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Cite those who make car theft so easy

    It’s against state law to leave a car unattended with its motor running — and it should be — but you’d be hard pressed to tell by the infrequency with which police write tickets for this common infraction.
    Cops are happy to hunt down and arrest someone who may have jumped in and driven off in just such a car — occasionally engaging in a high-speed chase in the process. But even when they succeed in doing so, they seem loath to punish the person who facilitated the crime and, in the process, jeopardized the cops’ and the public’s safety.
    Yesterday’s Gazette contained two such stories: one in Schenectady, in which a Brandywine Avenue resident told police he’d left his car running to warm up “for five minutes” last Thursday night, but returned to find it missing; and one in Amsterdam, in which two teens allegedly took a joyride in a pickup truck they found running in the parking lot of a Market Street gas station, then, minutes later, switched to a similarly unattended PT Cruiser a few blocks away. In both cases, arrests were made, but none of the vehicles’ owners were cited.
    It’s bad enough that some motorists feel they can’t drive around in a car that’s not fully warmed up, and so must let it idle for several minutes before getting in — it’s a waste of a precious natural resource and bad for the environment to boot. But people who do so should at least make sure their car is locked.
    When they don’t, and the car gets stolen, they deserve a ticket from the cops and a kick in the pants from their insurance companies.

Here we go again....cry baby cry..... >

It just boosts the revenue for the automatic car starter industry for those of us without garages that want to start their car and warm it up in the winter.....CRY TO GOVERNMENT....How much money was spent looking for billionaire balloonists??? where did that money come from??? The Fed friends....

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It’s bad enough that some motorists feel they can’t drive around in a car that’s not fully warmed up, and so must let it idle for several minutes before getting in — it’s a waste of a precious natural resource and bad for the environment to boot. But people who do so should at least make sure their car is locked.
    When they don’t, and the car gets stolen, they deserve a ticket from the cops and a kick in the pants from their insurance companies.

Who writes these articles anyway? Is this person for real or what?

If MY car is running in MY driveway on MY property and some degenerate steals it....I best not get a ticket! You have got to  be kidding me!!

It's like saying that if a girl wears very provocative clothing and gets sexually assaulted, does she get a ticket for enticing the dirtbag? HARDLY!!

Everyone is responsible for their own actions.

I guess the person writing this article also believes that finger printing INNOCENT children, just in case they are abducted is okay too???  Do the police dust the entire store/playground for prints-hardly and that is just plain irrational thinking.....

Duh,,,we should only be fingerprinting CRIMINALS--YUP, FOLKS THAT'S WHAT THEY ARE CRIMINALS....finger prints or not, locked cars or not, ID for cold medicine or not---THEY ARE FREAKIN' CRIMINALS....they get what they get because they are criminals.....CHOICE

I think public hangings should come back, I say cut off the hand---obviously we have been having conversations with criminals way to long....are they rehabilitated?? Who knows.....someone get us out of this paperbag.....