Eh, I could almost see it, with a raised SUV and a low car. I had a friend in Scouts that almost killed himself when he hit the back of a parked SUV (I think it was a Bronco) that had been raised in his Nissan. The bumper went right through his windshield. We gave him a lot of crap for that one.
So, you had a friend that you where in the Boy Scouts with that rear ended a parked, lifted Bronco with his Nissan.
Is that what you said?[sub]It’s getting a bit late here too.[/sub]
Yeah. He might have been full of it, but I can tell you he never had that car again for whatever reason.
No, extravagant exaggeration, of the sort that anyone with more than two functioning brain cells recognizes as such. Quite different from a lie.
It was quite clear to me, and probably to everyone else in this thread, that the SUV in question did not actually drive onto and over the hood of the OP’s car.
I doubt it.
And if some people do, they probably have the intelligence of, say, a person who thinks hyperbole is the same as a lie.
I knew immediately that this sort of thing would be nearly impossible to happen, but I’m afraid that many don’t. In fact, I think the OP believes that the vehicle drove over his hood —
UP ONTO OUR QUARTERPANEL AND OVER OUR HOOD He later goes on to state the his wife was afraid that
OK. Fine it was scary. I’m not saying it wasn’t. But nothing short of a Uni-Mog is goiing to drive over their hood. Even then, it would have to be perfect conditions. A Chevy Blazer could certainly scrape the hood, but that’s about it.
Yeah, I’m being anal. But I get sick and tired of people claiming things that happened when it just can not be so.
Oh, yeh? Well, what about this Chevy Blazer, Mr. Smarty-Pants, huh? Huh?
That’s why I asked what year it was. 
I understand hyperbole. I understand that sometimes people will exaggerate when they are upset or angry.
But, I do take issue with this.
There are people that may take these exaggerations as fact. This is the type of stuff that turn into urban legends. I was only trying to coax out a little bit clearer information from the OP.
ignorant: Lacking education or knowledge. Basically, enipla.
Sheeesss. Call someone on something that could not have happened, and ask for more information and be called ignorant.
I don’t doubt that Steve MB got hit by a Chevy Blazer. And it’s fine that he exaggerated a bit. I was just trying to point out some facts. That’s what we do here.
Crap. Yesterday, my MIL and FIL’s retirement home burned down. Ten minutes ago, I got a call from my mother that her water heater tank had burst and flooded her utility room.
Tomorrow, my Mom is driving to our house to watch the dogs while I support my Wife for her first triathlon. We drive to the Las-Vegas Silverman triathlon on Wednesday.
Maybe, somewhere I was too judgmental in this pit thread. But I don’t see it. I guess that perhaps I’m wound a little tight right now because of so many things that are happening that I can’t do anything about.
I apologize to Steve MB if somehow this seemed like some type of personal attack.
Or BMWs… well, come to think of it, the BMW drivers aren’t shitheads, but just assholes.
Around here, if someone instigates an episode of vehicular idiocy, the odds are 3 to 1 that they’re driving one of 2 types of cars:
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[li]SUV (likely the bigger and/or more expensive ones. An Excursion driver is more likely than a Jeep Liberty driver to do something stupid, just like a Porsche Cayenne driver is more likely to turn their brain off than a Nissan Pathfinder driver.[/li][li] BMW (the more recent the year or sportier the model, the lower the vehicular IQ.)[/li][/ul]
It is just possible that a jacked up SUV/Blazer could roll over the hood of a Mazda. Highly unlikely, but just possible ( Ihave seen some with huge oversized tires and so jacked up, that I, in my Saturn, had my eyes level with the bottom of their door. That sort of SUV could possibly drive over my hood). Thus, Steve MB, did you mean that description literally?
PS, you should get your $250 back from your Insurance co for “subrogation”. You should also consult with an attorney for “other” damages. IANAL.
You said it I didn’t (and from your comments I think you proved it), and what do you mean by the bold part?
Cite pease, when did this happen?
And when did I ever get hit by a SUV, I don’t recall it ever happening, and if you know that I did I would like to know about it. Where did you get this info?
For the record, I understood from the OP that he actually meant the vehicle’s wheel passed over a section of the hood, like he said.
That’s why I asked what it was, and what the squished vehicle was; there are plenty of pickup trucks on the roads here (Central Florida) on three-and-a-half-foot tires, but I’ve never seen a regular SUV so attired.
The vehicle’s right front tire came up the quarterpanel and across a corner of the hood. I assumed that this was obvious from the description of Shithead’s initial position.
Thanks for the advice. Of course, consulting with an attorney would probably eat up the lion’s share of the $250 even if we do get it back.
The local PD still lists the case as “pending”, which presumably means that they still don’t buy Shithead’s story.
Not really. Accident attorneys normally take a %, thus there is no “fee”. If they think your case is good enough, they’ll take it for something like 40% of what the settlement is. Generally- YMMV- they won’t charge any fee “up front” for the initial consultation, which is when they ask you enough questions to decide whether or not they want the case. I had a case like this years ago, they got me $5000 (that’d be $10000 now) for “pain, suffering and mental damages”, and they seemed to think their 40% of $5000 was adequate- and since I got 60% of something I thought I’d never get anyway, we both were happy. YMMV. Tax free, btw. YMMV, IANAL. Your State may be hwaaaay different, and so forth.
Re getting bitched at after pulling someone out of the snow? It’s happend to me once, and a friend. I was there both times.
Re the bold part that you bolded. I do everything I can to help out the people that continue to get stuck in the snow up here. I rarely, rarely even get so much as a thank you though.
The last time, I drove home, got my plow truck and spent 2 hours getting someone out. They left with not so much as a thank you.
Yet you say that shitheads drive SUV’s.
Excuse me, I mis-spoke.
So. Steve MB Was this a pretty basic Chevy Blazer? Was it heavily modified?
He was to the left of you as I understand, and he made a right turn from a dead stop at a stoplight and his right front tire climbed up your quarter panel and across the lower part of your hood?
Steve MB, I’ve read your thread with interest, including the parts where skepticism was expressed, skepticism was deplored, hyperbole and ignorance were defined, and the literal truth of the OP was reasserted, which must have made the definers of hyperbole and ignorance feel a little sad. Nonetheless, having read all of it, since I don’t know, I’m ready to accept everything you say as the truth. But it would be nice for my own edification if you could tell me:
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What wheel or wheels of the Blazer touched the hood of your Mazda?
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At the light at which you were all stopped, how far in front or to the rear of your Mazda’s front bumper was the front bumper of the Chevy?
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What model Mazda were you driving?
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How high was the Blazer’s rear bumper off the ground?
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How many cars were behind you, and behind the Blazer?
That is ungrateful to an astonishing degree. Not only would I profusely thank you to the point of leaving lipprints on your boots, I’d have offered you a few bucks. I don’t understand how people can act that way.
Thank you Frank.
And I am a bit sorry about this hi-jack. The first case was where I found a friend of mine pulling out a mid-sized sedan on the road I live on. He pulled it out with his older model Jeep Cherokee. I was suprised that he could do it.
He found these people stuck. And offered his help.
As the job was done, he was lectured about how he should not be driving such a big ( :rolleyes: ) and wasteful vehicle.
We where both so gobsmacked that we did not say a thing.
Another time after discovering someone stuck, I went home and fired up my plow truck but the snow was so deep and so firece that my air cleaner froze up. I just pulled it off. That was a Land Rover that I pulled. Once they got out, they just drove away.
My brother was with me. We just shrugged our shoulders and drove home.
I understand that getting a little lost, and very stuck can make people a bit on edge. I see it a lot.