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Car collisions and why they are bullshit

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  • GafotoGafoto Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Gafoto wrote: »
    I put a tow hitch sized hole in the front of my bumper. Didn't hurt the other car so I was like, here's my number, call me if you have some kind of issues with your....solid metal tow hitch.

    My record is clean.

    So that was you.

    No seriously this happened to me, except I was the other guy in your story. I drive a 96 pathfinder, the guy rams me from behind, my hit punches a square hole the size of a drink coaster through his license plate and grill, and my car suffered no damage. My back was a little sore for a couple days, but I didn't end up reporting him for it.

    I barely tapped the guy in front of me, so there was no whiplash involved (plus it was a Ford Escape).

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  • Volucrisus AedriusVolucrisus Aedrius Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    I thought I had a couple scratches on my bumper but it was really just white license plate paint that had been ground off.

    My car is a fucking tank.

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  • Dead LegendDead Legend Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    bumpers is for bumpin

    that's my philosophy

    Dead Legend on
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  • Wrench N RocketsWrench N Rockets Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    who would you sue if you got hurt not wearing your seat belt?

    that's like suing if you got hurt not wearing your bicycle helmet

    Remember the lady who sued because her coffee was too hot?

    The burgler that hurt himself and sued the home owners of the house he broke into?

    This is America son.

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  • GafotoGafoto Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    bumpers is for bumpin

    that's my philosophy

    just more cushion for the pushin'

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  • QuetziQuetzi Here we may reign secure, and in my choice, To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered User, Moderator mod
    edited June 2009
    Macro9 wrote: »
    Straightzi wrote: »
    So this one time I flipped a car on the vermont highway median going at like 75 miles per hour

    I'm pretty awesome like that

    how are you still alive

    He was drunk. Drunk people always walk away or fly out the window and hit a telephone pole. Which gives them brain damage.

    Happened to a friend of mine.

    Nah, stone cold sober

    Driving up that way to give my dad his passport so he could get to Canada (he got all the way to the border and realized he'd forgotten it), been driving for about three hours, car drifted off to the side, I quickly readjusted, used to a heavier car, spinning the rear end off the side, which then led to skipping like a stone down a grass median.

    Shattered my driver's side window, threw everything into disarray, didn't deploy the airbags.

    So uhh, wear a seatbelt kids, it saved my life, straight up.

    The shame of it is my dad was like 10 minutes away. He got there as soon as the police did.

    I have a weird luck thing with serious injury. See: lighting my face on fire, slicing through most of my finger with a buck knife, some serious falls and concussions, stuff like that.

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  • Dead LegendDead Legend Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    gafoto gets it

    my poor truck has been through a lot

    be it at my hands or some other ignorant bastard(or bitch, in one instance)

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  • GoatmonGoatmon Companion of Kess Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    MichaelLC wrote: »
    Glad you & your friend are OK. I hope your friend got all the insurance info, etc. from everyone.

    Some dumbass girl hit me just months after I bought my car too. Busy Chicago street, waiting in traffic and she decides to turn right into me. Pushed me forward into a cab.

    It's bulllshit cars are designed essentially to fall apart at the tiniest bump. Goddamn "crumple zones" just means you're replacing your car for what would have been a paint scratch 15 years ago.

    The outside frames of cars are less dense than they used to be.

    The people in the cars don't get jolted as much in a car accident, because of this.

    Costs more money, but fewer injuries. So yeah. Or is that just race cars?

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  • TanolenTanolen Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Had a guy hit and run on me, But I found him.

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  • FaricazyFaricazy Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    I have actually never been in an automobile accident
    me neither we are awesome LOW FIVE

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  • Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus Ho! Ho! Ho! Drink Coke!Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Tanolen wrote: »
    Had a guy hit and run on me, But I found him.

    haha, what?

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  • honey nut cheerioshoney nut cheerios __BANNED USERS regular
    edited June 2009
    I saw a guy on a bike get hit by a car once.

    Dude jumped OVER his fucking bike.

    like woosh.

    Otherwise he probably would lost that leg.

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  • MorivethMoriveth BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWNRegistered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Never been in an accident.

    Some dick must have cracked one of my tail lights at some point, though, because one day I went to my car and hey, the tail light is cracked. Never got any contact info or anything.

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  • thorgotthorgot there is special providence in the fall of a sparrowRegistered User regular
    edited June 2009
    i was on the way to the airport to return home from scotland in a taxi when a couple rear-ended us (while we were stopped at a red light)

    they then tried to pull a hit-and-run but they were trying to outdrive a taxi which was just not happening, so they pulled over

    about a year later my friend, who had the best view in the car of them failing to slow down for a red light and the car stopped at it, got a summons from court to appear (in scotland) and testify

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  • Calamity JaneCalamity Jane That Wrong Love Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    hitting deer

    now that's always fun

    being in a car meant to kill your dad

    now that's always fun

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  • FaricazyFaricazy Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    is your dad a deer?

