In re Young K

In In re Young K. (1996) 49 Cal.App.4th 861, a juvenile assisted two friends who removed the headlights from a parked car and was found to have committed a burglary. On appeal, he contended that "'entry into the headlamp housings of an automobile to steal its headlamps' is not an 'entry into a vehicle' within the meaning of section 459." (Id. at p. 863.) The appellate court agreed, observing that "unlike the car's interior or its trunk, headlamp housings can be 'entered' without regard to whether the car is locked ... ." (Id. at p. 864.)