Grand Theft Stupidity 

If you read my blog regularly, you probably know that I have an issue with laws that are only around to stop stupid people from being stupid. Nanny laws get more and more on my nerves as I read about more and more of them. No matter how hard you try, you just can't legislate intelligence, just like you can't legislate morality. More importantly, we shouldn't try. I feel people ought to face the real consequences of their stupidity. Don't wear a seat belt? Then as awful as it sounds, you get what you deserve if you're seriously hurt in a car accident.

The Agitator makes a regular topic of it... called There Oughta Be a Law. Today's post describes, among other things a proposed ordinance in Lawrence Indiana:

Police officers and the police union made plans this week to write an ordinance making it illegal for residents to leave their cars unlocked, running and unattended.

Police Officer Tom Ashcraft, president of the Lawrence Fraternal Order of Police, spoke at Monday' City Council meeting to formally ask council members to adopt such an ordinance.

One might ask... who is so incredibly stupid as to leave the keys in the car, with the doors unlocked, and the car running unattended? I'll tell you who. The woman I see every morning at Starbucks is that stupid. She leaves her black Honda unlocked, and running at the Starbucks located in Wauwatosa (see the map here for directions). She's usually there between 7:30 and 7:45 every morning. This Starbucks is also about a block away from a large high school, and a lot of high school kids come into this Starbucks before their first class. Of course I'm not suggesting that high school kids are more predisposed to stealing a car... or that her car deserves to be stollen. I'm just saying it's there.