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is what the does best! |
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That's great! Reminds me of Road Rash for the Genesis. I've caused a lot of property damage with my careless driving in real life. |
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I've only damaged my own car and smashed a wooden post in a car park at my brother's flat. Both times were indirectly caused by other road users lack of consideration. |
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yeah yeah...always shift the blame on to the person that is not here to defend themselves. :p |
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He he, the time I damged my van it was a "white van man" that forced me off the road and into a hedge! The second incident was more my fault, but as a lawyer who was on hand pointed out, "Don't worry, if you get a letter about it we'll do him *points at other car* for contributive negligence" :) |
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my car- not my van... I must admit, when I drove a van I drove like a fucker- I think it's because: a) Vans are often owned by employers, rather than you, so you don't care about crashing it much. b) You'll be comparatively safe in a crash with a car or bike. c) You're higher up from the road you feel more "disconnected" from it. d) It's tempting not to looking mirrors at all as the field of vision is so small, there's not much point... |
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Sweet. I see you can pull all the right strings. :) |
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Yeah, I see what you mean about driving the vans...the height from the road and the feeling of false safety are my biggest problems with vans. Am glad you got away safe in both cases. |
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The time I hit a post I was only doing about 5mph in a tiny 1.0 litre car, it was amazing how much damage it did, smashed through a post and threw bits of wood a couple of feet. Funny as fuck as the lawyer's mum, who was also a lawyer had done the same thing a couple of weeks earlier (it had just been repaired), again as an indirect result of the way the same guy had parked outside the parking bays. He was in stitches and I was crying with laughter too :) I get the same feeling of "van safety" with big powerful cars too. My car is tiny and you can tell you're only inches from the road, in big cars you feel like you're in an invulnerable cocoon. I'm sure that's the reason all the gits in mercs near me cut me up. |
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I've hit and run parked cars 2 times (I THOUGHT I would get away with it but those damn snitch bystanders) and caused one woman 300 dollars worth of damages... but I came to her house and apologized with puppy dog eyes and I got off free. I had to drive an ambulance around last summer, and it was harrowing, I'm not used to using the mirrors to back up. I hope I didn't kill anyone. |
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The gits in mercs cut me up 'cause with a couple of mercs they ought to give one to me. Selfish bastards :D |
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Damn $300 in fines waived off ?!! Some puppy eyes them. |
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Yeah not being able to see out the back window is so hard to get used to. You always think, "what if someone is standing behind or there's a post I haven't seen?" A flatmate did the funniest hit and run ever acouple of months ago. Tried to park at speed into a space that was too small, reversed into one car setting the alarm off. He then quickly drove forwards trying to get out of the space, rear ending the car in front. This car had a guy in who got out, he tried to roll the car backwards, put it in first (actually put it in second) and tried to pull away, hitting the car behind as the car lunged backwards. He then gave up and talked to the guy he'd rear ended. They looked at the bumper and the guy let him off. He did drive away from the car behind he hit twice (cracking their number plate in the process). We watched a woman doing something similair last week out of my window, she manged to hit both the car in front and behind at least three times. She finally "parked" parallel to the kerb, but about 3 feet out! Whilst she was in the shop a car clipped her wing mirror (poetic justice). When she came out she managed to hit both cars once more each before pulling away. And people say women are "safer" drivers? ;) |
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sorry, I meant, when he thought he had put it in first, he put it in reverse... |
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LOL....comedy of errors on infinite repeat. |
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