Oh Fudge!!

[CivRacer95]

July 10, 2005. At approximately 2:20 PM things went wrong for me. Please, this is quite an interesting tale, take the time to read it.

It was what seemed to be another beautiful, sunny day here in Utah. I was meeting up with friends at Carls Jr. I had just gotten ready. Took my car to Chevron to gas up, and even decided to give the Civ a nice little car wash. Life was peachy. Everything was going right up until the incident.

I left to Carls Jr. a little early, just to cruise around for a while. I took a little detour before I went to Carls and decided to take the long way back around. I was just heading back to Carls and I was going to hop back on to University and head towards my destination. I pulled behind a pretty good looking 2002 BMW 325i (which I later discovered what it was) who was signalling in my same direction. Him ahead, and me just following up. Traffic was clear in the left direction. So it appeared that he took off. So I looked left, signalling, I decided to take off as well. Well, to my surprise he had stopped no more than 5 feet ahead of me. I had no reaction time at all to stop for him. And it just happened. "BAM!!"

My body shook for a moment, my head jerked, and there he was. Right in front of me. I was puzzled as to why he stopped and my first thought was "WTF??". Seconds later, a group of small ducks were seen crossing in front of him. He stopped for a group of fucking ducks. I got screwed over by fucking ducks. Oh how I just wanted to run them over at that moment. But my attention immediately turned to him, wondering if he was alright. I hopped out of my car and asked him to pull ahead because we were blocking traffic behind us. As soon as he hopped out of his car, I was a little relieved.

My buddy James' old roommate, Paul, a man I have met a few times was right there in front of me. He noticed me right away as well, and we shook hands. I apologized numerous times to him, because he had just purchased the car a few months previous to our incident. He was very calm about it, cool, and we decided to call the police and notify our insurance agencies. The damage on my car wasn't nearly bad enough. Although his car, well, let's just say the damages were worth more than my car. Although, there are some other things that played out in this scenario.

The officer who took down our info called Paul back to his car. It appeared that his liscense was suspended at the time of the incident. I don't know for how long, or why, but it didn't seem good for him at all. He was cited right on the spot, but luckily his girlfriend showed up to drive him away from the scene. Me on the other hand. Well, for me my insurance is going to sail back up. I was very delighted a few weeks ago to find that my insurance payments had dropped by nearly $50. Now this isn't going to help me at all. It's going to shoot back up again.

A few things are for sure, my plan for an H22 is going to be delayed. I'm going to be paying a butt load of insurance. The damages on my car will need to be fixed. And, I plan on taking a road trip back to see my sister the beginning of August. So, I can just see it all as one big pile of shit getting dumped all over my head. Ah life, I guess you just have to roll along with the punches. Although, as far as this incidents goes. I don't know how it's going to pan out. He shouldn't have been driving in the first place, too. The insurance agencies haven't contacted either of us yet at all.

What I did find funny however, is that Paul was going to pick up James, a good friend of mine, from Church. And James, along with a few other friends, were who I was going to be meeting at Carls Jr. Ironic isn't it? Well, it was all too funny to each of us when I heard about this from James. If only Paul didn't have to pick up James from church, this wouldn't have happened I guess. But, things happen for a reason I guess. Enjoy!!...wait...no don't enjoy....

[Andydg]

Oh damn...sorry to hear about that.

My friend had an incident like this where the guy he hit had a suspended liscense. Normally it would've been my friend's fault but they found it to be the other drivers fault because he shouldn't've been on the road at all...

[drftk1d]

sorry to hear civ

[CivRacer95]

Yeah, thanks drftk1d. It does suck right now.

Originally Posted by Andydg

Oh damn...sorry to hear about that.

My friend had an incident like this where the guy he hit had a suspended liscense. Normally it would've been my friend's fault but they found it to be the other drivers fault because he shouldn't've been on the road at all...

I am really hoping this can work out in my favor. My first thought after hearing his liscense was suspended "He shouldn't have been driving then." I'm going to try and find out if this can workout in my favor. Although, Paul is a really good guy. He was extremely calm and cool the whole time, and he was even more concerned about my Civic than his bimmer.

I don't want to get him screwed over, and on the flip side, I don't want to get screwed over. I can't wait to find out what could happen in this scenario. But in reality, I think if I have to, I would have to help myself before I would help him.

[CivRacer95]

Here's just a few photos I took off my camera phone. Like I said, it really wasn't all the bad for me. The left fender is bent a little bit, so my turn signal hangs out a little ways. The hood closes and opens just fine. The bumper is shifted a bit, so my right front wheel rubs up on it when I make left hand turns. Although, I think it makes my car a little more aerodynamic .

[Andydg]

^^^It doesn't look all that bad...I was expecting it to be worse.

[speedthrill]

yeah it does look rather good. At the way you write it it sounds like a big BAM. So i expected to see a big BAM. Lol

Anyway sorry to hear that, it's always nasty for the insurance.

You sometimes must collect punches in life... That's the way it goes.

[mason_RsX]

As soon as you said you were making a left turn and he was in front of you doing the same I new exactly what you did...I was shotgun in my buddies civic making a right turn when he did the same thing...

damage doesn't look to bad, but correct me if im wrong you guys could have settled it without insurance right? so y didn't you?

[nissanfanatic]

gay.....

Should have slaughterd the ducks with a butter knife....

[illegal_eagle187]

that sucks man

[chevytrucks92]

Sorry to hear Civ. Atleast you didnt hurt anything major (radiator, suspension components, etc.). I mean everything that is hurt is pretty much bolt on stuff.

Anyways, good luck with the police report and what not, lol.

[illegal_eagle187]

damn ducks.....i would of ran them over like they were speed bumps, but of course if u did that, word would get around and PETA would be all over your ass....a bunch of losers

[Right_LiRrr]

Man, that sucks. I dinged my car last week too. Gonna need to replace the rear bumper...all in good time, lol.

[CivRacer95]

Everything is cool right now. He called me and my buddy james (paul called) and asked if I was doing ok. The guy is a stud. I'm really glad that it was him rather than some random guy who could have been a prick about things. The "BAM!" wasn't my car, it was his. Honestly the damage alone on his is worth more than my car. His back end is much worse than my cars. Damn fragile german pieces of shit....

Anyway, everything will be settled through our insurance agencies. Although, I will be paying so much more on insurace again. I finally got it knocked down, and now it's going to shoot back up again. It blows really, but you just gotta go with it. I'm sorry that it all happened, but I'm glad everything is going to work out fine in the end.

[illegal_eagle187]

thats good to hear