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In a jail of his own making

I heard about this on Dave Durian's morning show on WBAL. A thief ran afoul of a car's safety system.

Investigators claim that the unidentified man had forced an entry into one of the vans at an appliance repair company, trying to steal tools.

Things did not go as planned for him, however. He closed the side door of the van so he would not be seen.

What did him in was the child safety lock on the door. Once he was inside the vehicle he couldn’t get the door to open. There was also a heavy steel cage separating the front of the van from the back. So the man basically caught himself.

I was once car shopping and got into the back seat of a car and couldn't get because of the child safety lock. So I rolled down the window and opened the door from the outside.

Since this was a van, I'm guessing that there was no window to roll down. Or the thief was too surprised to try that.

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