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.