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  • Calamity JaneCalamity Jane That Wrong Love Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    sometimes

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  • QuetziQuetzi Here we may reign secure, and in my choice, To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered User, Moderator mod
    edited June 2009
    Wait I really wanna hear the story behind this

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  • TanolenTanolen Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Tanolen wrote: »
    Had a guy hit and run on me, But I found him.

    haha, what?

    Hit me in the side of my car, I got out and talked to him for a minute then he drove off.

    He was an illegal immigrant in a truck that didn't belong to him and was scared so he had taken off, but this was in my subdivision which was mostly under construction, and he had alot of cinder blocks in his truck when he hit me, so wasn't to hard to figure out where to find him.

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  • GoatmonGoatmon Companion of Kess Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Anjin-San wrote: »
    hitting deer

    now that's always fun

    being in a car meant to kill your dad

    now that's always fun

    I'm imagining a deer in the driver's seat, looking horrified.

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  • Calamity JaneCalamity Jane That Wrong Love Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Straightzi wrote: »
    Wait I really wanna hear the story behind this

    which one

    they're two

    alternatively, wiggin reply:

    I KNEW I FUCKED UP SUCK MY DICK

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  • FuzzFuzz Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    I hydroplaned into the back of a van and wrecked my car. This was about a month after I got my license, so I got a ticket for reckless driving. I learned that you don't slam your brakes when the road is wet..

    I also learned that my car at the time had Styrofoam in the bumper..

    My sister hydroplaned across four lanes of traffic and finally stopped in front of a tree in someone's backyard after going through a brick wall. There's a light at the intersection now. My sister says she has a vivid memory of seeing the brick wall and yelling "Oh God, I'M GONNA DIE!" and is now the most religious person I know, so that's kinda cool..

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  • FaricazyFaricazy Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Apparently religion can be prevented by taking car control lessons.

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  • HenroidHenroid Mexican kicked from Immigration Thread Centrism is Racism :3Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    I've been in one car wreck. My friend ran a red light. But all directions had red, and the lady who t-boned us ran her red too. The cops were confused as fuck.

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  • Calamity JaneCalamity Jane That Wrong Love Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    alright, so we're driving down a hill in michigan

    (shit tons of dear there, michigan)

    and my ma won't shut the fuck up, talking to this dude my brother got stoned with all the time

    marty, i believe

    so, ma and marty continue jabbering as i plead with her to watch the road

    about 4 seconds later a deer comes into view as i duck and yell to look out

    the front end of the p.o.s. we were riding makes a loud THAMP as a painful yelp leaves the deer, trailing off mid-air

    the initial hit sheared off some of his shoulder and blood flew all over the damn place, covering part of the windshield and a good portion of the road where we hit it

    we come to a stop and i got out of the car, fucking dumbfounded at my ma as well as the deer that hurdled through the fucking air

    only to see it get up and shudder back down into a ditch

    i sit back down in the car to take it all in

    and queens of the stone age's No One Knows is playing

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  • Filler Inc.Filler Inc. Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    About 2 years ago I was driving home from a shitty day at work, traffic was packed in my city and it was lightly raining. Anyways, I'm sitting at this intersection for at least 10 minutes, it was seriously packed, and finally I'm the third car in line for the next light, right behind a truck, which was behind a fiesta or something. The light turns green, we start to accelerate and suddenly the truck throws on it's reds and comes to a dead stop.

    I had been going probably 15 mph at that point and slam on my breaks, only to find my car skid and slide right into the back of the truck. Granted, I probably should have been further back considering the wet pavement, but it was so unexpected because the road was clear ahead of us and there should have been no reason to slow down at that point because there weren't any legal ways to turn left at that point.

    At that speed, the crash was able to cause $12,000 dollars worth of damage to my car, a Jetta. The trucks hitch went straight through my grill and ripped the engine, pushing it back and to the right of my car.

    Here's where the bullshit comes;

    The reason the truck in front of me stopped, was because the fiesta in front of him decided to do an illegal U-Turn once he made it past the concrete partition that separated the left and right lanes. He didn't even stop, he just kept on driving.

    Didn't end there either. I used the dealership that I bought it from, to repair it after the accident, and they ended up doing such a shitty job that I had to bring it back multiple times. One time was when the car wouldn't turn off at all, I had to unhook the battery each time I got out to keep it from draining. I took it to another repair shop and they said it looked like the last guys hadn't connected and secured the wires properly.

    Then my car started making this grinding sound, sporadically at first and then more consistent as time went on. One day I was pulling into the parking lot where I worked, when suddenly my power steering fails and I'm left desperately pulling the wheel to get it to turn. I end up having to stay an hour after I left work to wait for a tow truck. The next day I wanted to see if it was still fucked, so I took it out around my street. About half a block out and I hear something fall out of my car, so I turn it back around and park and look for whatever it was that fell out. Turns out it was my alternator pulley, which looked like it hadn't been fastened with the proper bolts. The holes were all torn apart around the inside edges, like they had been rattling around.

    After that, I was leaving my street when I heard a crack and suddenly my car started making a sound like the exhaust was rattling or something, I turn it back around and call the dealership and get it towed back in. Turns out a bolt on my transmission had broken free, I'd need to come back in a few more days.

