{"id":11778,"date":"2011-10-25T00:04:39","date_gmt":"2011-10-25T04:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=11778"},"modified":"2011-10-24T17:57:57","modified_gmt":"2011-10-24T21:57:57","slug":"another-example-of-a-manual-transmission-being-a-good-anti-theft-device","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/10\/25\/another-example-of-a-manual-transmission-being-a-good-anti-theft-device\/","title":{"rendered":"Another example of a manual transmission being a good anti-theft device"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is one of those crime stories that tends to provoke <a href=\"http:\/\/www.winnipegfreepress.com\/breakingnews\/would-be-thief-armed-with-axe-targets-wrong-car-locks-himself-inside-132488683.html\" target=\"_blank\">laughter<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>RCMP Cpl. Craig Douglass said Monday that Morgan allegedly jumped into the idling Corvette just as the owner was putting away a charger used to revive the sports car&#8217;s dead battery.<\/p>\n<p>The owner watched in disbelief as the suspect rolled up the power windows, locked the power doors and promptly stalled the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Unfortunately for the (suspect), he was not good with a standard transmission and stalled the Corvette when he attempted to reverse out of the driveway,&#8221; Douglass said.<\/p>\n<p>[. . .]<\/p>\n<p>As police arrived, Morgan was attempting to exit the vehicle after allegedly smashing the driver side window with his screw driver &mdash; apparently for no good reason.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As it turns out, all the suspect would have had to do was manually slide the door lock to the side and the door would have opened,&#8221; Douglass said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is one of those crime stories that tends to provoke laughter: RCMP Cpl. Craig Douglass said Monday that Morgan allegedly jumped into the idling Corvette just as the owner was putting away a charger used to revive the sports car&#8217;s dead battery. The owner watched in disbelief as the suspect rolled up the power [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9],"tags":[111,343],"class_list":["post-11778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-law","tag-cars","tag-crimeandpunishment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-33Y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11778"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11779,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11778\/revisions\/11779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}