Am 11. Jan, 2004 schw=E4tzte Richard L. Proctor so:

> I lock my front door when not at home.  I never lock my car.

I never lock the doors on my motorcycle :).

> But this leads me to an interesting story.  When I had my boat back east =
I use
> to pick up this one guy from his big boat which was moored out in the har=
bor.
> He would lock his cabin with a paddle lock and then toss the key on the d=
ash.
>
> I asked him why bother to lock the cabin if you toss the key up on the da=
sh.
> He said one year they broke into this boat and toor the entire hatch and
> cabin door down.  Cost him a lot of money to repair it.  So he told me th=
e
> purpose of the key is to keep honest people out and to let the destructiv=
e
> ciminals in.

I've known a few people who use this approach.

ciao,

der.hans
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