ouch!

totally sux

take the money and RUN car prices are way down compared to a year ago , that will get you a very nice car ... oh BTW keep some in reserve ,, the other shoe has to drop , you may need most of that money for future premiums :)

wow I just npoticed the dates .. it was of course the Orange county antagonist that restarted the thread,

That will buff out with a little elbow grease.

Near the bottom left side of each individual post, there's a "triangle with a exclamation point in the center" symbol.

The OP can report a post to the mods/admins if he likes.

Only reason he'd want to close it is if he got himself busted for having done something stupid.

Well, the blog didn't say he was drunk......

Your should post the Blog before taking things potentially out of context. It looks like you are just trying to get a rise out of people for the fun of it, not cool http://forums.pelicanparts.com/support/smileys/nono.gif

If he was drunk and trying to scam the Insurance Company then that is also not cool, however making accusations on forums without the facts is bad form.

To me it looks as if the driver is fully aware of this accusation and isn't making any effort to dispute it. If someone made this accusation against me, my response would be somewhat different. I would like to see a link to the blog.

The blog posts are spill over from OT. Should leave it over there.

Yep.... Sammy was not making this up.

Perhaps the blog was changed yesterday?

I know this probably varies by state, but if you were going to buy a replacement couldn't you count the totaled car as a trade-in and avoid some sales tax? Technically I think you sell the car to the insurance company. In my state you can count any car you sell within 30 days of a purchase as a deduction towards sales tax.

Can you post a link to the OT thread where this is, or his blog? Thanks.

His exact words:

I was having dinner with a friend, had some drinks and while driving home it started raining. *It was about 8:30pm in December of ‘06 and I was making a right turn from Powell onto Broadway. *I*accelerated in second gear and immediately realized I still had my summer tires on. I was going about 55mph and hydroplaned to the left and smacked my right rear fender super hard into the center column at the base of the tunnel. *The airbags deployed, the seatbelt held but I crushed my right hip into the belt attachment so hard that it left a bruise the size of a toaster! *My friend and I decided to make a run for it since I would have gone directly to jail with a DUI. *The problem was that the car was blocking the traffic into the tunnel and cars behind me were starting to honk. *It eventually got towed.**I made it home and Phat Kat was hanging out listening to some music. *He said “Man, you guys got enough money to just leave a Porsche on the road?!” *Well, no, but I had full coverage so I was okay. *Thanks AAA!!! *I’ll post up what I got with the insurance money later.

Still wondering why you care, sammy.

Wow-that's a pretty wicked admission. I certainly hope there's no insurance fraud - that supposedly gets ugly fast.

If the allegation is true, I bet AAA would care, since they shelled out the money. http://forums.pelicanparts.com/support/smileys/wat6.gif

It is insurance fraud. Cant see an Insurance Company pay out if you are over the limit.

More to the point, what was he thinking posting that on a blog?

To defend Sammy, perhaps he is bothered because ultimately everyone pays for drunk drivers.

I love the comment about summer tires as no one changes their tires out in the Bay Area from summer to winters like they do in the mid west. What I think he meant to say was something this: I nailed it in second gear, lost control and stacked my car into a cement pole. Lots of us have hydroplaned in our cars, but the last thing were thinking about when the car is getting sideways is that I have my summer tires on. At that point were correcting and saying: “Oh ****!” Or in his case: “Oh **** I’m going to jail!”