Act Silly, Get a Ford and Eventually Get a Key to the City

Continuously reading in the newspaper about the mayor of New York City presenting someone with the Key to the City made Mark Malkoff start to wonder, “What exactly does someone have to do to be presented with one of these keys?”

Presenting the Key to the City is a tradition that goes back hundreds of years to medieval times … back in the days where a city would be surrounded by walls and a locked gate.  Presenting the key to the city to someone was a display of complete trust and it meant that the recipient of the key could come and go as he/she pleased.

Nowadays, it’s more of a symbolic thing and keys that are presented to people don’t actually open anything … bummer, eh?

The guy in the video (Mark Malkoff) below convinced Ford Motor Co. to lend him a Ford Fusion to go on a mission to collect as many keys to various cities as possible… not sure why, but it’s pretty funny.