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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: lazs2 on December 27, 2002, 11:29:13 AM
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A friggin m.. mi...mi...mi... minivan hit my Elky!
My son was driving and we were still a little... ah... "shaky" from his test of tire destroying ability of my new 468... We had pulled up to a stop sign and he just snicked the 6 speed into low and started to let out the clutch when..... bam.. cellphone wearing, baby screaming, soccer mom in a mi... mi... minivan runs right into us... probly saved her or her kids lives by stopping her before she got into the intersection.
Soo... we get's out and exchange info... I say "don't get too shook up it's not too bad" and she says.... can't you just pound it out?" yeah... I says.... I can take the body off the frame and reassemble everything if I wanted to... maybe you will come over and help me? She didn't get it. Bet she tells her husband that she "bumped" some old car at a stop sign.
Oh well... just dented the bumper and a small dent in the tailgate. new bumpers are only $250 bucks. Geeze... she should be glad I'm not being a dick about it or sqeeling about whiplash or somethin..
A friggin honda mi.... mi... minivan... and it was silver besides!
lazs
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Man laz that blows...
I live in fear some dumb prettythanghole is going to hit mine.
Post some pics! :D
She did not seem very sorry?
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dude.. the first step is admitting it..
you're halfway there...
all kidding aside, soccer-moms are more dangerous than all the gun wielding criminals in our country..
they scare the crap outta me!
talk about the need for new legislation ! heh
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Originally posted by lazs2
A friggin m.. mi...mi...mi... minivan hit my Elky!
LOL...not at the fact that she hit you man...I'm laughing at the difficulty you have saying the "m" word.:D
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Man that sucks... minivan... silver... whats the world coming to. I thought silver was no longer the choice color... every freaking third car is silver... hurts my eyes.
Hope the fix isnt too difficult.
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oh wow..
minivans with soccer moms are the scourge of friggen Earth..trying to feed their spawn while talking on the cell and driving like toejam in the proccess..
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Personally, I think those farkin m-thingys should not be sold to anyone with:
a) a cell phone
b) kids
c) big hair
d) a dog
My 300ZX TT got the same treatment from a m-thingy laz,..only,..due to the low height of my bumper, she decided it would be oh so cool to park her oil pan on my roof.
Get this,..the woman didn't even drop a syllable while talking on the cell. She just sits there on top of my car, babbling like the moron they all are.
To this day, I pull over to the shoulder whenever I see one of those horrid vehicles,...completely out of fear for my life.
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I'm telling ya'... we outta' shoot 'em all...
or at least put them in jail
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Minivans driven by women are consitently the most poorly driven cars I see on the road. They scare me.
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Oh the Mini-Terrors... My cousing and I were driving around in his new vet, he let me take it out just around the neighborhood, he came along of course. Not but 2 minutes from our house and apperently hers aswell (it was in the area) she slams into the rear at about 15mph. Not missing a beat on her cell phone as she gets out to talk... My cousin was so discusted he grabbed her phone and smashed it against her car.... She had a baby seat in the car but no baby... and she had the nerve to start yelling at my cousin... we got everything setteled, exchanged info, we called the cops in the for the report, and she wanted to report that we assualted her after the accident (which I guess is true) but the officer I guess loved vets, said it looks like it was part of the accident. :rolleyes:
-BlckMgk
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Originally posted by Wlfgng
all kidding aside, soccer-moms are more dangerous than all the gun wielding criminals in our country..
they scare the crap outta me!
As true as statements get.
We just had one run down two kids on the sidewalk while she was talking on the phone. Right before slamming into a parked car.
AKDejaVu
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Whenever I get stuck in a fast food drive-thru line behind a woman in a m***van I know I'm in for a long wait. The woman invariably uses hand gestures while ordering through the microphone. She also asks lots of questions, like 'what's on a bacon cheeseburger?'. She's ordering for the whole clan, so it takes frickin forever while she loads up all the bags of food, checking each one to make sure they got her order right.
I won't even go into driving behind m***vans doing 60mph in the left lane.
ra
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Man, the way you guys are talking about women, someone is going to get upset and quit.
Skuzzy, did you just call all women morons?
Lock it down.
F.
