Goin’ back to the WWPC shows, you quite often hear the officer saying “could you turn the car / engine off please, sir / madam?” … and that’s a fairly good sign things are about to kick off, as they would probably be expecting normal non-perp folks to have killed the motor. Which our bruised supergenius friend just absentmindedly did by mistake.

Am kinda surprised the cop didn’t make a grab for the keys or react in any way at all to the sound of the starter kicking in, even though it ultimately failed. Pretty good chance if I tried that sort of thing here (even though my engine can be turning and the vehicle in motion from under 1 second from completely off, when it’s working well – i often kill it at long red lights) there’d be a well trained set of fingers grabbing my hand and for my key before the first successful cylinder firing.

In any case, mostly manual shift here.