That’s right, just leave your keys in your car the next time you park. Leave the doors unlocked too. In fact, just leave the car running. Or, if you don’t want to waste gas, turn the car off, but set the keys on top of the roof, right there in the middle for all to see. You see, all this time I thought there were common sense steps that could be taken to reduce the incidence of car theft. And well...there are. But if somebody is really determined to steal your car, taking the keys and locking the doors isn’t going to prevent them from doing that. Even a car alarm can be defeated, as can an ignition interlock. Oh sure, it will take any would-be criminal extra time and effort to pop your door locks or smash a side window, pull out the ignition lock, perform a hot-wire, etc. and it might even discourage him from trying. But since we can’t prevent every single car theft, we shouldn’t bother even trying to prevent any.
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