HAYDEN - Kim Bybee admits she was dumb twice.

First, by always leaving her car unlocked when she left it outside her Lancaster Road home at night.

And second, by leaving her keys and purse inside.

But with a gated, fenced property, and having grown up in North Idaho, the 38-year-old wasn't worried about crime. Never has been.

"The only thing bad that ever happened, someone egged our car," Bybee said.

That changed Tuesday morning.

When Bybee wandered outside about 6:20 a.m. to feed the animals on their five-acre farm, she noticed something was missing. Her car.

The white, 2001 Chevy Tahoe that she has owned for nine years, owns free and clear - the vehicle that has transported her and the kids through snow, rain, wind - was long gone, along with the purse and credit cards inside.

After alerting her husband, Bybee called the Kootenai County Sheriff's Department and then called to cancel her credit cards. She was told one had been used at 6:24 a.m. at the Alpine Country Store on U.S. 95, about 5 minutes from her home.

There, she viewed surveillance footage of a young man in his 20s, about 6 feet, 3 inches tall, filling her car with gas, then buying coffee inside and using her credit card to pay for it all. Then, he drove away.

"I'm just sick about it," Bybee said.

She hopes to get the Tahoe back. She has even called friends in Sandpoint and asked them to be on the lookout for license number K338837.

"It's been a great car," she said.

But Bybee fears what condition it will be in. Stolen cars are often driven, trashed, and dumped somewhere. Because it's 10 years old, she only carried liability insurance.

"I just hope it comes back in one piece," she said.

The thief also took Bybee's daughter's purse that was in her 2005 Jeep outside the family's home.

She said it has long been the common practice in the country to not lock anything. Cars, sheds, the house, have all been left unsecured at night.

"Nothing's ever happened," she said.

No more.

Bybee said she learned her lesson the hard way.

"I'm not going to do it again," she said. "Nothing's unlocked anymore."

Bybee is offering a cash reward for the safe return of her Tahoe.

If she doesn't get it back?

"Looks like I'm buying a moped,' she said.