Hapless Car Thieves Thwarted... By A Manual Gearbox
Alarms, immobilisers and Faraday pouches are all well and good, but when it comes to protecting your ride against thieves, a manual gearbox can be pretty damn effective.
Case in point? A pair of teenagers were arrested in Nashville, Tennessee last week, shortly after abandoning a car they were trying to steal “apparently unable to drive a manual transmission,” local authorities said.
It had been a particularly unsuccessful evening for the teens. At 6.20 PM the pair tried to pull one woman from a vehicle in a multi-storey car park on the Hillsboro Pike, only for the victim to scream and hold down her horn. The perpetrators then ran away.
Undeterred, the two rubbish thieves grasped keys out of the hand of a woman who was walking away from her car in the Kroker car park, giving up only a few seconds after getting in the vehicle thanks to its stick shift configuration.
Local police spotted the teenagers shortly after and promptly arrested them. They have been charged with carjacking, theft of property and attempted vehicle theft at Juvenile Court.
Growing up on a diet of World Rally Championship highlights and lengthy Gran Turismo 2 sessions, a life in cars was as good as inevitable for Matt.
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So… moral of story:
If you don’t want your car to be stolen, buy a manual!
And I sure did lol
In fairness, heel-toe downshifting allows you to simulate having three feet for a fraction of a second xD!
See? Millennial anti theft device!
Inb4 memes about America and anti theft devices
You don’t need a meme because it literally happened.
this is America
It seems I’ve caused quite the stir
You mean like this one
Pro car stealing skills
Manual is the best anti theft device.
Almost as good as Mr Bean and his removable steering wheel
No steering wheel didn’t stop this guy.
Ehem
Disklok
Sad times, sad times …….
Laugh in European
Although only 5% of new cars in the US are manual, conservative estimate show about 18% of Americans know how to drive stick, which is about 60 million people, which is roughly the population of France.
… Laughs in perspective
Welp I know what I want for my next car, A MANUAL.