Isn't there a rule that you can't drive your car into my house while I'm on vacation?

[Tall_James]

So, I'm up in the White Mountains of New Hampshire enjoying some well deserved vacation time with my family. While lazing by the pool, I decide to check my voicemail at home. My neighbor across the street has left a message saying that his wife has had a slight mishap with their car on Friday evening. (I haven't received his message until Sunday so this has all happened several days ago without my knowledge - now back to the story)

Seems her gas pedal got stuck and she drove across the street at about 40 mph directly at my house! She hit my front steps (destroyed them) and was about to plow directly into my bedroom (as evidenced by the direction of tire tracks across my lawn) when thankfully the car goes up the steps and the front wheel drive on the right side spins the car mid-air away from my house by 1.5 feet, tears through my landscaping and rips about 20 feet of wooden fencing out of the ground and splinters it. The car then came to a stop and the driver (who I like a lot BTW) got out in shock but thankfully no worse for wear other than being completely scared shitless. Police were called, reports were filed (again - I had no idea this was happening because I was happily ensconced in the bosom of my family several hundred miles away) and once I became aware of the situation I headed home to check out the damage and bring my daughter to her last day of kindergarten.

Now this has all happened on my vacation and to tell you the truth, I can't do anything about it right now. The insurance appraiser for my neighbor has just left and I am about to go back to New Hampshire. I'm not mad, hopefully insurance will take care of most of it and my neighbor has already told me that he'll "take care of me" and I have no doubt that he will. He's always been a great neighbor.

The important things I keep telling myself is that my kids (who are usually in the front yard playing) were not home at the time and the house itself is fine. So that's why I'm not tripping out about this.

But ain't it a bitch to have your house destroyed while you're on vacation?

I'm going up north right now and in about 4 hours I will be pouring myself a bourbon and reading the responses to this thread. So have at it!

[RAAMONE]

actually...if someone was going to drive into my house i would prefer to be on vacation

[Tall_James]

actually...if someone was going to drive into my house i would prefer to be on vacation

That is a very good point.

[Furtherman]

I'm going up north right now and in about 4 hours I will be pouring myself a bourbon and reading the responses to this thread. So have at it!

Flaming bag of dog poo. REVENGE!!!



Good you weren't home and not too much damage. You're lucky you have nice neighbors too!

[topless_mike]

im calling bullshit.
couple of things dont jive.


a) gas gets stuck, car takes off. move your foot over 6 inches to the brake, dummy
b) car takes off. throw in neutral then apply brakes or turn car off
c) does she back into her driveway?
d) how far is it across the street? thats a short distance to get up to 40mph.


i think she was slapped when she got home and tried to park on your front lawn.
seriously.

[reillyluck]

im calling bullshit.
couple of things dont jive.


a) gas gets stuck, car takes off. move your foot over 6 inches to the brake, dummy
b) car takes off. throw in neutral then apply brakes or turn car off
c) does she back into her driveway?
d) how far is it across the street? thats a short distance to get up to 40mph.


i think she was slapped when she got home and tried to park on your front lawn.
seriously.

oddly, when reading his story i heard "running with the devil" in my head.

I think that lady was fuuuuuuuuucked up. :drunk:

[JerseyRich]

Hehe.

You said bosom.

[topless_mike]

oddly, when reading his story i heard "running with the devil" in my head.



:unsure:















oddly enough, i had that same song.

get out of my head, woman.

[jonyrotn]

Jesus christ! Is the car okay? :ohmy:

White mountains are so scared of black mountains.

Shouldn't have been so tall, maybe shit like this wouldn't happen to you..No one's ever driven into my house..Hmmm, wonder why? :bye:

[Kevin]

So, I'm up in the White Mountains of New Hampshire enjoying some well deserved vacation time with my family.


Racist

[drjoek]

This is why woman should not be allowed to drive!

[reillyluck]

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[OGC]

...and was about to plow directly into my bedroom (as evidenced by the direction of tire tracks across my lawn) when thankfully the car goes up the steps and the front wheel drive on the right side spins the car mid-air away from my house by 1.5 feet, tears through my landscaping and rips about 20 feet of wooden fencing out of the ground and splinters it. The car then came to a stop....

... But ain't it a bitch to have your house destroyed while you're on vacation? ...



Sounds to me as if your house wasn't destroyed. In fact it wasn't even touched.

You are right, be thankful that you were on vacation so that the kids weren't playing in the front yard. Things could very easily have been tragic.

Which route are you traveling up to NH ? If you are taking route 495, honk and wave as you go by the disaster that is Lowell, Mass. Unless I have left work in which case, forget the whole thing.

[Dougie Brootal]

Isn't there a rule that you can't drive your car into my house while I'm on vacation?


not on this messageboard

[drjoek]

not on this messageboard

Gvac asked repeatedly to have the FAQ's/rules updated and now this happens. See he was right.

[Freitag]

I saw the thread title, I saw the thread's author, and all I thought was, "New au pair?"

[Jujubees2]

On summer night when I was in junior high school my brother and I were watching TV and heard a loud bang from the house next door. We looked out the window and didn’t see anything so we decided to go outside. As we walked across our lawn we also tripped over a car battery and then we saw smoke coming from in front of the house next door. As we turned the corner to the front of the house, we saw a car sticking out of the front bedroom and saw a guy crawling towards the front steps who was in bad shape. We then went to the car and saw the driver still in the driver's seat with a rather large bloody circle in his midsection (we later found out that the steering column went into him). It was the first dead person I had ever seen.

