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takevin Senior Enthusiast

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Sooo, its snowing like a mofo out here on the way home. I'm keeping plenty of distance between cars and coming up on a light, it's turning red so i stop and this tool in his toyota camry hit me. I come out swearing of course, and go inspect for any damage. He hit my hitch and i didnt see any damage, the guy is like no reason to swear blah blah and saying its bad weather. I'm like no S#$!, if he put some distance like someone with common sense would. So after the light, the guy goes in the opposite lane and takes off giving me the bird. So i was going to let it go, but when i got home, my little skull cover for the hitch is cracked, no big deal right. Well further inspection i see the trailer hitch is bent up. Then i see the whole bumper is pushed up. WOW! I talked to the sheriff county dept where their jurisdiction is but they're not taking any more reports of that nature till the morning due to the weather. Already filed a report with my insurance. It's going to be filed as a hit and run. Unbelievable, you can drive as safe as you can, and still get some ahole with no brains to hit you. Last night, my wife and i driving home in some lousy rain, and this ditz old lady decides to pull out in front of us from the mall, luckily there was no traffic next to us and my wife had to swerve over. If i was driving i would pulled with her at light got out, and bang on the window and asked how the heck she did'nt see us. I'm soooooo pissssed right now. Sorry if my sentences, wording is goofy, just really angry and wanted to vent.

2000DV4.8 Senior Enthusiast

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That really sucks. When driving in the snow, I probably pay more attention to the OTHER cars on the road than my own. I trust my own driving abilities, it's the dumb shit on a cell phone speeding around a snowy corner that I don't trust.

 

My Business and Law teacher in high school told a story about why you should never leave until you call the cops and file an official police report. He was driving in the rain in his landscaping truck (it was an old beat-ass Dodge), and some lady rear-ended him. There was no visual damage since she hit his hitch ball, and they were both fine, so he just said forget about it, and they both left. Eventually he found out that the frame was bent, and it ended up totaling the truck, but since he didn't get her info, it had to go through his insurance, and he got effed over.

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Sooo, its snowing like a mofo out here on the way home. I'm keeping plenty of distance between cars and coming up on a light, it's turning red so i stop and this tool in his toyota camry hit me. I come out swearing of course, and go inspect for any damage. He hit my hitch and i didnt see any damage, the guy is like no reason to swear blah blah and saying its bad weather. I'm like no S#$!, if he put some distance like someone with common sense would. So after the light, the guy goes in the opposite lane and takes off giving me the bird. So i was going to let it go, but when i got home, my little skull cover for the hitch is cracked, no big deal right. Well further inspection i see the trailer hitch is bent up. Then i see the whole bumper is pushed up. WOW! I talked to the sheriff county dept where their jurisdiction is but they're not taking any more reports of that nature till the morning due to the weather. Already filed a report with my insurance. It's going to be filed as a hit and run. Unbelievable, you can drive as safe as you can, and still get some ahole with no brains to hit you. Last night, my wife and i driving home in some lousy rain, and this ditz old lady decides to pull out in front of us from the mall, luckily there was no traffic next to us and my wife had to swerve over. If i was driving i would pulled with her at light got out, and bang on the window and asked how the heck she did'nt see us. I'm soooooo pissssed right now. Sorry if my sentences, wording is goofy, just really angry and wanted to vent.

 

You didn't get his plate number or any information?

DofD Senior Enthusiast

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I'm glad that you and your wife are okay and didn't get injured.

 

Feel free to vent away.

 

That so totally sucks that the Camry ended up bending your hitch and bumper. :confused:

 

I seriously think drivers are getting dumber and dumber. Or more probably more and more distracted. Around here a little rain and accidents start popping up all over, with a bit of snow, it's nearly chaos. It certainly doesn't take much to understand that raining/snowy it's slippery I better leave more distance.

VMax2007 Senior Enthusiast

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Did you kill him?

 

Here in Texas, one of our murder one defenses is "He needed killin"

 

Also in Texas, when that defense fails, they kill you. :confused:

Zembonez Senior Enthusiast

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Did you kill him?

 

Here in Texas, one of our murder one defenses is "He needed killin"

 

Also in Texas, when that defense fails, they kill you. :confused:

 

Well.. there is THAT SMALL ISSUE! :confused: That's why I only kill cars.

 

""Here in Texas, if you kill somebody, we kill you back!"

 

Unless it was a justified "He needed killin" case. :lol:

Zembonez Senior Enthusiast

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you should leave your reciever hitch in. Mines been known to do some Damage :confused:

Even better... weld a 4 foot spike made out of an old one ton axle shaft to it. If they hit you hard enough it will stick out one of their AC vents! WOO HOO>

Faxcion Enthusiast

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Oh Dude i totaly feel you.

 

september 16 of this year some harlet pulled out infront of me and i t-boned her. Busted all my front end bent my bumper, warped my resivoir tank and cracked it. There was fluid going everywhere and i pulled over to the side of the road and she had the balls to ask me if it was ok for her to leave!!! HAHAHA i was like bitch you do whatever you want, but the cops are on the way and i got ur tag number so you are $%^&ed either way ya dig?

 

Sorry about ur ride bro

carneyman Senior Enthusiast

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Did you kill him?

 

Here in Texas, one of our murder one defenses is "He needed killin"

 

Also in Texas, when that defense fails, they kill you. :confused:

 

Well.. there is THAT SMALL ISSUE! :confused: That's why I only kill cars.

 

""Here in Texas, if you kill somebody, we kill you back!"

 

Unless it was a justified "He needed killin" case. :lol:

 

 

And those cases seem to be showing up more and more...

 

Listening to the radio this morning, while it was raining, there were wrecks being reported all over. People need to just stay home! I really wish it would ice over, then they couldn't even get out of their driveways!

iminaquagmire Enthusiast

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That sucks. I know its sh!tty out there right now. I had the same thing happen to me a few weeks ago in the Taco Bell drive through. Some douchenozzle in a POS taurus hit me while I was waiting in line. Wasn't hard or anything but I got out and didn't see any damage so I told him I wasn't going to pull him out of the window but to be more careful. When I got home I realized the bumper end cap was all scratched. It all buffed out but I was pissed.

 

Those parts are all really expensive and there's about 40 parts to the hitch and bumper. Make sure they don't forget anything. If you're looking for a place to go, Rainbow in Volo is really good. They painted my bumper black when they put everything back together for only 50 bucks.

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