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Stick shift thwarts teen carjackers

Three teens were left red-faced when they tried to steal a woman’s car, but couldn’t because none of them knew how to drive a stick shift.

Nancy Fredrickson, 70, from Seattle, had walked around to the back of her KIA sedan to get something from the trunk when a male wielding a gun demanded her keys, komonews.com reports.

The terrified woman dropped her keys and the trio jumped into her car.

But the joke was on the wannabe carjackers when they realized Fredrickson’s car was a manual and not an automatic.

“I got a five-speed in there,” Fredrickson said. “They couldn’t figure out how to get it going!”

When the teens realized none of them could drive the vehicle, they bolted.

Fredrickson told komonews.com that while she’s laughing now, she was in tears as she called the police.

Her neighbors thought the incident was hilarious.

“They can’t drive a stick?” one man said.

Surveillance footage captured the men running from the scene. They still haven’t been caught.