Tell us about your weirdest or dumbest car damage.

[Rain Man]

This is partly inspired by frozenchief's eagle grill, but also by something I saw yesterday.

I was walking in downtown Denver, and I heard a horrible scraping sound. Looking around, I caught the back end of a guy generating ridicule fodder for the rest of his life.

There's a hotel under construction at a tight intersection, so the sidewalk has been closed and they've got those big concrete jersey barriers all around it.



One of the construction workers was in a company pickup, and he cut the corner too sharp leaving the intersection and caught the edge of the barrier. That was a bummer, but then he doubled and tripled down.

For some reason, he gave the truck more gas, and the barrier started dragging down the side of the truck. Then it got to a flared wheel well and got stuck. So the guy gave it more gas. I and some other pedestrians waiting at a stop light were wincing, saying, "Back it up, dude. Back it up."

The barrier completely caved in the side of the truck, and for some inexplicable reason the guy kept trying to accelerate forward. Eventually, he actually pulled the barrier out into the street, blocking half a lane, before it let go of the truck. Then he sped off.

Now, it was late in the day, so maybe his coworkers didn't see it. But maybe they did. And I'd also be willing to bet that there are security cameras on the job site, and someone's going to check on why a 1,000 pound jersey barrier was pulled out onto the street. So this guy had to show up to work today with a company truck that is completely caved in, and he's going to have to come up with a story about why it's caved in. And if he lies about it, he's going to have to gamble that the whole thing isn't recorded on a security camera that his own company put up. Talk about screwed.

[ScareCrowe]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

This is partly inspired by frozenchief's eagle grill, but also by something I saw yesterday.

I was walking in downtown Denver, and I heard a horrible scraping sound. Looking around, I caught the back end of a guy generating ridicule fodder for the rest of his life.

There's a hotel under construction at a tight intersection, so the sidewalk has been closed and they've got those big concrete jersey barriers all around it.



One of the construction workers was in a company pickup, and he cut the corner too sharp leaving the intersection and caught the edge of the barrier. That was a bummer, but then he doubled and tripled down.

For some reason, he gave the truck more gas, and the barrier started dragging down the side of the truck. Then it got to a flared wheel well and got stuck. So the guy gave it more gas. I and some other pedestrians waiting at a stop light were wincing, saying, "Back it up, dude. Back it up."

The barrier completely caved in the side of the truck, and for some inexplicable reason the guy kept trying to accelerate forward. Eventually, he actually pulled the barrier out into the street, blocking half a lane, before it let go of the truck. Then he sped off.

Now, it was late in the day, so maybe his coworkers didn't see it. But maybe they did. And I'd also be willing to bet that there are security cameras on the job site, and someone's going to check on why a 1,000 pound jersey barrier was pulled out onto the street. So this guy had to show up to work today with a company truck that is completely caved in, and he's going to have to come up with a story about why it's caved in. And if he lies about it, he's going to have to gamble that the whole thing isn't recorded on a security camera that his own company put up. Talk about screwed.

Career Darwin Award winner, some people are too stupid to be employed.

[Rain Man]

My two odd car damage stories:

1. Back when I had the apricot BMW, my wife drove it to a little shopping district and parallel parked it on the street. When she was walking back to the car, she saw another car stop and try to parallel park in front of it. Somehow they were so far off in their distance judging that they backed into the apricot BMW. But not the front of the car. They backed their car up and hit the side of my car BEHIND the driver's door.

2. Once when I was younger, I was stopped at a stop light at a busy intersection. I was many cars behind the light, so nothing was moving around me. I was just sitting there. All of a sudden - BOOM - something nailed my windshield hard enough to break it. It took me completely by surprise. Then about three or four seconds later, a screwdriver dropped from the sky onto the top of my hood, after presumably ricocheting off my windshield. There was nothing moving anywhere near me, so I have no idea how a screwdriver hit my windshield with so much power.

[ModSocks]

19 year old me, 6 months after buying my Pontiac Trans Am. Middle of the night. Streets a little damp. Mudvayne pumping through the stereo so im amped as ****. Sitting at a stop light to turn left, light turns green. Maybe im a little TOO pumped, hit the gas, back end of the car slips out and i lose control.

