Once upon a time before I escaped the greatest Soviet of Chicago and Cook County Illinois, and moved to Georgia, I worked there as an Illinois state policeman in the Chicago area. My partner and I received a flash message over the Illinois State police emergency radio network advising of a carjacking in Greektown, a sub community at the University of Illinois medical Center in Chicago. Moments later we saw a car that fit the description jerking and bucking down the street at low speed with frustrated drivers honking their horns at it and passing in irritation. It was this unusual set of circumstances that attracted our attention to it in the first place.
We executed a felony stop on the car, detained the three passengers and the driver, and quickly determined that they were in fact the criminal miscreants described in the flash message. When we interrogated the suspects we discovered that the driver admitted he could not drive a manual transmission car (the hijacked Honda had a five speed manual transmission) but that he had always wanted to try to drive one, and figured this would be a good time for him to learn.
Even more interesting was that one of the crew was a duly licensed Class D. 18 wheel truck driver who was quite capable of driving the car, but his mastermind boss wouldn’t let him.
I got to admit that we coppers wouldn’t get so many of these idiots if they just weren’t so damn stupid.
I can’t even imagine these newer generation idiots trying to steal a truck with a 15 speed tranny, let alone an old 5x9 dinosaur!