http://www.clickorlando.com/news/Stick-shift-foils-armed-carjackers-at-medical-center/-/1637132/18314360/-/67k58cz/-/index.html By Isolde Raftery, Staff Writer, NBC News Randolph Bean of Oviedo, Fla., had pulled over late Sunday night to text message his wife when two would-be carjackers approached his sporty yellow Corvette. One, holding a gun, forced him to the ground while the other hopped in the driver’s seat, Bean, 51, told WKMG Local 6. But there was a problem: The aspiring carjacker didn’t know how to start Bean’s car, a 2002 Millennium Yellow Z06 Corvette. (The car, used, sells for about $19,000.) "The guy started screaming at me, 'How do I start the car?'" Bean told WKMG. Finally, the other guy, still holding Bean at gunpoint, hollered back, “It’s a stick!” “I had to tell him four different times that you have to push in the clutch because it’s a standard transmission,” Bean told myfoxorlando.com. The two assailants – Bean said they were handsome young men -- ultimately ran away with his phone, wallet and keys. The wallet, he said, was special because his wife made it. “My first thought was I guess we don’t have driver’s ed in school anymore because no one knows how to drive a stick,” he told myfoxorlando.com. “And my second thing was, ‘Don’t shoot me because you can’t start the car! I am trying to help you out here.’”
If the carjackers didn't have the "piece"; they probably wouldn't have the intestinal fortitude to confront the car's owner in the first place. After all, they were only two on one.
The new ultimate anti-theft device is a manual transmission? Could be......last semester only 2 of my 15 students could drive a stick, this semester it's about the same. Oh, and I teach college automotive courses!
How do these budding Auto Service Professionals get the car from the lot to the lift if they can't drive a stick?