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we're not talking about Women
we're talking about 'soccer' moms.. a whole different sub-race that should be avoided on the roads
or how about just grouping cell-phone-drivers that are distracted by kids, dogs and soccer balls
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women are in their own little world when they have a phone pressed to their ear
drivers using cell phones in a moving vehicle should be banned -period
guess it'll take a movie star or politicians kid killed because of this distraction before a law is passed
nothing is that dang important it can't wait until you stop.
nothing scarier than a 16 year old girl on a cell phone behind the wheel
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Hehe Furious,..anyone running over cars and people, while talkin on the phone and in a m-weapon is a moron. There,..that clear? :D
That is about as respectful as I can get with such mentally deprived people as those.
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I own a mini-van, and love it, so there. :D
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ban kieran
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Shit, mini-vans are nothing. My sister behind the wheel of her Barracuda, then her Scamp were truly terrifying. Old fashioned american steel and a lot of it, combined with the scariest driver this side of the Mississippi. Incredibly no one has died by her driving, but plenty of vehicles have paid the price...one of them being a parked vehicle. At last count she was up to five (that I know about). Fortunately for the driving public, she now drives a Honda.
Her last accident, in which she told me someone hit her and it wasn't her fault, took out her Scamp. Upon looking at the vehicle, I didn't have the heart to ask her how the other vehicle caused a nearly perfect vertical crease right in the center of her car's front end, while causing no other damage. I guess the car musta had a pole attached to it when it hit her. :D
SOB
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Let us in our haste not forget to mention the cell phone talking early twenties female driving a "low end" BMW..
There is a mold that they're all stamped out of.
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'soccer moms' aren't limited to driving minivans.. it's just their primary means of conveyance...
I for one prefer them in minivans since they're easier to spot and avoid...
I hate those 'stealth' soccer-moms...
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How's your neck, Laz? Perhaps you need the services of Johnny Cochrane? :D
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Three times in my 2 years of drving have I seen and nearly been killed by some female driving with a cell phone pressed to her ear. Allow me to relate:
1. Coming home from work in the late afternoon, I see a red minivan approaching an intersection. This particular intersection is only a two way stop, with the stop sign on her road. Seeing as I figure the van will stop, I don't slow to pass the intersection. Crazy female on a cell phone blows the sign and misses the front of my car by no more than 2 inches. Doesn't even slow or change direction.
2. Early afternoon, Loop 820 heading toward I-30. Cruising with traffic, music playing, sunroof open, the perfect driving weather. Stuck in the center lane with cars all around me. Blue GMC Yukon, woman driver with a cell phone and a male passenger begin to merge into my lane. Problem is, she's merging into me, and I've got no where to go! I honk the horn and try to move over, but I'm blocked by a red Honda CR-X. The Yukon gets within 2 feet of my car when her passenger spares me by jerking her wheel back to the left.
3. This one actually involved an accident with my brother. Early afternoon, driving to the store. He's driving his old Honda Accord. We're waiting at an onramp to get on Hwy 199, and traffic is speedy. Another female, on the phone, slams into my brother's car at about 15 MPH, jarring us enough to where we were PUSHED onto the highway into traffic. Luckily, the light had just changed, and traffic had stopped.
Cell phones are deadly when you're driving. Even if you're using those fancy headsets, you're still dangerous...
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'soccer moms' aren't limited to driving minivans.. it's just their primary means of conveyance...
Ahh this is true they're now driving Hummers and Escalades and Navigators, and Oh my Duelies! I'd hate to see the day she pulls up in a Semi.... I'd get outta my car and ask her to drive me around (id probably be safer in her car than in any other :D )
Those SUV's...............
-BlckMgk
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We got laws against using headphones in traffic.
Scientific experiments have shown that even when concentrating on driving, most of us barely have enough skill and oversight to react properly should something extraordinary happen.
With cell phones, your concentration isn't on the road but on the conversation. It's an accident waiting to happen. I've taken it so far as to take note of the registration numbers on cars where someone is on the phone while driving and providing it to the police. Of course they can do nothing with the info, but if I don't do something when I see it, I feel like an accomplice to murder. You might disagree with this action, but I gotta do what I gotta do. Their own fault for doing something illegal.
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So Lazs, what happened to HER vehicle, with its mighty plastic bumper and all?
J_A_B
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The two accidents I have been in were both with vans.
The first was a full size Dodge or Ford van driven by a guy with his wife and kids with him. He pulled across oncoming trafic to reach the freeway onramp. Unfortunately he neglected to check if there was any oncoming traffic. That one killed my '81 Datsun 510.
