David,

It is not worth letting these f#@k-ups being so nonchalant about these
things. I'd have caught him, and either had him pay me some $$ on the
spot, or have him charged with hit-and-run. It would one more idiot
calibrated. At least for a while...

Ron

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf
Of David Marshall
Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 7:51 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Braille parking - what would you do?

Today I took the kids to the DQ to have some ice cream.  Outside I can
see my TriStar as clear as day.  It is parallel parked, slight rain /
drizzle, a few degrees above freezing, typical late winter day for
Quesnel.  Then I see a fellow, mid to late 40s, step into the Dodge
Caravan that is parked in front of my TriStar.  He starts the van, backs
up and wump!  My TriStar is now bouncing up and down.  I immediately get
up and out of the DQ and start walking as towards my truck and the
fellow starts driving away.  No damage to the TriStar as he hit the
front bull bar square on... but he just took off like nothing happened -
he didn't stop, he didn't care.  I could have ran after him and easily
caught up to him in the very slow down town traffic (all four way stops)
but I didn't.  Besides, what would I do with him once I stopped him...
bad situation these days.

What would you have done in my situation?

David Marshall

Fast Forward Automotive Inc.
4356 Quesnel-Hixon Road
Quesnel BC Canada  V2J 6Z3

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