Author Topic: Jesus H Christ... (Read 12486 times)

The D · « **on:** Aug 02, 2005, 10:24:32 PM »

So I call up one repair shop for my rear drum brakes. They want $250.

Another shop wants $330! To replace shoes and drums?

Did I miss the memo when it became extremely fucking expensive to fix even minor routine car problems? I don't need this shit when I'm unemployed.

Rama · « **Reply #1 on:** Aug 02, 2005, 11:14:54 PM »

What kind of Car is it? Last time I replaced Drums on a car they were 90 bucks each...but that was on a cheap ass Ford. If you have something a little more "rare" they tend to charge more. Costs me Fifty bucks for a Used Taillight and that was with me installing it myself.

Derrick · « **Reply #2 on:** Aug 03, 2005, 12:40:11 AM »

Yeah, I'd chell a car junkyard and see if they have your part. Then install it yourself.

My passenger side mirror was wiped out, and it would have cost me 350 to replace it, but I managed to get a replacement for 75 bucks and it was easily as hell to replace.

Fiero · « **Reply #3 on:** Aug 03, 2005, 08:02:32 AM »

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Yeah, I'd chell a car junkyard and see if they have your part. Then install it yourself.

My passenger side mirror was wiped out, and it would have cost me 350 to replace it, but I managed to get a replacement for 75 bucks and it was easily as hell to replace.

Somebody was definitly trying to rip you off.

Derrick · « **Reply #4 on:** Aug 03, 2005, 11:50:11 AM »

Try every place I called.

"This is a difficult electrical job since it's a powet mirror, and the car will need to be in the shop for at least a day."

Then? Took me 2 hours to take apart the door, remove the old mirror (which the wires were plugs, no hard electrical work) and then I plugged in the new mirror and screwed it in.

Wickedly Yours E · « **Reply #5 on:** Aug 03, 2005, 03:13:39 PM »

o_o Tom is mechanically gifted?

Derrick · « **Reply #6 on:** Aug 03, 2005, 09:16:37 PM »

I'm alot more gifted than I let on.

The D · « **Reply #7 on:** Aug 03, 2005, 10:31:50 PM »

I think the problem has to do how car mechanics do their work. They say a job will take 2 hours. Then they spend 1 hour and 45 minutes scratching their testicles and watching NASCAR or football. Then they spend the last 15 minutes fixing the problem in a half-assed manner. Then they charge you for the full 2 hours. Then they use the money to get sex from a teenaged hooker.

Derrick · « **Reply #8 on:** Aug 03, 2005, 11:10:34 PM »

Teenaged hookers are greatly underappreciated.

Faye Valentine · « **Reply #9 on:** Aug 04, 2005, 02:04:35 PM »

thanks god i dont have a car

Derrick · « **Reply #10 on:** Aug 04, 2005, 02:26:29 PM »

Yeah, mobility really sucks.

Rama · « **Reply #11 on:** Aug 04, 2005, 02:27:09 PM »

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thanks god i dont have a car

Thank god for everyone ELSE you don't have a car.

They could make a pretty good sequel to "Blood on the Pavement" if they just followed you around after you went "Out" for the night.

Derrick · « **Reply #12 on:** Aug 04, 2005, 02:29:06 PM »

She'd have to be able to turn the key first, I dunno if she could.

MegatronYES · « **Reply #13 on:** Aug 05, 2005, 12:09:30 AM »

Okay, that one just didn't make any sense.

Derrick · « **Reply #14 on:** Aug 05, 2005, 12:46:30 AM »

You've never been so drunk, that the simple action of turning a key is difficult?

...I have. Sleeping outside is ok, though.

Sam · « **Reply #15 on:** Aug 05, 2005, 01:58:30 AM »

Stop being a pussy and replace them yourself. Granted drum breaks are more difficult to replace than disks, but it's still a relatively easy job.

Faye Valentine · « **Reply #16 on:** Aug 05, 2005, 10:40:02 AM »

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You've never been so drunk, that the simple action of turning a key is difficult?

...I have. Sleeping outside is ok, though.

thats cause you are a stupid ass.

i hate driving, thats it.

Derrick · « **Reply #17 on:** Aug 05, 2005, 10:59:53 AM »

How could you hate driving?

Faye Valentine · « **Reply #18 on:** Aug 05, 2005, 12:29:51 PM »

actually, im afraid of driving. yeah.

Derrick · « **Reply #19 on:** Aug 05, 2005, 01:01:38 PM »

Jeez, another? Why are so many people afraid of driving?

Wickedly Yours E · « **Reply #20 on:** Aug 05, 2005, 02:09:14 PM »

Hitting people, the cost of insurance, running over animals, running into a lamp post/building/other car, freeway accidents, drunk drivers...

Faye Valentine · « **Reply #21 on:** Aug 05, 2005, 03:22:29 PM »

i think in my past life i died in a car accident.

PLUS i would HATE if i would ever be the designated driver. god that would kill me. a la barney in that simpsons in ny episode

B E C K · « **Reply #22 on:** Aug 05, 2005, 04:57:47 PM »

I'm more concerned about killing a cute little animal than I am some person.

