.. to think this would blow some minds?

In Saudi you can be executed for lots of things. Proven and unproven, like eg witchcraft. Often trumped up charges. One reason I would never live there.

I don’t know why this is always seen as so unbelievable on here. I’ve genuinely not seen my house keys in months. I need to find them before we go on holiday.

When I lived in Australia this happened in our city. Parents had left the keys in and the a/c running so they could unload groceries without waking a sleeping child. The car was stolen while the car sat on the drive way and the baby was missing for several hours, it was awful, there were helicopters out searching and the car was eventually found abandoned with the baby absolutely fine.

Speak for yourself. Where do you live in the uk? So I know to avoid it!

Yes, but ...
I live in rural Scotland. People often leave doors unlocked, babies in prams etc and a very proud of it being a very traditional very 'local' community.
Some years ago Robert Black snatched a child from her garden in broad daylight. Even closer, a couple of years ago, a local businessman, long known for being troubled, with a history of cross dressing and stealing womens underwear, abducted a young girl in broad daylight & kept her in a specially made area in his house (fortunately she was eventually able to call the Police)
NAMALT but the ones that are are a massive risk. It's not a safe option.

Oh don’t be daft. I live in a market town in Kent and I bloody love it here. Feel very safe and I feel so happy my children are growing up here

Do you spout this fear mongering drivel to your children @Northermcharn ?

Yeah, I’m sure we’d love to be whipping people and cutting their hands off in the U.K. for theft.

I didn't abandon my car with children in it, but there was a time when I was driving a car with a trailer and got diverted by a road closure into a cul-de-sac which was not long enough to turn around it - in the UK, near Milton Keynes. I was trying to work out what to do and a couple of workmen working outside one of the houses in the cul-de-sac said "we'll sort you out, love", took the keys and reversed the car and trailer back onto the main road and told me which way I needed to go. They were great.

I've known a couple of young women who've jumped out of their cars and asked passing middle aged men to park their cars in tight parking spaces that couldn't do themselves. Totally harmless and quite nice, civically, to help others like that. This is near Glasgow.

DH and I stayed in a stately pile in East Anglia. The owner told us (a bit sheepishly) that we could go out in the evening and come back whenever we liked because the doors were always unlocked.

You're out of date...

People don't live in fear. Unless they've done something illegal I suppose. Quite the opposite to lawless uk where people are helping themselves to supermarket sweeps for free etc

This is what I say on a regular basis - 'it's not 1932, where you have to get out and crank the engine!' or even pull the choke like you say. It flabbergasts me to be honest, modern tractors start very easily too.

we dont lock our doors at night in Dublin - i have a terrible fear of being trapped in the house if a fire started - scrambling looking for keys when you only have 60 seconds to get out.

Family members all leave their keys in the cars - they are in the city centre but have never had a car stolen unlike me - 2 cars stolen when locked

What's lovely is that her husband can also let his property - her - wander around with no security other than the absolute basics like him having full legal control over her.

Was it the street beside the Aiguille du Midi or the Office du Tourisme ?

I was just thinking that this would totally happen in Jersey!

Fear indeed. Plus a very controlled society.

Sure. Perhaps consequences work after all eh?

Can he reach the handle?

I don't lock my door at night...

Can you think why that is?

My friend lives in Saudi Arabia. She never locks the house, cars, she leaves her bike outside no lock, her kids can roam around the shopping centres on their own for fun, she wears expensive jewellery and a nice watch without fear of them being snatched, same with her phone.

None of the above applies in European towns and cities. None of it. It is so much safer there.

There must also be almost no time saving in it now - surely it's a habit from when cars had chokes and needed to warm up after being off? Admittedly, I don't know about tractor engines - maybe they are still more like this - but in a car it takes literally two seconds to turn the engine on or off...

I'm in a rural part of Wales, UK and people often leave keys in car and even the engine running while they pop into a shop, tractors are terrible for it, but lots of cars too. Lots of people leave keys in the ignition with the car parked on a drive too. Back doors often unlocked. My city parents are regularly aghast! I've not seen anyone leave young children in the car as well though, not where they can't see the car from the shop anyway. Also, it still surprises me, and I never do it. The engine running is also terrible for the environment/everyone else breathing nearby, let alone anything else.