“When a store owner was questioned he answered very matter of factly that it was hot and leaving the windows open prevented the interiors from getting too hot and the keys were left in the ignition in case a delivery truck needed to move them to get to the stores.”
If every car is potentially in the way, you’ve got the town drunk driving the delivery trucks.How about the delivery truck double parks and HE leaves the key in his ignition?
There used to be a couple neighborhoods in Brooklyn where locking the car was considered an insult to the neighborhood, or more precisely to some people who lived there, but that’s a different can of tomatoes.