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I've never heard of people locking their refrigerator doors at night.
It is a common action for people who overeat or have special dietary restrictions.
My grandfather had to eat right for his heart condition, but he couldn't trust himself while half asleep. Just using willpower wasn't enough, since he couldn't think to exercise willpower in that state. The solution was to lock up the fridge and pantry at night, and make getting his copy of the key difficult enough to wake himself up fully. If one was more cynical, it also meant he couldn't just stay up and cheat, then blame 'sleep-eating' either.
Regardless, it got results and in the end that's what matters.
I had never heard of people getting up and eating while they are half asleep.
Suddenly I realize why when I decide the night before to wake up at 6:30am to do something, I shut the alarm off at 6:30 and go back to sleep, instead.
I've never heard of a refrigerator door with a lock.
My family has one on the freezer in the garage. You use a lock on them when you worry about theft, or about accidental opening - in our case, the freezer has a couple thousand dollars of meat (we buy in bulk, half a year's supply or so), and we learned our lesson about the latch when it was left open for a day, half the meat thawed, and we lost several days and a lot of meat in dealing with it. When it's locked, it's definitely not coming open!
When I saw that, I thought it was going to be an example of a nonsensical question, like "When did you stop beating your wife?".
It exists. My grandparents did it. Darn efficient for my younger self.