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I have an awesome one from last week.
Okay, let's set the scene. My dad works in Ottawa, about a half hour from here, at a catering company. I, too, work for that catering company. He's a truck driver/head waiter/manager/jack of all trades. I'm a waiter.
My dad owns a '99 red 4 door standard sunfire
my mum owns a '97 black 2 door automatic sunfire
So dad's at work, with his car. Mum's at work (dad dropped her off in the morning, so I could have her car). The day's supposed to unroll in a pretty normal fashion, ie: I'm gonna meet dad at his work to go on a waiter job at about 2 oclock and mum's gonna pick the car up at 5:30 at dad's work when she's done.
So I get to "the shop" (dad's work) about 2 oclock. I go in, and he greets me with "hey chum, we're gonna leave in a few minutes, here have a sandwich!" So I sit down and eat the sandwich, and we go outside to hop in his car and leave.
We get out to the parking lot, and he's like "here, go put these cigarettes in your mum's car for when she picks it up at 5:30". I look around... no black sunfire... we look in the lot, in the garages, up and down the street, nothing. Now what you have to understand is that in the neighborhood where "the shop" is, car theft isn't exactly a rare thing. Both of the shop's cargo trucks have been stolen at least twice in the last three years, along with other cars. The welfare office is just across the street.. hmm.. I wonder...
Anyway, so we call the car in stolen, and hop a cargo truck, leaving dad's car for when mum comes to pick it up at 5:30. We leave the key with the secretary (with whom mom's familiar), and say "when Sylvie comes to pick her car up, give her the keys to the red one and let her know what's going on. The police already have the car on report, and we're off to Kanata for the waiter job".
So we're working, and at about 8pm dad's cell phone rings, it's mum and the convo goes like this:
"Hey hun... I just got this really weird phone call at about six oclock... My work called and said that the car's been stolen, but I have it right here... what's going on?!?"
It turns out, in the FIVE MINUTES it took me to eat that sandwich, mum dropped by, a full three and a half hours early, to pick up the car, and took it without informing anyone, or so much as sticking her head in to say hi to anyone. She had gotten off work early for an apointment that nobody knew about, that she just forgot to mention.
So for the next two days, we tried to get ahold of the police to cancel the stolen car report... for those two days I was driving a "stolen car"
Picture that...cop pulls me over for something else, runs the car, and sees a teenager in a stolen car.... "but officer, I swear, it belongs to my mum!", "sure sonney, let's see your insurance" "but mum has it in her purse" "yeah yeah, have any registration" (fumbles in glove box) no officer, it's not here....
Lol... you can bet I'm getting copies of those papers, ones that have MY name on them too! At least until Roxy is fixed and passes her safety.
Jon
Okay, let's set the scene. My dad works in Ottawa, about a half hour from here, at a catering company. I, too, work for that catering company. He's a truck driver/head waiter/manager/jack of all trades. I'm a waiter.
My dad owns a '99 red 4 door standard sunfire
my mum owns a '97 black 2 door automatic sunfire
So dad's at work, with his car. Mum's at work (dad dropped her off in the morning, so I could have her car). The day's supposed to unroll in a pretty normal fashion, ie: I'm gonna meet dad at his work to go on a waiter job at about 2 oclock and mum's gonna pick the car up at 5:30 at dad's work when she's done.
So I get to "the shop" (dad's work) about 2 oclock. I go in, and he greets me with "hey chum, we're gonna leave in a few minutes, here have a sandwich!" So I sit down and eat the sandwich, and we go outside to hop in his car and leave.
We get out to the parking lot, and he's like "here, go put these cigarettes in your mum's car for when she picks it up at 5:30". I look around... no black sunfire... we look in the lot, in the garages, up and down the street, nothing. Now what you have to understand is that in the neighborhood where "the shop" is, car theft isn't exactly a rare thing. Both of the shop's cargo trucks have been stolen at least twice in the last three years, along with other cars. The welfare office is just across the street.. hmm.. I wonder...
Anyway, so we call the car in stolen, and hop a cargo truck, leaving dad's car for when mum comes to pick it up at 5:30. We leave the key with the secretary (with whom mom's familiar), and say "when Sylvie comes to pick her car up, give her the keys to the red one and let her know what's going on. The police already have the car on report, and we're off to Kanata for the waiter job".
So we're working, and at about 8pm dad's cell phone rings, it's mum and the convo goes like this:
"Hey hun... I just got this really weird phone call at about six oclock... My work called and said that the car's been stolen, but I have it right here... what's going on?!?"
It turns out, in the FIVE MINUTES it took me to eat that sandwich, mum dropped by, a full three and a half hours early, to pick up the car, and took it without informing anyone, or so much as sticking her head in to say hi to anyone. She had gotten off work early for an apointment that nobody knew about, that she just forgot to mention.