The second was a brand new Toyota Sienna driven by a guy who had borrowed it from his sister. He attempted a blind merge into a lane where his ability to see if it was clear was blocked by a Mitsubishi-Fuso cargo truck. He hit my Nissan pickup just behind the passenger side door, putting a moderate dent in it. The bumber was torn off of the Sienna. Do ya think his sister let hime borrow her vehicle again?
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I feel your pain brother. I got rearended too. There's something about Minivans/SUVs/Pickups that lowers IQ or lengthens reaction times or something. Mine's going to cost $3k to fix but the other guy's insurance is paying. I had a scratch on the bumper anyways so it's just as well.
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Should be illegal for chicks to use phones while driving. Guys are generally ok.... why...
because a guy coversation generally goes like this:
Guy1: "yeah?"
Guy2: "wanna go out and get pissed tonight"
Guy1: "oh yeah"
Guy2: "ok see ya at 8"
Guy1: "cya"
whereas a chick conversation goes like this:
Chick 1: "hello?"
Chick 2: "Hi Chick1 its Chick2"
Chick 1: "ohhhhhhhh darling how are you?"
Chick 2: "good good" (incidentally my pet hate is this phrase)
Chick 1: "hey me and chick3 were gonna go to xxxx tonight, can you come?"
Chick 2: "well, I was gonna wash my hair tonight, and Guy1 might call..."
Chick 1: "ohh please it would be soooooooo much better if..."
Chick 2: "ohh Okay... but what are you wearing..."
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1 hour later
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Chick 2: "OK see you at 8"
Chicks are nuts. And even crazier when it comes to phones. I recently had a message left on my cell voice mail that went for TWENTY FRIGGIN MINUTES. Some chick left a message for her friend that went on AND on AND on, we played it on a speakerphone at work the other guys just PISSED themselves laffing. And my voicemail starts "Hi its Vulcan, I'm not available right now, for urgent inquiries please call 555-1234, or leave a message after the beep". You think she'd have a clue?
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Oh man do I ever feel your pain. I had a 1976 TR6 roadster. Red and in Mint condition. With Redline tires, prefect wood dash. (Sniff, crying, drying eyes) Well, this woman with a station wagon (pre mini van era) runs a stop sign while yapping on the phone and broadsides me. I don't think she even touched the brakes.
The Stationwagon was a 1985 Chevy Town and Country or something like that. The big GM luxery wagon that Chevy had. Needless to say, my baby is no more. All my childhood I dreamed of owning a TR6, and once I found one that was in good enough shape to restore....well, I still get pretty emotional about it. Well, to make a long story short, her insurance and mine haggled for almost 2 years over the value of the car, and my hospital bill. The only bright side of the story is that they are not that rare. So once I get another place with a Garage (apartment Living) I will start looking for another one. I now have a bumber sticker on the back of my Jeep. "HANG UP AND DRIVE!"
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Had my truck for less then a month when a woman on a cell phone drove into my like I wasnt there....Drove my bumper up (1500$)and gave me a bit of neck pain(2000$) My sons were both fine as thier heads were low on the seat.
Her minivan(she didnt even hit the breaks) had its engine right back into the firewall and the whole front end shmushed up.
Driving home from work talking on the cell phone..
The amazing thing to me was no squealing breakes no nothing..hit me going 50 klicks or so.
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Guys, easy on the bashing of women on cell phones. They keep the body shop industry going. ;)
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There is some hope, California will probably ban hand-held cellphone driving this year.
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A suburb of Cleveland Ohio has made it illegal to use a cellphone while driving. If the Police spot someone talking on a cellphone while driving, they are pulled over, issued a ticket and a court date. Bad enough that they let women drive in the first place, let alone let them Yak their tulips off while attempting to drive. Ba d situation there. Of course....trying to apply lipstick, eyeliner, and talk on the cellphone while driving isn't hazardous .........or is it? LOL.
Glad men aren't into makeup.....ok........most men :D
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"I now have a bumber sticker on the back of my Jeep. "HANG UP AND DRIVE!"
Most people I ride bikes with plaster their helmets with stickers that are quite imaginative. I only have three stickers..
