Off to an interesting morning. Wasn't even 8AM and already had someone call me an asshole.
A scrapper (guy that drives around on trash day and picks up scrap metal and anything else he thinks he can sell) hit this older lady's car. I happened to be walking nearby. Pretty quick it looked like he was going to run. I quickly got a picture of his truck and license plate and sure enough, away he goes.
Talked to the lady and she is OK and asks me to call the police. I do and give them a description of the vehicle and the license plate number.
The front license plate fell of when he hit her. While waiting for the police, he rolls back up talking about how he went to get his insurance
No, it's the missing front plate .
He starts stepping on it and then starts to pick it up. I tell him to leave it until the cops get there.
Then he starts on about the insurance and trying to interact with the lady. I tell him, let's just wait for the police. He's trying to get the hell out of there before the police arrive and I'm not going to let him push this lady around.
He goes back an leans on his truck and starts muttering loudly so I can hear that I'm an asshole ...
Sometimes and this was one time it was appropriate to be an asshole to the hit and run driver.
Rick wrote:On an only kinda-sorta related note: I've been slower than slow to join the cordless revolution but finally got POed enough at my gas chainsaw's contrary way's this past spring to give a battery operated one a go, and have been pleasantly surprised by how little of a compromise it's proven to date. 'Course that could change if I'm ever required to deal with storm damage while it's still raining...
I've heard nothing but good things. That would be my only concern. What do you do with a battery powered (fill in the blank) when you don't have power for a week. You are running on one charge. Anything essential, this would worry me.
Similarly, I can't open my wife's car even with the regular key. Everything is power and she has zero power so I can't even open the car to pop the hood so I can test the battery to see if that's the problem or something else. We will need assistance just to open the effing door. If I understand you actually have to lift the car and hook up batteries to get enough juice to unlock the door. It shouldn't take assistance to get in your car if you have no battery. Insanely stupid design.