Stick shift foils attempted carjacking in Ballston

Police car at night (file photo courtesy Kevin Wolf)
A carjacking attempt Monday morning was foiled by the vehicle’s stick shift, according to police.
The incident happened around 5:45 a.m. on Labor Day at the Harris Teeter parking lot on the 600 block of N. Glebe Road.
Three men carjacked a victim who was driving a Kia Soul, but did not get far as they apparently did not know how to operate the vehicle’s manual transmission, according to police and scanner traffic.
The Fairfax Count