‘…I have never once checked the mileage’
Really? They are supposed to write it on the form when you bring it in. That & an estimate & your signature. Friend or not, its pretty much the law.
Ah, Monty.
*What * could possibly be your problem here?
If you are so convinced the story is bullshit…<shrug>…nobody really gives a fuck.
If you are accusing Angkins of lying, well, why the hell would she? She needed an entertaining pointless mundane tidbit to share? Hardly need to make one up, between her life and mine, she could write a novel of mundane pointless stuff. She has no reason to make up ‘bullshit’.
I am the one who told her to post this thread.
I thought it was a funny story, perfect for this forum…a great example of the tendency of people to stick their heads in the sand when presented with a distastful reality.
She told me about it the day it happened, and the rest of it as it occured. They also had a customer ‘moon’ the night staff recently, and I was present as she talked to security about having them barred from the store.
I could go back and shred your long acerbic post, but I cant be bothered. I cannot imagine what Ange could have possibly done to earn your attention.
You know exactly JACK SHIT about how the police run things around here, actually, you know LESS than jack shit about it, and for all your posturing to the contrary, you just sound like an ass.
An apology at this time would be appropriate.
Seems like we need something to lighten up the thread.
How 'bout a little slap and tickle.
I really need a better hobby than posting on message boards.
I don’t like bullshit masquerading as fact.
Now you’re saying “we” and now you’re alluding that I tool around in drive-thrus pulling pud. Great debating points!
Actually, KB, an apology from me is not in order. Your posting above proves that.
I have no problems with facing distasteful realities. The problem here, though, is the oP is not reality.
Check the forum…
This is NOT Great Debates.
Are you going to insist she made this up?
What next…are you going to insist me and her are the same person?
You are free to disbelieve all you want, but if you insist on calling someone a liar, you should really take it to the pit.
Angie’s behavior here has been, and continues to be, above reproach.
And even if she DID make the whole thing up…whats the diff to you? Why the hell do you care? There are far more bullshitty op’s in this forum…go hunt trolls or debate something.
And you know this BECAUSE???
It must be nice to be omniscient Monty…
“I’ve got a DungeonMaster’s guide, I’ve got a twelve-sided die, I’ve got Kitty Pryde and Nightcrawler too, waiting there for me, yes I do.”
Weezer-In the Garage
Hey!..junior Perry Mason…lighten up hon, this is not Mundane and Pointless FACTS I Must Share… if you want to dissect the fact from fiction…do it in the other forums. We have fun over here.
I really try to be good but it just isn’t in my nature!
Monty, we’re not talking about UFO’s or telepathy here.
If you think this is outside the realm of possibility, maybe you should break down and buy a newspaper. Weird stuff happens all the time.
And for you to call Angie a liar when nothing in her previous posts suggests that she is one, is not only mean spirited, but ignorant as well.
I am no authority… but having been through a similar situation (see MikeyLikesIt and my tracking down a fictional California ADA) I am in agreement with Monty that no matter what the forum, we ought not to post fiction and represent it as truth.
That said, I don’t find any of the OP inherently incredible.
It’s very believable for the police to ask a witness if they “want to press charges” even though, as you correctly point out, her role would be as a witness. The police have learned that it is counterproductive to force a complaining witness to testify for minor crimes like this. If she’s unwilling to sign a complaint, they have no way to even arrest the guy. But many complaining witnesses are happy to have the cops go talk tough to the offender in lieu of formal proceedings. This is very common.
If the underlying offense is a triple homicide, of course, it’s a different story. But for a little pecker-waving… absolutely.
As was explained, the police likely didn’t release the name of the complaining witness, but they would say the name and location of the store. The manager who owned the car would know that no matter which employee saw the act, the store manager would be the one to hande contacting the police.
I agree that the police showing up at her work (or the husband/wife’s joint work) is a little unusual. But plenty could have happened that we (to include Angkins) don’t know about… perhaps the cops called their home and said they needed to stop by and ask her a few questions, and she said, “Listen, I’m on my way out the door, but I work at the Tim Hortons on Umpty Frotz lane; come by there and ask for me.”
In short, I think I have a reasonbly good BS detector, and I’m also fanatical about tracking these things down. But in this case, I gotta tell ya, Monty – the detector didn’t go off once.
- Rick
Okay, Rick. Explain the driving around town in a customer’s car. I can’t even imagine how much the insurance would skyrocket after even one accident. Nor even if the mechanic had been arrested by a cop if the cop had seen “the act.”
