Origin on 21 april 2016 facebook user kim fleming posted an image of a rubber band stretched over a door latch handle along with a message warning people about a new method of employing rubber.
Rubber band on front door.
The rubber band can hold the door open once the lock is disengaged.
The rubber band holds the latch down preventing the door from latching shut.
Use the peephole don t answer the door if you are not expecting someone.
The rubber band serves to wedge the door open for the intruder.
To keep that from happening take a rubber band and loop it around one doorknob or handle.
Now if the door closes you can push it back open with your body even if your hands are full.
It s a sobering thought for anyone who worries about home.
People that find a rubber band on their front door should stop and call the police we all want to assume that we re safe inside our own homes.
All you have to do is unlatch it.
Then twist the rubber band once and then loop it around the other knob.
Burglars place a rubber band around the door knob allowing them to barge into the house as soon as the home owner unlatches the door without having to wait for the home owner to actually turn the knob.
You don t even need to open the door.