I'm in a city of roughly 70,000 pop in mis-Missouri and I ALWAYS lock my car -- my husband doesn't and he and his daughter have had 3 cd players ripped out of their vehicles as a result. We used to have a very large black mutt dog whom we took in because his owner, who used him for hunting (he was part hound, part doby, I think) abandoned him. He also probably abused him. The dog was viciously protective of the property and I never had to lock my front door. Once we found the furniture in the foyer upended all over the place and one piece drug as close to the door as possible. We believe someone tried to come in in our absence and the snarling large dog encouraged them to make as quick a get-away as they could. In the absence of said dog I would NEVER leave my house unlocked, or my car. My husband used to live in a town of 11,000 before we got married; sort of a modern Mayberry. He never locked his house or his truck. He's adjusting.....and even there, now, he will lock his office when leaving, which always stood open. Julie Krueger ========Original Message======== Subj: [lit-ideas] Re: Inner Moral :Law Date: 8/4/05 5:35:08 P.M. Central Daylight Time From: _pas@xxxxxxxxx (mailto:pas@xxxxxxxx) To: _lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (mailto:lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) Sent on: The segment showed Tokyo, a city of seven million people. There is one place in the city where all items found are to be turned in. It showed thousands and thousands of umbrellas. It also featured a number of people who had lo st their wallets. The norm here is that when the owner goes to retrieve it, all the money is there. In one case, a fellow found almost $300,000 near a dump. He turned it in. One man said he had forgotten to take the keys out of his motorcycle three times in the several months he had lived there. The motorcycle was never stolen. One needn't go all the way to Japan for this kind of behaviour. I NEVER lock my car in my driveway. NOTHING is ever stolen, the car is never stolen. SHOULD it be? Is that what people EXPECT? I dropped my keys once and went to the copshop the next morning -- they were there. My buddy dropped his cellphone on Friday night and someone actually found out where he lived and returned it. Is that actually surprising. paul _________________ [insert pithy quote here] Paul Stone pas@xxxxxxxx Leamington, ON. Canada