My Wonderful Thanksgiving - Hit and Attempted Run

[JHerrlich]

Well, I got my Thanksgiving off to a wonderful start. I went to visit my Aunt in Gilroy, CA and at 3:00 in the morning, some drunk kids decide to plow into my parked truck. It wasn't pretty and I'm not very happy about it. They attempted to run, but their car only made it about 100 meters. I'm surprised they made it that far. There was an open container in their car, along with a baseball bat, so who knows what they were up to.



Anyway, here's some pictures.



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I have some more in my gallery. Not the wrecked truck gallery, that's my first truck. They're in the other gallery.

 

[silverram03]

Well at least there weren't people in the street. Especially being Thanksgiving. As we tend to leave early to go to realtives. Sorry about your truck. I guess the Karma finally got the best of those kids. What were they charged with?

 

[Bob Wagner]

man that is some major damage, must be a hell of a story behind it



sorry for your loss

 

[98rammer]

man, sorry to that- wicked nice truck ya got there. at least the drunk kids will hopefully get what they deserve.



Tom

 

[dpuckett]

Originally posted by 98rammer

at least the drunk kids will hopefully get what they deserve.

Mom and Dad will probably buy their way out of it. But on the bright side, they wont be using that car to plow into nice pickups anymore.

 

[JHerrlich]

I'm waiting on the police report and hopefully I'll find out if thier parents have insurance on the car. I hope it can be fixed properly, as they tacoed my tie-rod and my wheels are facing inboard. My little finger and my feet hurt from chasing them down barefooted and attempting to detain them (they got away). I'll find out if the cops caught them or not soon. Someone drove by and stopped their vehicle to look at the truck, I can only assume it was the parents of one of the kids. Everything is slow due to the holidays, so I'm waiting on the insurance adjuster to call me.



To think, I just got here, and if I went to get fuel before I got here, they probably would've got us when we were unloading my truck.

 

[Ram4Sam]

Bummer!!

J, Sorry about your truck. As for the bat in the car, I bet I know what that is about. The local idiots around here have a game they play called "mailbox baseball" They drive around the streets late at night, one of the morons hangs out of the window with the bat. The moron driver drives slowly along the curb and the other moron swats the roadside mailboxs with the bat. Good luck with the insurance company.



Sam

 

[HVAC]

Sorry about the truck, major bummer



Hopefully the sheet metal can be fixed up and then get the steering straightened out. The motor's still great!

 

[Archive]

JHerrlich, was the local PD successful in finding the culprits?

Hope they can repair your ride to your satisfaction!



JJ

 

[NETim]

We need alcohol control.



Hey, it works for guns, right?



Tim

 

[JHerrlich]

Well, they found the kids about 20 hours later, they had insurance. They couldn't/wouldn't test for alcohol, but the officer sent the police report to the DA because of the Hit and Run, and Evading Arrest. Hopefully they'll get what they deserve and I'll get my truck fixed... .