A strange roadside experience

[Marshall Tucker]

I once rear-ended the car in front, pushed in the bumper some, at a stoplight. this was 1989 so really a different time; but in an extremely large city. Lady got out, looked at it, said her brother worked for a dealer and could fix it for $200. "write me a check and we'll call it even." which I did. I was in a sorta spiffy conservative business suit at the time (anyone remember hartmarx?) probably looked like i was about 12. never heard another word. YMMV.

[jackstraw]

Keeping the man out of the mix is good karma.

Yeah, unless the guy is drunk fuck and lost his license for dui and goes out tomorrow and kills someone driving drunk again.

Sweetheart, he put you in a shitty position, but you probably made the right decision because it sounds like he has potential to be a scumbag and you don't need that in your life.

[splat]

Jesus Fuck, you always just ask for more money that it appears it will take to fix it when it's a matter of the guido going to jail for murdering the last dumbass who decided the police would be helpful.
The government is not here to help you.

[oldblue]

You guys are all thinking about car repairs...I'm imagining Nutter saying "Guido" with a sultry Korean accent.

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That's not creepy at all.

[nutmegchoi]

You sure the guy wasn't trying to hit on you

If he did, he really sucks at dating game.
Spent $1,200 and couldn't even get my phone number.

You guys are all thinking about car repairs...I'm imagining Nutter saying "Guido" with a sultry Korean accent.

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That's racist!
How do you know that I don't have South Bronx PR accent?

Nutmeg is now Sweetheart.

I'd like that.
Better than JONG.

[Viva]

How do you know that I don't have South Bronx PR accent?

Please stop ruining my fantasy.

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[gravitylover]

Obviously he has no insurance sweetheart. Likely no license as it is under suspension. Hook truck is looking for it as he is behind on payments. Did you break any laws by not reporting?

Nope.
My car’s paid off, license is clean, all the paper’s up-to the date and I have no issues with any laws.
No dirt on me.

Actually in NY any damage over $200 is supposed to have an accident report written up. Does that always happen? Of course not.

Speaking of MTB, I only got to ride my Cannondale once this year.
I don’t even know what happened to my Summer!

Ehh, riding is great now so get out there. The bugs are mostly down for the year and the trails are much quieter. No hunting in Westchester County Parks so get out to Graham Hills or hit the Yorktown trails in Woodlands Legacy/Granite Knolls.

[Danno]

That's racist!
How do you know that I don't have South Bronx PR accent?

nutmegchoi is Rosie Perez?

[nutmegchoi]

Actually in NY any damage over $200 is supposed to have an accident report written up. Does that always happen? Of course not.



Ehh, riding is great now so get out there. The bugs are mostly down for the year and the trails are much quieter. No hunting in Westchester County Parks so get out to Graham Hills or hit the Yorktown trails in Woodlands Legacy/Granite Knolls.

Cops won’t come out unless someone’s hurt.
I got front ended in Queens and cops told us won’t come out cause no one’s injured.
Later the other party turned around and claimed I rear ended (yet won’t claim the damage) and there was nothing I could’ve done because there was no police report.

That route sounds wonderful.
I’ll give it a try.
Thank you!

[old goat]

I got hit by a neighborhood kid on a residential street--dad wanted to pay cash and I accepted--this was after I had his contact and insurance info so I could make a claim if he reneged.
Another time I merged onto a freeway and was hit by a car I think was coming over from the second lane--I'm hit after the dashed line stopped, so I'm already in the right lane.. CHP stops while we're talking. Guy starts to go apeshit about me, telling CHP I didn't have turn signal on, calling me a lia. I point out that if he could see my turn signals it meant he was behind me and decided to hit me anyways. After the CHP leaves I tell him why don't we settle this ourselves--his damage was minimal, I had nothing worth fixing. Guy takes my info--and I never hear from him again.

[The AD]

Seems like he made you an offer you couldn't refuse...

[Conundrum]

Nice yellow flip flops sweetheart.

