The Car Starter
Eau Claire, WI
At 10:53 a.m., a University Police sergeant responded to a report of a vehicle in the Oak Ridge parking lot that had been running since the day before.
The officer found the car with its engine running but no key in the ignition. Using the vehicle’s license plate number, he found its registration information and contacted the owner.
The owner said she had parked her car on Tuesday afternoon and hadn’t been to it since. She said she has a remote car starter and might have accidentally hit the remote while she was in her residence hall room.
The woman shut the engine off.
At 11:37 p.m. the next day, an officer found the same vehicle running with no one inside. The officer contacted the woman who said she planned on taking the car in to get it fixed.
Found in the Spectator News
December 14th, 2007 at 1:01 pm
I want that car!! We dozed off one time and our car ran out of gas after 8 hours (1 block from a station, mind you)
December 14th, 2007 at 8:27 pm
I have a remote car starter but I’ve never used it. I’ll be careful to not accidentally start my car…..especially since I sometimes forget to lock my car!
December 17th, 2007 at 1:31 pm
Sometimes……………I forget to steer mine
December 19th, 2007 at 5:57 am
I have a perfectly good unopened remote car starter kit someone bought me for sale — Too bad it can’t hold the clutch down too..lol