His car gets driven into a canyon. Nope, he wasn’t in it – it had been stolen in the middle of the night, because he left his expensive Mercedes in the driveway with the keys in it.
What a fucking moron.
If a car is stolen because the keys were left in it, is the insurence company going to pay to replace it?
I dunno, I presume Sheen’s house has some decent security (though evidently not decent enough) around it to keep the weirdos and paparazzi out, so leaving the keys in the car while its in the driveway may not be as careless as it sounds.
Why not? Comprehensive insurance is supposed to pay regardless of fault.
Leaving his keys in the car was a stupid thing to do, but it’s a stupid thing that’s probably done by thousands of people every day without the whole world commenting on it.
That’s what he gets for letting his kid watch Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.
He lives in a gated community … but … hell, maybe I’ve been living in the big city too long, where leaving your car unlocked is asking for trouble … who the hell leaves their keys in the car? (**cue dozens of Dopers who leave their keys in the car. **) Okay, who the hell leaves the keys in a car that cost $50 grand or more?
OK, I’ll confess. The reason I responded was because I leave my keys in my car sometimes. (No, I’m not going to tell you where I live.) But I don’t do it because I’m a moron. I do it because I’m an absent-minded person who occasionally does moronic things. Fortunately, no one else usually cares about what I do.
While the replacement value of my car is closer to $10,000 than to $50,000, it would still hurt me much more than it would him.
I live in the burbs and I leave my car unlocked. I sometimes forget to lock it at work, parked on the street in Chicago. Then again, it’s a '94 that is still drivable after my insurance company “totaled” it because it was cheaper than to fix it and I leave empty antifreeze jugs in the passenger seat leaking on a Haynes repair manual with bookmarks in the pages I consult most often and I hope that any tweaker who wants to break in anyway checks the door so I don’t have to buy a new window.
My experience and Sheen’s probably have little in common.
Only that you both seem a bit, er uh, …off. 
Drugs?
Drugs.
According to Access Hollywood tonight, his car was inside his garage with the door closed. Person or persons unknown forced a side door, stole some stuff and took the keys off of a peg on the wall.
The report went on to say that Charlie has cameras all over the place and the police had watched the videos.
He does not look like quite so large an idiot assuming this report is correct.
BTW best line of the day goes to Mr. Sheen. “It’s nice to have the police come to your door, and not have to leave with them.”
I was going to ask if there was video of this, because the first thing I thought when I heard Sheen’s car was ‘stolen’ and found wrecked was, “Oh, didn’t want the impaired driving charge, huh Charlie?”
SDMB Challenge: Name That Drug!
Had a customer whose wife left the garage door open when she drove off to hit the local WalMart (yes, WalMart :rolleyes:) without closing the garage door. Their maid’s pals made off with, IIRC, a lesser Monet and a Renoir, both mounted on the downstairs wall** BY THE FUCKIN’ GYM!**
Clock radio woke me of a Sunday to tell me of this. I prayed it wasn’t a customer but, as he had turned down our offer to secure the home for all but the most egregious stupidity (not covered here), we made multi-kilobux trying to make sure his wife did not continue to be an idiot with no guarantee she would not not ignore us. It was a Happy Time.
Oh, great. Now I’m stupider than Charlie Sheen.
Nah, it ain’t Charlie, instead it’s…
Maybe Emilio Estevez repoed it.
Agreed.
Agreed. 
I once had a hell of a hard time finding my house keys one morning. Looked all over the damn house for them and couldn’t find them anywhere. Opened the front door to see if I dropped them in the yard and there they were. They had been dangling out the key hole all night.
If accidentally leaving his keys in his car is the stupidest thing Charlies does for the rest of the year then he’s doing good.