Always, unless I'm working in the yard.

Only when I'm out of town for a few days.

Without fail.

I don't live in a particularly high crime area according to official statistics, but over the years more than half of the homes in the road have either been burgled or attempts thereto have been made.

The trouble is that dwellings are a mixture of houses and bungalows and most have fairly substantial hedges. The criminally disposed take advantage of not being overlooked whilst going about their business.
Throw into the mix some houses being empty all day, others being occupied by fairly elderly people who are perhaps not the most observant and also likely to succumb to distraction burglaries, and you can see why Burglar Bill does his worst from time to time.

A while back dad was awakened by a loud bang in the dead of night but thought no more of it. It turned out that it was the neighbours, who were away, being relieved of their TV and the felon dropping it on the patio.
They also, for reasons best known to themselves, left a tap running in the kitchen. Why?

Marking their territory like a common animal.

It's their signature. It's the guys from Home Alone, out of jail and at it all over again!

We never lock our house. We have a large and aggressive to strangers type dog. I figure if they're willing to try and get past cleo, or bait her, they probably wouldnt hesitate to smash a window if the doors were locked.

No, we dont lock up.

Funny thing is that when my wife and travel and plan to be away for more than a week or so I lock my garage which is detached from our home. My son is a resident of our home so I let him handle when he locks up when we are gone but I keep a lot of tools in the garage as well as what is left of my photo studio gear; sometimes I have shotguns waiting to be cleaned out there. I'm pretty sure someone walked into my garage and took a really nice Hitachi framing gun. Maybe the cable guys who have access to a hub behind our garage or maybe the guy who reads the gas meter. The dog wouldn't have been an issue if they went into the garage.

Our dogs are always outside, so everything is watched by them. Aside from that, i honestly dont even know where the keys are for all the doors. We have six entry points.

We have so much glass that alarms and locks are pretty much moot. Our dog died a few years ago. Still, I lock the doors, set the alarm, and hope for the best.

And keep my gun close at hand.

Yup. But we lived in Birmingham, England (Think slumville Detroit) for 10 years and were burgled. Mind you, doors were locked then too (kicked in), but insurance doesn't pay up if you leave 'em open.

True. That's another reason to keep the locks on, aside from the few seconds' warning.

Good thing you don't wear a chastity belt!

Maybe that should have gone in a clone thread ... "Do you lock your drawers?"

House, usually; car, rarely.

Car was burglarized Thursday night. Fuckers stole a new flashlight, tossed the interior. No broken windows this time, the main reason I leave it unlocked anyhow. Fuckers.

Yeah, when my Dad sold the house I grew up in, he had to run out and get new locks. He'd never locked them in 17 years, even when we'd go to Florida for two weeks, and no idea where the keys were.

I leave mine unlocked, hoping I'll be sexually molested.

And again last night.

I may start locking the doors just to keep my reading glasses off the floor. Really, addict/sociopath/criminal, there's nothing of value in there, stay the fuck out.