On 6/27/2014 12:24 PM, Nancy Young wrote:
> On 6/27/2014 5:05 PM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>> In a recent thread about driving, I was adamant that there was little
>> reason to have to learn stick shift to get your license. I guess I was
>> wrong and this proves it.
>>
>> http://www.kirotv.com/news/news/teen...k-shift/ngQd7/
>>
>>
>>
>> SEATTLE — Three teens tried to steal a Seattle woman’s car Saturday
>> afternoon, but couldn’t because none of them knew how to drive a stick
>> shift.
>> “I got a five speed in there,” Nancy Fredrickson, 70, said. “They
>> couldn't figure out how to get it going!”
>> Fredrickson said she had just walked around the back of her KIA to get
>> something from the trunk when she heard someone demanding her keys.
>> At first she thought it was a joke; then, she saw the gun.
>> “It's not every day you get a gun stuck in your face!" Fredrickson said.
>> She said a teen wearing a hooded sweatshirt was holding a large gun only
>> inches away.
>> Frederickson dropped her keys and said the teens jumped into the car.
>> But none of them knew how to drive it.
>> It was hilarious to Fredrickson’s neighbors.
>> “They can’t drive a stick?” Ryan Whitney exclaimed.
>> Fredrickson just stood behind her car as the teens tried and failed to
>> get it to move.
>
> It's kind of funny but really, she stood there? They have a
> GUN.
>

That part of the story sounds pretty bogus. She must be addled-brained. :-)

> nancy