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I avoid small women in big vehicles with small dogs and big sunglasses and small phones and big attitudes like the plague...:eek6:

Sometimes you have to treat them like emergency vehicles...pull ALL the way over...and wait until they've "safely" passed.

However, ladies driving MINIs are the best of the best, to my experience!

 

Raccoon Suicide

:cornut: I just got Margi(08 R56 MCS/JCW) back from the shop where she stayed for a month and cost $5k in repairs(insurance was good for $4k). 2300hrs one night in mid Nov, I'm doing 60mph(the limit) down a 2 lane winding country Texas road, just fun driving, when what to my wondering eyes should appear but a 35lb raccoon doing a swan dive under my passenger side front bumper.
BA-BOOMP! Torn/damaged/destroyed- fiber glass bumper cover,radiator.oil cooler,inter cooler. Praise the Lord, no chassis/drive train/suspension damage.
Now she drives like before and I have a new hat with a tail.

Jason

 

Insurance Co: goal, you're wandering all over the road!:crazy:

goaljinky: Yeah, well this beatch just slammed into me!!

Insurance Co: No, no, she didn't slam you, she didn't bump you, she didn't nudge you... she *rubbed* you. And rubbin, son, is racin'. :devil:


I'm a newbie and just getting caught up on things around here.... Glad you're ok...and amazed you managed not to stuff that phone down her throat and take her dog!!

 

Last night, traffic lights are flashing red in all four directions. So everyone needs to stop, then go as if it's a 4 way stop sign intersection. This should not be a big deal Well when I get to the stop line, straight across from us is a BIG rumped SUV, with a deer eyed 15 year old student driver. The situation is way over her head, and it looked like Dad had no clue how to deal with this either. I go, she goes, she sees me moving, she freaks does what Dad says, cut him off, take up 2 lanes of traffic, your bigger:crazy:

Once she settled into a lane, I blew past her:lol:

Mark

 

We've been dealing with the same sort of thing here in the Baltimore Metro as a result of Irene. We've had lots of traffic signals out due to power outage, and the law(and common sense) says to treat such intersections as a 4-way stop. People here...just. don't. get it.:crazy:

I stopped at one while motoring and was nearly destroyed by an early-twenty-something meathead in a Jeep who had clearly decided that no lights also meant no speed limits!

After screaming a few obscenities, I pulled out and caught up to him....just...HOPING he was going somewhere near where I was so we could have a chat about MD law.

I can neither confirm nor deny that I more than doubled the speed limit on that local road to catch up to him. :devil:

 

Wow... you guys live in a different universe... here, no way I'd EVER leave an accident scene before the cop got there. And they'd be there PDQ, even out in the boonies. If I called my insurance company and told them I was in an accident and described it like that and said the cops didn't come, they'd think I was on crack. CA is a different world...

 

They are on a mission from God....

 

Yes, yes we are! :wink:

 

Be legit displaying a little symbol like one'a these in sunny CA and it'll help ya out more often than not. Course, that said, nothing's absolute. Ya still have ta pass the cop's attitude test...

 

Made me laugh very hard.

 

Sorry to see that - however the dog doesn't deserve any angst.. stupid owner on the other hand!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

The tire circle marks do sorta fit the theme of the MINI.

Glad there were no injuries.

 

Sorry to hear about it.

So, any indication she was texting at the time she hit you? They are passing strict law here locally about texting while driving and they can supena phone records to add additional violations to the accident.

 

Fudge

 

Sorry to hear about the crash. Clearly but her insurance companies response this was not an accident! They need to drop her a$$ from the insurance before someone really gets hurt.

 

Sad thing is...

they'll be more than happy to just jack her rates and keep cashing checks. And by her lifestyle, I'm guessing she'll just pay and keep doing what she does.

did a cop show up? Then she might have gotten into more trouble.... But with the budgets out there now, it's more likely that you'd get "I didn't see it so I can't site her for it" and no one would bother to take the time to see what she was doing on her cell at the time of the accident.... Everyone is on furlough!

Glad you're OK Jerry....

Matt

 

I'm always baffled

when those in the wrong cop an attitude.... If it weren't for the time it takes to wait for a response, it might have been fun to request that she stay until the police showed up to file a report. But who knows how many days that would have been!

She hits you, she's the beatch, you're the gentelman!

Matt