Surprisingly, the two guys were drinking (there were empties all over the lawn) and went speeding down the road and into the house. The only injury from inside was that the father suffered a broken arm when hit by falling debris.

The funny thing about the whole night is that one of the kids who lived there slept through the whole thing.

[Friday]

im calling bullshit.
couple of things dont jive.


a) gas gets stuck, car takes off. move your foot over 6 inches to the brake, dummy
b) car takes off. throw in neutral then apply brakes or turn car off
c) does she back into her driveway?
d) how far is it across the street? thats a short distance to get up to 40mph.


i think she was slapped when she got home and tried to park on your front lawn.
seriously.

i concur with all of the above

[drjoek]

Was there a cougar in the car?

Shake and Bake

[Hottub]

I saw the thread title, I saw the thread's author, and all I thought was, "New au pair?"

Ditto.

[Dougie Brootal]

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The funny thing about the whole night is that one of the kids who lived there slept through the whole thing.
was probably drunk.

[patsopinion]

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[PanterA]

I'm more disturbed that you dropped your kid off at kindergarten then took off back to New Hampshire.

You sick fuck!

[Chigworthy]

The week before Christmas a few years ago.....My wife and I left for the weekend to house/dog sit for some relatives. This happened to our house while we were gone:
http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d61/BBuffet/DSC00167.jpg

Here you see where we had been wrapping presents before we left:
http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d61/BBuffet/DSC00224.jpg
Notice the ceiling boards and rainwater on the couch, and the large pile of skylight glass on our dog's bed. The bedroom looked similar, and the rain destroyed our brand new marriage certificate. A 10-pound lighting transformer fell on the upright piano, taking a nice chunk out of it.

This all happened after the Thanksgiving disaster, when the whole front yard of the house slid into the road, nearly pushing our vehicles off a cliff and preventing the gas truck from filling our propane tank.

This is post clean-up, but shows where the mudslide was. My white truck and my wife's jeep were parked in the same spots, and the whole road was filled with 3 feet of mud, rocks, and tree stumps. The black plastic was layed down by the landlord after the mudslide to prevent further problems. (If only she had the 100 foot fir tree above the house taken down.) The other side of the vehicles is a 75-foot drop.
http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d61/BBuffet/DSC00157.jpg

This is our mailbox after the mudslide was "cleaned up":
http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d61/BBuffet/DSC00006.jpg

Nothing makes you want to give thanks like a gigantic mudslide and 2500 dollars worth of body damage to your truck, followed by a month of 3-gallon, campstove-heated sponge baths. And nothing cultures Christmas spirit like having your house destroyed and redtagged, rendering you homeless a week before Christmas.

So we were staying at our friend's house for a few weeks, and I ushered in the new year by having a rope holding the wood chipper in the bed of my truck snap, sending it through my rear window in the middle of a rainstorm. I thought I'd been Oswalded before I realized what happened. What a set of holidays.

[nukinfuts]

The week before Christmas a few years ago.....My wife and I left for the weekend to house/dog sit for some relatives. This happened to our house while we were gone:
http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d61/BBuffet/DSC00167.jpg

Here you see where we had been wrapping presents before we left:
http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d61/BBuffet/DSC00224.jpg
Notice the ceiling boards and rainwater on the couch, and the large pile of skylight glass on our dog's bed. The bedroom looked similar, and the rain destroyed our brand new marriage certificate. A 10-pound lighting transformer fell on the upright piano, taking a nice chunk out of it.

This all happened after the Thanksgiving disaster, when the whole front yard of the house slid into the road, nearly pushing our vehicles off a cliff and preventing the gas truck from filling our propane tank.

This is post clean-up, but shows where the mudslide was. My white truck and my wife's jeep were parked in the same spots, and the whole road was filled with 3 feet of mud, rocks, and tree stumps. The black plastic was layed down by the landlord after the mudslide to prevent further problems. (If only she had the 100 foot fir tree above the house taken down.) The other side of the vehicles is a 75-foot drop.
http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d61/BBuffet/DSC00157.jpg

This is our mailbox after the mudslide was "cleaned up":
http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d61/BBuffet/DSC00006.jpg

Nothing makes you want to give thanks like a gigantic mudslide and 2500 dollars worth of body damage to your truck, followed by a month of 3-gallon, campstove-heated sponge baths. And nothing cultures Christmas spirit like having your house destroyed and redtagged, rendering you homeless a week before Christmas.

So we were staying at our friend's house for a few weeks, and I ushered in the new year by having a rope holding the wood chipper in the bed of my truck snap, sending it through my rear window in the middle of a rainstorm. I thought I'd been Oswalded before I realized what happened. What a set of holidays.

Holy shit dude, did you piss off Santa or what? That sucks, I assume you would take a drunk cougar driving through your front yard over this crap. So I assume you are still in the house or have you moved? I always worry about you CA people and your fires and mudslides you guys can't seem to catch a break.

[Captain Rooster]

(first the truth, I am so sorry to hear about that!)

Dude, ... you live by my Mom?

[PapaBear]

There's a convenience store near me that has had cars go through the same window at least 5 times in the last 5 years. They finally replaced the window with a brick wall. I don't get why people can't drive.

[mdr55]

That sucks that it happened. Especially on your vacation.