Saturday, February 2, 2013

Would-be carjackers foiled by mysteries of the stick shift

Via Daily Timewaster


An attempted stickup was confounded by a car’s stick shift, when would-be carjackers failed to understand the mechanics behind a manual transmission.

Randolph Bean tells WOFL FOX 35 that two men attempted to steal his 2002 yellow Corvette at gunpoint outside an Orlando hospital, but they ended up running away after they couldn’t figure out how to drive his car.

"They apparently couldn't start it,” Bean 51, is quoted as saying in a police report. “I had to tell him four different times to push in the clutch, because it's a standard transmission."
After several failed attempts, the thieves eventually fled the scene.

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2 comments:

  1. Why was Bean hanging around helping after they were in the car? I would have said, "screw this, I got insurance, I'm outta here!"

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    1. I'm guessing they held a gun on him not wanting him to leave before they did.

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