Thread: Hit and Run

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So, I'm at the pharmacy to pick up Wifies meds and as I'm coming out of the store I see two people on scooters siting stopped and looking at a map.
This is pretty common as the Town is a tourist trap and right next to the Ocean.
Scooter rental is pretty common.
I stop next to my car for a moment as I noticed the Woman is having a hard time with her balance. Obviously the scooter is a handful for her.
The guy puts the map away and takes off and the Woman starts to follow but is still having trouble.....she starts to move and her left leg is still half walking as the scooter starts to move....she still is not balanced.
All of a sudden, WHAM!!!! Right into the back of a parked car.
Broken tail light on the car and broken headlight on the scooter.
The guy returns and they both get off and survey the damage and then look around a bit and both get back on the scooters and take off.
PIZZED ME OFF!!!
I grab my cell phone and call 911 and tell the operator what happened.
It wasn't a couple of minutes until the cops arrived and checked things out.
I gave them my info and took off across the street to the hardware store as the cop walked over to the scooter rental place to check out the license number I gave them....Yeah, I got the number of the scooter.
When I come out of the hardware store, here's the cop with a big grin.
"Hey, did you find them", I asked.
He indicated that it was no problem and that they did rent from the place he went to.
"Thing is", says the cop, "It was their own car they hit".
We both had a good laugh and the cop says, "no harm, no foul".
I guess it's OK to ride a scooter that has less then 60 cc's displacement without an endorsement in this State but I'm not sure that's a good idea.
DT

Well, if it's confession time; I once called the cops when I witnessed a guy doing a breaking and entering on a house.... They came buy later and told me the guy lived there and had locked his keys in the house and nobody else was home.....
The cops did say
Thanks anyway!!!!!

I once sold my brother an old truck I had. I was moving and had no room for it and all he had was a motorcycle, and it was winter. A couple months later he was riding the motorcycle in the rain, I asked him what happened to the truck? He told me it got stolen.
A couple months later I saw the truck parked on a major Blvd with two hispanic guys working on it, so I called the cops. When they arrived they weren't to nice to these guys, had them face down at gun point in the street.
turns out my brother never registered the truck and it got impounded. One of the hispanic guys had bought it at auction......I didn't talk to my brother for quite a while after that one.....

Better to report it and let the cops sort it out, these days you never know what people are up to. Someone just stole a bbq grill from the deli right next door to our shop. This was one of those huge cooking grilles that are on a trailer and is used for events. It had to be during the day, because it disappeared over last weekend, and we were at the shop with our garage door open from 3 pm to about 6 am each day. I feel sorry for Mike, the owner. He is struggling right now anyway, and didn't need this. The idiot thieves are probably going to scrap it for the steel. It was parked right next to my utility trailer, so I am going to run a chain and lock through it today.

Don

My brother-in-law is a contractor and about 3 weeks ago they started on a new house. His partner was running this build while Ed and his wife joined my wife and I on vacation for 10 days.
We got back home about 10 pm last night. He called me this a.m. and told me the "bad news". Seems some lowlifes cut through 2 case hardend chains they had run through the "framing" trailer, chained to the foundation and drove off with the trailer and all the companys power tools, lifts jacks, compressors ,ladders, etc. needed for framing a house. His partner discovered the loss this a.m. and called Ed.

I loath thieves, especially ones that prey upon people that work hard for a living!!! If I ever caught one doing something like that ... let's just say the authorities might have a bit of a problem figuring out who is who.