Wickedly Yours E · « **Reply #23 on:** Aug 05, 2005, 08:32:24 PM »

I'd keel over if I ran over a cat.
Deer though, it'd be dinner.

Bernie AKA · « **Reply #24 on:** Aug 08, 2005, 12:10:10 PM »

There were two little shits a couple of blocks from our house who thought it was fun to stay out in the street until the last possible second, then run to the curb. I stopped the car, looked them in the eyes and flipped them off, which scared the fuck out of them for some reason. I expected Moomie to be in the driveway the next day watching for the evil bitch who scared her pwecious Spoilsford and Cumstayne, but I haven't seen them since.

I'd take my brakes to the drums for an animal, but free-range brats who pull stunts like this are fair game in my book. :angry:

Rama · « **Reply #25 on:** Aug 08, 2005, 02:12:43 PM »

I've never hit an animal, but I had one hit me. A bird flew right into the passanger side door while was driving.

Bernie AKA · « **Reply #26 on:** Aug 10, 2005, 08:32:43 AM »

Long, but worth a read. Part of why I flipped off the kids from the safety of my car and stay away from them in general.

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Carlson: Reprimanding a careless kid is a crime? Apparently

By JOHN CARLSON
REGISTER COLUMNIST
July 6, 2005
You might think things have gone a bit wacky lately on the courts and crimes beat.

We have the U.S. Supreme Court deciding a city can bulldoze your house if the motel some developer wants to build will bring in more property taxes. Even Tom DeLay and Maxine Waters are together in their criticism of that absurdity.

Then we have the governor of Iowa restoring voting rights to convicted felons, even if they haven't paid court-ordered restitution to their victims. The governor did this on Independence Day, no less. One can only imagine what the founding fathers would have thought of those two moves.

But this next one, the case of a fellow named Fitzroy Barnaby, would likely make Adams, Jefferson and Madison laugh out loud. Or cry.

Pretend for a minute you're the unlucky Mr. Barnaby.

You're driving down the street obeying traffic laws and generally being a good citizen, when some idiot kid wanders into traffic. You slam on the brakes and swerve, missing the kid and leaving a puddle on the car seat.

You have two choices. You can shut up, drive home 5 miles an hour and have a stiff belt. Or you can take a moment to tell the kid how she almost got herself killed and ruined your life forever.

You're better off going with the first option, considering what happened to Barnaby, who went with the second.

This is because the 28-year-old Evanston, Ill., man ended up - and this is not a joke - being officially branded a sex offender.

The facts, as reported in the Chicago Sun-Times, show that an angry Barnaby called to the 14-year-old he'd nearly run down, yelling, "Come here, little girl."
He then got out of his car, took her by the arm and gave her a lecture about how stepping in front of a vehicle is a very bad idea.

The girl ran away, complained to police and Barnaby was charged with - again no joke - attempted kidnapping and child abduction. This is even though he didn't attempt to take the girl anywhere. Barnaby beat those charges. He was, however, convicted of unlawful restraint of a minor. And in Illinois, that is considered a sex offense.

That means even though he didn't do anything to the kid other than take her by the arm and give her a lecture that might end up saving her life, he must register as a sex offender. He is prohibited from living near a park or school and must keep local police advised as to his place of residence.

He might even get his name and picture in the local newspaper, to advise neighbors they're living near a sex offender.

How is this possible, you ask?

Well, a spokesman in the prosecutor's office said, the guy should be considered a sex offender "because of the proclivity of offenders who restrain children to also commit sex acts or other crimes against them."

Now we'll let the Appellate Court of Illinois, which upheld this insanity last week, explain itself.

While it may well be "unfair for (Barnaby) to suffer the stigmatization of being labeled a sex offender when his crime was not sexually motivated," grabbing a kid is "often a precursor" to a child being molested, the court said. "It is (Barnaby's) actions which have caused him to be stigmatized, not the court," the ruling said.

Trial court judge Patrick Morse even conceded Barnaby's only apparent intention was to chastise the girl. But, the judge said, "I can't read his mind."

Barnaby's lawyer, Frederick Cohn, of Chicago, provided a succinct assessment of the situation: "This is the most stupid ruling the appellate court has rendered in years."

Makes you wonder what Illinois judges have done in years past to equal or top this one.

Could this happen in Iowa?

Maybe. Say you hold a kid by the arm while you're chewing him out for tromping through your flower bed. You could be charged with "false imprisonment." And the Iowa Code says a person convicted of any criminal offense against a minor has to register as a sex offender.

Better to silently suffer the flattened flowers. As Barnaby learned, anything can happen when you're hauled in a courtroom.

When I first read this, I took "flattened flowers" as a metaphor for run-over kids.

Rama · « **Reply #27 on:** Aug 10, 2005, 12:29:35 PM »

Hell in a handbasket man...hell in a handbasket.

MegatronYES · « **Reply #28 on:** Aug 10, 2005, 01:43:37 PM »

You are a handbasket. Shut up.

Rama · « **Reply #29 on:** Aug 11, 2005, 12:29:41 AM »

That's an insult to handbaskets everywhere.