Car Thieves Try To Steal a Porsche, but They Have No Clue How To Drive Stick

A Porsche owner was left injured and shocked after thieves tried to steal his car right in front of his restaurant. They were, though, unable to drive stick and had to give up. The incident happened in Bethesda, the Washington D.C. area.

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When you go stealing a Porsche, consider that it might be an enthusiast’s car and you should go there prepared: capable of driving a stick. Or better don’t go stealing cars at all, no matter if you know your way around manual transmissions.

A band of car thieves tried to run off with a Porsche 718 Boxster in the evening of November 26, at around 11:50 PM. The dashboard camera of the sports car captured the moment they stopped their red-colored Nissan Rogue alongside the Porsche, got off the SUV one by one, and pushed the owner onto the sidewalk.

The four individuals step out of frame at one moment and then reappear. Two of them are seen jumping back in the Nissan Rogue, and the third one gets inside the Porsche. Several seconds later, the engine of the car can be heard, but it suddenly stops.

One of the thieves starts the engine once more, but the engine stalls once again. The reason for it was reportedly that the thieves were unable to put the transmission into the first gear, since they had no clue about how how to coordinate hand and foot, switchgear and clutch pedal.

The footage from the dashboard camera stops here, but the thieves reportedly got in the Nissan and fled the scene. Fox 5 notes that the owner had been followed by the suspects from a nearby location in Washington, D.C., to the headquarters of his business, a ramen shop.

Once the thieves attacked him, he managed to run off into the restaurant next to which he was parked and take shelter. He claims that gunshots were fired, but none of them struck him. Montgomery County Police are still investigating the case. They told Fox 5 that this year, there have been at least 82 carjack incidents so far this year compared to 79 in all of last year.

In a conversation with Fox 5, the owner of the Porsche said he would continue to work in his own restaurant even though that might jeopardize his safety, considering that the thieves know exactly where to find him. The owner of the Porsche was planning to drop several items at the restaurant and then drive back home. But things did not go according to plan, as thieves tried to carjack his Porsche 718 Spyder.

He also told reporters that the thieves wanted to steal his phone and his passport as well, along with his car keys.