My crazy day... (This is gonna be long)
09-03-2000, 12:24 AM
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My crazy day... (This is gonna be long)
For those who care, here's my crazy day for Sept 2, 2000.
I got my car all washed up nice and pretty, and my girlfriend and I were off to help a friend move. About 1 1/2 miles down the road, I stopped at a stop sign, and just as I'm ready to pull away, I get a real nice thunk. It took me a second to realize what happened, but when I looked in my rearview it was pretty obvious. All I saw was the grille of a large pick up truck.
So I get out of my car, and this guy who is probably in his early 20s is driving with no shirt on or anything, and first thing he does is say something like "I work for a body shop. I'll give you my name and address and I'll fix it right up." So I'm like "Whatever, I still want your driver's license and insurance." So he's all "Let's pull up here so we're not blocking traffic. I'll follow you." Well, at this point, I knew something was up, so I told him to go around me and I would follow him, since I was betting that he was planning on having me go left and he would go right and make a clean getaway. Well, he goes on around me and pull off to a side road, and he tells me he's going to write down his info, so I says "I'm just gonna call the cops so they can file an accident report." About that time, I noticed he's got a veteran's plate and I'm thinking "early 20's and a vet? That ain't his truck."
Well, he hops back in his truck and does something for a minute and I'm on the phone with the cops. I think the phone call went something like this: "Hello, cops? Yeah, I was just in an accident at blah blah intersection. The guy's license plate is...Hey wait...He's driving off!" SO I go chasing him a little ways down a really twisty street where he's all fishtailing around at 20mph with all this crap in the back of his truck (A BBQ grill, a fold out table, a passenger, and who knows what else) all flying around about to come out of the truck, and we get to an intersection at a pretty busy highway. Well, he stops till there's an opening in traffic and gets going but I can't get through to see where he's gone, but I see him turn at the next intersection up, so I tell the cop on the phone that he got away, and I'm told to wait at a nearby gas station.
Well, I wait around for a few minutes, and a city cop comes out to see what happened, but it turns out that the accident wasn't in his jurisdiction so county cops get called out. Well, right about then, he gets a call that there's an accident up the road so he takes off and tells me to wait for the county cop.
About 20 minutes later, no county cop, but then I see a red pickup truck on a flatbed go by with the front end all banged up and some sticks and stuff sticking out of the hood...It's our boy's truck, and it looks like he hit something else. A couple of minutes later the city cop comes back, and he has a passenger who seems to be trying to hise his face...Yep, it's the hit and run knucklehead, and I ID him, and I'm told he'll be going to jail.
So eventually the county cop shows up, and I tell him what happened, and he takes my license, insurance, and registration and starts walking to his car. As soon as I hand this stuff over, the gas station attendant comes running out yelling "That guy drove off without paying! The orange mini-van!" Yeah...A bright orange mini-van. Kinda hard to spot, eh? So the cop jumps in his car (with my documents) and speeds off to catch the gas thief. The gas station attendant says "We've have a lot of drive-offs lately, but that's the first one with a cop sitting in the parking lot." Heh.
About a half hour later, an ambulance and several fire squad trucks show up at the gas station because they had a report that someone was bleeding severely. Attendant had no idea what that was all about and they eventually all took off with lights flashing.
After about an hour of waiting, I call up the county police to see what the deal is. Well, Mr. Orange mini-van driver got caught, but before he did, he tried to cut his wrists, so that's what the ambulance was for, but they were in the wrong place for some reason.
So after about 2 hours of waiting, the county policeman shows up as well as 2 more orange mini vans that belong to a cab company. It turns out the the minivan had been stolen Wednesday from the cab company and the guy had been living in it or something.
To wrap this whole thing up, let's see...Hit and run, knucklehead hit a tree and got arrested, some other knucklehead stole gas, tried to kill himself, and got arrested. All in all, a pretty wacky day. Oh yeah...And the damage to my car: Minimal. I can barely even see it, and I'm pretty sure the truck was doing over 5mph...Who says Canadians need those crazy bumpers?
