Really... Don't Drink and Drive. this can happen to you too.

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Oh crap! I didn't drink and drive before but that is just sick and wrong. No RX-8 should ever be treated in such a manner.

what happened here?

Story? Parts car?

I can't get into full detail about the story (might get in trouble). A friend of mine was drinking at a bar, tried to drive home (I always told him if he every drank too much to call me and I would go pick him up so he doesn't get into an accident), hit another car, drove the car home. Picture the next day.

No parts car. Fixing it for $12,000. Insurance is paying the tab.

He drove that home!?!? Wow, he must've been drunk.

i dunno if you can see but the control arm snapped...

Yeah but look at the wheel it's flat on the bottom! He must have dragged it a few miles like that!

That's one way to get them damn Bose speakers out.

OMFG, I can't believe he got it home. WTF did he tell insurance? I hope this lucky (no death, mayhem or arrest--just damage to the car) break teaches him, and maybe many of us, a good lesson.

OK. I got authorization to tell the story... lol

My friend was at a bar with another friend of mine. They shared about 2-3 pitchers of "Sangria". Driving home my friend's vision was impaired and strayed into oncoming traffic and side-swipped another car (he's so lucky it wasn't head on). He was so drunk (and scared) that he took off (on 3 wheels) to go home approx 1.5 miles down the same road. Cops came to his house 10 minutes later. They followed the scratches all the way to his house. Luckily for him the 1st cops on the scene were friends of ours and didn't write him up on the DWI. about another 10 minutes later the sergeant showed up and the other cops said he started drinking when he got home. The idiot sergeant that wrote up the report messed up and wrote the scene of the accident being in front of his house instead of 1.5 miles away (how could he flee the scene of an acident if it happend in front of his house). Ironically, with the car that he hit, all of the people were fine and all got ARRESTED. Those people were stealing christmas lights all night and the cops were looking for them. My friends lawyer is the ex-judge of the the town and got him off of the charges. Insurance got the report of a hit and run in front of his house w/no fault and is fixing the car. This kid has too much ****ing luck.

Oh... and my friend stopped drinking completely... for now.

That lucky, lucky bastard. If it was me I would have stopped drinking because I would still be locked in a cell somewhere!

Everyone of these idiots and crooks, including the cops, ex-judges, et al, should be up on charges.

Your friend is an idiot, and deserves way more than what he got. Too bad for the rest of us! :mad:

Originally posted by Spin9k
Everyone of these idiots and crooks, including the cops, ex-judges, et al, should be up on charges.

Your friend is an idiot, and deserves way more than what he got. Too bad for the rest of us! :mad:

my sentiments exactly!

Any wonder why our insurance rates are so high???????

My sentiments as well... you think i want one of my friends in a coffin or anyone else? I told him if he needed me, I'm always there. I guess he thought he wasn't that messed up.

Unfortuantely, he'll probably drink and drive again. No respect for the lives of others... that's what that is. Since insurance is a pool, we all pay for guys like that.

Damn kids...probably fake ID'd and everything...I had a best friend KILLED by a drunk driver and it's to bad this guy didn't get the book...I'm actually tempted to get some people involved here....this is UNBELIEVABLE that even YOU as a friend would let this go by and just laugh it off....

it's funny...people will gladly pay a $100 bar tab but never $.25 to call a friend or $5 for a cabby....god this just pi$$es me off...unbelieveable...

Hey I was pissed. And I did warn him. There's nothing anyone can do about it. Besides him there are at least another million people driving in this country that are DUI. My bestfriend and his girlfriend were both killed by a drunk driving police officer in Brooklyn NY so I know what it's like. I laugh it off now cuz it's over and I have to live on. I can't go day by day worrying or crying about stuff because I'll never get to live out my life. But I'll never drink and drive. The point of this thread was to watch out because something like that can happen to you.

Car broken. Too bad, so sad. Now that that is out of the way . . .
The shear arrogance, disrespect, and total disregard for the safety and well being of himself and others on the road that your friend has displayed here with his:
1) Drinking and then getting behind the wheel
2) Fleeing the scene when another vehicle/person involved
3) Allowing his officer friends to lie for him
4) Not having the moral fiber to admit his mistakes and bring it to the attention of the sergeant who wrote it up wrong
and last but not least
5) Allowing an erroneous report to go to his insurance company. That is insurance fraud if I'm not mistaken

I hope he at least has the humility to thank God for keeping his stupidity from killing anyone.
I'm sure that this is not the direction you intended this thread to go, but I see too many of the victims of such poor judgment to let this sit as a 'boy wasn't he a lucky SOB to not get busted by the cops or broken like the car' type of story. I do hope that his claim to lay off the booze at least when he will be behind the wheel isn't just so much verbiage.
I for one do thank God he and others were not hurt and have been given this opportunity to make some corrections in lifestyle/action.

Originally posted by MaxxTuningUSA
Hey I was pissed. And I did warn him. There's nothing anyone can do about it. ....... The point of this thread was to watch out because something like that can happen to you.

I would disagree that there is nothing anyone can do about it. In the face of such massive corruption, you yourself could either encourage your friend to own up to his responsibilities, or do it for him, it is in your, mine, everyone else, and yes, even his best interest!!

The idea you state, "ya be carefull...we're helpless against ....(whatever)", is NOT true, but CAN BE TRUE if we aren't PROACTIVE. Doing nothing turns the victims (and observers like yourself) into the flip side of the problem... people get away with things because they see presented to them a totally courrupt society, willing to participate in corruption, while denying responsibility for the problems they create purposefully.

Having said all that MaxxTuningUSA, I applaud your posting this as it begs for comment and is such a problem it should be illustrated to educate (once again) anyone and everyone. I hope you show this thread to your friend, maybe he needs an alternate reality in his face.

Spin9k, Very well said.

After reading this thread, I need a beer.

I don't think getting away with things like this is likely to teach anyone a lesson, unfortunately. I hope it does, for his sake and the sake of everyone else he might plow into again.