On Tue, 02 Feb 2010 16:02:34 +0000, David Taylor wrote:

On 2010-02-02, Chris Whelan wrote:
On Tue, 02 Feb 2010 07:06:48 -0800, terry wrote:

so i have my car warming up and the nextdoor neighbor at 1068 fox
meadow way. concord,ca 94518 trys to steal my car and he said he was
just turning the car off to save me gas - i should have shot the
asshole.

So not only are you stupid enough to leave a vehicle running with the
key in it, you then told this NG in the United Kingdom about it...

FFS why?

So we can wait at his neighbour's address for some idiot at the house
next door to leave his car running, and steal it, duh.

But why would leaving the vehicle running without the key in it be any
better?

Many US vehicles (and some UK ones in the past) have a lock that enables
the key to be removed in the running position.

You could then turn the ignition off using the outside of the lock, which
formed a sort of knob; the key would be required to restart it. It was
meant for exactly the sort of situation where you would leave an
unoccupied car running; clearly not a sensible thing to do now.

Chris

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