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There’s just no winning for the ol’ Good Samaritan it seems. If a recent survey from online insurance hawker CarInsurance.com is any indication, lending your vehicle to a friend in need is likely to result in said pal snooping around your wheels. After surveying some 1,500 licensed drivers, the survey found that 63 percent of folks that had borrowed a car in the last two years had felt at liberty to open the glove box, center console, trunk or some combination thereof. Men were worse than women here, with 73 percent of dudes copping to peeking, compared with 44 percent of the surveyed dames.
Frankly, we’re surprised that snooping number isn’t higher across the board. More surprising still, however, is what the nosey borrowers found in the cars when rifling through those tucked away spaces.
A cell phone was the mostly likely item for snoopers to find, at 27 percent, and joined the boring section of the list with expired registration (23 percent) and insurance (19 percent) documents. “Surprising” photographs registered a healthy 26 percent, though what made them startling to the survey group isn’t made clear. Meanwhile, cars with a gun (15 percent), illegal substances (17 percent) or liquor (23 percent) were menacingly frequent. A word to the wise: if you borrow your buddy’s car and find a Glock, a dime bag and a three-quarters empty bottle of Old Crow in the trunk, make a mental note to spend less time on the road with him.
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