Just thought I'd come and bore you with my easter. I spent it helping several various people move. As a part of that I was driving along a country road out-back-of-woop-woop. Pleasant day, bit of sun, nice breeze, long shadows accross the tree lined road through nowhere, me in the barina stacked to the roof with boxes of books and other miscelaneous crud, doing the good samaritan thing. Cruising along at 100kph.
BAM! core dumped by a hole in the road, concealed by the shadows. Had a bit of weight (my mother) in the front passenger seat, and that was the corner that hit the hole. Kept driving. steering feels fine, brakes still work. wait a minute.... Blasted piece of sheet modern car. Crumple zones. the front end of my car no longer looks quite right. the Barina took a beating. GRUMBLE.
Stupid car. stupid pothole. Damn those crumple zones. I thnk I prefered the wombat. scared to ask what it'll cost.
Pot holes and crumple zones
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Re: Pot holes and crumple zones
I sympathize for you, that sucks, but gawd damn that was funny as hell to read -- wasn't expecting it at all!anthias wrote:BAM! core dumped by a hole in the road
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Re: Pot holes and crumple zones
You might want to write a letter to the NSW RTA, wouldn't they have a duty of care of keeping the roads not dangerous, if you're lucky they might agree to pay for it ?!?!anthias wrote:Just thought I'd come and bore you with my easter. I spent it helping several various people move. As a part of that I was driving along a country road out-back-of-woop-woop. Pleasant day, bit of sun, nice breeze, long shadows accross the tree lined road through nowhere, me in the barina stacked to the roof with boxes of books and other miscelaneous crud, doing the good samaritan thing. Cruising along at 100kph.
BAM! core dumped by a hole in the road, concealed by the shadows. Had a bit of weight (my mother) in the front passenger seat, and that was the corner that hit the hole. Kept driving. steering feels fine, brakes still work. wait a minute.... Blasted piece of sheet modern car. Crumple zones. the front end of my car no longer looks quite right. the Barina took a beating. GRUMBLE.
Stupid car. stupid pothole. Damn those crumple zones. I thnk I prefered the wombat. scared to ask what it'll cost.
I've driven in NSW and boy, you guys have some bad roads! You notice it when you drive at 100 or so on a back road on the vic side and then cross over to the NSW side and you need to emergency brake lol!