"If you remember the 60's and 70's you weren't there"
"It it's too loud, you're too old"
"Perhaps you could see me better if that cell-phone was shoved up your ass"
Its amazing how some people drive these days
BTW LAZ, sorry about your nice elky, - hope it's easily fixed. Doesn't your neck hurt, just a little:D
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ouch lazs, that sucks. sorry to hear it
but just be glad it wasnt a similiar soccer mom/ trophy wife driving one of those huge sport utilities (that will never see even a gravel road.)
It seems like their are thousands of these poofy haired morons here. A minivan is nothing compared to a 9000 Ford Expedition or the like. Bumper is the perfect height to just clear yours too.
Oh yeah, and good to hear no one was hurt.
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well.... first off... I don't sue people unless there is absolutely no choice. No one was hurt. I will offer to settle without contacting any insurance company for the $275... the cost of a bumper and one bracket. It really doesn't look bad but it was nice before. Lucky for me that I like the retro look and the car sits a little high in the rear.. The bumpers matched up pretty well.
Her .... "car"? Well.... I don't know. Looked fine but.... there was some crumbs of foam looking toejam falling out the bottom and a crack in the cover that passes for a bumper. My son is a mechanic and said it could cost a grand or two.
Naa... she didn't seem the least bit sorry. She seemed..... inconvienenced by the whole thing.
lazs
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Originally posted by lazs2
well.... first off... I don't sue people unless there is absolutely no choice. No one was hurt. I will offer to settle without contacting any insurance company for the $275... lazs
Refreshing attitude there Lazs. Everyone's insurance rates would be significantly lower if more people felt the same way.
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we had a moment of silence for you lasz here at the fish house.
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And here I thought women were the "multi-taskers."
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Originally posted by Saurdaukar
And here I thought women were the "multi-taskers."
Sure they are, they can talk on the phone AND rear end other drivers at the same time! I would have thought that was obvious...
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My biggest beef with drivers on cell phones is the total lack of coordination that will end up getting somebody killed.
We all know that driving looks easy, but in reality can be a difficult thing to do. I drive like I fly, with my head on a swivel. I'm always checking mirrors, looking over my shoulder, checking blind spots, all to make sure that I am clear on all sides. Hell I look behind me when I'm chainging lanes.
When you're talking on a cell phone or putting on makeup or in some cases even READING (!) while driving, you no longer drive like this. Your SA drops, and your coordination falls into the toilet. Most people I see driving with phones always look straight ahead, and drive with their knees so their other hand can make gestures.
All the accidents I've seen or all the incidents I've come close to having all come from drivers not paying attention to driving. They're more engrossed in the conversation than with driving their vehicle.
Drving without thinking leads to accidents. Cell phones can cost far more than insurence can pay for.
Hang up and DRIVE!
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update... Called the woman and spoke to her husband... He was more than glad to settle for the price of a new bumper and bracket and not have the insurance companies or DMV involved at all. They are sending me a check for $275. Seems fair to me. Only way it could be more fair is if she had to come over and help me pull off the old one and put on the new bumper. I think that would be a lot better solution than having her write a check even.
but what do I know..
lazs
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Here on Long Island talking on the cell phone and driving is banned (or at least should still be). Tonight I almost got side swiped whens ome dumb squeak in a Toyota 4 Runner blabbing away on the cell phone a mile a minute. NOT EVEN LOOKING TO THE SIDE TO NOTICE THAT I WAS THERE. I press the brakes and let her scoot infront of me to avoid collision. I then proceed in pulling up along side of her to get ahead of her so nothing further can happen. She then opens the window, gives me the finger and screams "f*ck you." I swear, some idiots shouldn't even be allowed to drive. But wait, here's the real kicker. I was driving near the county jail at the time and there were a few police cars around. One drives RIGHT BY HER LEFT SIDE WHILE SHE'S ON THE PHONE looks in and doesn't do a thing. The cops don't even want to enforce the law it seems.
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today i was driving down a two way street with traffic crawling. suddenly the guy two cars ahead of me decides top stop in the middle of the lane and double park in front of his apartment bldg.
he gets out of the car, cell phone at ear yapping away and it turns out he's going to unload some things from the trunk. solid cars each way so no way to get around him- he gives a little wave like "oops, hehe" but leaves his car there with the flashers on, still on his phone, carrying things up while a block's worth of traffic stood at a standstill.
it's hard to put myself in that guy's head.
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Jerks like that deserve to have their cars smashed and tires slashed.