Stick Shift Stumper - The Billerica Car Thief

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True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

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🗓️ 7 March 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

What happens when a would-be car thief picks the wrong vehicle for a quick escape? Chaos, comedy, and a whole lot of grinding gears. In this episode of True Crime To-Go, we head to Billerica, Massachusetts, where one man’s big heist was foiled by his own lack of driving skills. A stolen Toyota Corolla, a manual transmission, and a parking lot performance no one asked for—this is the story of the thief who couldn't handle a clutch. Buckle up (or at least try to), and get ready for a wild ride—sort of.

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0:00.0	Stoveleg Media, Igniting Conversation.
0:13.5	Welcome to True Crime to Go. What can I get for you?
0:17.3	Back in my day, I could steal any car I pleased I could drive anything but you whippers
0:23.0	snappers can't drive just a chicken sandwich pull up to the second window and we'll see you
0:27.9	next crime welcome to true crime to go I am John here with Jamie with the look of
0:36.7	possibly discussed on us. I mean,
0:38.4	I don't know that we've ever gone full impression or accent during the opening. You went,
0:43.0	uh, I don't know, somewhere between Hank Hill and Bill Dottreeve on that one. It just felt right,
0:48.1	man. I had zero planted. And, uh, yeah. Dude, today is a, a fun crime. I mean, you've called me out for bringing you, like, really hard stuff on this.
0:57.4	So I thought I would go lighthearted today.
0:59.8	I greatly appreciate that.
1:02.2	And just looking through the title here, I'm pretty excited.
1:06.9	This is something I think I'll enjoy.
1:09.1	Go ahead and get us rolling.
1:10.4	All right. So today we're going to roll into, I don't know, you guys at your house, I pick up
1:18.8	you, your kids sometimes for school and you guys have like the, what's it, the remote start
1:24.4	where you heat your cars like by pushing a button. My wife's car has that.
1:29.2	Mine does not.
1:30.2	So one of the things I hate the most is having to walk out in the cold, start the car, come back in and let it set for 10 minutes or whatever.
1:38.1	Well, apparently there was a family doing this because January 23rd, 2018, there was a quiet little town about 20 miles
1:47.7	northwest of Boston, Billerca, I don't know how you say it, and the temperatures were hovering
1:54.5	around 20 degrees, and so it was cold. So family went out to start their car to a 2006 Toyota Corolla, which was parked just down the street.
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