is it not peculiare that freezers have locks on them these days? or is that just me🤔

It must've been an optional feature that many wanted, so it became "standard".

I recall the neighbor's kid tricking his sis into the dryer in the late 1950's.
Imagine the exponential MISCHIEF available w/ gore & guts available...

In your mind's👁,
there's Jeffrey Dahmer, on the one EXTREME,
& a VALID oncern re:
something planted
w/o your knowledge...

My Mom found cans of
"Frozen Daquari Concetrate"
in our basement freezer,
circa late 1960's,
suburban Washington DC.
She KNEW it was "CONTRABAND",
per our max-authoritarian house rules.
She told me she had time to think b/f we came home from school,
REALIZED my bro's mellowness of late @
DINNERTIME, wasn't "maturity" after all,
☑️d UNDER his BED,
FOUND a fully stocked BAR,
DEDUCED his CHESS partner LYNDON,
was packing more than game pieces,
& subversively endorsing "alternative" coping methods not permitted on our premises... 🙄

It was settled w/o violence, but I think a LOCK was part of