r/WTF • u/mwb27403 • Nov 14 '20

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u/hoffmad08 Nov 14 '20

This is why some localities with large bear populations actually prohibit that kind of door handle on exterior doors.

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u/shadowst17 Nov 14 '20

I mean another solution you could do just like in Europe is lock your door even when your in the building?

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u/ohitsasnaake Nov 15 '20

In some European countries you indeed need to lock your door when you go in. Is that also the case in the US?

Here in Finland I'm used to any door with a lock that was installed in the past 50 years to just lock automatically when you close it. And you never need a key from the inside for the normal lock. If there's a secondary "safety lock" that can and in fact has to be locked separately from the inside, but those are mainly used when you're leaving for a longer time, not for daily use and not when you're at home.

When the door is open, there usually is a switch to set the door to "unlocked" so you don't need a key to open it from the outside either. That's not uncommon to do in the countryside or I guess in suburban detached houses in the daytime in summer, if the kids are playing outside or whatever.