"190e30-Now with COSWORTH" (190e30)
02/20/2014 at 21:15 • Filed to: None
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"190e30-Now with COSWORTH" (190e30)
02/20/2014 at 21:15 • Filed to: None | 0
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A friend and I passed an e46 that had seemingly been abandoned. It was parked and had its pass in the window, as it should have, but there was no driver within a good 1/8th mile and the keys were in the ignition. And the car was idling. So there's that.
My friend, being a strange one, walks over to the car, opens the door and sits in the driver's seat. "What are you doing?" I ask, naturally.
"I'm gonna move it."
"Why would you do that?"
" 'Cuz imagine them needing to call their parents and saying that they lost their car."
Fair. Then he rolls the window down again.
"Maybe I should go park it on the football field (Currently buried in ~2 ft of snow)."
"You think you can do that?"
"I'm gonna try." *Proceeds to engage drive and begins to move towards the football field.*
At this point I become the voice of reason and step in front of the car. He settled for backing the car back into its spot, shutting it off, and taking the key with him, but not before moving both front seats all the way forward and leaving a note saying "Next time it's mine."
I was not a part of this. Let it be known.
Mercedes Streeter
> 190e30-Now with COSWORTH
02/20/2014 at 21:22 |
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Well, at least some hoodlums didn't steal it for real.
I guess that's one of the only benefits for me, I can leave my car running, windows down, doors unlocked, in the South Side of Chicago and it will never be stolen. No American would want to steal a smart fortwo.
If only they knew that the parts to smarts are worth their weight in gold...
Big Bubba Ray
> 190e30-Now with COSWORTH
02/20/2014 at 21:29 |
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"Next time it's mine" Haha that will scare the owner shitless...hopefully.
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> Mercedes Streeter
02/20/2014 at 21:30 |
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He's not a hoodlum type, more just weird. I'm sure the keys were returned within the first school period, since there was a name on the parking pass (We just didn't know who it was).
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> Mercedes Streeter
02/20/2014 at 21:30 |
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Side note: I loved my Neon. So hard.
XJDano
> 190e30-Now with COSWORTH
02/20/2014 at 21:34 |
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I think I would have called campus police, or locked the keys in the car, then left an email address on a note that you have keys, that way of they threaten you, you don't actually have to meet them.
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Mercedes Streeter
> 190e30-Now with COSWORTH
02/20/2014 at 21:36 |
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By "hoodlums" I mean less honest people on campus lol
If I saw that note in my car, I'd probably panic!
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> XJDano
02/20/2014 at 21:42 |
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Well this was a small high school (~1500) where everyone pretty much knows everyone, so a bit of a different level.
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XJDano
> 190e30-Now with COSWORTH
02/20/2014 at 21:47 |
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Oh yeah, actions justified.
I'm 33 and work construction, so contact with people to get favors or shit done is second nature. Although I still would have locked the keys in the car, maybe they have a spare, if not its a $60 or more lesson.
Thunder
> 190e30-Now with COSWORTH
02/20/2014 at 21:57 |
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I met up with a friend of mine at a mall one day. As I parked outside the food court, I spotted his car. I also knew where he stashed his hide-a-key.
So, I proceeded to move his car down about ten spots and over one row.
Fast forward an hour or so, we're walking out, and with five or so spots to go to where his car had been, I asked him where he parked.
"Oh, right over ther.... AWRIGHT. WHERE'D YOU PUT IT!?!"
drunkenup4
> 190e30-Now with COSWORTH
02/20/2014 at 22:04 |
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ehh.. if the owner of that car didn't get in anyone's or put anyone in harms way, which it certainly doesn't sound like he/she was, I would not touch their car, period.
I'm not the type to try to teach people a lesson when they are not overtly making someone else's life harder, but I also believe in not fucking with other people's cars. A note on the windshield, sure. But getting in and trying to driving it (any distance, doesn't matter)? Locking their keys inside? You don't know the circumstances as to why that car is there left running, there might be a legitimate reason.
I hope your friend doesn't have a habit of doing these kinds of things..
ihm96
> 190e30-Now with COSWORTH
02/20/2014 at 22:23 |
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Was it a manual? If so you could've been an expert car thief
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> ihm96
02/20/2014 at 22:32 |
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'Twas not. Either way, I was not touching that thing.