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Archive for March, 2004

Lock It Or Lose It…..

Lock It Or Lose It

It has become a most predictable call on the police radio in the morning…
“Victim reports her 2004 Ford Navigator was just stolen from her driveway”….
(We whisper to ourselves in our patrol cars – “and the keys were in the vehicle and the vehicle was running”)
The dispatcher continues – “The keys were in the vehicle and the vehicle was running in the driveway…..

Let’s have a quick session in Common Sense 101.

• If you leave your vehicle running, unlocked, and unattended,
• At home
• At work
• At the gas station
• At 7-11
• At the baby sitter’s house
• At the ATM machine
• At school

You WILL lose your car.

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