Comments on: killer car http://www.manifestdensity.net/2008/03/03/killer-car/ Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:04:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: lacochranhttp://www.manifestdensity.net/2008/03/03/killer-car/comment-page-1/#comment-1151 lacochran Wed, 05 Mar 2008 16:07:40 +0000 http://127.0.0.1:8888/?p=491#comment-1151 When the adrenaline finally leaves your system, consider pushing the insurance company for a new bike. Once the alignment is blown, it's never gonna make you happy. I've, unfortunately, had a lot of experience with insurance companies and they can do lots of things that they won't volunteer on the first round. Glad the driver apologized. Makes me wonder if perhaps he didn't "see" you because he'd been on a cell phone...? Seems like everybody is these days, despite the DC "hands free" law. I guess we'll never know. Congrats on making it through! When the adrenaline finally leaves your system, consider pushing the insurance company for a new bike. Once the alignment is blown, it’s never gonna make you happy. I’ve, unfortunately, had a lot of experience with insurance companies and they can do lots of things that they won’t volunteer on the first round.
Glad the driver apologized. Makes me wonder if perhaps he didn’t “see” you because he’d been on a cell phone…? Seems like everybody is these days, despite the DC “hands free” law. I guess we’ll never know.
Congrats on making it through!

]]> By: mphttp://www.manifestdensity.net/2008/03/03/killer-car/comment-page-1/#comment-1150 mp Tue, 04 Mar 2008 16:44:44 +0000 http://127.0.0.1:8888/?p=491#comment-1150 got hit by a car 'again'?? i didn't know you had gotten hit by a car before got hit by a car ‘again’?? i didn’t know you had gotten hit by a car before

]]> By: Willahttp://www.manifestdensity.net/2008/03/03/killer-car/comment-page-1/#comment-1149 Willa Tue, 04 Mar 2008 14:47:11 +0000 http://127.0.0.1:8888/?p=491#comment-1149 The exact same thing happened to me years ago while living in California. She was more shaken up than I was. She drove me to the hospital and was very nice. Then her insurance company sends me a bill for $1000. I was a college student and I didn't know what the hell to do. I called the insurance company because I was never asked my side of the story. I called several times and they were total dicks. Then, they stopped returning my calls. So, I wrote a letter to the Department of Insurance, made copies of all correspondence, and, suddenly, the insurance company is calling me. I kept ignoring them. They wanted to tell me that they were going to drop the case against me. I told them to fuck off. I never had to pay them, and a few months later, I saw a story in the paper about how corrupt that company was and how weirdly cultish its management was. Ah, schadenfreude. The exact same thing happened to me years ago while living in California. She was more shaken up than I was. She drove me to the hospital and was very nice.
Then her insurance company sends me a bill for $1000. I was a college student and I didn’t know what the hell to do. I called the insurance company because I was never asked my side of the story. I called several times and they were total dicks. Then, they stopped returning my calls. So, I wrote a letter to the Department of Insurance, made copies of all correspondence, and, suddenly, the insurance company is calling me. I kept ignoring them. They wanted to tell me that they were going to drop the case against me. I told them to fuck off.
I never had to pay them, and a few months later, I saw a story in the paper about how corrupt that company was and how weirdly cultish its management was. Ah, schadenfreude.

]]> By: freewheelhttp://www.manifestdensity.net/2008/03/03/killer-car/comment-page-1/#comment-1148 freewheel Tue, 04 Mar 2008 13:11:51 +0000 http://127.0.0.1:8888/?p=491#comment-1148 Well-told... It's nice that the driver did not turn out to be a monster, but OTOH it sounds like he would have kept going if he could have. Glad he has insurance. Well-told… It’s nice that the driver did not turn out to be a monster, but OTOH it sounds like he would have kept going if he could have. Glad he has insurance.

]]> By: jeffhttp://www.manifestdensity.net/2008/03/03/killer-car/comment-page-1/#comment-1147 jeff Tue, 04 Mar 2008 04:28:22 +0000 http://127.0.0.1:8888/?p=491#comment-1147 Have you considered a hoverbike? Have you considered a hoverbike?

]]> By: Timhttp://www.manifestdensity.net/2008/03/03/killer-car/comment-page-1/#comment-1146 Tim Mon, 03 Mar 2008 21:05:59 +0000 http://127.0.0.1:8888/?p=491#comment-1146 I'm glad you're OK! This post slightly softened my firm conviction that wearing a bike helmet makes you look like a dork. Maybe looking like a dork is OK if it means you don't die. I’m glad you’re OK! This post slightly softened my firm conviction that wearing a bike helmet makes you look like a dork. Maybe looking like a dork is OK if it means you don’t die.

]]> By: John Cainhttp://www.manifestdensity.net/2008/03/03/killer-car/comment-page-1/#comment-1145 John Cain Mon, 03 Mar 2008 20:55:43 +0000 http://127.0.0.1:8888/?p=491#comment-1145 <blockquote>I haven't pored over my helmet yet for signs of impact, but this story could've been a lot less happy (although also perhaps less overwritten) if I hadn't been wearing it.</blockquote> I'd imagine you'd have a lot to say on the subject of bloroplopes.

I haven’t pored over my helmet yet for signs of impact, but this story could’ve been a lot less happy (although also perhaps less overwritten) if I hadn’t been wearing it.

I’d imagine you’d have a lot to say on the subject of bloroplopes.

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