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stefuel
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Location: Green Harbor MA USA
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| Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 10:32 pm Post subject: What did you find when you got home? |
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I came home to a Ford Expedition................................in my dining room. Well not really but hit the house hard and took off a bunch of paint. Cute little redhead learning how to drive missed the corner. The funny thing is my oldest boy just got he learners permit and she was at the RMV at the same time getting her permit. 
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Tim in Phoenix
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Hey!
Send your son to her house........Ramming Speed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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AnalogRocks
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| Tim in Phoenix wrote: | Hey!
Send your son to her house........Ramming Speed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Yeah! But don't forget the condoms!
How's the damage on your house?
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draganm
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people are F-in stupid, a lumbering 6000 pound truck is not something you learn how to drive in. Put the little Princess in a Honda civic with air-bags. Hang some old spare tires around the perimiter for extra safety like AL Bundy
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WanMan
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In 1980 someone drove down the street, made a u-turn and came into my house. Took out the kitchen. It was around 8-9PM and as such not really anyone in there--all of us in the family room.
The curb was made of granite and completely removed the front suspension system while the reast of the Bronco continued into our home. This was just another day in crazy urban America, though.
And when I moved to 'the south' it seemed really boring.
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Heywood Jablome
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| draganm wrote: | | Put the little Princess in a Honda civic with air-bags. |
And a 5 speed! I've always been an advocate of kids learning to drive on a stick... In this case, she does not need to understand Newtonian Physics to come to terms with this fact: If its' hard to get rolling without stalling, it must be hard to get stopped without blowing thru a corner and into a house!
I went over Chips as soon as I got the email... Probably 24 - 36 inches from the corner of the house (where there would have been serious structural damage) and perhaps five feet from the natural gas meter (where there would have been a story on the evening news  )
We need to buy Chip and his wife matching T shirts: "Somebodys' kid drove a truck into my house and all I got was a stupid bucket of paint."
Not remembering exactly where the meter was relative to the car strike, Chips' missus called 911 then grabbed the boys and headed for the hills. (Now that's at least three reasons she's a keeper. )
Chip was ignorant of the goings on, having just spoke to Mrs. Chip immediately prior to the accident. Chip came home to the whole three ring circus in front of his house... Those of you who are dads' don't need an explanation... the rest of you should be able to intuit the rest of this sentence!
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Curt Palme
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I told my daughter that she'll be driving a Toyota Paseo. 1992, 1.6l, auto.
With two of the spark plugs disconnected. 
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Heywood Jablome
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Affluent town nearby, quite a bit more blue collar where I live. My brother and I were sought out by a friend of a friend to make road-ready a Sweet 16 present (1969 Mach1 with a 428SCJ.)
We did as bidden, probably the most irresponsible thing either of us have ever done. With the admonition that the engine required break-in, we retarded the timing to barely-above-stalling and installed a 650cfm single pumper (by the standards of this engine, that was about as de-tuned as one could achieve.)
Buyers daughters' boyfriend used the car to go trolling for chicks (can't make this up) while the girl was working and blew the engine when he downshifted trying to race a blown camaro: He just could not figure out why the car would not go.
After being registered four days, it was back in my garage in need of a new block and all the rotating gear, and the juice tranny needed to be rebuilt.
This time, the father was adamant that we build the bejeesus out of it: It was now HIS car.
Many thousands of OPM dollars later, we delivered the car to its' owner.
Since it was blocking the horse trailer and truck (monied families sometimes live on horse farms apparently) the OTHER daughters boyfriend needed to move the car, and proceeded to buy a 36" diameter oak right in the drivers door. My inner physicist and engineer just KNOWS that he was on the road, unregistered, and lost it in front of the house when he bought that tree rather than merely exiting the driveway as he told the owner.
It was, of course, totaled. We jacked up the car by the lift points on the engine and cut sheet metal until the car fell off of the engine. All salable parts were sold off (how's THAT for WAF, boys?!?!?!) and the whole family got SUVs.
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akajester
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Although not a car story, last summer I got home to find the street completely blocked off by police (4pm-ish), and the swat team with assault rifles parked all over the neighborhood. Apparently a drunk guy locked himself in his house a block down the street and wouldn't take his kids for the weekend. His girlfriend called him in. He refused to come out of the house so they surrounded it. short story, 11pm I saw them dragging him out of the house and tossing him into a cop car. Turns out he passed out somewhere around 8pm and stopped answering the phone. too funny. My neighbor was on the swat team and told me the whole story. what a waste of taxpayers dollars. I asked my neighbor, why didn't someone just go up to the house and talk to him? well, the chief looked him up and he had registered guns in the house. Unlike every other house in wisconsin! haha. So they called in the swat instead.
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perisoft
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| akajester wrote: | | Although not a car story, last summer I got home to find the street completely blocked off by police (4pm-ish), and the swat team with assault rifles parked all over the neighborhood. Apparently a drunk guy locked himself in his house a block down the street and wouldn't take his kids for the weekend. His girlfriend called him in. He refused to come out of the house so they surrounded it. short story, 11pm I saw them dragging him out of the house and tossing him into a cop car. Turns out he passed out somewhere around 8pm and stopped answering the phone. too funny. My neighbor was on the swat team and told me the whole story. what a waste of taxpayers dollars. I asked my neighbor, why didn't someone just go up to the house and talk to him? well, the chief looked him up and he had registered guns in the house. Unlike every other house in wisconsin! haha. So they called in the swat instead. |
They called Swat because a guy wouldn't leave the house? Nobody else with him; he just didn't leave? This is illegal now? Hell, by the logic, we'd be calling in the troops on every Linux user in the country. WTF?
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akajester
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no kidding, I couldn't believe it.
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AnalogRocks
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They called Swat because a guy wouldn't leave the house? Nobody else with him; he just didn't leave? This is illegal now? Hell, by the logic, we'd be calling in the troops on every Linux user in the country. WTF? |
Wouldn't they be calling the Sherrif so their parents could get them out of their basements?
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stefuel
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Update:
A few strange things happened since the house got hit. The exterior wall that got hit needs to be fixed and painted. All the joint compound that fills the screw divits in the drywall is popping out and the trap popped off the kitchen sink. Half the water has been running in the cabinet and we didn't realize it till this morning.
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