my hatch is totaled, i'm done with older sports cars.

[mattblancarte]

[burntricer]

move to canada. all covered. ouch tho man. seriously

[EviL inside]

it's all being covered 100%,,,that's why i pay for health insurance and auto insurance. no need for me to give up my guns and move to canada.

[krayzie94]

it's all being covered 100%,,,that's why i pay for health insurance and auto insurance. no need for me to give up my guns and move to canada.

Yo! I getz my gunz frm da streetz, son!

[Witness]

Wow seeing this make me want to take my moms advice and get a new tundra but i love my kouki. that hella sucks that it happened butthank god your alright.

[Ghast]

looking at that bill...

If i ever get into an accident and i am "Ok Enough" to know whats going on and crawl. I will make sure no body touches me and lets me heal on my own. Unless the pain is too much for me or i am going to die haha. That is an insane bill man. Sweet jesus.

[RCA]

"my hatch is totaled, i'm done with older sports cars

http://myweb.cableone.net/blghalryape/wreck1.jpg

Umm...

Some one going to tell him?

[Philipio]

Wow seeing this make me want to take my moms advice and get a new tundra but i love my kouki.

Your car's a lot newer than his, has airbags, and I'm sure you wear your seatbelt. You'll be fine.

[2ndnissan]

That was one rough accident! Glad you survived and are healing. That ticket thing is entirely bogus too...Hope it heals quickly. Med bills can be totally outrageous. I had an organ transplant and it took a full year to recover. Medical was close to 750,000. Fortunately,,very fortunately ..worked for Walmart and they paid for it 100% and above that even. They kept my position open for the entire year too. Do you have a good number of vacation/personal/sick hours to use while recovering or does your company let you have medical leave? Prayers for a quick recovery . It may be hard to get anything out of the kid..Do call the credit companies. Most will give a medical deferrment of some sort while you recover.

[Cone Junky]

I read the warning, and yet I still scrolled down while eating my "spicy italian" sub! Oh well, I guess I'm done with lunch...

[shanelach]

Umm...

Some one going to tell him?

I got the chills looking at that picture. The rays of light are wild. Looks like someone was definitely watching out for you.

[EviL inside]

a depressing turn today.

my wife had the doctor start on paperwork to get me a TEMPORARY handicapped parking card that hangs from the rearview. he fills out a sheet and i take it to the tag office.

we picked up the form today from the dr. office, and the reason marked was severely impaired walking ability,,,,,,under "expiration" he wrote "PERMANENT".

hard hitting wake-up call.

[mattblancarte]

Sorry to hear that, man. Are you sure that you won't be making a full recovery? Hopefully your doctor was trying to just give you the hook-up.

[corey240]

Thats crazy that much damage came from such a low speed. I watched a kid hit the wall roughly 65 head on with no bumper supports, and fg fenders, and it didnt do that close of the damage, there was no cage in that either. Awsome your ok, I had a bad one befor.

[EviL inside]

well when you have 2 vehicles traveling opposite directions collide, their speed is combined when measuring impact force. i was doing 45, say he was doing maybe 30?,,,it's like i hit a wall doing 75.

[b00stin]

FAWK man glad your alive !! those "hospital pics" i need to see... i hope you recover 100% and can get rid of that handicap thing in the near future..

[ThunderbirdJunkie]

well, worst case scenario has occurred. the insurance company told me they don't cover lost wages. about the only thing i'm getting is my hospital bills paid. there's a $200 deductible on what they are going to pay me on the car, which only has an NADA value of ~2500. i'm pissed to the point of tears right now. i feel like i've taken the biggesst screwing ever. out of work for AT LEAST 2 months, and pretty much my only option is to sue the guy and wwait for him to not pay with what he doesn't have.in the meantime i can't pay my house note, electric bill, cable bill, home and auto insurance, doctor's copay and prescription costs. probably a good thing i'm pretty much trapped in my house right now.

Sorry, dude, but you brought it on yourself.

I was linked to this thread, and I apologize for raining on your parade here, BUT...

Your injuries would not have been as severe as they are had you worn your seatbelt. S13s, and many other Jap rides of the era, PUT YOUR SEATBELT ON FOR YOU.So, you have to go OUT OF YOUR WAY to NOT wear it.

