Caged Windows

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Caged Windows
« on: December 09, 2014, 06:14:56 PM »
Why not just windows that lock?

Why does every window on every floor of every seven story building need a cage? Is China really so full of window-breaking desperadoes? I've seen PE student use the cages as ladders to get up to the third floor walkway on the girl's dorms. I've seen a man unscrew the cover of the peephole on a security door and stick a purpose-built metal tube and wire lasso through to catch the knob inside and open the door from the outside with no key in about a minute. So what's really with the cages? Practice for prison?
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Re: Caged Windows
« Reply #1 on: December 09, 2014, 08:34:20 PM »
Actually they are pretty good, sturdy and delay the burglar and make them make noise. Chinese people are nosey and will keep an eye out for dodgy prowlers.
We have them, we saw a guy eyeing up our locked gate. 2 days later, 10 cars nearby were smashed into, big hoo hah, police, all sorts.
through the night someone tried our front door one time.

our neighbour above complained (tossers) that we put up cages without 'asking' them first. weeks later they wake up to burglars actually in their place. next day they decide to get the cages!

we are on ground floor tho, if i was up high, i wouldnt have them.

we actually live in a decent place too, so I'm surprised at the amount of thieving. nearby they had the 'wire through the unswrewed eye hole' situation, luckily our door is solid with no eye hole.

Re: Caged Windows
« Reply #2 on: December 09, 2014, 09:02:14 PM »
They're also grotesquely ugly and confining. They went up on my windows some years back after a ground floor + 3rd floor robbery, which local gossip suggest was probably done with keys. And the argument for cages on high is the burglars come down from the roof. Also that they employ small men or boys.

But as I walk around the campus and observe every window everywhere caged in thick silvered bars, I wonder what's the reality. What does this nation have an epidemic of, opportunistic house breaking or lower middle class anxiety? It didn't used to be this way, and then the cage industry came along. What happened?
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Re: Caged Windows
« Reply #3 on: December 10, 2014, 11:23:21 PM »
Of all the ugly things in China, this ranks waaay low for me, but each to their own, im in a residential area, not a uni cum fortress. (giggity)

Also, I dont think they are that expensive, shoddy materials, workmanship, good pwice!

Re: Caged Windows
« Reply #4 on: December 11, 2014, 01:45:45 AM »
Uglier by far, and more intrusive, were the blue and the green windows. That didn't last long. Supposedly, which is to say I was told it by an amateur interlocutor, there used to be some government requirement that housing be more appropriately insulated. Thus, obviously, let's all tint our windows! The bars though. They have proliferated. And they don't just make it difficult for the burglars to get in. They make it impossible for the hysterical inferno victim to do aught but broil and screech until the crackle.

I just can't help but notice that none of this is especially, shall we say, upscale. And that it didn't used to exist.
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Re: Caged Windows
« Reply #5 on: December 11, 2014, 07:21:40 AM »
for most part (but not universally) the cages in my town are all on the first and second floors. Few apartments 3rd story or higher have them. The belief is that burglars will grab a ladder to hit the second, but without a key won't bother with higher floors.
We have one on our kitchen window (3rd floor), but not on the living room or any of the bedroom windows. I suspect the previous owners put the cage up so as to have storage space for growing veges nad or spices. That's certainly what I have in mind for the spring.

Re: Caged Windows
« Reply #6 on: December 12, 2014, 04:14:27 AM »
I keep thinking "Caged Windows" should be porn, or something. But porn of what? I can't be sure. Also, not a good band name.


On tour with The Rolling Stones, tonight we welcome to the stage, the ever popular...Caged Windows! And... oh my goodness, just, will someone please get a bucket of water, they can't do that here

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Re: Caged Windows
« Reply #7 on: December 12, 2014, 07:16:19 AM »
We have them here in Israel too but they are not those horrid aluminium ones but more kinda wrought iron fancy ones. You get used to it.They have prevented many a toddler from plunging to his death.
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Re: Caged Windows
« Reply #8 on: December 12, 2014, 06:06:43 PM »
Same thing in Mexico. Mexicans love their fancy wrought iron gates, caged windows and burglar alarms. Can't forget the burglar alarms.

Re: Caged Windows
« Reply #9 on: December 13, 2014, 11:48:44 PM »
wrought iron burglar alarms?

(I have this image in my head of my mother in law standing by the window with a big rod of wrought iron, all twisty with iron ivy and grape leaves and such, getting ready to bash in a burglar's head. Yes, he's about to be alarmed all right. Thanks for that image)