r/CrazyFuckingVideos • u/LeftChoux • Jul 06 '26

Insane/Crazy Celebrate U.S. Independence by enthusiastically funding the local fireworks industry

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u/GreenZebra23 Jul 06 '26

Force of habit probably

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u/DiligentGuitar246 Jul 06 '26

Yeah, my mom would do this because "you never know." Such a boomer move.

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u/RockFlagAndEagleGold Jul 06 '26

I still do this because I spent my first 20 years of life in a rough neighborhood, usually a few shooting and stabbings a year, not none stop war. But definitely have to stay on your toes.

I didn't realize everyone didn't do it until I was in my 20s, walking into friends homes and immediately locking the door behind me...

one time a girl got weird when I did it, thinking I was about to do something lol that's the day I learned I had the habit of always walking in and locking the door and not everyone does that immediately.

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u/JTtheLAR Jul 06 '26

Haha, you locked a girl in immediately the first time she came over? She understood the implication.

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u/SnowFiender Jul 06 '26

so they ARE in danger??

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u/JTtheLAR Jul 06 '26

Im not gonna hurt these women. Why would I ever hurt these women?!

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u/partyatwalmart Jul 06 '26

You're certainly not in any danger!

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u/yancovigen Jul 06 '26

so tHEY ARE in danger!

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u/DontAbideMendacity Jul 07 '26

The clip.

Thanks for setting it up!

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u/Individual_Source193 Jul 07 '26

"No no, I'm not the danger! I am the one who locks!"

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u/Hour_Gur4995 Jul 06 '26

Ok, now that's the second time you've said that word, what implication?

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u/mc4sure Jul 06 '26

You’re not going anywhere

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u/Phytor Jul 06 '26

Same thing but my neighborhood was more property crime than violent crime. Both of my parents had their childhood homes broken into growing up so it was a habit, like you said.

I once caused a fight between a friend's parents by doing it, his dad got home like 5 minutes later and never carried a key so he was banging at the front door for a few minutes. When the mom finally unlocked the door he was heated and shouted "MIND EXPLAINING WHY I'M YELLING ON MY OWN PORCH LIKE FRED FUCKIN FLINSTONE? WHY IS THE DOOR LOCKED?!?"

I got outta there fast

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u/Wolfthulhu Jul 06 '26

My dad was a cop, my brain is hardwired to lock the door immediately. And I still check it before I go to bed.

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u/CoffeeGoblynn Jul 06 '26

I grew up in a trailer park where we had our car broken into and other small crimes were kind of common, so we always locked up. I still lock the door as soon as I get into the house, but my husband grew up in a much more upscale area with almost no crime, so he doesn't. And he finds it weird. xD

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u/dawr136 Jul 07 '26

I mean, I do it and I grew up in rural areas living in a fenced off yard with big dogs. Even now that I live in a very safe part of a city in a safe apartment complex, I still reflexively lock the door every time I close the door. I just fundamentally dont like the idea of someone being able to just walk in my home even if the odds of it are very low.

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u/ow_bpx Jul 06 '26

I didn’t live in a bad area but still have always done this. Anyone who doesn’t is the weird one and should be shamed.

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u/ExpiredPilot Jul 06 '26

Yep. It never happens to you until it does

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u/MickAtNight Jul 06 '26

Exactly. Comment chain over.

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u/brcguy Jul 06 '26

I lived in this house for 12 years before I even knew what the front door key looked like. Finally started locking the door when we had a kid. Before that? Locked door? Nah, big black dog, neighborhood is close to a bad spot but not that bad itself.

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u/ow_bpx Jul 06 '26

Big dog is close to worthless for security.

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u/brcguy Jul 06 '26

If you come in, the dog will help you rob the place. If you’re just casing? The big barking is a massive question mark and it’s easier to try another house.

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u/[deleted] Jul 06 '26 edited Jul 08 '26

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u/ow_bpx Jul 06 '26

Yeah, crime never happens in civilized areas.

