Any theories? [UPDATE] I got the story.

"Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura) 06/10/2019 at 15:08 • Filed to: None

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The owners of the two cars live in the brown house. An unlicensed 16-year-old was out joy riding in his father’s Nissan — without permission — at around 4 am this morning with two other kids. He struck the silver car and continued into the red car, which was pushed forward six feet from where it was parked. The silver car was pushed onto the curb, and the impact forces were such that they knocked off all of the Nissan’s hubcaps. To his credit, the kid stuck around until the cops came. Minimum property damage limit in California is $5,000. That should cover the damage...

I cannot guess what the sequence of events might have been, but I’m guessing automobile theft and leaving the scene of an accident would have been involved, and sides of hoonery and General Mayhem. From the assortment of parts on the ground, it seems a third car might have been involved.

HondoyotaE38: A Japanese and German Collab...wait a minute > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 06/10/2019 at 12:26

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Oh fuck, I knew GTA was looking a bit too realistic last night...

Sovande > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 06/10/2019 at 12:28

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Car hit the Nissan and pushed it into the T oyota, then it drove off?

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Sovande 06/10/2019 at 12:30

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But there’s no damage on the front passenger side of the Nissan. And the Honda is well and truly gouged.

For Sweden > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 06/10/2019 at 12:31

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Just another day in the East Bay

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > HondoyotaE38: A Japanese and German Collab...wait a minute 06/10/2019 at 12:31

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Whitman Street, Hayward, California. This stuff happens on this street all the time. Entertainment value for my commute. Adds charm to the neighborhood.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > For Sweden 06/10/2019 at 12:32

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Whitman Street, Hayward; the Jackson Triangle.

HondoyotaE38: A Japanese and German Collab...wait a minute > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 06/10/2019 at 12:32

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No wonder they based the new GTA map on California

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 06/10/2019 at 12:33

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drunk brodozer sideswipe?

tho that caved in trunk on the corrolla is a head scratcher as it clearly wasnt caused by the nissan behind it

wafflesnfalafel > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 06/10/2019 at 12:33

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second shooter from the grassy knoll 

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > farscythe - makin da cawfee! 06/10/2019 at 12:36

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and what do those headlamps between the cars belong to?

they kinda look gt86 shaped

my best bet is that a gt86 from the future got sent back to save john connor.... and it landed in a bad place

Long_Voyager, Now With More Caravanny Goodness > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 06/10/2019 at 12:39

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Guessing it’s just a normal life for a Toyota and a Nissan given the kind of driving I generally see from them.....

Nibby > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 06/10/2019 at 12:42

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angry squirrel

jimz > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 06/10/2019 at 12:44

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E=mc^2?

Corkscrew'd > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 06/10/2019 at 12:44

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Nissan’s CVTs are no laughing matter. Look at the circle of destruction they cause: they’re so boring, a bored driver decided to spice up their commute a little too much!

/ JK

BrooklynEagle > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 06/10/2019 at 12:44

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Drunken shithead. Same thing happened in front of my house at 2:00 Sunday morning.

jimz > HondoyotaE38: A Japanese and German Collab...wait a minute 06/10/2019 at 12:45

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there’s actually a trope for that:

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SoCalization

boredalways > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 06/10/2019 at 12:48

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Someone making a drunk run to Jollibee's in Union City and almost made it home before the hit and run?

Sovande > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 06/10/2019 at 12:53

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Magic?

TheTurbochargedSquirrel > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 06/10/2019 at 12:53

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A Nissan Versa glanced off the rear quarter of the Rogue before plowing into the rear of the Corolla and spinning around to impact the side of the Corolla.

OPPOsaurus WRX > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 06/10/2019 at 13:24

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i’m guessing a drunk driver hit the Corolla and bounced off it easing the impact on the Nissan and then left.

Manwich - now Keto-Friendly > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 06/10/2019 at 14:09

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The two cars pictured boxed in a Smart car which really pissed off the owner causing him/her to exact revenge on those two cars.

ranwhenparked > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 06/10/2019 at 14:22

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Someone on opiates woke up to a very loud alarm clock?

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Manwich - now Keto-Friendly 06/10/2019 at 14:59

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Except that the headlight that was left behind on the street is, by itself, larger than a Smart Car.

m-b-w loves his SUBAROO > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 06/10/2019 at 15:07

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someone has a very totaled Versa in their driveway right now. Theres a versa hubcap on the ground and what looks like a Versa headlight. 

Manwich - now Keto-Friendly > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 06/10/2019 at 15:18

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Well the guy just happened to be carrying those parts in a wheelbarrow to his car that he planned on using to fix a buddy’s car... before he lost it after seeing how he was boxed in.

