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Posted by Jay the Obscure (Member # 19) on :

Or in the vernacular of the streets, a traffic accident. Yes, Flare-goers and ner-do-wells, I was involved in a traffic accident on Friday 11 May 2000 at 7:00 pm pst.

There I was, driving my car...a car I quite liked...down a street and I was hit, hit mind you by a driver making a left hand turn. Oh, not that I was hurt mind you, but my car! My car!

Looks like the initial hit damaged the drivers door, the fender, the wheel, the tire and then, I skided into a fire hydrant! Water gushing all the way up to the phone wires. Which in turn brought all the people out to look. But the hydrant damaged the hood and the front end! Yes!

So, I talks to the insurance type claims fellow today and he says they are likely to total my car by my description! I don't need/want a new car. I want my car! I was getting rather close to paying off the loan...at least I think I was...and I don't want to pay again just some some wacked out kid with a driver's licence and the attitude of 'hey dude, you hit me'...while I was driving forward in MY lane and you turned left into ME!!

Must replace bitter thoughts with happy ones and take my pills...the traffic accident fun is just beginning!

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I'll kill you, you bloated museum of treachery!
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Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :

That sounds perfectly horrible, Jay. At least it wasn't a major accident. I mean, aside from the car.

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Posted by Antagonist (Member # 484) on :

One technique I find helpful when I encounter those types of people, Jay, is to leap at them, fangs flashing and claws extended, ripping their throats from their puny bodies and then spitting on their now cold corpse.

Oh wait, back to reality.

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Posted by Teelie (Member # 280) on :

Maybe we should start a collection for Flare members involved in traffic accidents of some sort. There are what, 3 or 4 people who've had them in the past year alone?

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Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :

Well, there's me, Liz, JeffK apparently goes out and deliberately runs down cute little deer. . .

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Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :

Stalks them, even.
That's a challenge, you know, sneaking up on fawn with a Jeep. Comes from the japanese art of camouflage, origatsi.

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Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :

The deer jumped out at me. And there was the unfortunate incident with the fence, but that's another story. Frankly, my agressive driving skills have kept me from colliding with many a nary-do moron driver.

That and my fog horn.

Jay, you must get a fog horn in whichever car you're driving in a few weeks. That way, when some idiot kid is making a left hand turn into your right of way ...

AWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOGA!

And, er, he'll either stop or be so freaked out he guns the accelerators and flies into some little old lady's house.

I actually got yelled at by the cops for having it, though, but it's probably 'cuz I was honking at the drunk drivers in a residential neighborhood at 2am on a Tuesday night, but ... hey ...

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Posted by Jeff Raven (Member # 20) on :

Remind me to stay off the roads when you go driving, Jeff.

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Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :

Well, no, you'd be safer on the roads, actually ...

Posted by akb1979 (Member # 557) on :

After reading JeffKarrde's post - I simply gotta get me a fog horn!

Anyone know where I can get one in the UK?

AWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOGA!

Hehe! Simply have to have one now.

Posted by akb1979 (Member # 557) on :

Say JeffKarrde, how did you get your 'AWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOGA!' to be displayed like that? Mine won't do it.

Posted by Fabrux (Member # 71) on :

*heh*

I can probably get an air horn used on 18-wheelers from my neighbour...

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Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :

For fog & air horns, you can probably get them from your local "auto-parts" store ... you can also probably get them from Quadratec ... although they're mostly for after-market off-road vehicle add-ons, I think I saw some in their catelogue.

They're good especially for Jeeps. My factory horn sounded like a sick goat. "Bwah! Bwah!"

AKB ... do an "h2" in "<" ">" those brackets and you should be fine. You can also just click on the "edit post" button to see ... (just don't edit my post).

Posted by akb1979 (Member # 557) on :

Thanks JeffKarrde!

AWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOGA!

Hehe!

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Damn it! First I typed it myself, then I copied JeffKarrde's and still it won't work. Anyone care to educate me as to what I've done wrong?

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Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :

AWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOGA!

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Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :

Yes, you're a junior member, must get more frags before getting HTML I guess.

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Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :

AWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOGA!

just to be sure...

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Posted by akb1979 (Member # 557) on :

Show off!

Posted by MC Infinity (Member # 531) on :

ok look at my post

AWOOOOOOGA!!!!

Posted by MC Infinity (Member # 531) on :

Wait, I think I know!!
Junior Members can't use HTML!!!!

Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :

Yep, AKB, your various UBB & HTML codes won't work until you've hit 50 posts. You're only two to go, so, don't worry, it won't be long ...

