An interesting story was posted in today's Athens Messenger about the mother of an OU student who had accidentally "stolen" another student's car.

Kate Anderson, the OU mom, picked up what she thought was her daughter's gray 1980s-era Toyota Camry. She opened the door with the key, started the car and drove away.

As it turned out, it wasn't her daughter's car at all. In fact, it was OU student Charlie Vansant's Camry. Apparently, keys back in the 80's weren't made with very sophisticated technology and the possibility of two keys opening the same vehicle were pretty good.

And given the higher concentration of poor college students driving vehicles older than they are, the odds of two similar cars on campus increases just enough for something like this to happen.

The Camry was returned and the police closed the case without any charges.

So if you have any old car keys rusting in your junk drawer, you might want to take them with you to the nearest college campus. You just might hit the jackpot.

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