Switching off someone else's ignition

Prothet_of_Doom

The other Sunday Morning I walked to the paper shop about 9am, passing an empty car with engine running. After getting my paper, about 10 mins later, the car was still there. Now I have 3 problems with this. 1) it !!!!s up your engine to leave it idleing for so long (not my problem) 2) It !!!!s up your insurance claim if someone steals it with the keys in it (not my problem) and 3) If someone steals it and goes joy riding, they might !!!! up some innocent persons life, and I feel duty bound to reduce this risk to society.


Do I
a) take out the keys and post them through the nearest letterbox.
b) Drive the car away, to teach them a lesson.
c) Knock on the nearest door and get verbal abuse for my trouble.
d) Phone the police, who will tell me it's not an emergency be condescending. (that's my experience even on none emergency numbers)
e) go and take papers to wife, make a full English and make love until lunch time.


I am guilt ridden.


TBH if there was nothing at stake, I'd love to get in and drive it to the beach and leave in the beach car park (about 2 miles away from me) just for the hell of it. But that would involve various criminal acts.

Johnny_Dangerously

or...

f) report that there is a knife in the boot and see what the police say

AdrianC

Obviously e is the preferred answer - but I wonder why you bothered going to fetch the papers if that was on the cards?

gilbert_and_sullivan

You don't know the reason for it being left running, i can think of several, nor any possible measures to secure it, unless you had a poke nose inside on the way by, and you don't say if it was on the street or in a driveway.

It might be locked, have one or other security devices fitted to steering wheel, handbrake or gear lever,

The answer is e, but you shouldn't feel guilty about those urges, unless your wife finds out who the breakfast and afters were for..:-)

Dan-Dan

AdrianC wrote: »

Obviously e is the preferred answer - but I wonder why you bothered going to fetch the papers if that was on the cards?

they were for his wife

pinkteapot

g. Ride your bike into the car.

Throbbe

pinkteapot wrote: »

The mode of transport is utterly irrelevant here. The question boils down to:

Another road user annoyed me by driving like a tw at and nearly hitting me. Did I do anything wrong by then going up to their car, opening the door, turning the engine off and ranting at them?

A simple test to apply is:

• Was a traffic offense committed?
• Am I policeman?

If the answer to either question is no, you probably shouldn't be trying to police the behaviour of other road users, no matter how annoying.

Much harder to think rationally in that situation of course, although I usually find that a few seconds of furious pedalling to catch up burns off that righteous indignation.

Dan-Dan

H) Stick your todger up the exhaust pipe , save your old woman the bother and teach them a lesson , at the same time

Dan-Dan

Throbbe wrote: »

A simple test to apply is:

• Was a traffic offense committed?
• Am I policeman?

If the answer to either question is no, you probably shouldn't be trying to police the behaviour of other road users, no matter how annoying.

Much harder to think rationally in that situation of course, although I usually find that a few seconds of furious pedalling to catch up burns off that righteous indignation.

What happens if one of the answers is yes?

AdrianC

Dan-Dan wrote: »

What happens if one of the answers is yes?

Boolean operators not your strong point?

"Has an offence been committed?" AND "Am I police?" = "Do I deal with it?"
N AND N = N
N AND Y = N
Y AND N = N
Y AND Y = Y