[digitaldeath]

Superb breakdown of you accepting a bribe

Bobby is right, the payoff needs to be more than the damage

[digitaldeath]

Nice yellow flip flops sweetheart.

[grinch]

I'd say that went well. You hear so many stories of reversing the blame after the fact. Hope the 12 covers everything.
My only accident went smooth. -40c in canmore backed out of the parking with the windows frozen solid in my 20year old Volvo . Same time as a guy in a 20yr old vw rabbit backed out and we backed into each other at the halfway point. We both jumped out at the same time. He looks at me and says "good thing we're both driving a piece of shit". We laughed , hopped back in and all good. Could of used 12 though .....

[hutash]

Don't worry sweetheart, "I can fix it."

[garyfromterrace]

Great story sweetheart! So I'm in Como Italy with a rental car and I back out of a parking spot and hit a car on the rear passenger door (yes, my bad - guy was in my blind spot). Don't want to deal with a day of paper work and phone calls etc. Very little damage to my rental. I then become "guido" in Italy and offer the guy 500 euro to fuhgetaboutit. He accepts, we shake hands, no harm done other than to my bank account and his car (which was a beater anyway).

[PNWbrit]

wondering if I'm dealing with couple mobs and there's a body in the trunk or something.
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Real gangster wouldn't drive a re-badged Hyundai

Sportage

Those are strictly for small time hooligans.

[XXX-er]

I backed into the drivers door when the guy drove behind me as I was backing in to a parking spot he gets out looking pretty bad/obviously drunk at 10:30 am on a weekend, gets a little pissy so I said I think you might be drunk so lets call an rcmp ?
He asks if I got any damage, not really minor scuff on the bumper but his door is crushed, sez his car is old anyway so forget about it

Like the drunk in the parking lot the OP obviously had an accident with some one who did not want to talk to the po-lice for whatever reason

[old goat]

Great story sweetheart! So I'm in Como Italy with a rental car and I back out of a parking spot and hit a car on the rear passenger door (yes, my bad - guy was in my blind spot). Don't want to deal with a day of paper work and phone calls etc. Very little damage to my rental. I then become "guido" in Italy and offer the guy 500 euro to fuhgetaboutit. He accepts, we shake hands, no harm done other than to my bank account and his car (which was a beater anyway).

Driving in St. Lo in Normandy in the rain, come around a corner and there's a car stopped in the middle of the road, no brake lights. I hit the brakes and slide into it. We get out--driver is a mailman, obviously drunk at 10am. He looks at his car and ours, says "Small problem"--in a tone that suggests don't worry. We drive to the rental place in Caen with him. He talks to his buddies there, all in French of course, we wind up with a new car, no paperwork, and we never hear anything from the rental company. When we drive to the airport on our way home there's a lot of construction, we can't find the rental return, realize we are on our way out of the airport and have no idea how we'll get back to it--this was before GPS. Just before we're back on the freeway we see the maintenance garage for the rental company. We pull in, leave the car there, they give us a lift to the terminal. When we get into the terminal I realize I still have the car keys so I drop them off at the rental desk in the terminal. Never heard anything from the company about that either. If any of that happened in the US we'd have been screwed.

I backed into the drivers door when the guy drove behind me as I was backing in to a parking spot he gets out looking pretty bad/obviously drunk at 10:30 am on a weekend, gets a little pissy so I said I think you might be drunk so lets call an rcmp ?
He asks if I got any damage, not really minor scuff on the bumper but his door is crushed, sez his car is old anyway so forget about it

Like the drunk in the parking lot the OP obviously had an accident with some one who did not want to talk to the po-lice for whatever reason

People who back into spots in parking lots annoy me, and a lot of other people, a lot.

[XXX-er]

how about people who back out of parking spots?

In a mini van with no windows backing in was a smart idea because it will be easier than backing out to leave

unless a drunk ignores the backup lights & drives behind you at 10:30 in the am