I was very cold blooded so it needed a warmup period, and I was 15ft from it. Don't you ever get out of your vehicle with the engine running? The idiot was a block and a half from the police station to add insult to injury.
The other three incidents the vehicle was completely stolen and a cutoff switch, which I added to the A.H. Sprite and the 1937 Ford Panel Delivery truck.
Only whilst I open the garage door. My cars are under cover so I dont often need to let them idle to defrost. Many are stolen off the drive whilst left running unattended defrosting, your insurers are not likely to be sympathetic. I once started my old Range Rover to defrost whilst I scraped the windows, then I could not open the drivers door. My spare key would not open the passenger door, I got in through the rear window, I drove 20 miles before the drivers door would open.
