Maryland

sl8

(16,245 posts) Thu Mar 30, 2023, 05:26 AM Mar 2023

Watch Teens Attempt to Carjack Man, But Can't Drive Manual Transmission to Get Away

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/watch-teens-attempt-to-carjack-man-but-cant-drive-manual-transmission-to-get-away/3316846/

(video at link)

Watch Teens Attempt to Carjack Man, But Can't Drive Manual Transmission to Get Away

Montgomery County police say the teens forced the driver to give them his keys at a Germantown gas station

By Gina Cook • Published March 29, 2023 • Updated on March 29, 2023 at 5:31 pm

Two teens who carjacked a man at a gas station in Germantown, Maryland were unable to drive away because they didn't know how to operate the car's manual transmission, police say.

A 16-year-old from Rockville and a 17-year-old from Washington, D.C. were arrested after the carjacking on Saturday at the Sunoco gas station on Frederick Road, Montgomery County police said.

A man had just finished pumping gas and was getting into his car when he saw the two teens running toward him, police said. The teens then forced his door open, grabbed him and demanded his keys, which he handed over to them.

When the teens got into the car, they didn't know how to operate the car's manual transmission, police said, so they got out of the car and ran off.

[...]

10 replies

= new reply since forum marked as read

Highlight:

Watch Teens Attempt to Carjack Man, But Can't Drive Manual Transmission to Get Away (Original Post) sl8 Mar 2023 OP

Manual transmission is a valid anti-theft device IMO. no_hypocrisy Mar 2023 #1

super sad and funny at the same time Laf.La.Dem. Mar 2023 #2

agreed Skittles Mar 2023 #6

Now you have reminded me how much I miss my clutch, twodogsbarking Mar 2023 #3

imagine them trying to steal an 18 wheeler with a split differential. 3Hotdogs Mar 2023 #4

i was just fantasizing about the same thing happening to me. barbtries Mar 2023 #5

the music is all wrong..should be the Keystone cops theme...or some cartoon music samnsara Mar 2023 #7

Or Benny Hill. twodogsbarking Mar 2023 #8

I once had to drive my car into the oil change pit because sinkingfeeling Mar 2023 #9

these teens need driving lessons from these 2. AllaN01Bear Mar 2023 #10

no_hypocrisy

(48,794 posts)

1. Manual transmission is a valid anti-theft device IMO.

Reply to sl8 (Original post)

Thu Mar 30, 2023, 05:29 AM

Mar 2023

Laf.La.Dem.

(2,962 posts)

2. super sad and funny at the same time

Reply to sl8 (Original post)

Thu Mar 30, 2023, 05:51 AM

Mar 2023

Skittles

(159,372 posts)

6. agreed

Reply to Laf.La.Dem. (Reply #2)

Thu Mar 30, 2023, 06:46 AM

Mar 2023

I mean, I laughed, although the situation is far from humorous for that driver

twodogsbarking

(12,228 posts)

3. Now you have reminded me how much I miss my clutch,

Reply to sl8 (Original post)

Thu Mar 30, 2023, 06:04 AM

Mar 2023

and five on the floor. Still have rear wheel drive though.
I can drive a tractor with a hand clutch. Yeehaw.

3Hotdogs

(13,398 posts)

4. imagine them trying to steal an 18 wheeler with a split differential.

Reply to sl8 (Original post)

Thu Mar 30, 2023, 06:22 AM

Mar 2023

I drove one in the yard where I worked. But I only had to put it in first gear to drive it around 50 ft.

barbtries

(29,792 posts)

5. i was just fantasizing about the same thing happening to me.

Reply to sl8 (Original post)

Thu Mar 30, 2023, 06:31 AM

Mar 2023

I have a thing for manual transmissions and both of my cars are stick shifts. When my 2020 Impreza showed up in a search and it was just a couple towns away, I bought it sight unseen because I'd waited for years to get that car with a stick.

I think it goes back to the first time my oldest brother tried to teach me how to drive a stick. After the lesson was over he said to me, "you're just going to have to drive automatics because you're too much of a klutz to drive a stick." So that was 50 years ago and I've never bought an automatic.

When I got to the dealer to pick up my car, the sales manager told me a joke. Two guys are walking from the car into a restaurant or whatever and one tells the other "you didn't lock your car." The driver just says, "It's a stick."

and it happened. ha