City kids do not leave keys in vehicles. . . It’s different out here...

   / City kids do not leave keys in vehicles. . . It’s different out here...
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#41  
There was an old house down the road from us that was constantly rented to meth heads.
Every month or so you would see the red label on the door warning of a busted meth lab.
After the last bust the house went up in flames one night. Burnt really fast.
The fire dept never did a thing until it was a smoldering heap, then they wet everything down.
No investigation was ever done. Everyone knew that it was a blessed accident.
when Going on a search warrant on a meth lab, there are two choices:
a) full tactical protective gear
b) full chemical protective gear.

Problem is, you really cannot do both. . .
 
   / City kids do not leave keys in vehicles. . . It’s different out here...
  • Thread Starter
#42  
There was an old house down the road from us that was constantly rented to meth heads.
Every month or so you would see the red label on the door warning of a busted meth lab.
After the last bust the house went up in flames one night. Burnt really fast.
The fire dept never did a thing until it was a smoldering heap, then they wet everything down.
No investigation was ever done. Everyone knew that it was a blessed accident.
It was lightning. From the sky.
 
   / City kids do not leave keys in vehicles. . . It’s different out here... #43  
Thank you for posting that. I enjoy looking at any old vehicles, even if it's something I wouldn't want to own. Those old Jeeps are special though. My father bought a '62 Willys pickup when I was 3, and worked the crap out of it for 13 years. He took care of it though so it was still in good shape when he sold it. I had a chance to buy it back 2 years later when I was just out of HS... I still kick myself in the tail for not jumping on it.

That Wagoneer is in amazing shape. If it could talk, just imagine the stories we'd here.

Thank you again for posting it. 👍
 
   / City kids do not leave keys in vehicles. . . It’s different out here... #44  
I'm certainly glad I don't have that issue.
I'm afraid that I would eliminate some riff raff then be in trouble.
Same here. One of the great advantages in living in rural America I'd say. Having said that I do remove the keys from the tractors and disable the starting batter via an interlock when I leave a unit in a partially finished field overnight, I worry about the malicious damage factor more than anything else. They are insured (like all my equipment is), but I don't want to go back in the morning and fine some kids have fiddled with the equipment. I always err on the side of caution when doing that. Around here (at the farm) I don't. Been seriously considering dropping the theft coverage on my car and truck too. Both have standard transmissions and I've read that car thieves avoid stealing cars with standard transmissions because they don't know how to drive them... :p
 
   / City kids do not leave keys in vehicles. . . It’s different out here... #45  
Yep or the coiled spring in fill pipe...

It definitely was a thing and hit just about all.

Dad's friend owned the local mechanic garage and they had a rash of fuel tank sender repairs... seems syphoning some models could nail the float...

Thefts up so grocery stores now security guard is standard plus every isle has locking display cases of high theft items...

Many chain auxillary entrances to limit egress... especially late in the day...



Didn't have clue anything was up until the better half asked me to fill the truck. Low and behold, I open the cap and missing splash valve/ anti-theft mechanism, pretty sure it's sliding around the bottom of the tank. :rolleyes:
 
   / City kids do not leave keys in vehicles. . . It’s different out here... #46  
City kids (Millennial's) have not a clue on how to drive tractor or stick shifts.... Pretty safe to leave keys in tractors or stick shift vehicles.... Just not cars with auto-trans...
One reason I don't own an HST tractor and never will. The other is parasitic power loss and third, the complexity if it ever fails out of warranty.
 
   / City kids do not leave keys in vehicles. . . It’s different out here... #47  
I have key locking gas caps on all 3 of our vehicles, just because. Have a padlock on my diesel bulk tank as well as the pump.

Don't worry about some person sawing off the cat because my truck don't have one and my car is so low to the ground, the convertor thief would have to be a 'pin head' literally to get under it...
 
   / City kids do not leave keys in vehicles. . . It’s different out here...
  • Thread Starter
#48  
Thank you for posting that. I enjoy looking at any old vehicles, even if it's something I wouldn't want to own. Those old Jeeps are special though. My father bought a '62 Willys pickup when I was 3, and worked the crap out of it for 13 years. He took care of it though so it was still in good shape when he sold it. I had a chance to buy it back 2 years later when I was just out of HS... I still kick myself in the tail for not jumping on it.

That Wagoneer is in amazing shape. If it could talk, just imagine the stories we'd here.

Thank you again for posting it. 👍
Thank you for being interested! It needs a new interior, for certain 🤪
 
   / City kids do not leave keys in vehicles. . . It’s different out here... #49  
Old farts still think Millenials are kids. Millenials include 40 year olds. The future is now old man!

This city millenial leaves his key in too. Just put my stick shift car up for sale, wonder if I can even sell it.
Probably because people lost their minds and no longer understand what the word 'generation' means. Historically, it is a 20 year span because at one time most people who were going to start a family would have dine so by age 20...if anything, generations should have become longer as modern humans, especially those from industrialized countries, tend to wait longer. Marketing people and sociologists decided they couldn't wait for 20 years to put on labels and sell books, so they shortened the time down to 13-15 years. Boomers are 1945-1964. Gen X should be 1965-1984...that got dropped down to 1980 (as short as 1976 to some). Gen Y should be 1985-2004 (now considered 1981-1996) Gen Z should be 2005-2024 (1997-2012). My wife and I are considered Gen X by any measure. Our kids should all be Gen Y, but now only one is in that group, the others are Gen Z. The Mellinial label goes with Gen Y, but it makes no sense. Supposedly for when they became adults, but the math does work there either.

For what it is worth all 4 of my kids grew up in the city and all of them can drive a stick. Boys and girls. 18 y/o daughter drives one every day to school.
 
   / City kids do not leave keys in vehicles. . . It’s different out here... #50  
Not sure if all of you are aware of it but a new commercial driver today has to have a 'special endorsement' on the commercial license to drive a standard transmission. Most big trucks today are sold with servo operated manual transmissions that also have a torque converter or a semi auto automatic. No clutch pedal either. Gas and go in the 'big truck'....lol

I cut my teeth on a 16 speed twin stick and 'regressed' to a 13 speed Roadranger. My farm truck has a 13 speed in it. 13 double over to be exact.
 

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