Or read cursive...
Hell, with the new cars with cams just to park.....they’ll be dependant on them, too. Give me the basics any day!
Well ... the photo isn’t really a manual stick shift, just an automatic wannabe.
"I can't move the other car, it's a stick shift."
I moved the car to then access mine. The valet did not get a tip.
Car thieves I understand, but a valet? He was only 18 or 19 so maybe that excuses it somewhat.
A 12 year old boy stole a school bus in Panama City today. He drove it all over the county, damaged it and stole stuff from it.
The cops or whoever the spokesman was indicated they are going to throw the book at him despite his age.
I can remember, back in the day, when I first tried to drive an automatic.
Almost go me killed ... when I wanted to slow down at an intersection for the first time, I tried to push the clutch (brake) all the way in and all the cars following suddenly were faced with a stopped vehicle.
LOL! We all survived with no damage other than my ego and having to put up with the ridicule of all those behind me.
Nope. I had some minor damage done to my car in Baltimore the first year we lived there. We had the cops out to take a report, and he assured me my 1996 Honda Civic would NEVER be stolen because it was a stick. I didn’t bother to even lock it after that, and no one ever touched it.
People are not going to like this:
I heard HUMVEES are AUTOMATIC because a ton of enlisted people are “inner-city” and commonly cannot drive sticks.
Is it true that HUMVEES are automatic..??!?!
>_<
Maybe just SOME?
Okay so you decide your going to steal a car, and carjacking is for some reason your best option, after all you have a gun you might as well use it...and then you pick a KIA to steal.
REALLY!
How is that pic a stick shift?
Morons!
Maybe the instruction manual was written in cursive.
A 70-year-old woman has a stick shift? Bravo! I have driven sticks most of my life.
I mean manual drive?
In Seattle these three mugs will be released before the arresting officer has finished his paperwork. Had she been armed they’d simply need a mortician.
An urbane gentleman (among other things) -
-drives a stick
-is able to tie a bow tie
-shaves with a brush and DE razor
Dat be ode skoo.
When I was a state copper working in Cook County I was in Chicago in the Greektown resturant area when my partner and I monitored a Chicago Police Dept flash message about a car jacking that had just occured 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 couldnt 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 wouldnt catch so many of these clowns if so many werent so damn stupid.
Heh heh, yet another reason to drive manual transmission cars.
I’m glad I learned how to use manual transmission back in the day; most cars in Europe are manual transmission.
If you looked in at the 80-odd cars parked outside my apartment building, I’d guess that maybe no more than three or four of them have automatic transmissions. Even most of the higher-end cars (MBZ sedans) have manual transmission.
It’s as common as air over here. I can’t think of a single person I know among my current/former students and my friends and acquaintances who doesn’t know how to drive a stick.