I've been in lots of wrecks in everything from a '66 Buick Special to an '86 Civic WagoVan to, most recently, an '01 Exploder.

I have never been seriously injured in any of them, including the wreck in the Buick, WHICH ONLY HAD A LAP BELT.

Sorry, but whining and crying about something that was completely in your control - no, you couldn't have stopped the moron in the van from hitting you - is ridiculous. You're right...a permanent handicap placard is a wake-up call. I know other people brought it up, but nobody straight up told you, probably because you're an active member and they don't want to hurt your feelings, that it's YOUR FAULT you will be out of work for three months. It is YOUR FAULT that you were SO severely injured.

I've wrecked two 1986 Thunderbirds. One was more f**ked up than your car.I walked away.

Not to be a d!ck, and I hate to feel the need to register to make such a negative post, but good lord, your wife may have been better off had you been killed in this accident if you have good life insurance. Now she's saddled to a cripple for the rest of your life...all because you didn't want to wear your seatbelt.

Take it for what it's worth.
Modified by ThunderbirdJunkie at 9:43 PM 2/8/2009

[EviL inside]

Not to be a d!ck, and I hate to feel the need to register to make such a negative post, but good lord, your wife may have been better off had you been killed in this accident if you have good life insurance.

I'll try to remember to die if i ever get hit again due to someone else's neglect, just to make you happy.

Not to be a d!ck,

it's ok, i know there's at least one in every crowd.

[ThunderbirdJunkie]

Thanks

[pallnet]

Wow some people. Accidents happen and this one is not Evil's fault. Yes it's your fault that you're a **** and I'm sure your family members can confirm that. Talk about kicking someone when they're down, not cool at all.

ThunderbirdJunkie someone sometime in your life will wake up you up and change you from being an aZZh0le, just give it time. Meanwhile try to keep you're **** to yourself.

This post is more like a lesson to all of us that things like this can happen to any one and look at all of the **** one has to go through to get their life back on track.

I know Evil, he is one of my very good friends and I can tell you that he will pull his weight 10 out of 10 times and never look for a handout unless it's old parts I don't want from my garage or a good hot dinner with my family.Then again he's thought of as family at my home.

Pallnet

[!Zar!]

lolwtflol.

A 240 isn't a sports car.

It's a sport compact. Made to rival the integra and what not.

A sports car is a vette or porsche.

Something along those lines.

Don't get it twisted.

You people telling him to sue.

Sue for what?

Insurance is covering his bodily injuries as well as car damage.

Not to mention he didn't have a seatbelt. If he did he wouldn't be in such bad shape.

Yes the truck turned, but he should've had a seatbelt on.

They both messed up.

[EviL inside]

I know Evil, he is one of my very good friends and I can tell you that he will pull his weight 10 out of 10 times

thanks pete, for a minute there that guy had me thinking i was a horse or something, saddles and all. was getting worried about getting shot for a broken leg, but then i remembered that i'm still making $4600 a month during my downtime, and will be back working april, and my wife won't have to wipe my azz like i'm some f**king terry schiavo or something.

lolwtflol.

A 240 isn't a sports car.

It's a sport compact. Made to rival the integra and what not.

A sports car is a vette or porsche.

Something along those lines.

Don't get it twisted.

lol no way,,,sport compacts are FWD crapboxes, sport cars are RWD. *or AWD*

[!Zar!]

So with that statement a Buick Skylark is a sports car.

[EviL inside]

never said RWD cars were sports cars, just that sports cars were RWD. there's a difference, but the s13 certainly isn't a luxury cruiser.

[Kaitaiya]

damn that's one heavy duty bill. $16K for titanium pins in the leg. i can only imagine what my cousin's friend's bill was when he totaled his sport bike. lost his leg. he still can pop the clutch with his prosthetic though.

Don't let it get you down, chin up, heal fast, best wishes.

[ThunderbirdJunkie]

Wow some people. Accidents happen and this one is not Evil's fault. Yes it's your fault that you're a **** and I'm sure your family members can confirm that. Talk about kicking someone when they're down, not cool at all.

ThunderbirdJunkie someone sometime in your life will wake up you up and change you from being an aZZh0le, just give it time. Meanwhile try to keep you're **** to yourself.

