Let me tell you all a story of pain, suffering and the absoulute compassion you will feel for me. Last week was the worst week of my life:

Monday: Driving home from work on a back Arkansas highway, where they had been doing construction to widen the highway. I was driving along, keeping my distance from a large gravel truck some 500 feet in front of me. I was paying close attention, when the truck hit a large pothole, sending gravel and debris flying from the top of his overloaded truck. The object i didnt notice until too late was the basketball sized piece of rock that fell from the truck, rolling in front of me like a football. I had 3 Choices: Go onto the shoulder, which happened to be a 45 degree angled ditch, go into the left lane, which had an oncoming Dodge pickup, or try and straddle the rock. I knew that options 1 and 2 would be bad, so I gambled on option 3. Bad idea. Rock rolled right and went underneath my right front tire, cracking the entire bumper frame underneath the tailight and overextending my front right strut. Not only that, the rock caused me to swerve off of the road, landing in the ditch (thank the Lord) right side up. I didnt roll, but the impact after landing in the ditch was so severe that it buckled (yes buckled) the two strips of roofing beside my sunroof. Thankfully, there wasnt any chassis damage or engine damage, only the roof and bumper. (Thankd the lord not my headlight.)

Thursday: Got home from work, went with one of my friends to Best Buy, leaving my car IN FRONT of my house. Get back an hour later and there is a softball size rock laying in my left side rear seat, with shattered glass from my window everywhere. Not only that, the dumb kids missed the window the first time, gouging my driver door handle and denting my left back door. Also, the rock scratched the back of my seat. Ironically, i was taking the car in the next day to get the front end fixed. Grand total, $1950 b/c of 2 rocks. And that, my friends, is why I hate rocks.

Lessons we all should learn: 1. Rocks suck
2. Little punk kids suck
3. Dumptrucks suck
4. Little punk kids with rocks REALLY suck
5. Collision repair centers are highway robbery centers.
6. Stay AWAY from all of the above mentioned and you will be happy.

Note: Car is fixed and working again, but wallet still on fire. All that money was gonna go towards my turbo-back exhaust... I need a or two, no?

 

that certainly does suck. did you catch the lic# of that truck? They will pay for the repairs in most cases....

SC~

 

Sorry to hear about that. Hopefully you got the plate number

 

ouch bro...that really does suck...glad to hear its fixed and back on the road again tho! i'll make sure to watch out for rocks and you do the same!

 

A few years ago, driving home in my GSX w/ the sunroof open an 18 wheel truck traveling the other direction threw an approx 2.5" X 1 " rock in a graceful arch right into my open sunroof, hitting me squarely in the right temple.

I pulled over, got my sense back, began to curse at top volume..

While pulling out into traffic, I threw the rock out of my pass side window (pissed) into the shoulder of the road, and was almost immediately pulled over by a cop for littering.

 

tyrone biggums would be displeased if he read the title to this post

 

Glad your ok and your car is fixed.

If that's the worst week of your life, you are the most fortunate person in the world! Thank God you don't have some terminal illness or you didn't end up in the hospital in a coma or worse a statisitc.

You might want to include in your lessons learned:

1. Stay far enough back from any traffic ahead to be able react think and even stop if something appears suddenly..
2. Don't leave "popular" cars unattended in bad neighborhoods.

 

More appropriately it was the worst week for my car in my life I just laugh about it now, when it rains it pours I always say. I would have gotten lic#, but truck was gone before I could realize WTF had happened. To emphasize the impact I made when i went in the ditch is that i couldnt touch the brakes because i was in the air above my seat! A bit dazed, so much so that I forgot to look for lic#...damn.

Edit: Yes I did have my seatbelt on

 

wow.. rocks do suck i agree. Hope you got the plate, as previously mentioned... if the debris came from out of the truck (and not kicked up from the road), then the trucking co is responsible. If you didn't get the plate, try to find out what trucking co it was. Might be hard to collect now.. did you get a police report?

 

No police report. I was afraid police would see me reporting that as a chance to put some sort of blame on me. I am already on probo. for a very minor speeding ticket and want to stay away from police as much as possible. I just bit the bullet and paid for it, trying to get it out of my hair.

 

i wanna kill my neighbors. the teenagers always hang around infront of my house and litter soda cans, bottles, and candy wrappers. plus they ding-dong ditch and turn on my sprinkler system. not too long ago, i parked my new evo outside to take some pics, and i heard one of the teens dare the others to bash my car, and i just opened the door and stood outside giving them the zoolander magnum look, and they ran away. so i totally feel you rblader. i wish i can throw bricks at their house.

 

Here here :b eer:

 

is it me or are EVO's getting vandalized more than any other car?

I'm getting nervous.

They vandalize it for the sake of vandalizing it? wtf... just because it's an EVO?

Don't get this absolute hate that comes from nowhere.

 

Its called Jealousy.

I feel your pain. I had a rock incident (several) mayb not severe like yours but here it goes, I was driving down I-20 around 11pm and there were a bunch of trunks on the two right lanes (3 lanes total) and a minvan on the far left. I of course just happen to be stuck behind the minivan, when this golf ball size rock came flying at me, with no room or time to dodge it, *BAMM* it hits my front passenger side pillar. Denting it and scraping off some paint, if I was driving faster it would've broke my passenger side window.

 

Do you drive the yellow Evo that was at UCA? I live in Conway.