You can buy locks for your brakes, steering wheel and hood along with alarms, trackers and even a kill switch. For one Grand Rapids woman, though, an attribute of her car rather than an accessory has seemingly prevented it from being stolen.
After all, when you don’t know how to handle a manual transmission, its difficult to drive away.
“That would be my only guess as to why they wouldn’t end up taking it,” said Lila Burns-Weerstra, who lives in a neighborhood on the east side of the city and works as a hairstylist at Jade Fox in Kentwood…