Park in gear or neutral

This is only really applicable to manual drivers.

I've never understood why anyone would park their car in neutral. Would these people ever park an auto in neutral? Why would you when you've got Park which will actually hold it.

The only semi decent explanation I've heard for this is that it stops you from jumping forward if you start it in gear. I'm on the belief that you should always start with your foot on the clutch.

If you're in neutral, good, you're all set to put it in in 1st or reverse. If you're in gear, you've saved your front bar. Some new cars even have it so you need to have the clutch in whenever you start, even if you're in neutral.

One other explanation had to do with damage potentially caused to an engine if the car turns itself over. WTF. So turning half a revolution will damage the engine but turning at 3000 revolutions per minute won't?

Why be reliant on just a piece of wire holding 2 tonnes of metal in place when you can effectively lock in place?

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edit: I've had one good explanation which I saw in the flesh. In Thailand they park in neutral without handbrake, regardlress of tranny. It's so cars can be shuffled about.

Try get out of a parallel spot with 1cm on either side, whilst triple parked in, without pushing a few cars out of the way.

So Thai's are excepted.