'Hum, hum hum, just wipping the snow off my windscreen... hey come back with my car!'

Its been rather chilly the few days (several days at and below zero (we've both been rather happy to have that cold/crisp feel and smell) and so people are having to come out early to de-ice their windshields. But because of these chilly temperatures a new dilemma has been popping up throughout the UK.

The problem tends to involve people and their iced cars. As drivers come out in the morning, they turn the car on, put the defrost on, leave the car door open, and scrap the windows (or pour hot water on it... which I still find funny for some reason) until its clean and warm and then off they go. Well turns out aspiring car thieves have figured this routine out and now do early morning rounds waiting for an unaware driver to begin scraping the far side of the car, when the thieves hop in the open door and drive off with the car! And apparently this has happened enough over the last few days it's one of the headlines of the BBC this morning with the tag line, 'Rise in car jackings during morning de-icing.' They even have the police on telling you how to best avoid this problem (shut your door) and other tips for de-icing (like not putting boiling water on your windscreen because it will crack your windscreen, who knew?!).

Funny.

P.S. On a not so funny note, there is also a story one woman got run over as the car-jacker drove off and is in criticial condition.

P.P.S. It's is actually snowing at present here, how exciting!