Stealing a car is like stealing a horse, a penalty punishable by death since the Roman days. Deprive somebody of their car by theft and you could be killing the

Stealing a car is like stealing a horse, a penalty punishable by death since the Roman days. Deprive somebody of their car by theft and you could be killing them, in the deep desert. There is an argument that a person who steals a truck is probably working their way toward murdering for a truck so it's like a vaccine for society, as well.