Posted on 10/20/2016 1:08:03 PM PDT by C19fan
A carjacker in St. Louis, Mo. wasn’t able to make off with a stolen vehicle because he didn’t know how to drive a stick shift.
Dustin French said an armed thief ordered him to empty his pockets and get out of his car around 11 p.m. Thursday, but the suspected criminal couldn't drive off with his manual transmission car.
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I drove stick until I got married. After three clutch replacements, she convinced me of my error.
I’m a baby boomer..learned to drive “3 on the tree” ford truck...graduated to my mother’s 3 speed mustang..and happily drive my 5 speed nissan xterra today..
My lovely wife can handle a manual transmission. But she drives my Saturn Sky like a dump truck; no finesse.
Mine had the seemingly unbreakable habit of riding the clutch continuously while she drove. Of course it was my fault. She told me she preferred an automatic, but did I listen?
My wife has expressed interest in learning how to drive a manual.
One day I will put her in my Willys jeep and drop it in low range to see what happens.
Wear a head/neck brace . . .
In low range starting out, I can walk beside. The advantage of being geared really low.
I’ve got a 370Z that’s a kick in the ass. Going thru the grears is great fun and I know that no turd can steal it.
When I was a state copper working in Cook County I was in Chicago in the Greektown restaurant area when my partner and I monitored a Chicago Police Dept flash message about a car jacking that had just occurred in the area within the last few minutes.
Just moments after we made note of it, we heard cars honking at a late model import that was moving slowly in the left lane, jerking and stopping as other cars swerved around it. Since it matched the description of the suspect vehicle, we made a felony stop, detained three suspects who had two pistols in the car, and notified CPD Tactical officers to meet us at the scene.
These suspects were subsequently identified as the offenders in the car jacking, and the reason for the erratic driving that had captured our attention was the fact that the ringleader driver couldn’t operate the 5 speed manual transmission in it very well. One of his accomplices was an 18 wheel truck driver who was entirely capable of driving it, but the boss said that he had always wanted to drive a stick shift and this would be his first chance, so he ordered his buddy to stand down and took the wheel himself.
We wouldn’t catch so many of these clowns if so many weren’t so damn stupid.
I love a success story.
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