PLAN A : :
If the writer has a car - follow him after he gets off work to his local watering hole.
After he is settled and had a few drinks call a local automatic transmission repair service and ask them to please send out a tow truck to bring in the vehicle and pull out and inspect the burned out transmission and call him at the Danbury, CT (make sure you first have the vehicle license plate number, make, model, color, his work phone number, extension, and his working hours) newspaper at 11am the next day with the estimate for parts and labor to "fix" his car properly.
His obsolete car that is not essential anymore.
Be sure to tell them "you" will need the estimate as soon as possible as "you" will be going on a long trip soon - and that you will pay using your VISA card.
-- Don't worry about the locked doors - Pros can handle that in a heartbeat. Most shops have keymaking machines and codes. And Slim Jims.
-- Or for a small fee the ignition, door, and trunk key numbers are available to put on top of his left front tire........
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PLAN B : :
(It gets much better......)
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This "PLAN A" scenario also works wonders for ALF & ELF Enviro-Nutsies.....