Thanks to the anonymous driver who turned my home into a drive-thru. Please come get your car!
http://personal.msy.bellsouth.net/~dwtno/car-in-my-house/
Any and all back-pats, clucks of dismay and nods of sympathy welcome…
Where can I pick up my shrimp heads? Seriously, there has to be some record of the car, and your homeowners insurance should cover the damage at least. If nobody claims the car, see if you can keep it. I mean it is/was left on your property.
It looks like a 90-93 accord! Can I give you a list of the parts I need?
power antenna
Lrear taillight
the knobs from the climate controls
the tool kit
the knob on the lumbar adjustment (if it has it)…its on the armrest
I could also use the power window controllers as the kids play with them and they are starting to wear out.
Umm, If I think of anything else, I’ll post again
Front left control arm
Front left tie rod assembly
the head unit if it has the cd player…heh, I’ll take the tape unit too!
I’ll pay shipping!!
Dude this could totally rock! I so need a junker Accord to strip!
Oh, the tragedy of young folks all hopped up from sniffing childrens’ socks and eating shrimp heads. The devil’s own oatmeal, I tell you! Just say no to shrimp heads! When will they learn? When?
This car was stolen. The occupants took it for a joy ride, lost control, and cracked up into your house. Upon their means of conveyance no longer being able to convey them, they took off on foot to avoid arrest. I’d bet my right arm on it.
I gotta say though, I dig MikeG’s idea. I say any Doper that happens upon a stolen vehicle, alert the teeming millions, and see who needs what. If the stealing is second hand, it’s not really stealing.
Oh man! Could they have missed that water spigot by any less space?
I just love these people who take the kids with them when they do a little crime!
That is so rude. They didn’t even offer you some of whatever they were smoking/drinking, huh? And was this a girl who couldn’t park? Figures, thanks for making us all look bad, you twit.
My condolences on your house. There is a house near here, on a nasty set of s-curves, whose owner used to wake to a similar scene once every couple of years!
I used to live in one of those houses, EJsGirl. It was at the end of a long straightaway with a sudden deadend intersection. They used to take out our back fence regularly at the beginning of Blackhawks season. Then one night some guy got all the way through the fence–and all the way through our garage. Our brick garage. Amazingly it was empty except for some tools and even more amazingly the guy walked (well, staggered) away from it. If the garage hadn’t been there, he would have been in the kitchen, right under my brother’s bedroom.
The city finally put up a deflecting guardrail.
Sorry about your house, dtwno. Glad no one was hurt.
Well, enquiring minds want to know, did you make the TV news?
But the good point is you now won’t have to go to the expense of putting in that extra pet door. 
But seriously, that is terrible. What is the deductible on your insurance for this kind of thing. Hopefully you won’t be too much out-of-pocket. And I won’t even try to speculate on what kind of people would just leave the scene, can we just go and slap their parents for not teaching them better.
Not to add to your pain, but I have heard very nasty things about insurance companies who cancel you for making a claim on your homeowners policy. Then, to add insult to injury, new companies won’t take you if you’ve made a claim on a previous policy, because they think you’re a bad risk! Regardless of the content of the claim!
Sorry about your house, hopefully it won’t be too expensive to get fixed. My parents came home to a scene like that once when I was a baby, we had left on a last-minute trip for a couple of days, and when we got back there was a pickup truck all the way through the bedroom where we would have been sleeping. Pure luck that we weren’t there, the accident happened at night. Ruined almost everything we owned, broken glass in everything.
sigh
Just checked a little while ago. The hole is still there. So much for wish fullfillment.
I’m counting on my insurance to cover the damage, minus my substantial deductable (I’ll be happy to set up a fund if anyone wants to donate to it…). Although the car may have been stolen, I’m betting that it was owned by the driver, but unregistered. The plates didn’t match the VIN, but the plates were also more than three years out of date. Regardless, I think insurance on their part is almost guaranteed to be non-existant. This is quite a big problem here in my corner of the nation.
Sorry, MikeG, but the police towed the whole mess away soon after these pictures were taken. If it were still decoratng my lawn, you’d have been more than welcome to come and get it.
Myron, not only is that a water spigot, it’s also where the water main comes into my house. I can only imagine the mess if she’d struck it.
deb2world, no news appearance, which is just fine with me (I work in local media). Makes you wonder how common this sort of thing is that no one tried to get a shot of it.
You know what bugs me the most about the whole thing? For a whole bunch of reasons that I don’t need to go into right now, I don’t think the car was stolen, but rather unregistered, unliscensed and very poorly maintained. These people weren’t so much running from the law when they left their car protruding from my home, they were skipping out on their responsibility. There’s a whole culture in this state of operating outside of the rules and regulations, especially when it comes to cars (it’s why my insurance rates are so high). The car is unregistered so they never have to bother getting it inspected. That mean’s there’s never anyone to tell them to get their brakes fixed before they fail. So these people operate the car until it falls apart around them. When that happens, they abandon it, and find another junker. Hitting my house only accelerated the process.
It’s enough to make you loose faith.
Tommy the Cat, that first paragraph was one of the funniest things I’ve read all night. I don’t know if it was meant to be that way, but it was great. Thanks for that.
dwtno, sorry to hear about that (understatement of the year award). That’s absolutely absurd of the driver to do. I’m absolutely speechless, and I give you my condolences.
I obviously like the word “absolutely”.
Must be something going around…
TV viewer survives Rolls-Royce crash
Lordy. You’d think it was North I Street in Tacoma. It’s my opinion that two cars entering business at high rates of speed in one year make Tacoma the capital of this sort of thing. The one I witnessed put a big T-bird all the way into the receptionist’s desk at a travel agency (at 3 AM, so best of consequences).
Bricks are gonna be expensive to fix, but at least she didn’t hit a frame wall.
Man, which state are you IN?
Funny you should be the one doing the asking, Roach. I’m in the steamy South. Louisiana, to be precise. Home of your small, scurrying brethren. I’ll leave it to the intrepid reader to figure out which large, mis-managed, below-sea-level city I call home.
More good news today. Seems my favorite grey Honda took a sizable chunk out of the front sill supporting the house. The building inspector insists that it needs to be replaced. I believe him, I just hope the insurance company does, too.
As soon as it stops raining, I’m going to plant treadles in my front yard…
This reminds me of an old prank that I’ve seen pictures of. While someone is away and if they entrust you with the keys to their house and car you have fun. Basically, you dismantle the car piece by piece and assemble it in thier living room. I don’t know how anyone could pull it off, but apparently they have.
That rose bush did everything it could to protect your house, poor thing. I hope you give it a burial with honors
Somethign like that happened near me … twice, actually. Same house. And they’re not even on the end of a straightaway. They’re on top of a hill overlooking a straight road. In order to hit their house, the driver has to take a right off the roadway and drive up a hill. And somebody did it. Twice. How can two separate people be so stupid in the same exact way?
I think ‘The Car in Derek’s house’ would be a great title for a childrens book.
For what its worth, maybe the driver, so high on idodine from the shrimp heads, mistook your very cool window as a drive thru.
just an idea
One of the stupidest things I ever saw involving a car was someone who backed into a store window. The difficulty of this feat was increased by it being a low slung car and that the car didn’t get hung up on parking meters. Another time I saw a car that tried to cross a concrete median and get stuck.