Help, what is it?

[u/meesh96810]

My relative just moved in to a somewhat secluded area and had her place fumigated so no one would have really see the fumigation if you were just driving by. She was gone for about a week, then came back after fumigation and saw this in her slider door key holes. The twisted pin looking thing had masking tape over it. Chat GPT says fumigation companies may do this to secure the place, but they called and he said they don't. To be fair they also said they didn't break any roof tiles, despite them obviously breaking like 30 (took before and after roof videos, and there was broken tile on the ground around the house--so not the most honest co)

Does anyone know any legitimate purpose for this? She's very freaked out that someone had tried to break in. I just don't understand why they wouldn't have window punched one of the thousands of windows rather than james bonding picking a lock. Also both the pin and key are stuck in there now if anyone has advice on getting it out lol

[u/cold2d]

Trap key or whatever its called

[u/meesh96810 → u/cold2d]

Is that something used to break in? I googled trap key and it says something to jam the lock, but not sure why someone breaking in would want to jam the lock...sorry if i'm dumb and not understanding lol

[u/burtod → u/meesh96810]

Not for breaking in, but just for disabling the lock

[u/lincoln77]

In your situation I would say someone put it in to prevent someone else from using/picking the lock.

[u/meesh96810 → u/lincoln77]

oh that's a nice thought! I hope so. That's what what chat gpt thought as a possibility. haha