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Alexander
Heavy Horse Merc Brigade
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 Posted: 16-Jul-2002 23:27 Post subject: Just to keep the Car crash theme going! |
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I was driving home from work today when some old dumbass decided the guy in front of him wasn't going fast enough, so he changed lanes right into me and my new car. Punched in the driver's side door and rear fender.
I have no luck with cars lately. Atleast it was his fault, and not my own. Insurance up here is crazy expensive! Besides, I couldn't afford the repairs on my own right now!
Alexander (Going to get the damages looked at first thing tomorrow, and crying myself to sleep tonight!)
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ICER
Clan Hell's Horses
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| Posted: 16-Jul-2002 23:56 Post subject: Just to keep the Car crash theme going! |
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That Bites,
Are you OK though? Cause in the end, That's all that matters.
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Dead-Fish
Free Worlds League
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| Posted: 17-Jul-2002 00:09 Post subject: Just to keep the Car crash theme going! |
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spooky, mordel's must be cursed. last thursday some lady took a left into me and smashed my front driverside wheel right off the strut
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Talen
Capellan Confederation
Sang-shao
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| Posted: 17-Jul-2002 00:30 Post subject: Just to keep the Car crash theme going! |
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If you could see my BMW you'd think someone took a semi truck to it...but i wasnt in the car at the time...nobody was thankfully.
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Alexander
Heavy Horse Merc Brigade
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Location: Canada
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| Posted: 17-Jul-2002 00:58 Post subject: Just to keep the Car crash theme going! |
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No injuries, other than my already shaky hold on my anger and sanity!
Alexander (Urge to kill rising, rising!  )
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Gangrene
Federated Suns
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Location: United States
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| Posted: 17-Jul-2002 01:02 Post subject: Just to keep the Car crash theme going! |
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On 2002-07-17 00:09, Dead-Fish wrote:
spooky, mordel's must be cursed. last thursday some lady took a left into me and smashed my front driverside wheel right off the strut
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You might be right, Dead-Fish. Just a few weeks ago I had my first car accident (where I was the driver). I was heading into LA on the 101 south in stop-and-go traffic, and in a moment of distraction I hit my brakes too late and rear-ended a girl's car. Up until that point I had a flawless driving record. There wasn't much damage, but unfortunately she was kind of attractive so that didn't make me feel any better.
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Sarkkahn
Draconis Combine
Tai-i
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| Posted: 17-Jul-2002 01:41 Post subject: Just to keep the Car crash theme going! |
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Oh perfect and me who is about to fet my licence......
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Clan Hell's Horses
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| Posted: 17-Jul-2002 02:09 Post subject: Just to keep the Car crash theme going! |
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I got you beat, My father is going out of town. And wants me to take care of his new Seabrean.
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Sir Henry
Team Bansai
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| Posted: 17-Jul-2002 07:36 Post subject: Just to keep the Car crash theme going! |
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You folks are scarin' me. I have only been a passenger for every accident I've ever been in.....
Sir HEnry, Gotta go put the Rubber bumpers on my car. All the way around.....
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Hardware
Clan Ghost Bear
Star Colonel
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Location: United States
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| Posted: 17-Jul-2002 10:04 Post subject: Just to keep the Car crash theme going! |
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Well, not that I've ever had any accidents, but Chihawk can attest to at least one near miss, avoided only by attention and lighting quick reflexes.
However, I've found that the best way to avoid accidents is to have a larger vehicle than the other guy on the road. I used to drive an '84 Buick LeSabre two door. For those of you not alive in '84, this was a truly large vehicle.
When I was merging on to highways I never looked, I just merged. Let 'em sort it out behind me. I also recall a nice, new Honda Passport that was doggedly keeping pace with my right rear quarter panel as I was trying to get into the right lane to exit the highway. After a mile of turn signal with him neither slowing down or speeding past me I just started edging over into his lane. What did I care? My car was already paid for. Plus, those nice, long doors were really excellent for parking next to a rice boy's car and giving him a nice case of door ding.
Evil is it's own reward.
