Modern locks are a pest

Rubbish! You're not holding your mouth right!

Apart from the fact you're running Windoze, it's operator error.

My security door has a 3 point, never had an issue with it. Try lubing all the points. You might be amazed at the difference it makes.

You don't want the extra points? Disconnect them.

You omitted to include a *well maintained* system.

Clare's point is well made then.

Au contraire, that is *very intuitive*. If the downward movement *opens* the door, it's a very small step in logic to suggest that raising the handle *locks it*.

I realise with the sub par endowment the good lord handed you, a lubricant would not have been a fixture in your *experience* but, rest assured, lube those pins and it will go in like Flynn.

Scottish stupidity, you mean?

Possibly a clear case of RTFM.

Brute force and ignorance! Deadly combination. In the repair game, you encounter victims of that *all the time*.

Have you ever seen a door, complete with frame, kicked in? I have! Stick as many bolts in as you like but if you have a crap frame, the best lock in the world is useless.

Keep working at it, you'll reach *average* one day. They say your IQ rises with age.

Yep, especially in the lock tumbler area.

Not a single Greek in my heritage, if you don't mind.

Where do you get the idea I'm Greek from? It matters not since you're wrong anyway.

The ones in the past two houses I owned were damn solid 4x2 hardwood - seasoned rock hard. This one however, I'm not so sure. Likely to be pine framing. Haven't looked but it has inset security screens so they will be very difficult to kick in and that's before you get to the door itself. We do have an alarm, at the wife's insistence, but I rarely turn it on.

Yip, I wonder how many people are killed by their own guns.

You put barred windows in your house?!?

Noise polluting jerk.

Agreed - insurance will always make up an excuse not to pay out.

Oops, I crossposted to the Wild West. They haven't grown up yet.

Stay home all day? Get a f****ng great big Alsatian?

Well, he does seem to have rather a lot of burglaries in his area.

So why the prison cell?

The perp (too lazy to type the full word?) could enter quietly. And the owner could have more than one gun (and usually do in the good ole' USA).

For what purpose would you engage your mouth to pick a lock?