Hilarious moment bungling thief unable to steal car from driveway

Tye Bakker posted CCTV footage of the incident, which shows the thief strolling on the roadworthy earlier turning up his driveway and into his store but- the car's manual gears near the crook stumped

A hilarious clip shows the infinitesimal a bungling car thief attempted to bargain a car from the owner’s driveway earlier being stopped, by their inability to alteration gears.

Tye Bakker posted CCTV footage of the incident, which shows the thief strolling on the roadworthy earlier turning up his driveway and into his garage. "What a horrible mode to commencement the morning,” Tye said connected the clip, which has been uploaded to TikTok and viewed implicit 145,000 times.

“At 7 o’clock this greeting idiosyncratic virtually broke done into our house, grabbed my keys and tried to bargain my car. The constabulary person travel and done fingerprints and everything but fortunate it's a manual and she could not bargain it.” The opportunist thief came done the broadside doorway onto the property, Tye said, earlier entering the room and grabbing his spouse Jamie’s purse disconnected the room table. She besides stole his wallet and keys to the car, helium said.

“But luckily, she did not cognize however to thrust a manual, due to the fact that she could not get it retired of the driveway,” helium explained successful the clip. Tye described however helium realised what was going connected and rushed extracurricular to face the brazen crook. “I did extremity up going retired determination and taking my keys retired of the ignition portion she was inactive successful the car and she conscionable walked past maine and conscionable walked off,” helium said.

Tye said that constabulary recovered the stolen purse discarded successful a tract down the thoroughfare and helium aboriginal recovered his wallet had been tossed successful the aforesaid area.n Signing disconnected Tye, who lives successful the metropolis of Bendigo successful Victoria, Australia said “stay harmless retired determination and marque definite you bargain a manual car due to the fact that she evidently could not bargain it”.

The station attracted hundreds of comments, with 1 idiosyncratic branding manual transmissions “good theft protection”. “Good aged manual cars, champion deterrent these days but fortunate you recovered immoderate of your stuff,” different said. While inactive commonplace successful the UK, cars with manual gearboxes are progressively uncommon successful Australia, with conscionable 5.5 per cent of cars sold determination successful 2021 having a manual transmission.