Woman uses daughter's key, but drives wrong car home

[mamallama]

Woman uses daughter's key, but drives wrong car home

ATHENS, Ohio - Kate Anderson became an accidental car thief when she went to pick up her daughter's car near an Ohio University building last week.

Anderson spotted the nickel-gray Toyota Camry and used her daughter's key to unlock the car, start the engine and drive home - without realizing that the car wasn't her daughter's.

Click here for more (http://www.azcentral.com/offbeat/articles/0207OddCarTheft07-ON.html)

[beetlejuice]

This is the second time I've heard of this involving Toyota cars.

[mamallama]

It was said (back in the day, lol) that the same thing happened with Chevy Cavaliers. I used to have an older model but never had that problem, thank goodness!

[pphalan]

Back in the day huh? I remember when you needed only so many keys to start any GM car....thats back in the 60's.

Those the days you remember?....:D

[beetlejuice]

My dad had a 1960 Pontiac Catalina that you could take the key out of the ignition with the car running.

[too his glory]

In this age the cars will not start with out their own key.
There is now a chip in the key,if it does not match
the car will not start and the car locks up.I know this
girl her brother tried to take her car.She had to have a lock
smith fix the car.Now the older cars give them a good push
and they start.It has not been that long a go that you could
get a good running go and pop the clach.

[davidw]

I think some newer cars and SUVs have built-in ignition switches rather than key holes (for key usage). My dad told me a story about how he took the wrong Oldsmobile home one time (two identical next to each other) - and it fit, but that was 20-something years ago.

[too his glory]

Yes there was a time they made ---amount of keys alike and so on.
They had a master key at the dealers.When you lost your key they
looked up a number and made you a key.

My car key has a chip in it.You can not use any other key to start my
car.You also can not use my key to start another car.

Who knows what the future holds.

I can remember riding on the running board.Every body did it.
Oh yes thous rumble seats they were great as long as it did not rain.

God bless you

[They]

I have a master key that will start any car - even the models with the chip in them.

Rumble seat? Have you met Henry Ford? ;)

[beetlejuice]

Sooooo..now I know who to look for if my car ever gets stolen. :busted

[They]

protest technology - remember the Flintstones

[too his glory]

if They know Howdee Dudee.about Little Beaver,real name Tommy Cook.You know he was a Indian.Meet him.

It is howdee Dudee time


If you have never gone for a ride in an Rumble seat,you missed a good ride.
That was not so long ago.:cangel

[They]

I remember howdy dudee.... I saw it on one of those flashback shows. :D

Back in those day's "Cowboys and Indians" was a most popular play time activity. Then again, the history of the Indians in America had been greatly tainted and the truth of how things were done was hidden and untold.

I'm not so sure I would be so popular in those days.

[too his glory]

if they know that Indians cooked in a hoke in the ground,that was lined with deer skin.The Indians had cooking stones that they keepted hot in the fire and would place them in what ever they were cooking as needed.

Yes I know some Hollywood people.I also know a few Indians.They are just like you and every one else.

Did you ever sit and watch the raido?

[They]

as to wondering what you are wondering - the answer is yes.. I did know that. I also learned how to make tortilla's from corn or meza rather and a few other things. Like regional people, the various tribes also had their various traditions and ways of doing things. In some, the woman was the one who hunted (rather trapped) smaller prey like squirrel and rabbit while the men hunted the bigger creatures like deer and cantalope - um antelope and the whole tribe would cook and eat together like a family.

as to listening to the radio.. i still do.