I end up putting the car into a mortuary. I called the mortuary in the morning to confess my sins. Lady tells me had i actually penetrated the wall (wasn't far from it btw) that i woulda had dead bodies on my hood.

[Eureka]

A priest tried to cross a busy street in his Toyota Sienna. He didn't notice me in the lane driving and hit my RX7 in the rear quarter panel. I got out of the vehicle and walked over to the Sienna with some anger. As I open my mouth the guy gets out I then notice he's a priest. In my nicest voice I say "Hello father are you ok"?

[seclark]

One of uncle Ernie’s goats climbed up on my olds cutlass and chewed the vinyl roof.
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[Otter]

I was walking on the sidewalk in Ocean City Maryland with friends when I was living there for the summer while in college and seen a person go the wrong way into a parking lot exit where they had the retractable spike setup.


Four flat tires at the same time has to be pretty painful. I think I'd take the eagle over that one. At least with a good yank you can still drive and you know whoever was driving was from out of town.

[Stewie]

I was poor and 22 years old. Drove a Honda Civic that I paid $400 to get me back and forth to my new job.

I was sitting at a red light and heard screeching, then BAM! Ugh. Took my breath away.

The girl jumped out of her car and apologized. She said she was lighting a cigarette and wasn't paying attention.

She also told this to the police officer. So, her insurance settled for $1100. Drove that Civic for another 6 months before upgrading.

[bdj23]

I once decided to run the entire length of my Pontiac Grand Prix down the side of one of those concrete pillars that holds light posts up in parking lots.

I was about a dozen beers deep leaving the bar when I was 22.

[Mr. Wizard]

Out in the middle of nowhere miles from anything I drive a pickup over a pipe sticking out of the ground that began to spew natural gas. It was super loud. I got out and ran for my life. Later my pissed off boss walked up started it up and drove it off. How the hell did it not blow up? We are talking a mid 80s pickup. I think he was just too much of an asshole to die. Apparently… so was I

[HemiEd]

I was 17 and my 64 Barracuda was already my second car as I had pretty much trashed my 57 Fury, my first year of driving.
Had blown two transmissions and had to rebuild the motor after throwing a rod.

Bought some "mags" second hand for the Barracuda but didn't have the money for the deep reach lug nuts needed, so I made the short reach stock ones work.

Doing a "peel out" as we called it back then, the left rear wheel broke loose from the few threads that had caught with the standard lug nuts and caved in the lower part of the quarter panel while dropping the drum on the ground.

[Frazod]

I closed the garage door while I still had the hatch door on my '99 Mercury Cougar up. Scratched the shit out of it. I'd had the car for about a week.

The grand prize has to go to my ex MIL. She once backed through the garage door while it was down.

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by Stewie

I was poor and 22 years old. Drove a Honda Civic that I paid $400 to get me back and forth to my new job.

I was sitting at a red light and heard screeching, then BAM! Ugh. Took my breath away.

The girl jumped out of her car and apologized. She said she was lighting a cigarette and wasn't paying attention.

She also told this to the police officer. So, her insurance settled for $1100. Drove that Civic for another 6 months before upgrading.

Back when I was in my twenties, I was sitting at a stop light and the same thing happened. I had a great 1979 Toyota Celica Hatchback (loved that car), and it was really solid so there was no damage. But I remember getting out of the car and the woman who hit me got out of her car, and she angrily yelled, "You scared me to death!" I had been completely and peacefully stopped when she hit me.

[Rain Man]

I've had more weird things than dumb things happen. Offhand, the only dumb thing I did was when I was sixteen and had just started driving. I left my job at Dairy Queen and set my Mr. Misty on the dashboard for some reason. I was at a left turn signal and made my left, and the Mr. Misty bowed to centrifugal force and started sliding quickly toward the passenger side. I reached over to grab it and lost control of the car, jumping up onto a pretty tall curb. It was scary, but I recovered and went home.

A few days later, my father went to move the car in our driveway and came back saying, "Why are the brake lines torn loose?" I told him that I had no idea.

[suzzer99]

Sneaking under the barrier at Lake Jacomo to drive down to the amphitheater at night and drink. Scraped the shit out of the top of my mom's Camaro.