I got it.
It isn’t in Iowa either.
Because there isn’t a tradition of thieves and murderers being considered lesser criminals if the victim made themselves an easy target.
If you’re lucky, they’ll just steal your car. If you’re unlucky, they’ll steal your car, run from the cops, and kill a teenage girl.
If I wanted to steal a car I’d go to a daycare. Every day I see at least one car left running. It is often still there after I’ve dropped my boy off. So they’ve left it unattended for more than 5 minutes.
Just turn off your car. It’ll warm up once you start driving.
Wearing “sexually suggestive clothes” and “getting intoxicated” generally don’t cause rape. The whole idea that rapists attack someone because they’re horny and can’t control themselves is bullshit.
Ahem
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Yesterday I passed a car that had the car running and the door open.
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It’s not that hard to see keys dangling.
While passing by in the split second you think you could see keys which are probably on the right side of the steering column? Good luck.
Updatte: The car was located and the perps arrested - two boys, aged 15 and 16, who live in an adjoining county (and state - we live on a border) and have done this many times before. :mad: :smack: They also got several on-camera speeding tickets and into at least one fender-bender while they had the car.
I hope her son learned his lesson.
I’ve seen worse stories. How about leaving your car running while your baby is sleeping in the carseat?
I feel weird leaving my car running and unattended. Then again, I live in Chicago. It’s not something I would dream of doing and it just feels environmentally wasteful to me, too. They do give citations out for it here, although I don’t know if they count remote starters or not. (ETA: Actually, poking around, it looks like autostart is not counted.)
They’re two completely different things. One involves a direct assault on a person. The other requires nothing more than grabbing something and walking off. Please do not be so foolish as to conflate opportunity theft with sex crimes. You’re not helping.
Geez, even the I Ching, several thousand years old, has a bit of advice on this sort of thing;
Hexagram 25 Innocence; Line 3
Undeserved Misfortune.
The cow that was tethered by someone
Is the Wanderer’s gain, the citizen’s loss.
Yep. Me too. The only time I use it is in the winter to get the heat going. Why for pity’s sake would anyone leave the keys in a running car when they go in a shop? Not only I lock the car and take the keys, I set the brakes.
Oh yes I start my car in the morning and run it for 10-15 minutes to get the heat going. Don’t live in the City or anywhere close. Theft is not an issue.
My Wife does the same thing. But we never do it in town. No point in it for us, car is already warm.
My Wife’s Subaru does have a remote start. The way it works is that you start it remotely, but as soon as a door opens, it turns off, and will not start again unless you have the remote ‘keyless’ key.
Never steal a fire truck under any circumstances.
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Update: A number of arrests have been made, almost all of them juveniles, and I suspect that some of the more recent incidents have been copycats.
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Several days ago, a local news station attended the hearing of one of the arrestees. Because it involved a minor, recording devices of any kind were not allowed in the courtroom, but the reporter did say that the 13-year-old defendent had no parents or guardians there with him. 
That spoke volumes to me.
In the larger city near me, they have had a few incidents lately of morons leaving guns in their unlocked vehicles and having the guns stolen. The police are just baffled as to what to do to get people to lock their damn cars or, at least, remove the guns when leaving the vehicle.
I read a LewRockwell article some time ago, can’t remember the author, he brought this up to illustrate how public opinion or perceptions change. In the 60s there was a public ad campaign centered around keys left in the ignition. Everybody did this, my dad never stopped and he would get pretty torqued if anybody took the keys out. The gist of the ad campaign was “Help keep a good kid from going bad.” Public outcry got the ads pulled, at the time.
There does seem to be a fatalistic attitude at work here today, “what did you expect”, and that auto theft is somehow the fault of anyone but the thief, and nobody can be reasonably expected to resist the siren song of a car with the keys in it, or idling in below zero weather.
I feel that temptation every time I see an unattended ambulance with the motor running. 
So you think that this scenario never happens…?
College party, girl gets drunk and passes out. Total douche guy sees a hot girl passed out and carries her into a bedroom where he has sex with her because he’s sure she’ll never know and he can get away with it.
Guy does it because he’s horny and thinks there are no consequences for him. Girl wouldn’t have been raped if she was sober and alert (not that she’s to blame, she’s still the victim).
This happens and the idea that every single rape is an angry act from someone who wants power over another and has nothing to do with lust is the BS part. It may not be the case most of the time but it is sometimes.
I agree that a woman making herself vulnerable doesn’t “cause” the rape, the rapist is what causes it. But sometimes it’s an act of opportunity and it wouldn’t have happened without that opportunity.