My car was hit.. AGAIN!

[knotheads at mailblocks.com (Ben Carter)]

            I had a car once that was hit FOUR TIMES IN ONE MONTH. All 
of them while either I or my wife were parked. The first was a kid at 
church that wouldn't admit to it 'til his little brother squealed. The 
second was my Sister-in-law. I couldn't yell at these two for bad 
driving cause I didn't want to cause a scene in church or a family 
feud. The poor bastards that hit me after that took the brunt of my 
frustrations from the first two hits since I didn't know them. The fun 
part was explaining to the body shops that all the dents need to be 
appraised separately. If only Knight Industries would release the 
formula of their molecularly bonded shell that they used on K.I.T.T. Oh 
wait, that's only on TV. I'm thinkin' you should go with full 
wrap-around steel bumpers. You could start a trend! Get a few people 
together and start a club. Call it "Motorists Against Morons". MAM for 
short. I would join.
          Well, good luck, and don't shoot anybody. You know the saying, 
"Don't sweat the small stuff. And it's all small stuff". Doesn't feel 
like it at the time but at least it is something that can be replaced 
or repaired. Just be glad it wasn't more serious and you walked away. 
My cousin was recently killed when somebody ran a red light. She left 
behind husband and kids and a lot of family. I'm just glad you are able 
to tell us about it!

Good luck,
Ben C.


-----Original Message-----
From: T. Reed <treed2@wsu.edu>
To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
Sent: Sun, 26 Dec 2004 04:01:09 -0800 (PST)
Subject: My car was hit.. AGAIN!

I can't believe the idiots on the roads these days.

For the second time in a week, I've been hit, while stopped, by an 
inattentive driver.

This time it was a Uhaul pickup that slammed in to the back of my 
silver 16v while I was stopped at a stop sign. The driver, of course, 
was uninsured and had no license. Long story there, but he didn't go to 
jail. He did give me $100 cash and "claim" that he would pay the rest 
of the repair costs if I showed him receipts. But he lied to me about 
not having a license (he claimed it was "at home" until I said "let's 
go get it") so I have doubts that he will go through with it.

No police report was taken because the officer didn't think the damage 
was significant enough.

The damage seems to be confined to the bumper (the bumper metal as well 
as the brackets are definitely bent), but I haven't inspected it in 
daylight because Christmas has kept me busy (this happened a few days 
ago).

The plastic rear bumper cover lost about 4 or 5 clips to the pavement 
on impact, and the left (driver side) corner is dropping down towards 
the pavement because the clips broke off there.

GRRRR!!!!!!!!!!

To top it off, the insurance adjuster from the first accident hasn't 
looked at the car yet, so he'll obviously be more inclined to devalue 
(and thus.. total) the car if it has been hit "everywhere" already.

It's like a friggin demolition derby, I can't believe it. And my baby 
is at the center of it all.

I hate these jerks that can't drive! How hard is it to drive without 
hitting vehicles that are stopped..?!?

-Toby

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