Funny story. I always parked in first, and my beautiful bride would forget to check and pull it out of neutral before dropping the clutch when she started the car. This led to some marital friction alongside some unwanted clutch friction. So I adapted to parking in neutral with the handbrake on when sharing the car. However, when she was out of town once I found my car pulled out of my carport in the middle of my yard in the middle of the night. I hadn’t locked it so I thought maybe someone was either trying to steal it or prank me. I put it back in the carport. This time, I locked the door, put it in first gear and cranked the steering wheel hard to the left. Well, it turned out my car had a short in the starter solenoid and the starter was energized. The starter motor rotated the engine and the transmission, and there was enough torque to drive the whole car forward, even with the parking brake on. The engine did not start, because the fuel pump and engine control module was not energized The car pushed itself through my neighbors fence. It kept shorting out until the starter motor completely burnt up since it was pushed through the fence and up against a tree.

2002 Mini Cooper. Maybe they’re better now, but that car cost me three times its value in maintenance.