I had an actual home invasion 8 1/2 years ago -- a former tenant who'd been evicted from the apartment had rigged one of the windows so he could get back in, and he came in and burgled us while we were sleeping twice before we figured out how he was getting past the locked door and nailed the window shut, and so the third time he reached in through a broken-out pane in the front door to unlock it and, since we were awake and realised there was somebody downstairs, came up after us and robbed us at gunpoint. He got caught and went to jail, but it's no coincidence that every apartment I've lived in since has had a secured front entrance before you got anywhere near my own door. I had not missed this feeling of not being secure in my home at ALL.
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Date: 2004-12-04 05:10 am (UTC)