magic key used to steal Honda

[ZaireinHD]

www.today.com/news/oops-wannabe-helpful-mom-accidentally-steals-car-2D79540866

I can let the key working for another car go - I can understand that part.
(well kinda - LOL)

but what is confusing is
the girls get back - where was the mother to explain / show where she parked the cars?
the mother moved the neighbor car - so why did the neighbor have to pay $190 to get it back from the impound?
it was the neighbor car that was moved - so I would think it just moved to the other side of the street, or maybe around the corner? and the neighbor couldn't find it?
why would they put fliers up looking for the owner, of the neighbor car they didn't have? they should have been looking for their own car, that wasn't moved?
why or what happened to the car that the mom was supposed to have moved? no mention other than it was not there when the girls got back?

[Artemis Windsong]

There are other vehicles that have maybe 5 different keys.  I don't have the complete list so I won't go into it.  Two are snowmobiles and ATVs.

[zibazinski]

I got into a green ford explorer that wasnt mine. My ex hollered at me that I was in the wrong car!

[ZaireinHD]

that's funny! Zib!
I have a show car two different colors with artwork painted on the sides.
MY MOM! almost everything will walk to a green Honda thinking it's my car.
I 'm like mom! we're parked over here!


and once my brother and I went to pick her up when she went back to college. and again she got in some guys car! I'm talk'n opened his door and sat in his car closed the door! dude was like ummm lady your in the wrong car. she looked over like oh!
and got out
my brother had walked up like MOM we're over here!
LOL
MOM! geez!!

[EVT1]

It happens- I got into the wrong car once and was trying to crank it when I noticed it was an automatic.

Good thing I wasn't in Florida

[Otto the Orange]

and people scoffed at the "magic bullet" theory, and yet now we have proof there is a magic key....

[Virgil Showlion]

Apr 17, 2014 21:57:28 GMT -5 ZaireinHD said:

www.today.com/news/oops-wannabe-helpful-mom-accidentally-steals-car-2D79540866

I can let the key working for another car go - I can understand that part.
(well kinda - LOL)

but what is confusing is
the girls get back - where was the mother to explain / show where she parked the cars?

She was at her daughter's house, dogsitting.

the mother moved the neighbor car - so why did the neighbor have to pay $190 to get it back from the impound?

Because police standard procedure is to impound any car reported as stolen, as the article indicates.

it was the neighbor car that was moved - so I would think it just moved to the other side of the street, or maybe around the corner? and the neighbor couldn't find it?

From the details, we can deduce that the odd-day parking place is a good distance away from the even-day parking place. It's unusual, but so is alternate-day parking.

why would they put fliers up looking for the owner, of the neighbor car they didn't have? they should have been looking for their own car, that wasn't moved?

They wanted to find the owner of the car they'd stolen, to make sure it got back to her. They wanted to right a wrong.

why or what happened to the car that the mom was supposed to have moved? no mention other than it was not there when the girls got back?

The story simply states that Deanna (the owner) couldn't find it. This might have been because she was only looking in the place where the mother said she'd parked it (which we've deduced is a good distance away from where it had been), or because it had been towed by city police for violating the parking rules (since it hadn't been moved in a week).

Grandma theft auto.

[Sam_2.0]

There was a guy at the Chiefs game this past fall that died for getting in the wrong car after the game His car was nearly the same spot just a few rows over. The owner of the car thought the man was trying to steal the car and killed him with his bare hands right there in the parking lot. 

My sister and I lived in an apartment several years ago and one day while we were watching TV a man unlocked the door to our apartment and walked right in! It was terrifying. Thankfully he was just as shocked to see us as we were to see him. Turns out he lived in the same apartment just a few buildings over. The apartment complex had been using the same set of 8 keys for all of the buildings   Fortunately he was a nice guy who went & gave the complex hell for it and the next day we all got new keys. He came back to check on us to make sure no one else had walked in to our place. Just happy that it was a nice person and not some creep!!

[zibazinski]

Yikes!

[ZaireinHD]

Thanks Virgil!
I sooo needed that!

[ZaireinHD]

Apr 21, 2014 13:37:47 GMT -5 Sam_2.0 said:

There was a guy at the Chiefs game this past fall that died for getting in the wrong car after the game His car was nearly the same spot just a few rows over. The owner of the car thought the man was trying to steal the car and killed him with his bare hands right there in the parking lot. 

My sister and I lived in an apartment several years ago and one day while we were watching TV a man unlocked the door to our apartment and walked right in! It was terrifying. Thankfully he was just as shocked to see us as we were to see him. Turns out he lived in the same apartment just a few buildings over. The apartment complex had been using the same set of 8 keys for all of the buildings   Fortunately he was a nice guy who went & gave the complex hell for it and the next day we all got new keys. He came back to check on us to make sure no one else had walked in to our place. Just happy that it was a nice person and not some creep!!

that is insane!
I am so glad that it actually worked out for you and sis!
this situation could have been far worse!
when I move into a new apartment I already bring my door knob lock and dead bolt with me. I install on move in day (well within the first week or two) and I take it out when I move out.

