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STL Cops Say Warming-Up Your Car is Going to Get It Stolen (And Maybe Ticketed)
Basically, the cops said we’re stupid. Just yesterday, they tweeted that this is a great way to get your car stolen and dropped the hashtag #LockItOrLoseIt.
Low Temps ➕ warming cars: 😭
— St. Louis County PD (@stlcountypd) December 10, 2018
Dec 3rd - 9th: At least 15 stolen warm-up reports.
Some were taken from homes, others from businesses.
This is a preventable crime. Pls, don't leave cars running unattended. #PreventWarmUpTheft #LockItOrLoseIt pic.twitter.com/ICOIafS9m2
They just wanted to let us know that we’re dumb, and they do have a good point there.
But then today, KMOV reported that the police are also now considering “issuing tickets to drivers who leave their car alone while it warms up.”
It makes sense, really. When we’re stupid and basically beg for someone to steal our cars, it makes a whole lot more work for them when someone ganks our whip and we go crying to them to fix it.
They’re probably also hoping that threatening to ticket car-warmer-uppers will be a deterrent, too. But if we were scared of tickets, we wouldn’t stunt so much, would we?
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