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leaving the front door, or your parked car window open, or your wallet on the table when visiting the toilet in the pub is illegal, and you can get fined for it

leaving the front door, or your parked car window open, or your wallet on the table when visiting the toilet in the pub is illegal, and you can get fined for it in most countries. edit: couple of sources: AU: https://www.examiner.com.au/story/442855/police-warning-over-car-window/ https://www.examiner.com.au/story/442855/police-warning-over... DE: https://www.augsburger-allgemeine.de/panorama/Ein-offenes-Autofenster-kann-teuer-werden-id38919827.html https://www.augsburger-allgemeine.de/panorama/Ein-offenes-Au...

RIMR 7y ago
I am pretty certain that this isn't true. At least the "most countries" part. How would they even catch you? Do you live somewhere where the police go door-to-door checking locks? Because that's terrifying...
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tych0 7y ago
Citation very much needed. I've done all of these things in the rural midwest for many years. A lot of times I didn't even take the keys out of the ignition.
belltaco 7y ago
Is robbing a house with the front door open, or unlocked car or stealing wallet left on table legal in those countries?
openasocket 7y ago
To be clear, that isn't something in all of AU, it's a local law in Tasmania: "The regulation was introduced to the Tasmanian Traffic Regulations in November 2009". And I'm not positive about the German article, but it seems to imply that's a local Munich ordnance. Oh, and none of this contradicts the main point, which is that nothing in those articles suggests that robbing an unlocked car is legal. EDIT: though interestingly, at least in some municipalities breaking into an unlocked car may be a lesser crime than forcibly breaking into a locked car. Still a crime, but basically you're charged simply with stealing rather than some sort of breaking and entering.

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leaving the front door, or your parked car window open, or your wallet on the table when visiting the toilet in the pub is illegal, and you can get fined for it

by DyslexicAtheist 7y ago

RIMR 7y ago
I am pretty certain that this isn't true. At least the "most countries" part. How would they even catch you? Do you live somewhere where the police go door-to-door checking locks? Because that's terrifying...
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tych0 7y ago
Citation very much needed. I've done all of these things in the rural midwest for many years. A lot of times I didn't even take the keys out of the ignition.
belltaco 7y ago
Is robbing a house with the front door open, or unlocked car or stealing wallet left on table legal in those countries?
openasocket 7y ago
To be clear, that isn't something in all of AU, it's a local law in Tasmania: "The regulation was introduced to the Tasmanian Traffic Regulations in November 2009". And I'm not positive about the German article, but it seems to imply that's a local Munich ordnance. Oh, and none of this contradicts the main point, which is that nothing in those articles suggests that robbing an unlocked car is legal. EDIT: though interestingly, at least in some municipalities breaking into an unlocked car may be a lesser crime than forcibly breaking into a locked car. Still a crime, but basically you're charged simply with stealing rather than some sort of breaking and entering.