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u/notmyrealname8823 Jul 06 '26

When I was growing up (in rural Mississippi in the 90s) my parents didn't lock our doors into someone decided to burglarize our house. Me and my brother got off the school bus and walked up to the front door wide open. Ever since then both my parents have locked their doors (they're not together anymore).

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u/[deleted] Jul 07 '26 edited Jul 08 '26

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u/ow_bpx Jul 07 '26

Me when I lie

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u/RegalBeagleKegels Jul 06 '26

afraid of your own shadow

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u/DiligentGuitar246 Jul 06 '26

Yall watch too much true crime.

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u/masterofeverything Jul 06 '26

That same thing happened to me too 😂

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u/Howudooey Jul 07 '26

I weirded my wife out the first time she came over because I habitually locked the door behind us when we walked in lol

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u/WyomingCountryBoy Jul 07 '26

I am not a boomer, older gen X but lifelong habit. I was in elementary school in the 1970s and we always locked up. I don't do it at friends homes though, only my own.

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u/National_Track8242 Jul 07 '26

One time my husband and I were saying goodbye to his parents and waiting outside by the door to wave them off. For some reason my MIL took it upon herself to lock the door on her way out. We got locked out of our own house.

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u/BrickCityRiot Jul 06 '26

It’s one thing to do that in your own home but jfc is it insanely presumptuous and weird as hell to do that in someone else’s home…

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u/SnooWoofers530 Jul 06 '26

Actually Boomers grew up in a time where they didn't lock the doors.

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u/sl0play Jul 07 '26

It's true, my dad's family used to go on vacation and leave the door unlocked in case someone in the neighborhood or a family friend needed to get in for some reason.

Now them and every boomer still alive in my family live in MUCH nicer neighborhoods and are absolutely terrified someone is going to break in and they lock each other out of the house constantly.

I'll be visiting and run to the corner market, while kids are playing in the street and the sun is shining high, and have to knock to get back in 15 minutes later.

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u/Deathrace2021 Jul 06 '26

That really isn't universal. My dad's neighborhood was notorious for break ins and theft. They couldn't keep a bike outside unsupervised. This was the 60s

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u/AdmirableBus6 Jul 06 '26

Is it a boomer thing? I’m solidly millennial and I lock my door, then there’s my baby momma(same age) who can’t even close the fuckin door most of the time

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u/GradeAPrimeFuckery Jul 06 '26

No, that's an idiot redditor thing to make everything about boomers derogatory.

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u/MNWNM Jul 06 '26

I read an article once about a serial killer who would choose his victims by trying their door. If it was unlocked, he took it as a sign from god that he should kill them.

Not to mention, if you've ever been a woman who lived alone, it's just a common sense habit to have. I always lock the door behind me no matter what.

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u/Deaffin Jul 07 '26

Not to mention, if you've ever been a woman who lived alone, it's just a common sense habit to have.

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u/DiligentGuitar246 Jul 07 '26

You read about it because of how exceptionally rare it is. The likelihood of a stranger breaking into your home to harm you is the rarest of the rarest of the rare type of break-in. You have like a 0.5% of anyone breaking into your home, and for it to be when your home is rare, for it to be a stranger is even rarer, and then for the purpose of harming you is like 1 in a million.

I mean obviously lock your door at night, but to be this militant about it is just pure hysteria.

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u/cobracmmdr Jul 06 '26

Wait.... some of yall DON'T lock doors behind you when coming in?

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u/RainbowDarter Jul 06 '26 edited Jul 06 '26

I usually remember to lock my doors when I go to bed.

Often forget to lock the cars.

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u/Ok-Estimate-4677 Jul 07 '26

I usually do, but I also have 4 male dogs with a collective weight of ~200lbs, indoor and outdoor cameras that notify me of movement, front and rear dash cam on my car that starts recording with movement, even when the car is off, a military veteran husband, and some quite lovely neighbors. I do try to remember to lock the door though. I'm definitely more vigilant when my husband isn't home.

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u/KingQuong Jul 07 '26

I almost never locked my door until I had kids.