    When I come to get it, the manager comes out and pulls me aside and starts talking about how tread on the tire shows that I'm driving my car too hard and that if I keep it up, they're not gonna honor my warranty anymore. I don't know what pissed me off more, the fact that this guy is threatening the contract we made, the condescention in his voice, or the fact that it took a month to fix my car after the accident, and since then I had spent 3 months bringing it back because thing were either fixed improperly or ignored all together, but I wasn't too happy.

    I told him that I didn't appreciate the tone he was taking with me, that I was the purchaser of this car, not my father, me and as such, he should treat me like a customer not some spoiled dick ruining some car his daddy bought him. I told him that I didn't appreciate having to bring my car back for things that couldn't be my fault, things like wires not properly connected or pulleys falling out. Then I told him not to worry because I couldn't wait to get rid of that piece of shit.

    He turned around and muttered, 'Good'.

    Such a rude dick hole.

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  • AirAir Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    if i get into some kind of accident im gonna run and dive behind something hopefully while everything blows up behind me

    if not ill have to come back for their insurance details and such

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  • QuetziQuetzi Here we may reign secure, and in my choice, To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered User, Moderator mod
    edited June 2009
    Anjin-San wrote: »
    Straightzi wrote: »
    Wait I really wanna hear the story behind this

    which one

    they're two

    alternatively, wiggin reply:

    I KNEW I FUCKED UP SUCK MY DICK

    Why not both?

    Cocksucker

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  • HybridHybrid South AustraliaRegistered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Anjin-San wrote: »
    and queens of the stone age's No One Knows is playing

    Oh man that is perfect

    edit: Jesus Filler I would have wanted to punch that dude so bad

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  • AbracadanielAbracadaniel Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    T-boned a truck a couple years ago. His fault for not stopping at an intersection. I was heading west, he was heading north. He misjudged his timing, thinking he'd blow through the intersection before I got to it, despite the fact that he had a stop sign and clearly saw me coming. Killed my first car. I limped home, battered and sore as fuck. Had to take several days off of work since it was a physically intense job. Wound up settling with his insurance and blowing the $1500 I got in Vegas. Woo.

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  • KusuguttaiKusuguttai __BANNED USERS regular
    edited June 2009
    rugby is for fags

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  • MeizMeiz Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Voranth, at least you got to realize that the airbags didn't work in that minor collision instead of a major one.

    Can you sue if they don't in any circumstance though, considering they're marketed as a safety feature?

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  • HenroidHenroid Mexican kicked from Immigration Thread Centrism is Racism :3Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Kusuguttai wrote: »
    rugby is for fags

    Is this the lesson we should all walk away from car wrecks with?

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  • Calamity JaneCalamity Jane That Wrong Love Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    the other one is pretty straight foward

    union guys loosened the bolts on the front right tire of dad's badass mint green el camino when he still worked during some rough shit between GM and UAW

    unfortunately, he was not in the car that day

    me and ma were

    i remember looking over and thinking, somebody's front tire is flying off!

    OH FUCK IT'S US OH GOD SPARKS WHAT THE FUCK MY POGS ARE DROPPING EVERYWHERE

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  • Tweaked_Bat_Tweaked_Bat_ Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Filler I'm surprised your car simply wasn't written off.

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  • LockoutLockout I am still searching Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    filler

    wow

    I would've wanted to kill that guy

    being a fucking ass after all the bullshit you went through

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  • Blake TBlake T Do you have enemies then? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    I told him that I didn't appreciate the tone he was taking with me, that I was the purchaser of this car, not my father, me and as such, he should treat me like a customer not some spoiled dick ruining some car his daddy bought him. I told him that I didn't appreciate having to bring my car back for things that couldn't be my fault, things like wires not properly connected or pulleys falling out. Then I told him not to worry because I couldn't wait to get rid of that piece of shit.

    He turned around and muttered, 'Good'.

    Such a rude dick hole.

    Wait so you didn't end up getting it fixed?

    Blake T on
  • PolagoPolago Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    On new year's eve on my way out to mully's place (I think), I was smoked by an asian driver who slowed down for me to walk across a crosswalk, gassed when I was in the center of the road, then sped away after I rolled over his hood and off the windshield. Guessing he was drunk cause asians and alcohol in riced integras on new year's, lol stereotypes. Walking home and resting on the couch felt pretty good after that.

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  • VoranthVoranth MI NOMBRE, POR CIERTO ES DONTÉ!Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Kusuguttai wrote: »
    rugby is for fags
    fisticuffs at dawn, sir

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  • MeizMeiz Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Polago wrote: »
    On new year's eve on my way out to mully's place (I think), I was smoked by an asian driver who slowed down for me to walk across a crosswalk, gassed when I was in the center of the road, then sped away after I rolled over his hood and off the windshield. Guessing he was drunk cause asians and alcohol in riced integras on new year's, lol stereotypes. Walking home and resting on the couch felt pretty good after that.

    Jesus christ! Are you like an asshole magnet or something that people keep having to pull this shit?

    I'm guessing you should start carrying a gun.

    Meiz on
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