Posted on 07/24/2013 8:53:45 PM PDT by NaturalBornConservative
I had an office in a downtown area that was “gentrifying” for thirteen years. I became very familiar with the ways of druggies and street people. I’ve had guys just materialize and jump into the passenger seat right when I popped the lock with the remote to get in the driver’s side. Careful where you park, especially if you’re going to return to your vehicle at night. Bushes, trees, buildings with alleyways or alcoves, park away from them. Circle the vehicle from a distance looking for the drug-addled idiots. They’ll shimmy underneath sometimes. If there is a person or persons loitering about who just don’t seem right, and I don’t care what color they are, don’t unlock the car unless you’re armed and prepared for a confrontation.
‘My car door locks automatically when the car is put into drive.’
Unfortunately, my 13 year old still dependable Buick, UNlocks the doors when put into ‘Park!’ Even that long ago on test-driving the car, I saw the possible problem of hoodlums entering uninvited. . .
I’ve trained myself to immediately power-lock the doors upon parking, and manually unlock the driver’s side to exit. Then, of course, to lock that door with the key fob.
Quite a contrast to the Pope.
PS
Also, I NEVer use the auto key fob to open the doors until I’m right next to my car to hop right in.
Can’t tell you how often I see people unlock their doors half a block away. . .
While I’m at it, can we get car manufacturers to stop the fightening ‘beep’ when some cars are automatically locked and unlocked - ???
Can’t tell you how often I’m near a car ‘going off’ & I must jump a foot off the ground - stupid and annoying and unnecessary.
I guess car companies are also racist. They offer the anti car jack feature on all cars. That’s what I call the automatic drive lock feature on newer cars.
I had the unfortunate luck to be working in the Bronx on some new school building for the children during the Dinkins days. I got off the Cross Bronx at Jerome Ave and stopped behind other traffic at the light. Other traffic stopped behind me so I was boxed in. I notice two suspicious youth walking down the line of cars. They were suspicious since it was too early for the homeless window washers (anther story). They paused at my passenger door; thank God I was in the habit of locking before entering that type of neighborhood. I am not sure if they tried the door or noticed I saw them on approach but the light changed and I moved on.
No doubt Obama's a liar. Here's my experience with the vehicle's I've owned over the last 20 years:
1985 Pontiac Trans Am: Doesn't lock doors Park to Drive.
1994 Ford Thunderbird Super Coupe: didn't lock doors when shifting from Park to Drive. (I distinctly remember this because I had to lock the doors manually when bringing our first child home from the hospital.)
1996 Jeep Cherokee: Didn't lock the doors when shifting from Park to Drive. I distinctly remember this because anytime we had the kids in the back seat I had to manually lock the doors AND I set the child safety lock on both doors so they couldn't open the doors themselves.
1998 Dodge Grand Caravan: Locked the doors from Park to Drive. First vehicle I had that did it. Thought it was a good feature.
2003 GMC Envoy Denali: Does lock the doors when shifting from Park to Drive (but not Park to Reverse.) This is a configurable setting on the vehicle. It can also be set to NOT lock the doors from Park to Drive.
2008 Honda Odyssey Touring: Locks the doors from Park to Reverse or Park to Drive.
Not sure exactly when auto-locking the doors started when shifting from Park to Drive or Park to Reverse but the first vehicle I had that did it was purchased in 1998.
So yes, once again it's entirely possible and entirely LIKELY that Obama's not just a liar, but a damn' liar to boot.
Bigger picture, it’s the American car manufacturers that are racist. They made the auto-door locks so loud that the offended will know when you lock your car. ...Oh and yes, we are racist also for using such a feature. Wink and nod to the “big three”!
Mine auto-lock at around 5 or 10 mph, probably to avoid that locked-out problem you describe.
>>I don’t trust strangers, period. Doesn’t matter what their age, race, gender etc. is. Anyone and everyone approaching me is evaluated. It is called situational awareness, being aware of your surroundings and the activities going on. It keeps you out of trouble.
This would be a good time to bring up Squantos’ tagline:
“Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...”
One employee was shot in the stomach while his vehicle was carjacked. Another employee, Chico, was shot in the face during a robbery and carjack attempt when he was filling up at a gas station.......both were black by the way.
Ergo, I embrace my 'inner rayciss'.
I'm done playing their f****g game.
My new Ford Focus makes no beeps......I've only had it just over a week so I'm still trying to figure out how everything works. When I use the key fob to lock or unlock it, I have to listen carefully to hear the locks engage. Then I still have to pull the handle to make sure they are locked..........
I cant’ count how many stories I’ve read in my lifetime ...always the same — suburban woman stops at red light, is car jacked by blacks who drag her to some area, rape her or kill her, steal the car, etc.
How many YEARS AND YEARS have we been reading these stories??
And yet somehow WE are racist for wanting to protect ourselves from this?
Illegal in our neck of the woods. Not likely to be overturned with Governor Christie in charge.
Even if you give Obama credit for telling the truth about this (a stretch already), how does he know that WHITE guys walking through parking lots don’t get the SAME reaction?
They should, and I suspect they DO.
The "painful" sound of clicking car doors is kin to the "painful" n-word and the whole panoply of "painful" blasphemies against Mohammed and the Koran. Right behind it will be the "painful" Bible verses about homosexuality.
After he became senator and then POTUS, the reaction is to grab one’s wallet.
Guy calls in to our local radio station and said that three Wal-Mart employees asked if they could help him. To him, it was their way of saying they had their eye on him, since he was black. Next guy calls in and says that if no one had helped the previous caller at Wal-Mart, he would have said they were ignoring him because he was black.
Yeah, that little bit of his race-baiting speech made me wonder, too. Now that he's President, I'll do a lot more than simply lock my doors if I see him coming down the street. Joe the Plumber saw him coming down the street, he didn't lock his door, and look what happened to him.
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