I just read a newspaper article on one of my pet peeves: Forty percent of the cars stolen in Texas had the keys in them when they were stolen. In some counties the rate is above 50%, according to Lt. Tommy Hansen of the Galveston County Sheriff's Office.
I got religion on this topic about 20 years ago, when my son was an infant. A woman got out of her car at a gas station a few miles from our home and left the keys in the ignition, the engine running, and her baby in a car seat.
Two mopes who happened to wander by saw this opportunity, jumped in the car, and took off. This was before cell phones were common, so there was some delay calling the police.
When the baby cried and the thieves realized that they had just committed aggravated kidnapping, they threw the baby in the car seat out the window of the moving car.
While the situation ended happily for everyone except the thieves, I never forgot it.
- Jim
Slightly OT: car keys
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Here's a story that happened to a friend recently.
She went shopping for dinner items and on the way into her apt. she dropped her purse. She was fixing dinner and a credit card company calls and asks if she tried to buy X at Wal-mart in the last hour. She said no, being not sure about the call.
She started looking for her purse and couldn't find it. She & her sister went to the store looking around the parking lot etc. The CC company calls again and asks if she tried to use it in the last 30 min. @ Target. And she told them she had just realized she lost the purse. She starts calling the CC companies and freezing the accounts.
The next day her sister leaves @ 6:30 AM to go to work and she stays home to contact a few more places and go to get her TDL replacement. She goes to get in her car at 7:30 and it's gone from in front of the apartment. You guessed it, she had a spare set of keys in the purse.
She went shopping for dinner items and on the way into her apt. she dropped her purse. She was fixing dinner and a credit card company calls and asks if she tried to buy X at Wal-mart in the last hour. She said no, being not sure about the call.
She started looking for her purse and couldn't find it. She & her sister went to the store looking around the parking lot etc. The CC company calls again and asks if she tried to use it in the last 30 min. @ Target. And she told them she had just realized she lost the purse. She starts calling the CC companies and freezing the accounts.
The next day her sister leaves @ 6:30 AM to go to work and she stays home to contact a few more places and go to get her TDL replacement. She goes to get in her car at 7:30 and it's gone from in front of the apartment. You guessed it, she had a spare set of keys in the purse.
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