[ryanmarsh]

Yes. The truth is most (and I mean nearly all) residential door frames snap like a match stick with a hooligan tool.

In a previous life I kicked in doors for a living. I don’t give a fuck how cool your dead bolt is. I could be in your face before you were out of bed.

If you want to keep out lazy thieves any lock will do. If you’re preventing against a dynamic entry you need trip wires, man traps, metal door frames, and a 12ga shotgun.

[chrisseaton]

This isn't true - modern standard domestic polycarbonate and metal composite doors and frames with locks that engage all the way up are a real problem for the police as they're extremely hard to get through even with repeated blows from a battering ram. There is absolutely no chance whatsoever that you can kick in a modern door. You will break your leg first.

[scarejunba]

Do people have doors like that? Mine looks like a bog standard wooden door. Even the fanciest condo I lived in had a massive heavy fire door with hella heft but it didn't look metal.

[yummypaint]

You have to explicitly want to spend money on that type of door. Looking at random model houses in the US, i have yet to see anything that comes with that type of door. Most apartments dont generally have high security doors either (landlords dont care, its not their stuff that gets stolen). Most front doors where i live can be punctured by leaning on them in the wrong way, and may as well be cardboard.

[ryanmarsh]

I've not yet encountered those. I didn't know they were popular either. Very interesting.

[sroussey]

Metal door frames here. No comment on the others.

[nomel]

I broke a window with a pebble when I was a kid. Most people have windows. Something like an extra sticky vinyl sticker takes care of the noise problem.

[onion2k]

That wouldn't work on a double glazed window.

[2rsf]

you mean laminated glass ?

[tialaramex]

No they mean double glazed. Two layers of glass with a thin layer of air sandwiched between them.

Windows are built like this in countries where the outside air temperature is far different than you'd want, as otherwise you spend a lot of money heating or cooling your windows, because glass is a poor insulator. But _air_ is a relatively good insulator considering it's transparent, the two sheets of glass stop the air from moving (and taking the heat with it).

If you smack a double glazed window, you are now trying to compress the thin layer of air, which is difficult. So in most cases the window will stubbornly not break. You could probably still smash it with a pry bar or similar tool, eventually but it won't be easy.

People have the idea from watching too many movies that breaking glass is very easy, in movies they are using sugar glass, it's _designed_ to smash easily and turn into impressive looking but not dangerous tiny pieces. In reality the glass mostly doesn't break, and so you hit it again, harder and eventually some of it smashes and you've got big shards of razor sharp glass, which you'd better clear away or you'll hurt yourself.

It's not magic impregnable nonsense, it's just inconvenient and dangerous to break.

[onion2k]

Precisely. You can't break a double glazed window by throwing a rock at it.

[2rsf]

cool, I didn't know that about double glazing being strong.

Here in Sweden most house have triple glazed windows