[VIDEO] Try Not to Laugh as a Wanna-Be Car Thief Gets Stuck Inside a C8 Corvette

Sep 18, 2024

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[VIDEO] Try Not to Laugh as a Wanna-Be Car Thief Gets Stuck Inside a C8 Corvette

It pays to read the owner’s manual, at least in the case of a would-be thief who found himself trapped inside a C8 Corvette in South Florida this week.

If the man who was apparently trying to steal a mid-engine Stingray from a Miami Beach parking garage on Washington Avenue and 16th Street on Monday afternoon had been up-to-date on his reading, he would have known that a manual door release handle was right next to his seat.

Unfortunately for Ravesh Rabindranauth, 33, the actual owner of the Corvette eventually returned to get in his car and was shocked to see the man’s head pop up from underneath the dash as he approached.

With his phone camera rolling, Corvette owner Julio Solano initiated a conversation with the man.

“My brother, this is not your car, this is my car,” Solano tells the bewildered suspect.

“Can I get out?”

“No, you can’t get out. We’re calling the cops.”

“For what?”

“What do you mean, for what?”

Solano told Local 10 reporter Cody Weddle that he returned from breakfast Monday morning to find Rabindranauth inside his Corvette.

A few minutes later, with the door now open, the suspect can be seen tumbling out of the car onto the ground, with a police officer pointing a gun at him. Rabindranauth, formerly of New York with no previous record, has since been arrested and taken before a judge who set his bond at $2,500 and charged him with one count of burglary of an unoccupied conveyance.

Solano thinks the man was able to break into his car successfully but then was shocked to find himself locked inside without any apparent way to get out.

“That particular Corvette,” Solano explains, “if you’re in the car and you don’t have the key, none of the electrical components will function. But little did he know there is a manual door handle under the seat. Thank God, he didn’t know.”

The suspect allegedly told officers that he’d been sent there to pick up a Lamborghini Urus SUV, but it was locked. He said he tried to open the door to a Ford Mustang that was also locked, until he found the Corvette.

Solano warns other owners to be aware when they’re getting in and out of their cars.

“Just be alert, you know when you’re getting in and out of your car, be vigilant, be alert of your surroundings,” Solano says.