I will give up my stick shift when they pry it from my cold, dead hand.
A firearm is more effective
Shooting carjackers is A-OK with me
“a carjacker had stolen a vehicle and had to ditch it a few feet away because he couldn’t drive the standard transmission.”
Just another “intelligence failure”, if you will.
Feel good story for a Sunday morning
I have wanted for some time to get something like a 67 Dodge Charger with a 3 on the tree, gather up the high school graduating class and say if you can drive it you can have it...
Lol. I’ve always driven a stick shift. Stopped many people from being able to borrow my car.
Do they make electric cars with a stick shift?
You better hope so once they force everyone to buy one.
I have an older VW bug. 4 on the floor.
Pretty safe from being stolen.
In many states the situation would be dicey for the owner of the stickshift because the thief was running away. I hope that is not the case for this one, though. The criminal class must be given an understanding that certain types of crime are dangerous to their lives. I would love to hear that the staff of an upscale department store has shot four or five of the mob plundering the store and that no charges are appropriate against the clerks. If that were to happen twice in two different cities, it could just end the mob looting phenomenon.
Carjacking should be a capital offense for the same reasons that stealing horses was in past ages. A carjacker is leaving his victim at the mercy of both elements and other criminals.
Like riding a bicycle...
Ben Spicer is all over the place with his pronouns, so that it’s hard to make sense of the story. He says the suspect is a man, but then calls him “them.”
He started out robbing banks but was frustrated by his inability to write cursive.
Just grazed? Unfortunate.
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.
As a result of this experience, my 2010 Hummer H3 has a 5 speed manual trans. The transmission also helps me to get the most performance from a relatively heavy vehicle with a relatively small engine. (3.7L 250 hp, but moving 4800 lbs).