Do you know him personally, or are you just making judgments based on this post? It sounds like you're projecting onto some poor guy who wrecked his car and regardless of how he did it.

 

i diddnt blame it on anything im bringing up possibilities and im so happy you diddnt get in any accidents but i cant wait to blow up on your stupiditiy when you do get into an accident, eveyone gets into accidents even some of the best drivers in the world, so whats your problem???
Its sounds to me that your the one getting judged.

 

sorry to hear about that man, hope everything works out for you. Just try to be more careful next time. Not saying there was anything you could have done then but just drive safe.

-Ian

 

no completly straight

 

he making judgements like a true idiotic a**hole. looking to take advantage of someone with summer tires who could afford winter tires right away because of new purchase a few weeks ago.

 

This is all poor judgement. Buying an S2000 in winter and driving it a month on summer tires in Chicagoland... but by his standards, he wants us to give him a break because he "just got the car."

And then he's a "good driver" but doesn't understand how punching the gas in a straight line causes a RWD car to move sideways.

There must have been black ice, uh huh.

He wound up crossing across oncoming traffic! Nobody who's driven on summer tires in Chicago in an S2000 is surprised by this. But it wasn't enough of a priority for him to get a set of snows or even some crappy all-seasons. There have been local posts of people selling their sets as well.

I'm not projecting onto some guy "regardless of how he did it."

I'm judging him by his own account of the situation.

He f'ed up. That's fine. It happens. But he doesn't understand that he royally f'ed up.

Which means it's going to happen again.

If this happened to me, it'd be:
"Holy crap, I f'ed up. I feel fortunate there's no frame damage and I didn't kill someone. Anyone know where I can get a good set of snow tires?"

 

Nice. You still don't get it. You still don't get the "at fault" part.

Have fun with your next accident, smarty pants. Yup. I'm the idiot.

 

You mean "couldn't" afford winter tires, right?

And how is paying your deductible for insurance going to help now?

My point is that you're paying a whole lot more now than if you had done the right thing in the first place.

Now you'll still not be able to afford snow tires because the extra money is going towards increased insurance premiums.

 

Summer tires and crash 1/28.


From the thread three days ago.
Summer tires.

Winter tires
And then a thread about people relaying their experience with winter tires.

I would have bought a cheaper S and kept $1000 aside to make sure the rubber was up to spec. But then again, I'm an idiot.

 

Saturday, June 18, 2005
Pit Bullshit
Many Northern Californians were horrified to hear of the recent fatal mauling of 12-year-old Nick Faibish by his own pet pit bulls.

The horror continues as Nick's mother continues to dig her own hole.

Hours before being mauled to death by the family pit bull, 12-year- old Nicholas Faibish had been told to stay in the basement separated from the dogs, said his distraught mother, Maureen Faibish, who called The Chronicle on Saturday, trying to make sense of what she called a "freak accident.''

This is sort of like that point in Dave Chappelle's infamous Rick James skit where the videotape gets rewound, as James first denies, then immediately admits, trashing Eddie Murphy's expensive suede couch in a cocaine-induced stupor. Let's rewind that paragraph and take a look at Maureen Faibish's operative logic: Clearly she knew these dogs were dangerous in the first place, or she wouldn't have taken the bizarre precautionary step of locking her son in the basement.

Worse yet, it's Nicholas' own fault for disobeying his mother. Like the late Rick James, it appears that Maureen Faibish simply does not understand just how self-contradictory she is, nor how the more she says, the more she incriminates herself.

But wait, there's more!

Faibish felt compelled to call The Chronicle, she said, because she was upset by comments in a Saturday column that disparaged family members who own pit bulls.

In the column an Oakland surgeon who often treats bites by pit bulls said, "when you have an animal like that in your house you are recklessly endangering your family.''

Uh-huh. That's why she locked the kid in the basement, because they were just big ol' wuvvable puddytats.

Look, I'm the first guy to step up in defense of pit bulls. I've known several people who had them, and they all seemed like great animals, very loyal and friendly. The problem here is that pit bulls are too loyal; that is, they bond with one and only one human. They will fight and die for that human. This is not a secret; pit bull owners typically advertise this attribute in a positive light.

And the human whom these dogs had bonded to, Faibish's father, was out of town. When their alpha male is gone, this can be problematic for the temperament of a pit bull. They can be very unpredictable, and decide to contest whoever happens to be in the room, in the absence of the alpha male. Such was the fate of poor Nicholas Faibish.

It should also be kept in mind that almost all breeds of dog, when they do attack, do it in self-defense (or what they think is self-defense, such as a child messing with their food). And when they attack, they typically do it only as much as it takes to drive away the "offender".

Pit bulls are one of a handful of breeds (such as rottweilers and doberman pinschers) that can and frequently do attack for reasons other than self-defense (or even for no reason at all); and more dangerously, they attack with killing in mind -- they will not stop until either the opponent is dead or the alpha male calls them off (which is not always even successful). This is well known to most people whether or not they own such dogs; it should have been especially well known to the Faibishes.

She talked to The Chronicle by telephone and later at her father's home where, sitting on a couch and wrapped in a blanket, Faibish held back tears as she spoke about her son and the day he died.

Unbelievable. Just un-****in'-believable. Does anybody really believe that part of God's divine plan was for Nicholas Faibish to have his face chewed off by his own dogs? I understand that grieving people can say some really stupid things, but this is incredible. This is unforgivably, monumentally, stupid and callous, and ultimately why I strongly believe that Maureen Faibish should be prosecuted for criminal negligence.

More deep thoughts from this moron:

Clearly struggling with her emotions, Faibish said the death of her son had become "a media frenzy.'' On one hand, she continued to defend pit bulls and her dogs.

I'm not sure how such an utterly despicable person lives with themselves. I suppose saying stupid things like the quote above is part of the coping mechanism for such a person. She could say that they had been great pets and this was a freak accident and yada yada, but even after doing what they did to her son, she loves them, she's not even mad at them.

Ewwwww. I like dogs and all, but I have never understood these weirdos that let their mutts lick their faces. Do you let them do it before or after they lick their own balls and eat their own (or another animal's) shit? I mean. That "dog's mouth is cleaner than a human's" bullshit is a nauseating bit of fiction. It's just ****ing nasty.

Nor, she said, would she caution families who have pit bulls as pets. In the wake of this tragedy, some parents are wondering if they should keep their pit bulls.

Again, this is just self-serving nonsense on Maureen Faibish's part. No, all people should not be banned from keeping pit bulls as pets because of this tragedy (though some steps should be taken to curtail irresponsible owners, such as mandatory training, fencing, and liability insurance requirements); yes, she did know that something was up with these dogs because, for the thousandth time, she deliberately took the precautionary step of locking her son in the basement. If they were harmless, loving dogs, what was she attempting to protect her son from?

I don't know if sending Maureen Faibish to jail will do her or her family any good; in fact, it probably won't. But accountability for this has got to start somewhere.