On a lot of newer vehicles you have what are called "smart keys" or "proximity keys". These types of keys usually have a remote built into them for keyless entry, lock/unlock functions and an RFID chip usually used for push button starts. Thieves are getting smart and can have technology available to capture and clone the key signals.
It would require the owner of the car to activate a button on the key to capture the radio frequency to gain entry into the car, but the RFID chip can be "sniffed" from being close to the owner or actual key. There are devices that can read, amplify and send these codes via wireless connection.
I dont know what actually happened here but its possible that a person inside the brewery could have been close to your buddy with a "sniffer" that read the RFID chip code, then an accomplice with another device receives the RFID code wirelessly, busts the window for entry and simply pushes the start button and he's gone. This
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Today's Featured Article - An Old-Time Tractor Demonstration - by Kim Pratt. Sam was born in rural Kansas in 1926. His dad was a hard-working farmer and the children worked hard everyday to help ends meet. In the rural area he grew up in, the highlight of the week was Saturday when many people took a break from their work to go to town. It was on one such Saturday in the early 1940's when Sam was 16 years old that he ended up in Dennison, Kansas to watch a demonstration of a new tractor being put on by a local dealer. It was an Allis-Chalmers tractor dealership,
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