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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If your car got carjacked…… !!!![/quote]

Which has happened.  A woman left a disabled toddler in the car.  Left it running with a key in the car.  Someone stole the car with her disabled child in it.

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OP's child was not disabled

OP's car was locked

What is your point?[/quote]

The car was locked? Since when does a locked car keep thieves and carjackers out? You know it’s pretty easy to get in a locked car right? Do you live in some kind of leafy suburb with zero crime?[/quote]

Why would a carjacker choose to jack a car that is (1) locked and (2) has a 7 year old WITNESS in the back seat?

In every case I've ever heard of where a child was involved in a carjacking, the carjackers were unaware the child was there, the child was very young (which is part of why the carjackers didn't know they were there-- they were small and sleeping or not old enough to talk), and the git rid of the car or got the child out of the car when they realized the child was there because they don't want to get caught kidnapping, which carries much stiffer sentences than carjacking.

So the mere presence of a 7 yr old in a car, by itself, is a deterrent to a car jacking because carjackers don't want anything to do with kids and especially not kids capable of yelling for help or identifying them in a line up.

The fact that the car is ALSO locked is another deterrent-- you think a car jacker is going to break into a car in a parking lot right outside a business with a security guard nearby and a 7 yr old kid in the backseat? Just because the car is on?

Look, carjackers are mostly absolute morons but they are not trying to get rung up for kidnapping kids and they avoid cars that are more trouble than they are worth. This chance if a carjacker doing what you suggest is nil.

-- prosecutor who lives in a neighborhood with a statistically high number of car jackings[/quote]

You forgot the most important part. Please factor in running vehicle.[/quote]

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