not sure if i posted this one before. when i first got my truck 25 years ago it was a old farm truck then but still classified as an antique. so here i was in a parking lot waiting for a friend when a lady beside me open her door and hit mine in the passenger door. i got out and went around to investigate, she saw me and said woops and started to carry on if nothing happened. so i swung my passenger door open and creased her door and looked her straight in the eye and said woops. i'm pretty sure the newer car have thinner gauge steel.
another one that surprised me was kyle and i were at the last bridge ceremony and had parked on the side of the road like every other car. we were waiting for all the cars to clear after the convoy had passed. doesn't some guy couldn't wait and squeezed his car thru and clip our mirrors. good thing they are spring loaded. i was temped to get out of my car and give him an ear-full. but had to set a good example.
figured i better edit after reading. when she said woops she had opened it hard enough to put a dent in my door but figured it was a old truck.
-- Edited by Stephenzone on Monday 28th of December 2009 07:01:29 PM
I once had found a note under the wiper on my 79' Impala. A fellow had apparently come into my door while pulling out at CT. The Impala was totaly rafty, a beater really (this was 1991), so it didn't matter..in fact I couldn't even find where he'd hit, lol!
I called to thank him. He was so relieved that I'd just laugh the whole thing off. What a man.
I have more of these kind of storys.
Brown 79' in Background. Side trim loss courtesy of African Lion Safari Baboons.
-- Edited by cdnpont on Sunday 27th of December 2009 10:41:45 PM
I was sitting at the intersection of King and Lincoln on my way to work after lunch at the bodyshop 20 years ago-driving an 83 Camaro-foot on the clutch all of a sudden I was cruising through a red light-someone hit me from behind and sent me right through the intersection luckily nothing else hit me ! I got out of the car to see a minor scratch in the center of the rear bumper- Of course across the intersection was a Chev Citation with the nose crunched and the rad steaming-I walk over in there is a 16 year old girl crying-says she just got her license ! I gave her my business card and told her to get out of here before the police show up ! Her Dad called me later to ask if it was a true storey-if I needed my car fixed-if I needed health care-if I wanted to report it-If I was interested inhis daughter ! I seen no need to her to get charged with careless-he was pretty thankful.
I too went to the Safari with the 85 Grand Prix and watched in the rearview mirror them Baboons with all my side moldings !
It's just another example of the breakdown in society. Goes right back to the morals and ethics people teach their children. The fact that this happens so often now says a lot about many peoples' commitment to parenting these days.
This has happened to me so many times over the years I have lost count. I had the left front corner of my Camaro caved in a couple of years ago while parked on the street in front of my house. It was probably my neighbour across the street but since I didn't see it happen, what can I do? This is one instance where living in TO is like living in the jungle. I've actually been sitting in the car listening to the radio when someone trying to parallel park in front or behind me just rammed right into the car. The last time was some dolled up woman in her late 50's in a late model BMW. I was noting her poor driving skills as she was trying to maneuver into the space behind just praying she could pull it off when WHAM! I jumped right out and probably gave her the shock of her life. When I said I wanted her information or I was calling the police, she quickly offered me $100. Her wallet was full. That hardly makes up for the ones who have gotten away with it. You should see my front bumper, just full of deep gouges and scratches - these people all knew they had hit me. Like Mark, those people better pray that I never catch any of them in the act of trying to get away...
Hillar have you been bumping into other people's cars with that front bumper of yours ? lol
I actually have a story where I knocked down a guy and broke his leg and he ended up paying for the damage to my truck. Impossible you say. Well... here is what happened:
I was driving slowly one Sunday morning through a tiny little hamlet close to where i used to live in Northern Alberta. I was going to get a half ton truck load of gravel to put in my yard, but that is kind of irrelevent to the story. Anyway, I was just putting through the hamlet at about 20 Kphs when a guy in a quad came ripping out of the alley past the Canada Post Office rural boxes and slammed into my passenger quarter of my Dakota. He sprawled onto the road clutching his ankle so I jumped out and tried to help him. I asked him if he was hurt and he said no but when he tried to stand up he folded and turned kind of white.
I told him I was going to take to emergency in Manning (nearest town) and he said that would be a good idea. I asked him if there was anybody I should tell and he said there were a couple of guys in a house just back up the alley so I stuck my head in the door and told a couple of stunned looking guys in an old house that looked as if it was party spot that I had hit their buddy and I was taking him the hospital. They had no discernable reaction.
Anyway, as i was driving the 14 klicks to Manning he was definitely going into shock so i kind of booted it. When I got there the nurse on duty took charge (Thank God for nurses!) and stuck him on a stretcher.
I thought I'd better to talk to the cops on this so I went across the street to the Mounties and talked to the constable on duty, who, as it happens, knew my brother the mountie. (they had gone to depot in Regina together). He figured we better do a report so I got to ride in a cop car (in the front seat)
We looked at the skid marks and the busted quad and he figured it was pretty much as i had said. He had to interview the rider though and when he came out he was chuckling. I asked him what was funny and he said I was probably in good shape. "Why," I asked. He said, "When I asked him if he had anything to drink he said, "Not much, just a case.." .. Anyway to make a long story short I sent a bill for the damage to my truck to the 17 years old kid's parents (about $1300.00 as I recall) and they paid right up.
I had a guy open his door so hard on my service van that the van swayed back and forth. I was eating my lunch in the van at a mall parking lot when it happened so I got out and had a look. I found the dint, looked at the guy, and he said and I quote, " what you are looking for is not there." He was super smug so I said what about the dint. He promptly told me to F**K O**. So I laid my knee into his door and said, " what you are looking for is not there." He raced off and I called my boss to ask him if I should report it and he said it's not worth the trouble. These are the people that hit and run, not us. A lower standard of people.
sounds like the 'larger woman' that pulled in a parking spot beside me years ago. was sitting in the wife's rusty celebrity, waiting with the kids while the wife had run into the k mart for a few minutes. this fairly new sunfire pulled in, she hit our car as she opened her door. no problem, wasn't conserned...the woman glared at me and walked off without saying a word. i sat and started to boil a bit...i opened my door HARD against her 1/4 panel. boy those sunfire panels crease very easily.
When I was 17 I took my Dad's 1974 Pontiac Ventura into town to the Becker's store in Stratford to get a jug of milk for my Mum. When I came out of the store about 4 minutes later, the panel behind the driver's side door and in front of the wheel well was all caved in. I was out of my mind with worry thinking my Dad would never trust me with it again. I called the police to report it and the cop said, "Look here." He pointed out someone's footprint on the panel. Somebody had actually hoofed it right in I guess on their way by. It's one thing to accidentally or knowingly back into someone and then take off, but to actually hoof a person's car and just high-tail it? Makes ya wonder I tell ya. They live among us though don't they?
