AlanW
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- Not to sure?
Car-free living
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Pale Rider
Legendary Member
To generalise, two and two burglars are not after confrontation with the householder and will try to avoid it if they can.
It's not an offence of violence, so tends not to attract violent men.
Of course one never knows, but I think their first instinct would be to leg it to ensure they are free to steal other cars, of which there are plenty.
Something like carjacking would be different because the perpetrator must be prepared to take on the victim.
Even then, I bet a lot more women are carjacked than men.
For what it's worth, both these car theft offences were relatively rare until immobilisers became genuinely difficult to defeat, which meant to get the car away the thief needed the key.
Drago
Legendary Member
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- Suburban Poshshire
Thank heavens for proximity alarms, permiter sensors, a dog on a hair trigger, a shotgun (of no use as the ammo safe is in the loft, but they don't know that), and the lack of antique dealing, Barbour wearing, Volvo thieves.
The Polestar isn't such a worry. They can steal that, and then by the time they find its in valet mode and will only do 10MPH and needs a PIN to go any faster itll be too late...
The Polestar isn't such a worry. They can steal that, and then by the time they find its in valet mode and will only do 10MPH and needs a PIN to go any faster itll be too late...
matticus
Guru
Hands-up if you were never driven to school.
raleighnut
Legendary Member
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- One of the 'Elite'
Never had a car and packed up Motorcycles in 1985. 
Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
Never been driven to or from school, and with only a single exception I have never driven my children to or from school.
The exception was when the school phoned to say that Mini D had a slight accident playing basketball and had seemingly broken some fingers - I collected her in the car and drove on to Hossy.
Hand on heartm that is the only school/autombile proximity incident I have ever instigated.
cougie uk
Guru
For people thinking about hiring cars and wanting racks for their bikes - there is the octopus suction rack. That sticks to any smooth surface and the reviews are very good.
I think this is one version.
https://www.seasucker.com/
I think this is one version.
https://www.seasucker.com/
HMS_Dave
Grand Old Lady
My old man went to work at 6:30 and my mom didn't drive. Walked 5 miles every day...
matticus
Guru
Well done.
I'm going to hold a forum crowdfund for a trophy, I think you're top of the leaderboard for now 👍
HMS_Dave
Grand Old Lady
Yeah, but i got fat decades later... It wouldn't feel right accepting your trophy.
BTW: Is there a monetary prize?
Dogtrousers
Kilometre nibbler
I was going to put my hand up but there was one occasion when for some reason my dad was going into work late, or had a day off or something, and he drove me vaguely near the school. It only happened once, to my memory.
I didn't have to walk as far as @HMS_Dave though. It was only a couple of miles.
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- Inside my skull
Walked or cycled. Just checked and secondary school was 1.1 miles away. Perfect for walking or cycling distance as a kid. Any kid less than 3 miles away walked it cycled beyond that you qualified for the bus.
