My spouse and I are in an eternal war over the vents in the car. He has them precisely tuned to dry his hair in the morning. But when I have the car, I often want the fan on, but never pointed at my face, which is exactly where his vent tuning points them. It is an never ending struggle.
No see you're definitely correct - turning the car on and getting blasted with AIR? To the FACE? That's like an anti theft measure. He should disarm the car.
The real anti-theft measure is that it has a manual transmission. 20 years ago, with a previous car, we found it with a window broken out, but abandoned in place when the thief realized they couldn't drive it.