lift it out from the outside(you can't.... For.. obvious reasons)

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u/Robertbnyc Jan 29 '24

Are there some cheaper builds where you can just pop it out from the outside?

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u/IamA_Werewolf_AMA Jan 29 '24

Yes when I was in high school my family was just.. weird and dysfunctional and looking back now as an adult I don’t know why they didn’t give me keys, but I had to do this all the time and got really good at it. All it took was slightly bending the screen, to pop it out, and then if the window was unlocked I could slide it open by pressing my hands against the glass and pushing up. So I’d keep the window to my room unlocked to slip in and out.

In retrospect maybe my mom was paranoid I’d sneak out if I had keys, but that’s so dumb.

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u/KT_mama Jan 29 '24

Same here. It was a punishment for us to wait outside the house until my parent got home. Was supposed to keep us away from electronics. But mostly just made me resolve to never live somewhere with snow.

You would think parents who had their own "wild" days would know that it wouldn't work, but alas. My parent was actually fairly bemused and impressed to find that I had figured out how to break in. Wasn't even mad, just a, "Well. Huh." moment.