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Just a quick cautionary tale.

I left a grocery store one evening after picking up a few things. I walked out to the parking lot and went to unlock my car. My key stuck in the lock a little, then turned, and I got in the car with my groceries. At this point my girlfriend said "um, sweetie, this isn't your car." I looked around, saw a bunch of stuff in the back seat I didn't remember having there, and realized my girlfriend was correct. It was the same make, model, and color scheme as my car, and the key had even worked in the lock. But it was definitely not my car. I quickly grabbed my groceries, exited and locked the vehicle, looked around to make sure there wasn't an angry looking person headed in my direction, and headed to my actual car post haste. True story.

The moral here is: things aren't always what they seem. It would have really sucked if the car's owner had shot me while I was trying to unlock his car, or even when I was sitting in it. I was not a criminal. I was not trying to rob him. However, it sure would have looked like it if he had come out to the parking lot at the wrong moment. In that situation, had he reacted by taking pictures and calling the police instead, he would have seen me freak out a little and figured out what was happening.

Just food for thought.