I’m actually with the police officer on this one.
If the car was unlocked and the key was in the ignition the guy was inviting a theft. Doesn’t matter that the car was in his own driveway.
And I’m sure if the car was stolen, or just taken by kids for a joyride, the guy would’ve been the first one to scream at the cops “how did you let this happen.”
The owner seems a little snowflakey to me
It's a stupid ordinance. I can see my car from my window....but not Russia.
I want to support the police. But too many of them have nothing to do with “protect and serve”, and don’t care about their oath.
Little tyrants about either exerting power over others or just interested in gaining revenue.
A theif can steal anything in your yard. Should the cop be writing a ticket for everything in your yard that you left out? Lawn mower, gazebo, bench, fountain, childrens’ bicycles. Should we also allow them to put trackers on our vehicles to help them find our vehicles if they are stolen.
Dumb ordinance..Its his car maybe he was setting up a sting
The only snowflakes in this story is the cop and the chief who cant handle being called a name online. What a thin skinned snowflake.
The snowflakes
are the global warming auhorities ticketing people for spending their own gas.
Big brother is alive in Michigan apparently
Uh, your town just enacted a ticket program for power tools left unattended in your garage. Cops are back there right now writing you up.
“I’m actually with the police officer on this one... the guy was inviting theft..”
Well, then let’s go a bit farther and really reduce crime. Anyone leaving a door or window unlocked in their home.. ticket them. Women jogging in parks? Ticket them. Leave a snow blower or lawn mower in plain view in the carport? Ticket them. Blinds or drapes open in the bedroom areas? Ticket them. The owner doesn’t seem “snowflakey” to me. A snowflake turns over any and all sorts of freedom and personal liberties to be protected by “others” who they assume “know better”. If a person can park a vehicle on their own property without it being tagged... then a person can heat up their own car on said property. JMHO.
Unattended. Unlocked? What about all those bells and whistles such as remote start up that come off of the assembly line and sold as an option bundle?
How many houses are left running (POWERED UP) unlocked and unattended? Are the cops checking those doors too?
This will probably loose in court. Especially if it was a factory remote feature.
You seem a little “snowflakey” to me.
Keys in vehicles and unlocked doors do not cause theft.
A lack of character causes theft.
How about minding your own business?
Cars are stolen when they are locked in garages!
Did those people invite it because they just had a car?
There is no evidence that the car was unlocked.
It was on private property, the police officer should not have been there.
In this case officer dipsh!t was a correct title.
What part of private property don’t you understand?
Exactly. A couple of years ago, during an especially cold winter, 4 *cars-a-warming* were stolen on our street.
Unless it is friend or buddy’s car, cops spend zero time investigating/finding your car.
I disagree. What’s next? A ticket for an open window on a hot summer night? No burglar bars on the basement windows? Ooh! I know... no firearm within reach. Surely that should be against the law.
If the car was unlocked and the key was in the ignition the guy was inviting a theft. Doesn’t matter that the car was in his own driveway.
Most people have two sets of keys. One starts the car and remains in the ignition and the other to LOCK THE CAR WHILE IT IS HEATING.
Now who are you with?
#3 what utter BS and Snowflake mentality. “Inviting a theft”?
In case your didn’t know, it is ILLEGAL to enter and drive away with a vehicle without the owners consent that is NOT yours. It’s akin to whining when someone unlawfully enters a house. Because you didn’t lock a door it is somehow the owners fault someone commits a crime by Illegally entering? How about we hold those that commit those crimes responsible instead?
I wish you snowflakes would grow the F up.
Just because I decide not to lock something up does NOT give you or anyone else the right to use, borrow, steal it. IT is against the law.
When I was a kid we NEVER locked a Car, House or out builidng. You know what changed? Idiots that blame the victim and Lawyers who use the unlocked door as a justification of a Criminal doing ILLEGAL stuff.
(Biff didn’t know no different, the car was running so he decided instead of walking to work he would take the Neighbors car.....he wasn’t using it at the time)
Arg!
At the hospital where I worked last the entire staff went out and left their cars running in the parking lot while they warmed up. At shift change - and it was too cold to sit in your car. Forget about that!
This is standard practise in northern Michigan. No one here steals them...
>> inviting a theft << is not against the law, is it?
It is illegal then to leave your house door unlocked, with multiple padlocks no less.