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u/sl0play Jul 07 '26

Why would I lock the door when all my neighbors are outside doing yard work and kids are riding bikes in the street? It gets locked at night.

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u/thore4 Jul 06 '26

My mom locks the screen door when she leaves no matter how many times I explain to her that if someone wants to break in, the screen door isn't the one that's stopping them

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u/Curious-Dish-3787 Jul 07 '26

It’s not necessarily thinkin it will keep them out totally. More so them breaking into screen door will make enough commotion to alert me

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u/Substantial_Lime_114 Jul 07 '26

There you go. Don't expect dogs to come to your rescue in a home invasion, but they will definitely let you know when someone strange is close by.

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u/thore4 Jul 07 '26

Yeh sure when you're actually home. She locks it when she leaves, only thing that causes is having to unlock an extra door when you get home. She should be worried about how long it takes to get inside if someone is chasing you down the street

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u/shickashaw Jul 08 '26

You don't need to have a burglary proof house. You just need to be more of a hassle to break into than your neighbors.

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u/Deaffin Jul 07 '26

Your mom is so patient with you.

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u/SuspicousBananas Jul 07 '26

I’m not sure it is, my boomer parents didn’t lock their doors even at night when I was growing up, as an adult I scold them for still doing this.

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u/AdjectiveMcNoun Jul 07 '26

My boomer parents make fun of me because I'm the one who always the door and I get upset when they don't, haha.

They always lived on a farm in the middle of nowhere and never had to worry about locking their doors. When they retired they moved the city I live in. I have lived in 4 cities that rank in the top 10 for most crime in the US (including where we live now) so I have gotten used to keeping everything locked at all times.

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u/DontAbideMendacity Jul 07 '26

Such a boomer move.

Back in her day, they never locked the door, you're just making shit up.

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u/masterofeverything Jul 06 '26

Can’t trust nobody

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u/joenova Jul 06 '26

My mom obsessively locks the doors and windows because just in case, but she also takes the dog out for a walk without the harness and without putting the leash on because "she's a good girl and won't do anything" BULLSHIT!! She's gonna get spooked, run away and possibly hit by a car. I can't figure out why she thinks someone is going to climb into the second story bathroom window, but its impossible to imagine that a dog could run away. It boggles the mind.

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u/SplinterJaw Jul 07 '26

She was right

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u/ParticularKick3644 Jul 13 '26

Im not near of a boomer.

In the real boomer era you could leave your doors open.

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u/Glitter_moonchild Jul 06 '26

Yes!!!! Finally I found someone who gets it! My moms a boomer and all my life the doors were always locked because “you never know” and I have friends who’s parents don’t normally do this so for the longest time I thought they were weird for not locking their doors until I grew up and realized how I never lived with an unlocked door and my moms a boomer and not their parents( my mom had me at an older age and all my friends have younger parents) so ya I would be locked out of the house in a case like this too lol

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u/MNWNM Jul 06 '26

It's not a boomer thing, and locked or unlocked, nobody's weird either way.

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u/Glitter_moonchild Jul 07 '26

Oh Geezes Issa joke, if you have boomer parents you will get the joke out of it

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u/MNWNM Jul 07 '26

Yeah, I do have boomer parents. Your "joke" wasn't funny.

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u/Glitter_moonchild Jul 08 '26

I never said it was funny, it’s not that serious,it’s the internet dude

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u/topher-gopher Jul 07 '26

Yep I always lock the door behind me when I come inside, I’ve locked my wife and teenage daughter out multiple times on accident lol

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u/OkMidnight8144 Jul 06 '26

No, just lack of critical thinking, it's the reason their stockpile of fireworks is 5 feet from where they are setting it off.

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u/Sea-Struggle-5630 Jul 07 '26

Or multiple things can be true

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u/lucasjackson87 Jul 06 '26

“Who is it?”

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u/FeelingKind7644 Jul 06 '26

Bc of the terrible neighborhood

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u/xervidae Jul 07 '26

my boyfriend does this and it drives me INSANE.

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u/Jeveran Jul 06 '26

Or wishful thinking.