Two US car thieves failed to make their getaway - because the car they had just stolen had a manual transmission.
The teenagers armed with a gun approached a man outside a pizza restaurant in the US state of Georgia and stole his wallet and the keys to his Honda Accord.
Once they got inside the car, however, they could not start it because it had 'stick shift', according to an employee of the pizza restaurant.
'The kid was just sitting in the car trying to start it but he had no idea what to do. He looked dumbfounded. The only thing he had going was the radio,' said the witness.
While the thief was trying to start the car, restaurant employees called the police who arrived and caught the teenagers as they tried to escape into nearby woods.
Unlike many parts of the world, the majority of cars in the United States are automatic and thus many drivers are unfamiliar with the challenges of a manual transmission.