So for the next two days, we tried to get ahold of the police to cancel the stolen car report... for those two days I was driving a "stolen car"
Picture that...cop pulls me over for something else, runs the car, and sees a teenager in a stolen car.... "but officer, I swear, it belongs to my mum!", "sure sonney, let's see your insurance" "but mum has it in her purse" "yeah yeah, have any registration" (fumbles in glove box) no officer, it's not here....
Lol... you can bet I'm getting copies of those papers, ones that have MY name on them too! At least until Roxy is fixed and passes her safety.
Jon
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From: North Wales, UK
I don't think I've posted this story here before - anyway, it's true......
Be safe! Check the name of the person driving towards you !!!.
Many years ago I was driving my first Series 1 along a country road in North Wales at a leisurely pace. Coming towards me at an equally leisurely pace was another vehicle which was carrying a load of poles resting on hardboard on the roofrack . As the vehicle drew near the board flipped up and threw the poles into the air. They were large, heavy and sharpened at what was to become 'my' end.
Several of these hit my RX, a couple penetrated the bonnet and three others hit the windscreen and became embedded in it. I take it that the windscreen must have been a laminated one or I would not be here telling this story. It was a mess but nobody was hurt.
A twist to the tale? The driver of the other car was most appropriately named - Mr Spears !!!!
Be safe! Check the name of the person driving towards you !!!.
Many years ago I was driving my first Series 1 along a country road in North Wales at a leisurely pace. Coming towards me at an equally leisurely pace was another vehicle which was carrying a load of poles resting on hardboard on the roofrack . As the vehicle drew near the board flipped up and threw the poles into the air. They were large, heavy and sharpened at what was to become 'my' end.
Several of these hit my RX, a couple penetrated the bonnet and three others hit the windscreen and became embedded in it. I take it that the windscreen must have been a laminated one or I would not be here telling this story. It was a mess but nobody was hurt.
A twist to the tale? The driver of the other car was most appropriately named - Mr Spears !!!!
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From: Ottawa, Soviet Canuckistan
Lol....
That's funny.... well it musn't have been funny for you, but since nobody got hurt, it's funny.
As for "who would steal a sunfire".... well let's just say that my 1991 Dodge Shadow got stolen twice in the time that we had it.
Never underestimate:
Teenagers wanting Joy-Rides
Disgruntled Welfare People
Note: I don't wanna generalize about all teenagers or welfare people.. Hell, I AM a teenager, and I *know* some nice people on welfare. So consider this my disclaimer.
Jon
That's funny.... well it musn't have been funny for you, but since nobody got hurt, it's funny.
As for "who would steal a sunfire".... well let's just say that my 1991 Dodge Shadow got stolen twice in the time that we had it.
Never underestimate:
Teenagers wanting Joy-Rides
Disgruntled Welfare People
Note: I don't wanna generalize about all teenagers or welfare people.. Hell, I AM a teenager, and I *know* some nice people on welfare. So consider this my disclaimer.
Jon
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From: Chatham, Ontario, Canada
Argh!! Puns abound even in bad situations.
Nothing real thirlling like the other stories, but I out ran an Audi A4 Quatro the other day, in my bone stock '84 GSL.
We were side by side on an 80KM road, and we both had to slow down for caes turning in front of us at the same time. He give me the nod, and as the cars clear we hit it. Now I am actually running out of lane eventually. He could never pull past me. He gave and backed off the gas and as I pulled in front of him I bliked my tail lights and took off.
That is jsut my most recent encounter.
I thought it was pritty good
Nothing real thirlling like the other stories, but I out ran an Audi A4 Quatro the other day, in my bone stock '84 GSL.
We were side by side on an 80KM road, and we both had to slow down for caes turning in front of us at the same time. He give me the nod, and as the cars clear we hit it. Now I am actually running out of lane eventually. He could never pull past me. He gave and backed off the gas and as I pulled in front of him I bliked my tail lights and took off.
That is jsut my most recent encounter.
I thought it was pritty good
Originally posted by Cody
Well of course it was your mom who took it.........who would steal a Sunfire???
Well of course it was your mom who took it.........who would steal a Sunfire???
Originally posted by Pedestrian X
who would steal a cargo truck?
who would steal a cargo truck?
Heck Yes!
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Ya humanity stinks (in general that is)...
Ha just goofing around, but there are some real sick, and pathetic people out there.
Easy targets are usually the ones that are exploited, like that old toyota that sort of thing is the work of kids or the desprat. A pro goes after the tough marks.
Ha just goofing around, but there are some real sick, and pathetic people out there.
Easy targets are usually the ones that are exploited, like that old toyota that sort of thing is the work of kids or the desprat. A pro goes after the tough marks.
SpAz!
