[Chena]

I'm puzzled, however. They were both out of their cars, fueling their vehicles. So, either their gas caps weren't the locking kind (WHAT???) or their gas cap keys were on a separate ring. Considering that it's the LAW everywhere in the USA that I've been to shut off your vehicle when you are fuelling it, it makes no sense to have the gas key and the ignition key on different rings, since you have to have the ignition off when you are at a gas station and so it's useless to have the key in the ignition.

Yes, I was referring to the gas cap DOOR and the fact that many vehicles have a button on the dash for opening those fuel doors. I only brought it up because of your above comment ("I'm puzzled, though...") concerning the location of the "keys"....yata yata

As for the story itself, it was obviously a serious error in judgement for the father to leave his keys in the vehicle while he was away from the vehicle.

That isn't an issue where we live, but I know it is out there.

[Stoat]

That isn't an issue where we live, but I know it is out there.
 

Thank you for your kind reply  :-)  Hopefully you will still exercise your rights to self-protection, as these gangs are encroaching upon previously "safe" communities precisely because they regard such places as "easy pickings".