"Ed Pawlowski" > wrote in message
...
> 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.
> Then they ran across South Main Street and through the neighboring
> business’ parking lot.

This is funny! But we are not taught to drive a stick here. Daughter went
to the 911 Driving School. It is taught by cops. I believe that they
explained stick shifts but none of the cars were.