WEST VALLEY CITY,Utah (ABC4 News) — Police are looking for a man with a gun who they say attempted to carjack a man in front of his house.
It happened Monday at midnight in the area of 6700 West and 3900 South. According to police, the victim said a man approached him in his driveway, pulled out a gun and jumped in the victim’s car. Officials say when the carjacker realized the vehicle was a stick shift, he got out and ran away.
West Valley Police and K-9 officers searched the area but could not find the suspect. The investigation is ongoing.
h/t Snowball the Sourpuss.
this is why vocational training is so important
Was it Colon Kapperdink?
F’ dis I’s can’t shift and kneel at the same time,,
you Bastards,,
Anyone’s girlfriend been to Utah lately?
“Man with a gun”… great description of the criminal. That narrows it down.
I learned to drive with a three on the tree. Always preferred a manual transmission. My last truck purchase I had to go automatic. Hard to find a stick in a truck anymore. Old habits die hard though. I keep wanting to push that power brake clutch pedal now and then. Ticks off the people behind me.
As bad as automatic transmissions ar, the CVTs really suck.
I prefer a manual any day.
Try this one weird trick to stop Millennial car thirves! My Jeep is manual everything. Today’s punks probably couldn’t even figure out how to roll down the windows.
We have a manual vehicle. The first year we got it, I was driving while it was snowing. My wife for some reason didn’t like me starting off in 2nd gear. She tried to slam it back into 1st as I was taking off from a light. That ended in fight!
Fast forward to last fall. She was trying to teach the big kid how to drive it. He wasn’t getting it. I took him and her out and started the car off in all 5 forward gears. Blew her mind, she thought something would break. Put the kid back in and told him to start off in 3rd. Took him a few tries, but he finally made the connection between the clutch, the wheels and the engine. He’s been able to drive it ever since.
@Old Oaks – That’s what I used to like about the old Ford automatics. In the winter,if you put it in second gear it would be in second gear bypassing first. Easier to pull away from stop in snow. Most people never knew that. Don’t know if they still work that way.
D_Tim, My truck has an automatic 6-speed, as such with all these gears they got rid of the PRNDL. Now it just has PRND, however it can also go to S+ and S-. If I advance it in S+ to 2 from a stop, it starts in 2nd gear.
When my kids started driving I put them in a pickup with manual transmission. Two reasons, you can’t get too many kids in a small pickup, and it’s tough to drink beer while you have to keep shifting.
I got a pass through the VEIP in Maryland once cus the dummy couldn’t drive a stick.
(they still got their money, though – and THAT’s the important part)
izlamo delenda est …
@Joe6 – But I bet it was fun when you were dating huh?😉