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People who live in first-floor apartments on Mass. Ave. between Cambridge Common and Porter Square might want to get window locks
By adamg on Sun, 11/03/2013 - 5:13pm
Cambridge Police report they are investigating 20 housebreaks in apartment buildings along Mass. Ave.:
In a high percentage of these incidents the point of entry has been through an unlocked window between the hours of 7:00 p.m. and 11:00 p.m.
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Tell me about it...
It's not just up on Mass. Ave. We had exactly such a break-in a couple of weeks ago in my first-floor apartment on Broadway - and we were home upstairs at the time of the burglary.
I told the police to shoot first and ask questions later.
No one home?
On the 1st floor?
They didn't get all the manuals on the Cincinnati method, I hope.
Pretty funny
Worry not! I memorized all of the information on the Cincinnati Method and ate the source material so that it wouldn't fall into the wrong hands.
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My rental unit in the Agassiz
My rental unit in the Agassiz neighborhood got broken into in August. Unlocked window. I'm pretty sure I was home - upstairs - at the time. Now that unit us equipped w locks...and a dog.
Kinda sad that you can't be
Kinda sad that you can't be home on the second floor and leave windows unlocked on the first.
It was in the downstairs apartment
The burglary in my building was in the downstairs apartment. My first floor tenants didn't lock the windows and they paid the price. We were home on the 2nd floor but didn't hear anything unusual.
I still recall the days when vent locks were in existence.
Back in the late 1970's, when I lived in a BU-owned apartment, vent locks were installed at people's windows, especially for those who either lived on the first floor, or had an apartment that overlooked a fire escape. The way that vent locks worked was that they were screwed onto the side of the window frame, so that they could be slid toward the window itself, in order to allow the window to be opened slightly to admit fresh air and provide security at the same time. This, of course, wasn't recommended if a person wasn't going to be home for awhile, but if one was sleeping at night and wanted to leave their window(s) slightly open, it was okay.
When I lived in Cambridge for several years after finishing college back in the early 1980's, I installed some vent locks on my living room and bedroom windows, since my apartment was on the first floor, and they worked. I'm not sure how vent locks could or would work today, because many windows are more updated, sturdier and secure than the ones in buildings that have not been re-modeled or updated.
Sorry that people have gotten their places broken into. That's such a drag.