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Colorado woman tried to steal a pickup, but couldn’t handle the stick shift, police said
AP ^ | 5/9/24 | AP

Posted on 05/11/2024 2:27:14 PM PDT by DallasBiff

BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — A Colorado woman’s attempt to steal a pickup truck — shortly after she was released from jail on a car theft charge — was thwarted not by officers, nor the truck’s owners, but by her inability to drive a stick shift, Boulder Police said.

The woman had been released from jail on May 3 after being accused of stealing a car a day earlier, and walked down the road until she spotted a pickup truck with the keys inside. She then started the pickup, but apparently discovered she couldn’t manage the manual transmission, so she got out and walked away, leaving the truck to roll forward and strike a fire hydrant, police said.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Humor; Local News
KEYWORDS: boulder; cars; colorado; donatefreerepublic; jimseesyou; joindu; qanon; stickshift
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When I became driving age, my dad insisted that I learn a manual transmission and clutch, oh gawd I grinded the gears.

Oh well in Europe the rental cars are 95% manual transmissions.

Driving a stick is like riding a bike, once you learn you never forget.

1 posted on 05/11/2024 2:27:14 PM PDT by DallasBiff
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To: DallasBiff

No description of the perp.

Odd.


2 posted on 05/11/2024 2:30:46 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: DallasBiff

Do we look?


3 posted on 05/11/2024 2:33:01 PM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: DallasBiff

My dad wouldn’t let us drive an automatic until we learned on a stick. He made sure all 5 of his kids could drive a standard and to this day, I prefer it, except maybe in bumper to bumper traffic


4 posted on 05/11/2024 2:40:15 PM PDT by This_Dude
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To: This_Dude

I taught my kids how to drive a manual. I miss not having one.

My youngest drives a semi. 18 speed I think.


5 posted on 05/11/2024 2:42:32 PM PDT by cyclotic (Don’t be part of the problem. Be the entire problem)
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To: DallasBiff

I was taught to drive on stick shift.

NOW have 1976 1 ton Chevy truck with 4 speed.

NOT letting it go.


6 posted on 05/11/2024 2:43:57 PM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: DallasBiff

millennial theft deterrent


7 posted on 05/11/2024 2:45:27 PM PDT by changeitback440
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To: DallasBiff

This is totally incredible - like the story is not believable. Where can you buy a truck that has a stick shift, unless this one is so old that it has a stick shift in which case it is not worth stealing unless you are one of those guys like me who will hold onto their manual transission until it is pried out of my cold daed hands. But it is hard to see why someone who couldn’t drive a truck with a stick shift would want to steal one.


8 posted on 05/11/2024 2:50:10 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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"I was taught to drive on stick shift."

After driving manual transmissions for years it took me a while to overcome the urge to push in the clutch after buying my first automatic transmission vehicle.
9 posted on 05/11/2024 2:52:10 PM PDT by clearcarbon (Fraudulent elections have consequences.)
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To: DallasBiff

That’s because she was shiftless 🤣🤣🤣🤣


10 posted on 05/11/2024 2:52:55 PM PDT by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show hosts to me.... Sting…)
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To: changeitback440

“millennial theft deterrent”
...add cursive to the instrumentation and they’re doomed


11 posted on 05/11/2024 2:54:49 PM PDT by SheepWhisperer (Get involved with, or start a home fellowship group. It will be the final church. ACTS 2:42-47)
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To: Thank You Rush

“Do we look?”

In Boulder? Boulderites really don’t embrace minorities that much despite what they present to the world.


12 posted on 05/11/2024 2:54:57 PM PDT by dljordan (What do you think?)
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To: AndyJackson

I think Toyota still makes a standard transmission pickup. As for sedans, you’d be surprised. Most are high end of course.


13 posted on 05/11/2024 2:54:59 PM PDT by FLNittany (Autotune is jealous of Karen Carpenter)
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hmmmf, men outside of colorado just need to value women for more than their brains.

(ducking)


14 posted on 05/11/2024 2:58:18 PM PDT by SteveH
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To: FLNittany

Yes, but it’s got “smart” features, whatever the heck that means.

I learned to use a manual on a 1963 Volvo 544 with 350K on it. It was like trying to find a golfball at the bottom of a pond with a boat oar. My Dad, of course, shifted it without the clutch pedal.


15 posted on 05/11/2024 3:06:54 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: Lockbox

She does not do well in a clutch situation.


16 posted on 05/11/2024 3:06:57 PM PDT by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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To: clearcarbon

I learned on an automatic. My dad then taught me how to drive on a manual. My Toyota truck had a manual transmission. Kept that thing for 25 years.

I preferred driving manual until I got pregnant. Still prefer manual, but most minivans are automatic and I had a busy brood to haul around.

I did the same thing you did. For the first month or so I was reaching for the stick and raising my leg to work a non-existent clutch.


17 posted on 05/11/2024 3:07:07 PM PDT by TheWriterTX (🇺🇸✝️🙏🇮🇱)
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To: DallasBiff

I’m here for the jokes.


18 posted on 05/11/2024 3:13:13 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (Jesus + Something = Nothing ; Jesus + Nothing = Everything )
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To: AndyJackson

https://www.motortrend.com/features/every-manual-transmission-car-for-sale/


19 posted on 05/11/2024 3:18:31 PM PDT by jjotto ( Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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To: DallasBiff

RE: leaving the truck to roll forward and strike a fire hydrant, police said. </i>

That’s the part that’s always in the comedy movies.

Real life.

Another reason why statistics show American women are marrying much later and putting off having a family:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnFJuxV_K8U

Not safe driver award candidate:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iwOZpAXdrI

If you ever think I have too harshly low of an opinion of people:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Z8hHrolamY


20 posted on 05/11/2024 3:20:37 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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