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> Where I come from, if you forget to lock your car, police can collect the key and fine you for your ignorance. Where I live, people sometimes intentionally
by Const-me 6y ago
> Where I come from, if you forget to lock your car, police can collect the key and fine you for your ignorance.
Where I live, people sometimes intentionally leave keys in their unlocked cars, for convenience of people who sharing a parking space.
- C19is20 6y agoMy car was open and had keys in...it got stolen and found 20km away. No damage. Several other cars in the street had broken windows and signs of attempted hot-wiring. Cost to me - time. Cost to everyone else... they're all still pretty livid. Even more so that my car was about 15th in a line of 20. If it had have been first - different outcome. YMMV.
- nogabebop23 6y agonot sure I would leave the keys in my unlocked car, but when I lived in a city with a lot more petty crime many people left their doors unlocked and some spare change in the cup holder. Everyday it was gone but no other damage vs. smashed windows for no gain. It pissed me off but others saw it as equivalent to pay for parking
- mlang23 6y agoYou were lucky. Dont you think your analysis is a bit egocentrical though? What if there was a major accident during that 20km drive? What if someone was killed with your unlocked car? Is the damage to your property still your only concern?
- blackbrokkoli 6y agoAnd that is something you would like to accept as a fair reason why someone in your family was ran over by a random teenager who found a driveable car standing around?
- Const-me 6y agoTeenagers don't do that here. At least locals. In the news, I remember a story about drunk tourists finding a drivable electric golf-cart standing around. It's much less likely to run over a person than drive into the sea. Which they did. None was injured (by luck, that particular cliff wasn't high enough), the court forced them to pay for destroyed property.