Could happen to almost anyone.
The guy left the keys in the ignition? What a hoser!
Those crazy Canucks.. Eh?
...She informed the manager that she wasn’t entirely happy with the car. For one, it was messy when she picked it up — and there was a set of golf clubs in the trunk.
Did the clubs get back to the owner in one piece or did she try to throw off a pursuer?
Years ago we had a taupe Explorer( like everyone else, practically) and I parked it in a shopping plaza. When I came out of the store, I went to my car, got in and while putting the key in the ignition, glanced at the passenger seat, wondering where the file folders came from, and why the carpet looked so freshly vacuumed. The key didn’t fit, and yeah, it was the wrong car. I nearly died and hoped the owner wouldn’t see me getting out of his car. Actually, I was parked only a couple of cars away.
Oops!
I love Canada. Nabisco makes Mallomars in Canada.
Back before MADD and when folks still left their keys in cars a lot this was a common occurrence at a lot of local bars. I’m sure you can figure out why.
Can it really be theft if the keys are in the ignition? There was no intent to steal.
When I was a kid another family in our very small town had the same station wagon as us-they were identical.
One day my mom left the grocery store and got in the car, frustrated because she couldn’t turn the key in the ignition. She then noticed the small burn in the seat and got even more irritated. A moment later she saw a lighter. No one in our family smoked but the other couple did. It occurred to her that she had just talked to the owner of the other car while in the store. She then looked up and saw our matching vehicle in the other row of parking spaces.
She felt foolish, but it was pretty funny.
Happened to me with a Chevy Imapala(?) 25 or so years ago,
Got in an identical car. It started right up with my key. Drove home before I figured it out.
I drove up to the cops in the parking lot.
Ha ha.
The wind tunnel has destroyed beauty and left us with mere efficiency.
Years ago, we went to a child locked in an early 90’s Ford Explorer. I pulled out the key to my wife’s ‘94 Explorer, stuck it in the door lock and opened it.
I think the guy had to spit the dirt out of his mouth after his jaw hit the ground.
There was only about a dozen different keys back then.
“...the vehicle was open and the keys were in the ignition...”
Idiot. He deserved it.
My mom and dad’s car was in the shop, so they asked to borrow my Toyota Corolla so they could go to bingo. My car was an 1980 something model.
When they got back, they told me they liked the sunroof.
My car did not have a sunroof, but the one parked in the carport a couple stalls down sure did. Would have been interesting if they got pulled over!
An Infiniti probably has a fob and push start. Leave the fob in the car and anyone can start it up and take it. My wife did that with her Subaru at Walmart. She hadn’t put the fob back on her wallet, so it was inadvertently left in the car. When she was finished shopping, the car was gone. This is a new 2018 Subaru Outback Touring that’s only a few months old. So I go to Walmart to get her and lo and behold, I find her car! She had gone in one door and come out another and just hadn’t gone down enough rows. But she was very lucky the car wasn’t stolen or even rummaged through. On the bright side, as I was about the leave I was approached by a Vietnam vet Marine who saw my Marine Corps license plate and invited me to a gathering of former Marines that occurs every week. So now I have a bunch of new friends.
Finished a run and a guy came up to me with an identical pair and said, "I think these are yours."
Sure enough, he was right.
When I was in college, the campus paper had a article about a stolen car. However, it turned out that a student asked a friend to move her car to avoid a parking ticket. The car was “brown Ford”. The student’s car was a brown Pinto. Next to it was a brown LTD. By chance, they has the same key pattern and the friend took the wrong one.