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  • Seven Years Of Bad Luck.

    This happened a few months ago to my Dad.

    He has an old 1997 "Smodge" cargo van that he uses for deliveries for his business. This van's mirrors are on a sort of hinge and then the mirror itself is on a stick that swivels inward and outward. Like this.

    Now as Dad was driving along, he came to a tricky intersection on the west side of town. You have 6 lanes coming off and going to the interstate and the city's downtown, major street and smaller streets all converging, plus traffic from "Dipping Donuts" and the gas station at that intersection. Therefore, if you don't want to be sideswiped you need to be alert. Dad is entering the left turning lane to go to the interstate and city.

    As Dad is just starting to make the turn, Prick In Pickup (PIP), the guy behind Dad, decides he wants to turn too so Dad is forced to swing himself wide. PIP hits Dad's mirror.

    CRASH TINKLE CRACK. PIP guns it and vanishes into the gathering twilight.

    Dad looks at his mirror. By some freak, the mirror had snapped itself outward onto its swivel so it was laying parallel to Dad's door, reflecting surface out. The mirror is unharmed.

    Dad looks up long enough to see PIP vanishing into the night, the broken remains of the passenger side mirror dangling by a few wires. Because PIP has a "Smord", the mirrors are motorized and made of one solid piece. Rather expensive to get fixed.
    Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.-Winston Churchill

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    Quoth ralerin View Post
    Dad looks up long enough to see PIP vanishing into the night, the broken remains of the passenger side mirror dangling by a few wires. Because PIP has a "Smord", the mirrors are motorized and made of one solid piece. Rather expensive to get fixed.
    yup one for the 2006 Snissan Hubs drives was over $300
    Honestly.... the image of that in my head made me go "AWESOME!"..... and then I remembered I am terribly strange.-Red dazes

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    • #3
      Some dingbat with no depth perception did the 'squeeze though the parked cars and the cars waiting at the red light because I can'. Managed to take out 5 yes 5 side mirrors, not including his own and his wife was yelling at him and he just ignored her and drove off without looking back.

      Luckily my side mirrors are collapsable and it just snapped back into place but one of the cars he hit was the son of a local cop and he had his iphone out (he had just parked his car) and was going berserk and snapping photos of the idiot.

      The cops kid is a friend of a friend and they did catch the idiot and he was out about 500 bucks just for the kids side view mirror and he hit 5 so he's going to be out a couple of thousand, not including the charges of leaving the scene of an accident.

      Moron. How can you not tell your breaking side mirrors?. He must be deaf as well as blind because so many people including his passenger were screaming at him to stop.

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      • #4
        Deaf? Blind? No, just stupid.

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