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i swear to god that we don't lock our doors... we have gone away on vacation, and i swear to you, that we have not locked our doors. although our house is a little bit hard to find

so yeah.........about Mike, can anyone give a decent reason why either Stupid white men, or Dude where's my country were bad books?

I ALWAYS lock my doors and windows.

Me too. I'm paranoid.

Mechanical Thought wrote:Me too. I'm paranoid.

me too.

happeningfish wrote:That's a 2% chance of being murdered as opposed to 5%. In terms of numbers of people, that is a lot.

Exactly it........and it also depends where you live. (i.e. live in a town where the biggest crime is petit theft, orrrrr live in South Central L.A. where drivebys are an everday occurance).

That's a 2% chance of being murdered as opposed to 5%. In terms of numbers of people, that is a lot.

Another reason I'm glad I don't live in Canada. Education isn't what it is down here. if .02 people out of 1000 is murdered in Canada that is NOT a 2% chance. That is 2 hundreths of a person in 1000 is killed. In other words 1 in every 50,000 people is murdered. How is that 2%?? 2.5 of every 50,000 is murdered in the US. Now I'm sure you're sayin "well thats a 2 and a half more chance of being killed in the US as compared to Canada". However 2.5 out of 50,000 is not what I would call good odds. I live in a city and no one I know has ever been murdered. Most murders are the result of gang vs. gang or the result of drugs. If you don't get involved in that crap your chances go down exponentially.

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thirdhour wrote:Now that we've completely ruined the point of this thread....I'm curious, do you guys lock your doors when you're home? I wonder if its really true that more americans do then canadians.

I lock my doors all the time. I'm so paranoid, but I guess that stems from the fact that Winnipeg does have a high crime rate (murder capital of Canada). I was so surprised when the Canadians on BFC said that they didn't lock their doors. It's ludacris to me.

My mom locks our doors but if it was me I probably wouldn't bother. We've never been robbed or anything and we live in an OK neighbourhood.

Homicide rates is in a direct relationship with population density. (people per square mile)

If you compare cities of the same density in Canada with those of the same density of the US, the homicide rates are nearly identical.

Because the people are so spread out in Canada, naturally the homicide rates are lower.

There is no difference between the US and Canada other than an imaginary boundary.

Clumsyboy wrote:so yeah.........about Mike, can anyone give a decent reason why either Stupid white men, or Dude where's my country were bad books?

yes.

for D,WMC, i submit this: http://www.spinsanity.org/columns/20031016b.html

and

for SWM, this: http://www.spinsanity.org/columns/20020403.html

moore. is. a. liar.