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Old Apr 6, 2007 | 05:46 PM
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RX7 Fender Bender

Story: Was just returning from my buddy's garage where I was working on my street ported 'vert...which as luck would have it had been hit by a stolen car several weeks prior. On the way back to my condo, driving up my parking garage, idiot in white vehicle hits me.

He's drunk (in my opinion) and an insurance agent to boot and tries to talk me out of calling the cops. I'm dressed like **** because I've been working on my car and this guys offers me $200 to not call the cops. Oh yea, his dumb bitch yells at me, "Do you even have car insurance?"

Apparently because I have grease all over me, this dipshit does not comprehend that if I'm parking there, that I can afford to live in one of the more expensive places in our city...but I digress.

So while I call the cops, he and his wife decide to leave...with his wife driving now. Both the parking garage attendant and I tell him he's on video but he still leaves...so now it is a hit and run (and we write down his license plate).

So his insurance company dodges me for a month until I finally let them know there is a video...next day they offer me 3k for my "totaled" car. Mind you there was no damage to the car except for the front bumper and left fender and I've been driving it every day...no frame damage.

So I ask them how much to keep the car and they offer me $2200 and a clean title. Considering I paid a lot less than that for the car I immediately agreed! *Thumbs Up*

So in the end it all worked out, but here's the video for anyone who cares.

http://www.abagab.com/images/rx7/rx7crash.wmv

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Old Apr 6, 2007 | 06:16 PM
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Owned! Hehe, dumb insurance agent. LoL

Glad to hear things worked out. I hate people like that.

Lots of lawyers like that where I live. They think because they live on "The Island", which they are referencing Banbridge Island, WA, they are untouchable.

Eh, stick it to them!
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Old Apr 6, 2007 | 09:16 PM
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man, thats good it worked out for ya, haha it looked like those guys were gonna hop in and move it so they could get out haha.

i think Florida may have the biggest ratio of bad drivers on the east coast...i've been in so may close calls with my FD, mostly on the highway. allways getting cut off and almost side swiped.

at least now you've got some money to buy some parts

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Old Apr 6, 2007 | 09:52 PM
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^ everyone is 80 years old in florida thats why. i hate people that cut through parking spots. i hope their rate shoots up and they got arrested. you can get a nice paint job for $2200
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Old Apr 6, 2007 | 11:00 PM
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Glad it worked out for you. That is one of my worst fears...have some dumb *** cut the corner and swipe my car.
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Old Apr 7, 2007 | 08:57 AM
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Ha ha ha! Great story!
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Old Apr 7, 2007 | 05:55 PM
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why did you walk away from your car for so long......its funny the 2 guys couldnt get there car out because you blocked them in.
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Old Apr 8, 2007 | 10:13 AM
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are you pressing charges for the hit and run? if the cops would've caught them that night and they had alcohol in the system that would've have been the cherry on top.
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Old Apr 8, 2007 | 10:17 AM
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Gringo Grande damn that sucks but glad to hear you finally got things settled.

Someone with some video editing talents needs to redo that movie and speed it up and add some Benny Hill music.

Here is the mp3

http://www.ezarchive.com/dusted21/Al...Benny+Hill.mp3
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Old Apr 10, 2007 | 06:18 PM
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What is it with that corner-cutting shiat and Southerners? Are they too frigging LAZY to follow the curve of the corner or what?
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Old Apr 10, 2007 | 10:51 PM
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Here's the remix you requested. Tell me if it works. http://storage2.vimeo.com/clips/2007...4f0.mpg?95902f
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Old Apr 10, 2007 | 11:30 PM
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That remix was the ****!!!! sorry your car got hit but it sounds like it worked out for the better. Fl is a shitty place to drive, I have had way too many close calls...
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Old Apr 11, 2007 | 06:08 AM
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Originally Posted by dumbkevin
Here's the remix you requested. Tell me if it works. http://storage2.vimeo.com/clips/2007...4f0.mpg?95902f

Yes it works but is their anyway to speed it up a little more. The Benny Hill ones were always speed up some to make it look like the people were walking faster. Like this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNUb-m9hwxA
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Old Apr 11, 2007 | 01:51 PM
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Oops.
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Old Apr 11, 2007 | 02:30 PM
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I wanted to speed it up more too, but the program I was using only let me use double time.
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Old Apr 15, 2007 | 11:56 AM
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hah another dumb dodge boy!
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Old Apr 16, 2007 | 09:02 AM
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Originally Posted by mattreeve
hah another dumb dodge boy!
+1

All my wrecks and close calls were from Dodge drivers. I guess thats why they call em Dodges, lol.
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Old Apr 16, 2007 | 10:34 AM
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Bump that!
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Old Apr 16, 2007 | 10:42 AM
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Man you are lucky that it all turned out ok. A porta potty got blown over onto my car while I had it parked on a job location. It put a dent in the back pannel. It hit right in a body line near the trunk. My ex-boss wouldn't fix it for me. That **** head is a millionare and he wouldn't get it fixed. So you got really lucky.
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Old Apr 16, 2007 | 11:54 PM
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Hey, the chiks at the end look pretty good go holla for me(THE ONE IN THE RED FUKN HOT), back to the subject I had the same problem. A University of miami van hit me from the back (THANK GOD I was driving my shop van) and they sent me a check for $3500. A little paint chip.
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