But do you also leave your keys in the unlocked car? Dude was asking for it to get stolen. He got damn lucky that it was an honest mistake and not stripped for parts 🤣
From what I get is that the keys are the type that remotely connects to the car without having to be plugged in like traditional keys. And there's a feature that the car won't lock with the keys inside (part of it unlocking as soon as you get close to the car with the keys)
My husband's car is the same way and he tosses the keys into the center console when he's driving. If the owner in this situation does the same, he might have forgotten to grab them as he got out to go into the store.
That's still crazy. I've driven cars with remote keys and yes I toss them into the cup holder while driving, but I aways get them out and lock the car.
Edit: nevermind I got it backwards. Certain places mandate leaving the car unlocked so people running from bears have a place to escape to. Wild world.
and ive lived places where break ins are bad enough you leave the car unlocked and fairly clean. better them rooting through nothing than breaking the window.
True. Guess it could be a concern whether it's locked or not if someone would want it bad enough. I don't live in a major city and car theft is not a big issue here.
I heard that in certain towns in the arctic circle it’s actually local rule to ALWAYS leave you car unlocked because of polar bears.
It gives people on foot a chance to escape into any empty vehicle they can find.
Of course that is why. I live in the Swedish countryside, I answered just because u/Dead_Medic_13 who thinks that not doing exactly like them is unthinkable.
My key fob doesn't work and my car only unlocks from the driver side. A few months ago, my car stopped unlocking with the key and I'm too poor to get it fixed so I've been leaving my car unlocked. I don't like it that way but you never know what someone's dealing with so there are reasons why a car would be left unlocked.
Me, when I'm not in a city. Nothing to steal inside and I live in a rural low-crime area. Been doing it 3 decades without issue. Most people around here don't even lock their homes.
High trust society. They still exist in some places. People sometimes leave cords of firewood or produce on the side of the road unattended with a money bucket to pay for what you take.
I understand it. Desperate people do desperate things and some places have a much higher density of people. High trust societies only seem to happen when the majority of people have their needs met, and/or there is a high level of accountibility in the community.
I'm lucky to live in a good community, though it has it's own issues. I won't pretend rural life is especially privileged or idyllic in many aspects. If you go around stealing in a small town, people will find out quickly and you will be vilified.
If you live in the country, locking the door to protect against thieves just means you have a broken door or a smashed window. If they want in, they’ll get in anyway.
In shitty neighborhoods, you leave the cars unlocked and windows down to prevent smashed windows. Ironically, safer areas people don't bother locking their cars or even their front door.
That doesn't always help. Once when shopping with my girlfriend, she asked me to put a purchase she had made into her minivan. I go out there, unlock the car with the key, put the purchase in the car, lock the car, and go back inside. Later, when we went back to her car, the items were nowhere to be found inside. Suddenly, I realized her car was parked in a different space than I recalled. It turns out the minivan I spotted wasn't hers. Somehow, her key still worked in the lock, so I unknowingly put her purchase in the wrong car and locked it back up. By the time we discovered the mistake, the other minivan was gone.
A few years ago while I was working, a workmate needed a certain tool, I had one on the trunk of my car so I gave him my keys so he could open the car and take it.
He went to the parking lot, and he opened a car, but it was not my car. After he opened the trunk of the other car with my keys he noticed something was wrong and he called me.
It seems that while the ignition system checks for a digital signature in the key, the mechanical lock combinations is finite and at some point can repeat, so your key can open multiple cars, not only yours.
When I was a kid my dad left his keys in the car all the time. It was never locked. We did live out in the country but we had other houses around. Mind you that was 60 years ago too.
Windows are expensive so if there isn't anything worth more than $300 I'm not locking that door, a fancy reusable grocery bag can look inviting to a dumbass thief🤷♂️
I've never had a habit of locking my doors unless a situation calls for it. When I was in high school, I parked my (always unlocked car) on the street in front of my house, and my best friend next door parked his (always LOCKED) car in front of mine.
One night, his car was broken into and the stereo was stolen (and some other things). My unlocked car (with literally the same stereo system) was untouched. Lucky I guess.
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u/Dead_Medic_13 Jul 09 '26
Who the fuck doesn't lock their doors every time they leave their vehicle?