This post is more like a lesson to all of us that things like this can happen to any one and look at all of the **** one has to go through to get their life back on track.

I know Evil, he is one of my very good friends and I can tell you that he will pull his weight 10 out of 10 times and never look for a handout unless it's old parts I don't want from my garage or a good hot dinner with my family.Then again he's thought of as family at my home.

Pallnet

I never EVER said that the accident was his fault.

I said he was irresponsible for not wearing his seatbelt, and that is where the majority of his injuries came from.

It sucks that this happened, and I would never EVER in a BILLION years wish anything like this on anybody, but you also need to realize that a lot of this could have been prevented.Yes, the car is trashed. That sucks...you can replace cars. However, he went through the effort of NOT wearing his seatbelt - it's not as simple as in my current Jeep or Isuzu Trooper or any of my T-birds where you just don't put it on - and therefore deserves what he got.

It is not his fault he got hit, but it IS his fault that he got as f**ked up as he is.

BTW, !ZAR!, the 80s-up Skylarks are not RWD. And there are no AWD sports cars...just wannabemobiles with pretensions of sport;)

[!Zar!]

A sport compact is a high-performance version of a compact car or a subcompact car. They are typically are front engined, front-wheel drive coupés, sedans, or hatchbacks driven by a straight-4 gasoline engine. Typical sport compacts include the Volkswagen GTI, Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution, Honda Civic Si, Ford Contour SVT, and, more recently, the Focus SVT, the Mazdaspeed 3, the Nissan Sentra SE-R Spec V, the Honda Prelude, the Scion tC TRD, and the Dodge SRT-4.The design philosophy of a sport compact sharply contrasts with those of 'true' sports cars. Sports cars are designed with a performance-oriented philosophy, often compromising cargo space, seating, gas mileage, (daily) driveability, and reliability. A sport compact is usually designed with a practical design philosophy and profit in mind. This philosophy has led to several compromises when it comes to performance, such as front wheel drive, conservative engine design, and platform sharing.[citation needed] Electronic control units are also programmed for optimal gas mileage.[citation needed]Performance-oriented sport compacts focus on improving handling and increasing engine efficiency, rather than increasing engine size or conversion to rear-wheel drive. For example, the Celica GT-S and Civic Si are both sport compacts that produce 100 hp/ L of displacement, and have handling superior to their stock trims and other cars in its price range.

Quoted from wikipedia.

[EviL inside]

i gotta remember this "reasoning".

anyone that goes out without a bullet proof vest on deserves to get shot.

anyone that doesn't pasteurize their own food at the table in a restaurant deserves to get botulism.

etc. etc.

oh, and even the WRX sti is a "pretentious wannabemobile"
Modified by EviL inside at 10:53 PM 2/8/2009

[ThunderbirdJunkie]

i gotta remember this "reasoning".

anyone that goes out without a bullet proof vest on deserves to get shot.

anyone that doesn't pasteurize their own food at the table in a restaurant deserves to get botulism.

Now that's just ridiculous.Nobody deserves to get shot...but if you like to run the risk of running around without a bulletproof vest, be ready for the consequences.

The other side of it is...you have to purchase this bulletproof vest. It was part of your car when you bought it. And, as I pointed out earlier, THE f**kING CAR PUTS IT ON FOR YOU, so you HAD TO GO OUT OF YOUR WAY TO NOT WEAR IT.

I know you're from Mississippi...and I know how the people there are (I lived there...wanna scan of my DL or license plate to prove it?) so I don't expect a logical argument from you.

Quote »oh, and even the 600hp AWD murielago is a "pretentious wannabemobile" [/quote]And I suppose the Cayenne Turbo (an SUV for those that don't know) is a sports car just because it has a butt-load of horsepower?

The Murcielago is not a sports car. It gets creamed by Ferraris (where's the AWD?), Vipers (where's the AWD?) the lowly Corvette (where's the AWD?) and the Porsche 911 GT3 (where's the AWD? Oh yeah, in the pretentious bitchmobile Turbo model...which is slower and "easier to drive"- yawn)

Like I said...the brunt of this sucky situation was brought on by your own negligence.
Modified by ThunderbirdJunkie at 11:45 PM 2/8/2009

[LovesBigTurbos]

OUCH SERIOUSLY that doesn't look good.. sucks