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Sir Henry
Team Bansai
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| Posted: 17-Jul-2002 12:48 Post subject: Just to keep the Car crash theme going! |
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Works well with a '78 LTD.....
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Talen
Capellan Confederation
Sang-shao
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Location: United States
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| Posted: 17-Jul-2002 13:17 Post subject: Just to keep the Car crash theme going! |
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Boats! Tanks! '65 Impala! (i think)
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Ares
Clan Jade Falcon
Star Colonel
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| Posted: 17-Jul-2002 14:03 Post subject: Just to keep the Car crash theme going! |
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You haven't seen anything yet...
yesterday, my brother thought it would be cool to put a set of racing sparkplugs into his '00 transam. He connected the wires in a circuit through the battery instead of the starter accidentally. When he turned that thing on, the battery melted right off the strut holding it. Luckily, nobody got hurt, it's pretty scarry when you see the good old die-hard turning into soup.
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chihawk
Clan Blood Spirit
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Location: United States
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| Posted: 17-Jul-2002 17:06 Post subject: Just to keep the Car crash theme going! |
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The accident Hardware avoided if one of the best stories that can be told, but it loses a lot when it's not done verbally.
And that happened on the first day I ever met Hardware. It should have given me a clue of what was to come in the future....
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Gunslinger Patch
Royal Black Watch Regiment
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| Posted: 18-Jul-2002 00:18 Post subject: Just to keep the Car crash theme going! |
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I work late hours myself and my route home happens to be the favorite road for every drunk in this half of the state. When I head for home at 10 PM friday and midnight Saturday I see crazed and drunk drivers regularly.
Frankly I feel surprised none of those morons have hit me yet. Lord knows I've come close to a major wreck on that highway more times than I care to think hard about.
Hell, I had a close one on that road tonight too, not an hour ago. The idiot tried to pass me on the right, after that lane ended and the wall closed in on the MLK in front of Lamar U. The only reason the wreck didn't happen was because I noticed him coming up on me in my mirror and when he didn't slow down and started moving into the space my car was in I got the hell out of my lane before he could finish occupying the same space. The jackass never even slowed down.
One of our radio DJs recently said on the radio that the DPS (Texas state troopers) figure that at night on a weekend 1 out of every 12 drivers on that piece of Hwy 69 (in front of the prisons) can't pass a breath test. Which is why the cops always have a couple of cars out there on those nights, one for each direction. As soon as they finish with one fool they can just turn their lights back on and nab another one. I used to think the DWI laws were too much, but now I feel no pity at all for anyone caught and jailed for a year on their first offense for drunk driving. I've seen far too many of them on the road at night to feel any more pity for the ones that get caught.
That I haven't had a wreck yet after seven years of driving that road at those times I chalk up to my old pizza reflexes. Way back when, I spent a year as a pizza guy and I discovered I had a certain road sense that has served me well many, many times.
I call it my mystical pizza sense and I rely on it when driving. Somehow, when a car is coming toward me I can see and just know that the driver is about to do something very stupid, often I know it before that car can even get near me. And when the little voice in my head speaks up, sure enough in short order that other driver does something very stupid. But I since I pay attention to the mystical pizza sense I am always ready for it and have yet to take the hit.
The best example of that is one I still clearly recall from those pizza days. The incident that got me to really notice this new sense I had acquired. I was coming to a red light intersection in the rightmost lane. There were two lanes and a left turn lane. The two lanes had a green light for me and a red light for the left turn lane.
In the left turn lane was a Ford truck with his left turn signal on. And this voice in my head suddenly said "He's going to turn right."
There was no evidence or reason to think that, but I moved my foot and shoved my brake pedal to the floor anyway before that truck had even moved.
And that was the only reason I didn't hit that bastard broadside at 45 MPH with no seatbelt when he turned right from the left turn lane without even switching his left blinker off and passed in front of me at maybe 6 inches from my front bumper. He never even slowed down and to this day I think he never even noticed my car at all. Needless to say I place great trust in my mystical pizza sense.
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