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Tesla owners can activate a security measure on their vehicles called "sentry mode," which can help deter or even bust threats in the wake of widespread vandalism targeting Elon Musk’s electric car company. Sentry mode, when enabled, keeps the cameras and sensors of the vehicle powered on and ready to record suspicious activity that happens nearby. "Think of Sentry Mode as an intelligent vehicle security system that alerts you when it detects possible threats nearby," according to the Tesla Model 3 owner’s manual. Tesla vehicles with sentry mode activated will pulse the headlights, sound the alarm and display a message...

So, my daughter thinks she lost her favorite D.S. games in the back of the car. It either went behind the seat, or down that little hole where the seatbelts come out of. Is there a way I can get it back short of shoving my hands down blindly in there?

CANBERRA (Reuters) – A bungling Australian car thief was nabbed after accidentally locking himself in the vehicle he was trying to steal, police said Wednesday. Police were called to a house in Adelaide after two thieves were heard trying to steal a car. On arrival they were surprised to find a 53-year old man hiding inside the vehicle.

FRESNO, Calif. An attempt to steal some items inside a car didn't work out very well for this car burglar. A security guard in Fresno called police when he heard a banging noise coming from the inside of a trunk early Sunday morning. When authorities arrived, they expected to find a victim locked inside the trunk. Instead they found what a spokesman for the Fresno County Sheriff's Department describes as -- quote -- "the dumbest criminal of the day." Apparently the clumsy burglar popped the lock on the trunk, crawled inside and ransacked its contents. But when he tried to...