Well it guess it had to happen.
Someone ran into my 4 month old 550 while parked in a parking lot AND DIDNT FVCKING LEAVE A NOTE….
That is why I am driving a big @ss chebby these days. Two big incidents come to note:
Parked over at UTC, upper lot near Sport Chalet. Drove home from lot and noticed that the rear bumper was bent (It was made from 3/16 and 1/4 inch steel). Looked under the truck, frame showed no bending but I saw blue and brown paint marks on frame members going almost 3 feet under the truck. Went back to UTC and looked around where I parked. I saw a few pieces of taillight lens and some metal pieces, some over 20 feet away from where I was parked – one looking like a spiral made from 1/8 inch wide sheet steel that when straightened, was almost 1 foot long (something blue got can-opened). It did look like the people who hit me picked up most of the pieces of their car that got scattered when they ran into the back of my parked truck. I suspect they were ‘showboating’. I was real curious as to what their vehicle looked like.
Parallel parking in La Jolla; as I was backing in, an old man too impatient to wait decided to go around the truck.. but he didn’t make sure he pulled around the truck. The result was a gouge from making contact with my front bumper down the side of his new, black car and some damage from hitting my front tire (BFG MT 35×12.5). Idiot tried to claim that it was my fault, but since I took a LOT of photos of the scene.. insurance corrected him.
That beater is kind of like an armored vehicle, though I do miss the better gas mileage and smaller size of a car. I guess I am going to have to cave to getting another car sometime.