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From: CA
my question about who would steal a cargo van was meant to be more like an answer to the question of who would steal a sunfire rathyer then another question, we have had our old toyata "toaster" van stolen. practiacally all the old toyata keys work in the same cars so thats why ya gotta be carefull wuth them toyota and why so many crappy toyo's are gettin stolen lol
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Originally posted by perfect_circle
well ok im suicidal any way
well ok im suicidal any way
Originally posted by perfect_circle
lol
lol
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Originally posted by perfect_circle
wow
wow
Originally posted by perfect_circle
thats crazy
thats crazy
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Originally posted by perfect_circle
i definitly know i wouldnt steel a toyota sedan.
i definitly know i wouldnt steel a toyota sedan.
Originally posted by perfect_circle
i wouldnt even stael a new toyota sedan even if it didnt have rust. although a toyota supra wouldnt be bad.lol
i wouldnt even stael a new toyota sedan even if it didnt have rust. although a toyota supra wouldnt be bad.lol
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The forum should probably have a low-end cap to what's considered a "post". For example, make it so that if your post is under a hundred characters (including spaces and punctuation), it doesn't count on your post count.
It wouldn't cut down on the "me too!" posts, but it would keep the post counts of people who post very small things low. I don't know about anyone here, but I usually consider a high-ish post count to represent the fact that the person has spent a considerable amount of time on the forum and has picked up some useful data and experience. In other words, a person with a high post count is somone we'd expect to be somewhat knowledgable and hopefully helpful. Some days I think this part of the forum should be moderated a bit more. Who do you contact to get mod privaledges? I think someone like Manntis, Carl or DirectFreak should have some. Speaking of DF, I haven't seen him in a while, where is he?
Jon
It wouldn't cut down on the "me too!" posts, but it would keep the post counts of people who post very small things low. I don't know about anyone here, but I usually consider a high-ish post count to represent the fact that the person has spent a considerable amount of time on the forum and has picked up some useful data and experience. In other words, a person with a high post count is somone we'd expect to be somewhat knowledgable and hopefully helpful. Some days I think this part of the forum should be moderated a bit more. Who do you contact to get mod privaledges? I think someone like Manntis, Carl or DirectFreak should have some. Speaking of DF, I haven't seen him in a while, where is he?
Jon
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Originally posted by vipernicus42
The forum should probably have a low-end cap to what's considered a "post". For example, make it so that if your post is under a hundred characters (including spaces and punctuation), it doesn't count on your post count.
It wouldn't cut down on the "me too!" posts, but it would keep the post counts of people who post very small things low. I don't know about anyone here, but I usually consider a high-ish post count to represent the fact that the person has spent a considerable amount of time on the forum and has picked up some useful data and experience. In other words, a person with a high post count is somone we'd expect to be somewhat knowledgable and hopefully helpful. Some days I think this part of the forum should be moderated a bit more. Who do you contact to get mod privaledges? I think someone like Manntis, Carl or DirectFreak should have some. Speaking of DF, I haven't seen him in a while, where is he?
Jon
The forum should probably have a low-end cap to what's considered a "post". For example, make it so that if your post is under a hundred characters (including spaces and punctuation), it doesn't count on your post count.
It wouldn't cut down on the "me too!" posts, but it would keep the post counts of people who post very small things low. I don't know about anyone here, but I usually consider a high-ish post count to represent the fact that the person has spent a considerable amount of time on the forum and has picked up some useful data and experience. In other words, a person with a high post count is somone we'd expect to be somewhat knowledgable and hopefully helpful. Some days I think this part of the forum should be moderated a bit more. Who do you contact to get mod privaledges? I think someone like Manntis, Carl or DirectFreak should have some. Speaking of DF, I haven't seen him in a while, where is he?
Jon
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Originally posted by vipernicus42
The forum should probably have a low-end cap to what's considered a "post". For example, make it so that if your post is under a hundred characters (including spaces and punctuation), it doesn't count on your post count.
It wouldn't cut down on the "me too!" posts, but it would keep the post counts of people who post very small things low. I don't know about anyone here, but I usually consider a high-ish post count to represent the fact that the person has spent a considerable amount of time on the forum and has picked up some useful data and experience. In other words, a person with a high post count is somone we'd expect to be somewhat knowledgable and hopefully helpful. Some days I think this part of the forum should be moderated a bit more. Who do you contact to get mod privaledges? I think someone like Manntis, Carl or DirectFreak should have some. Speaking of DF, I haven't seen him in a while, where is he?
Jon
The forum should probably have a low-end cap to what's considered a "post". For example, make it so that if your post is under a hundred characters (including spaces and punctuation), it doesn't count on your post count.
It wouldn't cut down on the "me too!" posts, but it would keep the post counts of people who post very small things low. I don't know about anyone here, but I usually consider a high-ish post count to represent the fact that the person has spent a considerable amount of time on the forum and has picked up some useful data and experience. In other words, a person with a high post count is somone we'd expect to be somewhat knowledgable and hopefully helpful. Some days I think this part of the forum should be moderated a bit more. Who do you contact to get mod privaledges? I think someone like Manntis, Carl or DirectFreak should have some. Speaking of DF, I haven't seen him in a while, where is he?
Jon
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sincerely,Cody
