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Dec 13, 2011 06:16 AM #4981
Geoff said the guy stopped at $8K of used parts, not including labor, paint, etc... Evidently is jacked the tranny, mount, frame, etc...
Dec 13, 2011 06:28 AM #4982
Dec 13, 2011 11:58 AM #4983
That sucks big time Alan... I find Bobs post very helpful though.
Dec 13, 2011 01:23 PM #4984
replugged my tire last night and it held the air over night now to put back on red and see how it holds!
Dec 13, 2011 02:28 PM #4985
I too find Bob's post very helpful. Dies anyone have an extra $14,500 I can add to MY budget?
On a better budget note, I also found this link to be extremely helpful and in the budget:
http://phoenix.craigslist.org/evl/cto/2715924199.html
On a better budget note, I also found this link to be extremely helpful and in the budget:
http://phoenix.craigslist.org/evl/cto/2715924199.html
Dec 13, 2011 05:13 PM #4986
Low ball him...
Dec 13, 2011 05:18 PM #4987
I love my diesel and would have a hard time going back to gas, but with the price difference if fuel...
Dec 13, 2011 06:17 PM #4988
Well if your gonna go gas, Can't beat a Hemi. Nice looking truck too
Dec 14, 2011 07:20 AM #4989
Just helped stop a hit and run
It was a slow side by side chase .5 mile chase.
Soon as this guy pulled out I smelled trouble.
Grand Ave, 3 lanes 11PM. Middle lane me, vehicle immediate right side, vehicle ahead left lane followed by another behind me.
White mid-size van parked on side pulls out very slow. Vehicle right brakes fast, oblivious van veers slowly across my lane and keeps awkward angle into left lane where 1st vehicle contact is made in T-bone fashion. Left lane behind me locks up on wet pavement, I go right to allow room.
Past wreck now and oh hey, the white van is still going. Speed up, pull alongside and shout through open windows to driver. I allow the charade of him being stunned and not actually trying to get away by yelling, "Sir you were just in an accident, I need you to pull over, your vehicle is damaged." He responds with "Oh, yeah, I'm good." This goes on as we continue in parallel at less than 10miles an hour. More of the same interaction occurs, with same type response. Eventually he slows to stop but then starts back up. This happens twice and the third time with stronger words adding that people are hurt and the police are on the way, he comes to a stop. A car come up from behind and I move a bit to let him by and then van driver pedals down again and ends up driving up-curb and onto the median (as if he were trying to drive into oncoming lanes) where his vehicle eventually stops in the gravel.
I pull over as another car pulls over and two guys get out, one with a gun in his hand. (Mine is quietly concealed in my waste band) They approach and ask if I was involved in the wreck. I let them know it is the van man and he keeps trying to get away. As they approach behind me the one dude still has his gun out and I have to tell him to put it away or not approach.
I approach first and see v-man trying to exit his vehicle but his door is totally smashed shut never mind that his seat belt is locked.
As I'm talking to him he keeps wigging out and trying to decide whether or not to drive off again. Flashing lights have shown up to the crash a half mile back but no one is down where we are.
We finally get V to turn off the engine. Other two stoppers go back to the other side of the road to recall police. V turns engine back on. I still try to conversate with him asking if he hit his head, etc, but this guy is just gone behind the eyes except when they dart around to contemplate leaving again. 2 stoppers come back over and get V to turn engine back off and remove keys. As a police unit approaches, V is trying to get out of vehicle and even shift the shut off van.
Police come onto scene finally.
A woman pulls up and tries to converse with hands-on-gun-butt officers pulling V out of vehicle and they have to scare her off with arrest threat. She turns out to be the suspect's lady and he had called her minutes before with talk of feeling ill and vomiting so she came to find him. She insists that he does not do drugs or drink. Cops do not read alcohol on him and call in drug specialist. They are stumped to his actions in the wreck and at current state but suspect medical condition or meth.
Statements and info taken and then I leave.
It was a slow side by side chase .5 mile chase.
Soon as this guy pulled out I smelled trouble.
Grand Ave, 3 lanes 11PM. Middle lane me, vehicle immediate right side, vehicle ahead left lane followed by another behind me.
White mid-size van parked on side pulls out very slow. Vehicle right brakes fast, oblivious van veers slowly across my lane and keeps awkward angle into left lane where 1st vehicle contact is made in T-bone fashion. Left lane behind me locks up on wet pavement, I go right to allow room.
