# More Charlie Sheen idiocy **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 6, 2010, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-charlie-sheen-idiocy/527866 "2010-02-06T00:35:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2010, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-charlie-sheen-idiocy/527866/1 "2010-02-06T00:35:01Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MPB_in_Salt_Lake)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2010, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-charlie-sheen-idiocy/527866/2 "2010-02-06T00:49:23Z")
If a car is stolen because the keys were left in it, is the insurence company going to pay to replace it? ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2010, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-charlie-sheen-idiocy/527866/3 "2010-02-06T00:58:41Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![TWDuke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e495f1/32.png) [@TWDuke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TWDuke)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2010, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-charlie-sheen-idiocy/527866/4 "2010-02-06T01:00:39Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![wedgehed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8edcca/32.png) [@wedgehed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wedgehed)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2010, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-charlie-sheen-idiocy/527866/5 "2010-02-06T01:47:15Z")
That’s what he gets for letting his kid watch _Ferris Bueller’s Day Off._ ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2010, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-charlie-sheen-idiocy/527866/6 "2010-02-06T02:02:11Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![TWDuke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e495f1/32.png) [@TWDuke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TWDuke)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2010, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-charlie-sheen-idiocy/527866/7 "2010-02-06T02:18:38Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2010, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-charlie-sheen-idiocy/527866/8 "2010-02-06T02:33:07Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2010, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-charlie-sheen-idiocy/527866/9 "2010-02-06T02:52:34Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > 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_. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Covered\_In\_Bees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ab992/32.png) [@Covered\_In\_Bees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covered_In_Bees)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2010, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-charlie-sheen-idiocy/527866/10 "2010-02-06T02:53:33Z")
> [@samclem](#): > > Only that you both seem a bit, er uh, …_off_. 😛 Drugs? ---
**Author:** ![Small\_Hen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ad7895/32.png) [@Small\_Hen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_Hen)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2010, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-charlie-sheen-idiocy/527866/11 "2010-02-06T04:27:24Z")
> [@Covered\_In\_Bees](#): > > Drugs? Drugs. ---
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2010, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-charlie-sheen-idiocy/527866/12 "2010-02-06T04:47:28Z")
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.” ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2010, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-charlie-sheen-idiocy/527866/13 "2010-02-06T06:02:15Z")
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?” ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2010, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-charlie-sheen-idiocy/527866/14 "2010-02-06T06:05:54Z")
> [@Small\_Hen](#): > > Drugs. SDMB Challenge: Name That Drug! ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2010, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-charlie-sheen-idiocy/527866/15 "2010-02-06T06:18:31Z")
> [@Rick](#): > > 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. 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.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Atlantic_(1939%E2%80%931945)#.27Happy_Time.27_.28June_1940_.E2.80.93_February_1941.29) ---
**Author:** ![TWDuke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e495f1/32.png) [@TWDuke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TWDuke)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2010, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-charlie-sheen-idiocy/527866/16 "2010-02-06T06:35:36Z")
> [@Rick](#): > > 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. Oh, great. Now I’m stupider than Charlie Sheen. ---
**Author:** ![user\_hostile](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/user_hostile/32/474_2.png) [@user\_hostile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/user_hostile)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2010, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-charlie-sheen-idiocy/527866/17 "2010-02-06T07:25:08Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > 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. Nah, it ain’t Charlie, instead [it’s…](http://www.videovat.com/videos/2557/toonces-driving-cat.aspx) ---
**Author:** ![DanBlather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f4b2a3/32.png) [@DanBlather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DanBlather)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2010, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-charlie-sheen-idiocy/527866/18 "2010-02-06T08:26:14Z")
Maybe Emilio Estevez repoed it. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2010, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-charlie-sheen-idiocy/527866/19 "2010-02-06T14:51:23Z")
> [@Rick](#): > > 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. > … > He does not look like quite so large an idiot assuming this report is correct. Agreed. > [@Sam\_Stone](#): > > 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?” Agreed. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2010, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-charlie-sheen-idiocy/527866/20 "2010-02-06T16:00:06Z")
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.