{"id":5645,"date":"2009-12-01T10:25:42","date_gmt":"2009-12-01T15:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=5645"},"modified":"2009-12-01T10:25:42","modified_gmt":"2009-12-01T15:25:42","slug":"the_best_defense_against_a_carjacking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/12\/the_best_defense_against_a_carjacking.html","title":{"rendered":"The Best Defense Against A Carjacking . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"

. . . is a standard transmission<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“We stopped at the light, and he came right over,” Peter recalled. “He was 6-foot, thin.”<\/p>\n

“Get out of the car!” the crook barked at Anne, who stands 5-foot-3 on her tiptoes.<\/p>\n

The creep then forced down the window on the driver’s side — and stuck his long arm in the car.<\/p>\n

“He used a knife to cut my hand” and then swiped Anne’s iPhone, she said.<\/p>\n

Things went from ugly to ridiculous by the time the light changed, the couple recalled — and the would-be carjacker’s luck ran out.<\/p>\n

. . .<\/p>\n

“I’m small — he cannot fit in my car,” she said.<\/p>\n

“And I don’t think he could drive the stick shift!”<\/p>\n

So, stolen iPhone in hand and his tail between his legs, the driving-challenged car thief took off on foot.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

. . . is a standard transmission: “We stopped at the light, and he came right over,” Peter recalled. “He was 6-foot, thin.” “Get out of the car!” the crook barked at Anne, who stands 5-foot-3 on her tiptoes. The creep then forced down the window on the driver’s side — and stuck his long […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law_order","category-need_to_know"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5646,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5645\/revisions\/5646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}