Woman with butcher knife carjacks an SUV in Kansas City

[Philosoraptor]

From this morning's K.C. Star:

Woman with butcher knife carjacks an SUV in Kansas City
A woman armed with a butcher knife carjacked an SUV this morning, police said.

The woman took the 1997 white Ford Explorer at 299 Paseo at about 7:30 a.m. and drove south, dispatch reported. The suspect was a white woman in a pink shirt and tan pants, police said.


-------Who can blame her really, what with gas prices down to a buck fiddy here in town.

[MadHound]

1. With a knife? C'mon,

Lock the doors, roll up the windows(which due to cold weather I'm assuming that the windows were up), and drive away. Geez people. We're becoming a bunch of wimps.

[John Q. Citizen]

2. Was the victim in the car with the engine on at the time of the car jacking?

[MadHound]

5. Carjacking usually implies that the owner was in the car

As to whether or not the engine was on or not, I don't know. However I do know that it only takes a few seconds to lock the doors, start most vehicles and put the vehicle into gear, much less time than trying to hack into an SUV with a knife.

Sorry, but this just seems stupid to me, at least on the face of it. If there were extenuating circumstances, I'd sure like to see them.

[mondo joe]

4. Haven't you heard about the bad economy???!!! It was probably a cardboard SUV.

A knife will cut right through that!

Especially in the rain.

[taterguy]

3. Step on the gas

Victim should have listened to more Bill Hicks routines.