Bad Luck Beetle

[mamculuna]

At about 5:30 AM I heard someone knocking on the door. By the time I could find my walking boot and a jacket and started getting ready to go down, it seemed they had gone away. About ten minutes later, a much louder banging woke Bill up and he went down, to find a cop who told us that my car, parked in front of the house as usual, had been hit-and-run-ed (hit and ran)? They had hit it so hard it completely exploded the front fender, broke up the wheel cover, deflated the tire, clearly did damage to the wheel and probably the transaxle. Frankly, I'm hoping the insurance will consider it totaled, even though I just spent around $1000 on the brakes, battery, and window--it seems to be constantly breaking in different places, and now that it's been in a wreck, will be almost impossible to sell.

It's hard for me to see how they could get up that much speed after turning the corner half a block away--but they did. Our neighbor was already up and heard the crash. He was the first knock. He said the cop told him that they'd seen someone with a damaged front end of their car a few blocks away, so maybe they will catch him (I'm sure my insurance hopes so).

So 2010 is not really moving ahead from 2009....hopefully I'm burning off bad karma and will get a pass on the hungry ghost realms.

Comments

[cactuswatcher.livejournal.com]

Yikes! Amazing what a drunk (I assume, a drunk) can do.

[charged-chaos.livejournal.com]

Aw man, that sucks!! That has to be so aggravating to know someone tried to leave and get away with it.

[ann1962]

I'm glad you weren't in the car, or near it.

[mummm.livejournal.com]

How horrible! I wonder how someone thinks they can get away with that? Did traces of the color of the other car get left behind?

[usedtobeljs]

Oh no!

Hugs and good thoughts for the aftermath of it all.

[himmapaan.livejournal.com]

Oh, good grief! I'm so sorry to hear it. I hope the culprit is found (if that suspect looking car is it) and/or at least all will be resolved with relatively little stress.

[a2zmom.livejournal.com]

I hope they catch the ass that did that. And I suspect the car will indeed be considered totaled.

[siro-gravity.livejournal.com]

omg. your poor beetle!!!

sounds like drunk driving.