An elderly Florida lady did her shopping and, upon returning to her car, found four males in the act of leaving with her vehicle.
She dropped her shopping bags and drew her handgun, proceeding to
scream at the top of her voice, "I have a gun, and I know how to use
it! Get out of the car!"

The four men didn't wait for a second invitation They got out
and ran like mad. The lady, somewhat shaken, then proceeded to load her shopping bags into the back of the car and got into driver's seat.

She was so shaken that she could not get her key into the ignition.
She tried and tried, and then it dawned on her why. A few minutes later, she found her own car parked four or five spaces farther down. She loaded her bags into the car and drove to the police station. The sergeant to whom she told the story couldn't stop laughing.

He pointed to the other end of the counter, where four pale men were reporting a car jacking by a mad, elderly woman described as white, less than five feet tall, glasses, curly white hair, and carrying a large handgun. No charges were filed.

If you're going to have a Senior Moment, make it a memorable one!

 

I've heard this story before and LMAO every time I read it.

A simuliar event happened to my wife and I a few years ago. We came out of the mall and went to our car in the parking lot. opened the trunk, put our purchases in the trunk. Unlocked and opened the doors, got in, but the igintion key wouldn't turn to start the car. After a few minutes we realized that our other stuff was not there (sunglasses, tape case, etc) and stuff that wasn't ours was in the car. Not our car???? HUMMMMMM Could be !!
We got out looked around and found our car on the same row about 4 or 5 spaces away. Got our stuff out of the trunk put it in our car and left. We LOAO, could not believe it.
Cars were the same model, year, and color. Unreal that the two cars had the same door lock sets. Thank the Lord they had different ignition key sets or we would have left in someone elses car. That would not have been good. Think of the embarrassment reporting this to the police when we realized our mistake.

 

 

thats crazy I'm glad my truck sticks out like a sore thumb

 

I had a Dodge work truck that the ignition key from my 84 Dodge pickup would start.
And we had two Chevy work vans at my location that the door keys were interchangeable.

The maunfacturers must only have a select number of key codes and hope that nobody notices.

 

My truck is inconspicuous too. It could easily get mixed up with others.

 

Our 1985 Dodge van used the same keys as our 1979 Plymouth Prospector van. Just luck of the draw, but was pretty convenient!

 

When got my truck, a guy at work told me how his "new" truck had the same keys as his dads 10 year old one.
I tried my keys in every Dodge, Chrysler and Plymouth vehicle I could find in the parking lot at work,
and the immediate neighborhood.

Didn't work in any of them though.

Still arm my alarm every now and then when my truck is miles away,
just to see if another car "chirps" back at me.

I did say arm, not disarm, don't want to accidently unlock someones doors,
especially my own if it gets a good bounce.


phox

 

I parked my Comanche at a burger stand one day. When I hit the the alarm I noticed a F*rd Tarus beeped too. Then I got mean I watched the owner unlock it and then as he was reaching for the door handle I locked it again. The look on his face was priceless.

 

You were having to much fun. That could have gone on for a long time.

 

There is a video of this floatin around the net somewhere. i will try to find it.

 

i saw on a viper forum that this guy's viper key and dakota key were the same

 

My brother in-law's parents gave him their old Chrsyler minivan, among one of the things that stopped working was the driver's door lock, so he always had to get in on the passenger side. So leaving the store he unlocked the door like normal and got in the driver's seat but it wouldn't start... you guessed it yet another chrysler with the same door key.

I've went shopping with my mom, generally I drive her vehicle, anyway we were leaving the store and she'd walk up to some truck and waited there. Um, mom, that truck is 5yrs older than yours and a different color, with a lift kit. "Oh they all look the same to me." She has done this several times, I just hope the keyless entry battery doesn't go out, she might try every greyish fullsize car in the parking lot.

 

This is totally unrelated, but reminds me of something that happened to me in my high school days. My best friend (may as well have been my brother) and I were driving down the highway in my '95 Chevy S-10. I had some cheap alarm system installed on it....and while we were driving down the highway the stupid siren kept going off. I kept turning it off with my little remote thingy but a few minutes later it would go off again. Going though town it was doing it too...and one time it did it right in front of a local cop. I just knew I was going to get ticketed for running with a siren, but I couldn't control it.

FINALLY my buddy couldn't stand it any more and just died laughing. That sorry outfit had taken the spare remote out of my room (he lived with my family at the time) and he was sitting over there with his hand down beside him hitting the panic button every few minutes.

Funny looking back...but at the time I was about ready to make him get out and walk home.