Past wreck now and oh hey, the white van is still going. Speed up, pull alongside and shout through open windows to driver. I allow the charade of him being stunned and not actually trying to get away by yelling, "Sir you were just in an accident, I need you to pull over, your vehicle is damaged." He responds with "Oh, yeah, I'm good." This goes on as we continue in parallel at less than 10miles an hour. More of the same interaction occurs, with same type response. Eventually he slows to stop but then starts back up. This happens twice and the third time with stronger words adding that people are hurt and the police are on the way, he comes to a stop. A car come up from behind and I move a bit to let him by and then van driver pedals down again and ends up driving up-curb and onto the median (as if he were trying to drive into oncoming lanes) where his vehicle eventually stops in the gravel.
I pull over as another car pulls over and two guys get out, one with a gun in his hand. (Mine is quietly concealed in my waste band) They approach and ask if I was involved in the wreck. I let them know it is the van man and he keeps trying to get away. As they approach behind me the one dude still has his gun out and I have to tell him to put it away or not approach.
I approach first and see v-man trying to exit his vehicle but his door is totally smashed shut never mind that his seat belt is locked.
As I'm talking to him he keeps wigging out and trying to decide whether or not to drive off again. Flashing lights have shown up to the crash a half mile back but no one is down where we are.
We finally get V to turn off the engine. Other two stoppers go back to the other side of the road to recall police. V turns engine back on. I still try to conversate with him asking if he hit his head, etc, but this guy is just gone behind the eyes except when they dart around to contemplate leaving again. 2 stoppers come back over and get V to turn engine back off and remove keys. As a police unit approaches, V is trying to get out of vehicle and even shift the shut off van.
Police come onto scene finally.
A woman pulls up and tries to converse with hands-on-gun-butt officers pulling V out of vehicle and they have to scare her off with arrest threat. She turns out to be the suspect's lady and he had called her minutes before with talk of feeling ill and vomiting so she came to find him. She insists that he does not do drugs or drink. Cops do not read alcohol on him and call in drug specialist. They are stumped to his actions in the wreck and at current state but suspect medical condition or meth.
Statements and info taken and then I leave.
Dec 14, 2011 01:16 PM #4990
I wonder if he has diabetes. His actions sure seem like it.
Dec 14, 2011 04:47 PM #4991
defibvt wrote:I wonder if he has diabetes. His actions sure seem like it.
Thats what I was thinking as I was reading it. Looks lots like a drunk but with the sickness.
Dec 14, 2011 04:58 PM #4992
That could be.
I wanted to slap the idiot who thought it was a good idea to run up with a gun to a disoriented guy. If I'm a good or a bad guy, I see you running at me with gun drawn...
I wanted to slap the idiot who thought it was a good idea to run up with a gun to a disoriented guy. If I'm a good or a bad guy, I see you running at me with gun drawn...
Dec 14, 2011 05:20 PM #4993
Skatchkins wrote:That could be.
I wanted to slap the idiot who thought it was a good idea to run up with a gun to a disoriented guy. If I'm a good or a bad guy, I see you running at me with gun drawn...
Yeah why the expletive would you pull a gun on an accident...
Dec 14, 2011 05:59 PM #4994
The fun part was that he didn't know when he got out whether it was me or the van who had done the hit and run. He showed up after the accident and they had called both vehicles' plates in.
Dec 14, 2011 06:10 PM #4995
I just witnessed a guy trying to round up a coyote with his crotch rocket, while and old dude tried to shoot at it with a pistol. This is in a residential neighborhood! WTF?
Dec 14, 2011 06:17 PM #4996
2ndchance wrote:I just witnessed a guy trying to round up a coyote with his crotch rocket, while and old dude tried to shoot at it with a pistol. This is in a residential neighborhood! WTF?
This is awesome. I need to see a video of it with Benny Hill music playing
Dec 15, 2011 12:22 AM #4997
Just got word that I have a few cans of Chow Chow waiting for me.:)):)):)) So happy!
Dec 15, 2011 01:17 AM #4998
started seeing gas under $3 and that is without discounts!
Dec 18, 2011 01:39 AM #4999
Made my first clone of KFC Chicken...
Dec 18, 2011 02:02 AM #5000
And you're not going to tell us how it was?