I got my car all washed up nice and pretty, and my girlfriend and I were off to help a friend move. About 1 1/2 miles down the road, I stopped at a stop sign, and just as I'm ready to pull away, I get a real nice thunk. It took me a second to realize what happened, but when I looked in my rearview it was pretty obvious. All I saw was the grille of a large pick up truck.
So I get out of my car, and this guy who is probably in his early 20s is driving with no shirt on or anything, and first thing he does is say something like "I work for a body shop. I'll give you my name and address and I'll fix it right up." So I'm like "Whatever, I still want your driver's license and insurance." So he's all "Let's pull up here so we're not blocking traffic. I'll follow you." Well, at this point, I knew something was up, so I told him to go around me and I would follow him, since I was betting that he was planning on having me go left and he would go right and make a clean getaway. Well, he goes on around me and pull off to a side road, and he tells me he's going to write down his info, so I says "I'm just gonna call the cops so they can file an accident report." About that time, I noticed he's got a veteran's plate and I'm thinking "early 20's and a vet? That ain't his truck."
Well, he hops back in his truck and does something for a minute and I'm on the phone with the cops. I think the phone call went something like this: "Hello, cops? Yeah, I was just in an accident at blah blah intersection. The guy's license plate is...Hey wait...He's driving off!" SO I go chasing him a little ways down a really twisty street where he's all fishtailing around at 20mph with all this crap in the back of his truck (A BBQ grill, a fold out table, a passenger, and who knows what else) all flying around about to come out of the truck, and we get to an intersection at a pretty busy highway. Well, he stops till there's an opening in traffic and gets going but I can't get through to see where he's gone, but I see him turn at the next intersection up, so I tell the cop on the phone that he got away, and I'm told to wait at a nearby gas station.
Well, I wait around for a few minutes, and a city cop comes out to see what happened, but it turns out that the accident wasn't in his jurisdiction so county cops get called out. Well, right about then, he gets a call that there's an accident up the road so he takes off and tells me to wait for the county cop.
About 20 minutes later, no county cop, but then I see a red pickup truck on a flatbed go by with the front end all banged up and some sticks and stuff sticking out of the hood...It's our boy's truck, and it looks like he hit something else. A couple of minutes later the city cop comes back, and he has a passenger who seems to be trying to hise his face...Yep, it's the hit and run knucklehead, and I ID him, and I'm told he'll be going to jail.
So eventually the county cop shows up, and I tell him what happened, and he takes my license, insurance, and registration and starts walking to his car. As soon as I hand this stuff over, the gas station attendant comes running out yelling "That guy drove off without paying! The orange mini-van!" Yeah...A bright orange mini-van. Kinda hard to spot, eh? So the cop jumps in his car (with my documents) and speeds off to catch the gas thief. The gas station attendant says "We've have a lot of drive-offs lately, but that's the first one with a cop sitting in the parking lot." Heh.
About a half hour later, an ambulance and several fire squad trucks show up at the gas station because they had a report that someone was bleeding severely. Attendant had no idea what that was all about and they eventually all took off with lights flashing.
After about an hour of waiting, I call up the county police to see what the deal is. Well, Mr. Orange mini-van driver got caught, but before he did, he tried to cut his wrists, so that's what the ambulance was for, but they were in the wrong place for some reason.
So after about 2 hours of waiting, the county policeman shows up as well as 2 more orange mini vans that belong to a cab company. It turns out the the minivan had been stolen Wednesday from the cab company and the guy had been living in it or something.
To wrap this whole thing up, let's see...Hit and run, knucklehead hit a tree and got arrested, some other knucklehead stole gas, tried to kill himself, and got arrested. All in all, a pretty wacky day. Oh yeah...And the damage to my car: Minimal. I can barely even see it, and I'm pretty sure the truck was doing over 5mph...Who says Canadians need those crazy bumpers?
