Lucky Accident

OldSkool said:
I'm surprised at all of you. You wish to wreck this kids entire life over one little indiscretion? Maybe his mom was calling him and he was just being a good son and trying to answer her. You were probably sitting in broad daylight and not concealed so there was no reason to watch for you.

Then there is the fact that you had no vessel on the trailer. How confusing is that? If you're going to pull a trailer at least have something to see on it. I'd run too if I seen you get out of the truck and actually look at the damage. How intimidating you must have been. Big brute!

Then everyone piles on. How insensitive!!

I am really gratefully no one was injured and I'm able to add some sarcasm instead of the alternative.
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Yea. The young man only received 4 citations - one of which was hit and run - and I wasn't even pulled over when he launched off driving away. My neck hurts and my left wrist hurts where it hit the steering wheel during the 40 mph vs. 10 mph collision. Felt almost as "good" as a cat shot in a 47,000 lb F-4J - only I wasn't ready for it!
 
Carter,

Unfortunate all around, but I am glad you are OK and no one got hurt. One young fellow hopefully learned an important life lesson from all this..........

Dale
 
Gosh very unfortunate, but pleased to hear you are "basically" okay.
 
Definitely not on the scale of a hit and run, but about 5yrs ago our mailbox got hit and pretty much destroyed, along with some shrubbery. I figured I would never find out who did it, let alone have them fix it. Well, about a week later my doorbell rings and there stands a young guy about 17 just shaking. He proceeds to explain to me how my mailbox got hit. He basically was not paying attention, fiddling with the radio, hit the mailbox, panicked and kept going. He apologized, told me he would get the mailbox fixed (we have custom mailboxes that match the signage in our neighborhood - $300 installed), plus get all the landscaping repaired. That was enough for me, he was not my son and not my place to punish him. Then Dad walks up, introduces himself and proceeds to explain how fixing my mailbox is just the beginning - $1500 to fix the car that that the kid had saved $ to buy, which he is now not allowed to drive and assured me the boy would pay for every dime himself if it took the rest of his life to pay it off. Dad also wanted to commit the kid to a lifetime of slavery doing work or whatever I wanted around my house - I declined, bud did let him put up a temporary mailbox while my new one was ordered and installed. In the end the kid shook my hand, apologized over and over, admitted his mistake and fixed it, whether that would have happened without Dad, I don't know, but it was nice to see a parent hold their child accountable.
 
skunkman said:
It could have been worse. This guy was waiting to make a left when he go rear ended by a woman. She must have been moving fast. I bet the prop is bent.

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Oh come on!! That'll buff right out!
 
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