SeaCat
Hey, my Halo is smoking
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I took the bike out once again this morning. It was a relaxing and fun ride. Then I get home, drop off my gear and off my wife and I go to her doctors apointment. No sweat, we grab lunch on the way and make it there in plenty of time.
We leave the doctors office and are headed home when we have to stop at one of the drawbridges. The barricades have just come down so I shift the car into park, open the door and get out to stretch my legs. As I'm standing next to the car I hear a fairly loud crunch and watch as my car jumps ahead. WTF?
I look back and watch as the lady driving the Lexus behind me clibs out of her car and inspects the front of her car before she starts screaming at me for not watching what I was doing. She's also on her phone telling whoever was on the other end that I had backed into her. Igrab my cell from in the car and call the local P.D. as she stands there screaming about the damage to her car and how she's going to make sure I get it fixed. Then I go back and inspect the damage.
The local P.D. shows up on bikes and start their investigation. By this time the occupants of the cars around us had shut down and climbed out to watch the fun. The lady states quite clearly and emphaticaly that she had been sitting there minding her own business and talking with a friend when I shifted into reverse and slammed into her car for no reason at all. She was telling the cop how the client was some person of money on the island and how she knew all sorts of people in the community.
Meanwhile the other cop had talked with me as well as the other drivers. He went back and talked with his partner and then turned around to face the woman. He asked her if she was sure about what had happened and she adamant about it, her story wasn't going to change in the least. He then shook his head and started writing in his not so little book. He then proceded to piss the woman off by handing her several tickets.
Failure to use care in stopping.
Reckless Driving, and
Filing a false report.
I had eight witnesses who pointed out that I wasn't even in my car at the time.
Oh and the damage? All of it was to her car. Her front bumper is dented in quite nicely on one side. The headlight and turn signals are broken on that side as well.
It helps I suppose that I have a traler hitch, and I have a six inch section of heavy pipe pointing up from the trailer hitch. She hit the pipe and not the car.
Cat
We leave the doctors office and are headed home when we have to stop at one of the drawbridges. The barricades have just come down so I shift the car into park, open the door and get out to stretch my legs. As I'm standing next to the car I hear a fairly loud crunch and watch as my car jumps ahead. WTF?
I look back and watch as the lady driving the Lexus behind me clibs out of her car and inspects the front of her car before she starts screaming at me for not watching what I was doing. She's also on her phone telling whoever was on the other end that I had backed into her. Igrab my cell from in the car and call the local P.D. as she stands there screaming about the damage to her car and how she's going to make sure I get it fixed. Then I go back and inspect the damage.
The local P.D. shows up on bikes and start their investigation. By this time the occupants of the cars around us had shut down and climbed out to watch the fun. The lady states quite clearly and emphaticaly that she had been sitting there minding her own business and talking with a friend when I shifted into reverse and slammed into her car for no reason at all. She was telling the cop how the client was some person of money on the island and how she knew all sorts of people in the community.
Meanwhile the other cop had talked with me as well as the other drivers. He went back and talked with his partner and then turned around to face the woman. He asked her if she was sure about what had happened and she adamant about it, her story wasn't going to change in the least. He then shook his head and started writing in his not so little book. He then proceded to piss the woman off by handing her several tickets.
Failure to use care in stopping.
Reckless Driving, and
Filing a false report.
I had eight witnesses who pointed out that I wasn't even in my car at the time.
Oh and the damage? All of it was to her car. Her front bumper is dented in quite nicely on one side. The headlight and turn signals are broken on that side as well.
It helps I suppose that I have a traler hitch, and I have a six inch section of heavy pipe pointing up from the trailer hitch. She hit the pipe and not the car.
Cat