Sovande > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 06/10/2019 at 15:20

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What do I win? 

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 06/10/2019 at 15:24

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Honda...?

ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 06/10/2019 at 15:26

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That’s deeply on fortunate for the owner. I can relate. I once had both of my street parked cars hit by another parked vehicle that rolled down the street after the parking brake failed. A flatbed wrecker rolled down the street and into my former Mazda MX-6. The stinger lift on the back rode up over the hood of the car, grabbed it by the a-pillar and shoved it back into my former 96 suburban that was parked behind it. It pushed the suburban back about six feet down the street, coming to a stop only a few inches from the front bumper of the neighbors car behind it.

I started the call to my insurance agent with the word “you’re not going to believe what just happened.. .” My beloved (and significantly modified) MX-6 was totaled in the end, and the insurance claims took months to resolve and very nearly resulted in lawyers and lawsuits before I got enough of a payout on the MX-6 to call off the lawyers.  

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Sovande 06/10/2019 at 15:40

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Free renewal to Oppositelock.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars 06/10/2019 at 15:41

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The red car. Whatever it is, it’s gouged.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com 06/10/2019 at 15:44

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All of the cars in my fleet, five or six in total, and all of them dependable drivers, added together, cost less than $20k, over many years, repairs and parts and maintenance notwithstanding. There is an upside to owning beaters.

My daughter tapped the back bumper of a five-day-old Tesla the other day. Waiting to hear the estimate on that one... And by tapped , to hear her tell the story, we mean tapped.  

Sovande > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 06/10/2019 at 15:44

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Yes!!! Best prize! 

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 06/10/2019 at 15:47

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It’s a ‘Rolla! But yes, hella gouged...I don’t even get how the door bottom edge got folded up like that...? 0_o

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars 06/10/2019 at 15:58

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I bet it made noises.

ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 06/10/2019 at 17:42

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The real problem on mine was that the MX-6 was worth substantially more than what a normal book value would be on one via all the restoration and modification, of which I had extensively documented with my insurance company before hand (without which I would’ve been boned).

Because the tow truck (belonging to a small town Ford dealer North of Las Cruces) wasn’t currently registered or insured (nor was the guy who unsuccessfully parked even licensed to drive a vehicle of any kind ), I initially had to file a claim against the business’ s general liability policy. Despite no question as to fault, their company basically told me where to stick it and offered a $ 2500 settlement on the whole thing (I think they really wanted me to sue the driver in his personal capacity thereby making it not their problem) . Once the lawyers got involved, they basically said sue us...

As a last step before doing that (of which I would’ve won and most likely gotten a good payout on, two years later...), I filled with my own insurance company. Because of the extensive prior documentation, they paid out close to 7k on the MX-6, which was double it’s book value and just enough on the dollar invested for me to bitterly swallow. They also paid out a couple grand on the Suburban for essentially a broken license plate bracket and mildly bent bumper.

Because the fault was completely uncontested, they filled a sub ro ga tion claim with dealership’s general liability policy and eventually came to a settlement with them. I wasn’t entitled to know what they finally settled on, but by law I was entitled to first $1000 they got to account for the deductibles. About six months later I got the two $500 checks to reimburse me for the deductible and the claims were dropped from my record (and clue report) as chargea ble accidents.

In the end, I bought the MX-6 back from them for around $200 and then dragged it up on to my trailer and sold it to a salvage yard $350 ( being a college student in an apartment, I didn’t have the space to part it out at the time). I took the money on the suburban claim and replaced the front license plate bracket and decided to happily live with a very slightly bent bumper. It worked out in the end (and probably paid for almost a year of school), but I really missed my MX-6. That car had been my high school graduation gift to myself, later sold to my dad who drove it as his daily for a number of years (in part because of my habit of setting the cruise at 120 in the  car), and then later I bought it back from him. It was our autocross car for many years, and eventually is developed a rod knock via some oil starvation at a track day. I then really started working on it and swapped in a JDM spec motor for +40hp over the USDM engine those cars came with on this continent among other things along with generally making it an almost perfect old MX-6.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com 06/10/2019 at 19:36

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Wow. What a PITA!

My '97 Safari is worth about $0.39 Blue Book, but I'd need thousands to assemble something that could fill it's role.

ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 06/10/2019 at 20:12

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The MX-6 was parked about 10-12 feet up the road, and suburban was originally around 6 feet further up the street.  I should probably do a proper write up of this as an Oppo post sometime.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com 06/10/2019 at 21:06

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That’s awful.

RacinBob > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 06/10/2019 at 21:46

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My bet is a drunk. They suck.....

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > RacinBob 06/11/2019 at 00:21

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See the update. 16 YO kid out joy riding.