[ՏՇԾԵԵʅՏɧ_LԹՏՏʅҼ]

May 6, 2014 22:17:45 GMT -5 ZaireinHD said:

that is insane!
I am so glad that it actually worked out for you and sis!
this situation could have been far worse!
when I move into a new apartment I already bring my door knob lock and dead bolt with me. I install on move in day (well within the first week or two) and I take it out when I move out.

Are you serious? You steal the doorknobs and deadbolts from the doors on your apartment when you move? Why not just spend a fews bucks and get the next place you move into re-keyed?

[ՏՇԾԵԵʅՏɧ_LԹՏՏʅҼ]

You should have said that you have the original doorknobs & locks stored away - you didn't.

You implied that you take the doorknobs/locks off and take them with you.

But like I said before, why not just get a new place re-keyed. It's a lot easier than removing and replacing hardware.

[Apple]

I'd rather replace hardware than get a lock re-keyed, it takes 10 minutes and you don't have to wait on someone to do it for you.

[truthbound]

Apr 20, 2014 3:08:21 GMT -5 EVT1 said:
It happens- I got into the wrong car once and was trying to crank it when I noticed it was an automatic.

Good thing I wasn't in Florida


Can you keep your gun hatin' crap in check just once?

Apr 19, 2014 17:39:22 GMT -5 zibazinski said:

I got into a green ford explorer that wasnt mine. My ex hollered at me that I was in the wrong car!

That happened to me too. Identical to mine parked a couple spaces closer. I sat there like an idiot for several minutes trying to figure out why the key wouldn't turn. Finally noticed a scrunchie around the rear view post. Other than that the car was empty and spotless like mine.

[ZaireinHD]

May 7, 2014 0:30:52 GMT -5 Apple said:

I'd rather replace hardware than get a lock re-keyed, it takes 10 minutes and you don't have to wait on someone to do it for you.

yea agreed Apple.

Plus most apartments I have lived in will charge MORE that the cost of a purchase of a new dead bolt with matching door lock.
also these apartments I have lived in don't change the locks. so every tenant that has lived in these apartments will have a key. 

[ZaireinHD]

May 8, 2014 3:00:41 GMT -5 truthbound said:

Apr 20, 2014 3:08:21 GMT -5 EVT1 said:
.... Identical to mine parked a couple spaces closer. I sat there like an idiot for several minutes trying to figure out why the key wouldn't turn. Finally noticed a scrunchie around the rear view post. Other than that the car was empty and spotless like mine.

I can understand that truthbound!! funny thing that happened to me was when I would join my coworkers on a business trip and we all had the same make and model and color rental parked next to each other or in the same parking lot. I tell ya - those keyless entry remotes came in real handy!!


same thing happens when people come to the campus where I work and go to the training canter. all these same make/model/color rentals.

[EVT1]

May 8, 2014 3:00:41 GMT -5 truthbound said:

Apr 20, 2014 3:08:21 GMT -5 EVT1 said:
It happens- I got into the wrong car once and was trying to crank it when I noticed it was an automatic.

Good thing I wasn't in Florida


Can you keep your gun hatin' crap in check just once?

Apr 19, 2014 17:39:22 GMT -5 zibazinski said:

I got into a green ford explorer that wasnt mine. My ex hollered at me that I was in the wrong car!

That happened to me too. Identical to mine parked a couple spaces closer. I sat there like an idiot for several minutes trying to figure out why the key wouldn't turn. Finally noticed a scrunchie around the rear view post. Other than that the car was empty and spotless like mine.

I like guns- I detest douche bag gun owners.  Probably a good few would have shot someone in their car without asking questions.  Can't you keep your murder loving crap in check just once?

[truthbound]

So you can't keep it in check...check......

[EVT1]

That's not surprising at all- depending on who made the door handles there are only like 5 different keys

We have close to 200 vehicles with latches and such that are used in the RV industry and I can get in all of them with one key ring that I think has at best 15 keys on it.

[ZaireinHD]

May 13, 2014 12:28:44 GMT -5 @patstab said:

I was at a campground and the neighbor had a Winnebago Sightseer like mine. He locked his keys in his motorhome. We were 100 miles from anywhere going to cost him a fortune so he asked me if he could just try my key to unlock his door. Wouldn't you know it worked! Believe me he was thrilled to death, they brought us dinner over that night.

i guess that was a good thing the key worked?
Surprising to me!

[ZaireinHD]

This is surprising to me because I think there are places where motor homes park for long term parking?
then if there are places like that - then people can use there key to get into other peoples motor home?