> > Unfortunately, based on where I live and the nature of modern society, I'm afraid if my car spent more time with its doors unlocked, I'd be spending more time not owning a car any more.
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> What this country needs is a cheap, reliable system that would deliver a strong electrical shock to any unauthorised person who tried to open a car door. Such a device would do wonders for our crime rate.
> Actually, though, most people don't need to lock their car doors nearly as much as they think they do. About 1/3 of cars that get stolen are stolen because the driver was stupid enough to leave the keys in the ignition.

If I leave the keys in my car it raises a real fuss about it when I open the door.

There was a time when cars didn't have keys, but I'm too young to remember it. However, I am old enough to remember when we didn't have to lock everything up. We left the keys in the car and unless we were going out of town, the house was never locked. My father locked the store, but that was downtown and if the police found it unlocked they called him about it. I know, because he left the back door of the store unlocked once and the police called him at 2 a.m.

I still leave my car unlocked on the carport. I have done that for years and I haven't lost one yet.
Howard