Chris Whelan wrote:

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

The old vauxhall victors used to have that feature , infact i think
you could set it so that you didnt need to use a key to start it