I hate to dive back in here, but may I point out:
When I take my car in to be worked on (say it’s the brakes), I EXPECT that the mechanic is going to drive the car around to make sure they work OK. I don’t find that odd at all. Also, I don’t see anywhere that says the cop saw the incident. The OP says that the shop called the cops.
Your problem, Monty, is that you’re trying to apply normal logic to an irrational act. There is nothing wrong with this. However, if someone gets his jollies off on jerking off in drive-thrus, I sincerely doubt that whose car he’s doing it in is going to make a lick of difference. In fact, I think that if he’s getting off on the fear of getting caught, doing it in a borrowed car is even more of a thrill.
It’s not at all uncommon for a shop to test drive a car if necessary to ensure that the repair was successful. I would be surprised to have the mechanic test-driving after an oil change, but if I brought it in and said, “The car shimmies and makes a grup-grup sound above fifteen miles per hour,” I would expect - nay, demand - that they test it after fixing it.
Obviously, someone who chooses to masturbate in a stranger’s car, in semi-public, isn’t thinking rationally… so the worry about getting caught by a cop, while valid, obviously didn’t deter him.
Is that inherently unbelievable? No. I once personally observed a New Jersey State Trooper, in a marked police unit, doing this same act. Undoubtedly, getting caught would have meant reprimand or discharge (no pun intended) for that guy… but he chose to risk it. With that in mind, I have no trouble buying the story in the OP.
Bizarre? Of course. But not inherently incredible.
- Rick
:::::running and screaming from this thread with arms and legs in wild animation::::::
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< giggle >
Not to add fuel to the fire, but I can’t understand why Monty has so much doubt that a mechanic would drive around in a car that was left in his shop.
Actually, that exact (well, not EXACT) same thing happened to me about 3 years ago. I left my car to have a tune-up and it had to stay overnight because it needed a part, and they didn’t have it in stock. The mechanic who owned the shop was a client of mine, and the reason I brought my car to his shop was that I trusted him not to take advantage of me, due to the fact that we knew each other professionally. The next day when I went to pick up the car, it was not there. My client, George, explained that an assistant took the car for a test drive. After waiting over an hour, I was pissed, and demanded to know where my car was. George had nothing to say, except that maybe something had happened, but the assistant hadn’t called, so he had no way of knowing where my car was. He was obviously upset at that point as well. About 15 minutes later, my car pulls up, and the guy driving it gets out and walks into the office. George, now pretty much enraged, mainly, I think, because he was embarrassed, demanded to know why he was gone for so long. The assistant, unaware that he was in trouble, made up a lame excuse about running out of gas, and not having change to call in, yada yada yada. All I wanted to do was go home at that point, and took my keys and left. When I got in my car I noticed a little piece of paper sticking up between the seat cushions. On the paper, in flowery, feminine handwriting was the name ‘Jennifer’ and her phone number. I brought it back into the office and showed my client, and he told me the next day that the guy had been fired.
That proves to me that mechanics do take cars out for more than test drives, and for all I know he could have been having sex with Jennifer in the back seat. It might not be the safest, or the most professional thing to do, but I assure you, it does happen.
< sniff, sniff >
I try hard to lighten it up in here and no one bites
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I am disappointed in the Teeming Millions!
At the risk of getting jumped on, my bullshit detector went off about the time I read this:
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Turns out it was her car that had gone through the drive thru last week!!!
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I won’t dissect the post or jump the shit, but MPSIMS or not, there really are just too many loose ends to this story and the quote above sounds too much like that old UL.
I forget if it was featured in one of Jan B.'s books or on the old Legs Durbano site or maybe even one of Cecil’s books, but I knew of this story long before I read the OP. It’s an URBAN LEGEND and my guess is that it is total bullshit.
A guy is quietly minding his own business at work one day when the cops show up and arrest him for indecent exposure. It seems that someone turned him in for mastURbating at a drive up window at McDonalds/Wendys/First National Bank/or in this case, Tim Hortons. They had the description of the car, the license plate number, and the description of the man. No matter how much he insisted that he was at work the entire day, they still arrested him.
The story goes on with more detail but in the end, he finds out that his wife had taken the car into the shop without him knowing and that the mechanic had been test driving the car.
Coincidence? You decide.
You better be nice or I’ll sic my lackeys on ya.
I just remembered a few more details of the UL. The guy gets arrested, is convicted, goes to jail, and gets divorced. One day as the wife is unpacking her things (after she moved out) she comes across the old mechanic work order. She finally puts two and two together and remembers that the date on the work order is the day her husband was accused.
Tell me I am not the only one who has heard of this UL.
You better be nice or I’ll sic my lackeys on ya.