Click & Clack - bit off topic

[Gunny]

Anyone read the Sunday Click and Clack, The Tappet Brothers, column on
August 2??

You WILL NOT BELIEVE IT! Someone who ought NOT to be behind the wheel
reported that his locking ignition switch malfunctioned three times
WHILE HE WAS DRIVING, preventing him from steering. He was trunding
down the highway, his wheel locked, he couldn't steer, he turned the
ignition off then back on again to restore his steering.

Took it to his Acura dealer, it was a NEW CAR!, and the dealer said we
can't find anything wrong and this guys drives away and has it happen
to him...wait for it...TWICE MORE, almost hitting a tree the second
time before he realized that just maybe this isn't a good idea.

Click and Clack intelligently told him not to drive it again, get a
lawyer, return the car to the Acura dealer and demand they fix it and
give him another car while they attempt to fix it.

How, please tell me, how did this guy ever get a license!!??

Hope he doesn't live in my neighborhood.

Gunny;

 

[Mark jb]

How, please tell me, how did this guy ever get a license!!??

Gotta be American.

Any Aussie would have taken it back and explained forcefully that they were
not happy driving it, and gotten either a replacement on the spot or a loan
car on the spot. The first time it happened.

-mark

 

[Googler]

Reminds me of the guy, I swear this is true, who told the judge his
excuse for speeding was that his contacts were full of gunk and he
could not see his speedometer well enough to read his speed.

Jay M
'03 Baja
USA

 

[Tom Reingold]

Reminds me of the guy, I swear this is true, who told the judge his
excuse for speeding was that his contacts were full of gunk and he
could not see his speedometer well enough to read his speed.

Jay M
'03 Baja
USA

I got rear-ended by a guy who admitted he was having an asthma attack
and his head was under the dashboard looking for his inhaler when he hit me.

Yet he didn't seem to comprehend that the impact was totally his fault.
Grrr.

 

[S]

Hi All!

You WILL NOT BELIEVE IT!

The teenaged girl's excuse for taking the bumper cover off of her moms
car while backing it out of a parking stall:

"You parked it in crooked!!!"

Good ol' USofA . . . "Why take responsibility for your screw-ups when
you can find somebody else to blame" . . .

ByeBye! S.

Steve Jernigan KG0MB
Laboratory Manager
Microelectronics Research
University of Colorado
(719) 262-3101