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Posted by Jay the Obscure (Member # 19) on :

Goodness! I love how threads wonder about like a garden slug from succulent tomato to succulent tomato.

Unfortunatly JK, there was no time for me to even think

AWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOGA!

at the little schmoe.

See, I just cleared a mini-van going my direction that was waiting to make a left turn. Then out of the corner of my eye...is kid in blue car. Then he hit me *CRUNCH*...and THEN comes a yellow fire hydrant in the front of my and *WHAP*.

I thinks to myself, crap, there's going to lots of water here soon, I'd better move and so I does. And there was lots and lots of water.

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I'll kill you, you bloated museum of treachery!
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Posted by LOA (Member # 49) on :

But you're not hurt, right? That's what's important.... cars can be replaced, but good health is MUCH harder to come by. I know you're upset about the car, but it'll work out somehow.... Trust me, I'm getting to be the expert on this stuff. Good luck, and let me know if there's anything I can do to help.... if you start to hurt at ALL, get to a dr.... I thought I was fine at first, too... 3 days later, I knew I was wrong :-P

~LOA

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Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :

Along the same lines as the foghorn... My dad used to have a car in which he replaced the bright headlights w/ aircraft landing lights. If he flashed the brights at someone, they could definitely tell... :-)

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Posted by Teelie (Member # 280) on :

I don't see how someone couldn't notice what appears to be a small airplane coming at them.

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Posted by First of Two (Member # 16) on :

BWAAAAAAAAAAAANK! BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAANK!

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Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :

FUSSJA FUSSJA!!!

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Posted by akb1979 (Member # 557) on :

AWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOGA!

YES! 52ND POSTING! AND HTML CODING!

YES!

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Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :

Please try to not let it go to your head. :cry:

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Posted by Teelie (Member # 280) on :

Why whatever do you mean?

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Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :

Reminds me of that "Scorched Earth" tank game back in the days of DOS...

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Posted by Curry Monster (Member # 12) on :

Jay, will the insurance guys be replacing your vehicle? Sounds like you've been stiffed here....

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Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :

Of course, in the grand scheme of things, there is far worse to be done then being stiffed by the insurance thugs.

Like, being stiffed by your hairy - and yet oddly affectionate - cell-mate Bob.

Posted by Jay the Obscure (Member # 19) on :

Daryus, at the moment, I am getting nothing from his cut rate insurance. In fact, I had to call his insurance to report the incident...he did not, I guess expecting a magic wand to wipe his kid's blunder away.

Anyway, I called them, got a report number which I need to give to slugs who work for my insurance. They are the types who seem to think that sitting on their butt drinking coffee is investigating the matter.

Ahem.

I won't know till next Monday, I should imagine since they only work on weekdays cause no one has any business driving a car on any other day of the week...if they decide to total it. THEN I have to wait for the slugs from his insurance to give me crud about the accident and all that.

Like I said, it's a big old bundle of fun.

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I'll kill you, you bloated museum of treachery!
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Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :

You did call the cops when it happened, right?

Posted by LOA (Member # 49) on :

*smiles* I must be the luckiest woman alive when it comes to Insurance Companies, because mine has been GREAT! I've got multiple open claims on them, I've HAD claims in the past, and they've yet to drop me, stiff me, give me a hard time, or even raise my rates....

If only all companies could be like that.......... :-P

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"Apprently, "pooty" involves deities and pretty girls in compromising positions..." ~TSN Jan. 18th, 2001

Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :

You forgot to knock wood, my dear.

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old men's heads are just as bare;
between the cradle and the grave
lies a haircut and a shave."

Samuel Hoffenstein

Posted by Jay (Member # 19) on :

Well well...the person involved in the accident (read me) GOT A NEW CAR TODAY!

WHOO HOOO!!! *new car dance*

It is, to be more accurate a 2001 Honda Civic EX...which has, other than a satellite dish, most everything a boy could want from a car. AND a whole new car payment to boot! I am now capable of moving in and around the urban megalopolis that is Los Angeles free from the Kia Sportage that I was renting. *shudder*

This in the very least ends that particular chapter in the Book Of The Accident. We ended another when the other person's (read slug who hit me) insurance accepted liability. However, and isn't there is always a however, they are giving me some sort of run around about paying $2500 for the car. Which is not the amount my insurance company totaled it for...which is as I recall something like $3,100 or so. There seems to be a difference there.

All of which brings us to a whole new chapter in the saga.

Posted by Tahna Los (Member # 33) on :

$2500?

That's not much.

How much did you pay for your old car?