>That's why a separate law had to be made when people started
>taking cars to drive home and then just leaving them beside
>the road - it wasn't theft as they weren't permanently
>depriving the owner of the car because they would get
>it back, so "taking and driving away" had to be brought in.

In NZ this is known as car conversion. It also led to a joke when I was a
teenager, and a bunch of us were standing outside the church. Someone wanted
to know what we were doing out there, instead of being inside. My quick
witted friend said we were converting the cars ...

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