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Badass Woman Escapes Kidnappers Using A Manual Transmission And Nerves Of Steel
Jalopnik.com ^ | 7/29/2017 | Tom McParland

Posted on 07/30/2017 7:25:40 AM PDT by simpson96

A college student in Columbia, South Carolina was kidnapped by three men at gunpoint. Fearing the worst, she used some Jason Bourne level-problem solving and her manual transmission car to get away safely.

According to newspaper The State, 20-year-old Jordan Dinsmore found herself in one of the worst situations possible when three men approached her, pushed her to the ground and put a gun to her head. The publication reports that they forced her to drive her car and withdraw money from an ATM and then told her that she was going to be taken to a location to be raped.

But Dinsmore had one advantage, The State reports—when the men first put her into the car they couldn’t drive it because it had a manual transmission, so they made her take the driver’s seat. That is when she concocted a plan to escape. After she withdrew $300 out of the ATM, she got back into the car and left her seatbelt off, she hoped her kidnappers didn’t notice the seatbelt alarm chiming.(snip)

“I was thinking somehow I have to get out of this,” Dinsmore said. “Can I crash the car? No, because it might knock me out and not them. Can I pull over or something? I have to get away from them.”

The Slate reports that she purposefully missed the turn and rolled her car into the intersection, threw her car in neutral, then she opened the door and jumped out, while the vehicle was moving at 35 mph.

Once she landed she screamed for help, a woman came to her and called 911. Dinsmore suffered only minor scrapes and bruises from her escape and her 2009 Scion even managed to be in pretty decent shape after the attackers crashed it, The State reports.


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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; US: South Carolina
KEYWORDS: highspeed; rape; thugculture
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To: Aut Pax Aut Bellum

Did you mean “shiftless” and lazy?


41 posted on 07/30/2017 8:24:49 AM PDT by null and void (ObamaCare, giving the government the power of life and death over Americans since March 23, 2010...)
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To: EEGator
I’m assuming the lack of a description is the description...

Your assumption would be correct.

http://www.wyff4.com/article/3-teens-targeted-college-students-in-racially-motivated-crime-spree-sheriff-says/10376659

42 posted on 07/30/2017 8:28:16 AM PDT by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC)z)
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To: CodeToad

Good ole whitey commits just as many horrible crimes. Strangely i rarely if ever see them here...these perps deserve swift justice no doubt. But they are far from the only ones out there..


43 posted on 07/30/2017 8:31:29 AM PDT by wyowolf (Be ware when the preachers take over the Republican party...)
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To: freedumb2003

The biggest disadvantage a vehicle with a manual transmission has is that they have virtually no resale value, a point that was driven home several times in negotiations for a car trade.

But it is a GREAT anti-theft device, as the perpetrator has little chance of learning the nuances of disengaging the clutch, moving the gear lever to the proper gear, and releasing the clutch in such manner as to pick up speed more or less smoothly, without killing the engine or causing excessive overrevving.

If you are good with the operation of a manual transmission, it is not necessary to even use the clutch once you are underway. Just let up slightly on the accelerator, slip the transmission into neutral, then with the throttle, match the engine speed to approximately that of the ground speed in that next particular gear, and the gears will slide into the next higher or lower ratio like a hot knife through butter. Double-clutching without the use of a clutch.

Syncro-mesh was the wussie’s way out, and destroyed the practice of this fine art.


44 posted on 07/30/2017 8:35:01 AM PDT by alloysteel (The difference between Illinois and Venezuela, is that toilet tissue is still available in Illinois.)
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To: simpson96

Lucky girl

ATM transactions need to be upgraded so that crime victims when making forced withdrawals can send a coded message they are under duress


45 posted on 07/30/2017 8:36:34 AM PDT by silverleaf (We voted for change, not leftover change)
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To: simpson96

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBB2bPwKWVg


46 posted on 07/30/2017 8:36:36 AM PDT by Walkingfeather
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To: wyowolf
Good ole whitey commits just as many horrible crimes.

But good ole whitey isn't just 5% of the population committing 50% of the crimes. Remove the blacks from the crime in the US and our crime rate is lower than all of Europe.

