A Brooklyn teacher’s stolen car was found during a New York police raid of a chop shop, and returned to her in its fixed-up, road-racer condition.
“I’m Jewish,” the teacher, Amanda Pogany complained, “and I don’t even know how to drive a stick shift!”
I hadn’t known that only automatic transmissions were kosher.
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