47 posted on 07/30/2017 8:38:10 AM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: CodeToad

It won’t ‘stop’. The Rapture will result in gang violence you can only imagine, as dead souls seek to survive not realizing time is so short for them all. The end of the seven years of Tribulation will however ‘end’ the dead soul attacks.


48 posted on 07/30/2017 8:40:09 AM PDT by MHGinTN (A dispensational perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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To: freedumb2003

‘I don’t think Gen-Xers and Millennials even know how to use manual window cranks much less manual transmissions.’

Not true. My 17 year old grandaughter has a car with a manual
transmission.


49 posted on 07/30/2017 8:43:59 AM PDT by topspinr
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To: Rapscallion
Description of the perps?????
Guess.

I'll take perps for $500:

If 0bama had sons (and wasn't a homo) they'd look just like them?

50 posted on 07/30/2017 8:48:20 AM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (Imagine if the RINOs and socialist dems were working for the good of The Country!)
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To: wyowolf

“Good ole whitey commits just as many horrible crimes”

No, they don’t. National crime stats say otherwise.


51 posted on 07/30/2017 8:50:19 AM PDT by CodeToad (AA)
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To: freedumb2003
We have a standard transmission.

Here in the USA that is probably the best anti-theft device you can have.

While we were on vacation, someone broke into our house and among other things stole my stick-shift Beetle. She got it about a quarter-mile before someone helped her push it into a church parking lot. It cost the insurance company $1800 to replace the clutch in a practically new car.

52 posted on 07/30/2017 8:55:57 AM PDT by AZLiberty (A is now A once again.)
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To: null and void

My dad made me learn on a manual & I was not happy. He did say that it could save my life if I happened to get into a situation where that was my only way out. I couldn’t even argue w/ him on that point!

Good luck with yours!!!


53 posted on 07/30/2017 8:57:40 AM PDT by leaning conservative (snow coming, school cancelled, yayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!)
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To: wyowolf

Not even close statistically wise..


54 posted on 07/30/2017 8:58:14 AM PDT by mowowie
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To: CodeToad
There is a race war on, and this is just one more example.

Balderdash. Race war, schmace war.

That's just what the Enemy loves to do: pit groups against each other who should otherwise be uniting against it. Then they tear each other apart while the Enemy prospers.

Do you honestly think that 13% of the American population wants to go up against 70%? The vast majority of Blacks—like the vast majority of Whites—just want to be left alone and live in peace with their fellow Americans.

This "race war" crap is just what outfits like the Black Panthers—and their White counterparts—try to foment. It's a lie, and it will never happen in America. Nor should it. The only thing that can result from that is even more innocents being killed on both sides. Is that what you want?

"It's a trap!" Try to think like a Christian. Don't allow yourself to be manipulated by the Enemy...

55 posted on 07/30/2017 9:00:21 AM PDT by sargon ("If we were in the midst of a zombie apocalypse, the Left would protest for zombies' rights.")
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To: Aut Pax Aut Bellum; americas.best.days...

LOL.


56 posted on 07/30/2017 9:03:41 AM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: freedumb2003

“I don’t think Gen-Xers and Millennials even know how to use manual window cranks much less manual transmissions.”

This Gen-Xer thinks that automatic transmission should be banned :-). I’ve *never* owned an automatic :-).

You got me on window cranks though ... I love power windows.


57 posted on 07/30/2017 9:03:52 AM PDT by edh (I need a better tagline)
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To: silverleaf

“ATM transactions need to be upgraded so that crime victims when making forced withdrawals can send a coded message they are under duress”

wouldn’t be hard to do, e.g., append “*” or “#” at the end of the PIN, ATM system auto dials 911 and auto-feeds ATM address to police.


58 posted on 07/30/2017 9:04:10 AM PDT by catnipman ( Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: topspinr

1 out of 20,000...


59 posted on 07/30/2017 9:07:12 AM PDT by mowowie
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To: sargon

the problem is that the vast majority of blacks believe that they have a vast majority.
Media doesn’t help


60 posted on 07/30/2017 9:11:15 AM PDT by mowowie
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