Re: Ever broken a windshield from a pothole?

["Mike" <lerb@redrose.net>]

I too live in Pa...I have had a pothole take out a PU windows....this state
sucks!
----- Original Message -----
From: 16v Jason <jason@scirocco.org>
To: <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Sent: Monday, June 07, 1999 1:09 PM
Subject: Ever broken a windshield from a pothole?


> It's been one of those weeks again.
>
> Pennsylvania is famous for its bad roads, but this is rediculous.
>
> Saturday afternoon I decided to take the Scirocco out for a drive since it
> hadn't been driven for a week (I had surgery on my right hand following a
> dog bite last week so I was confined to my Automatic all week).
>
> So, I'm cruising along with a shit-eating grin on my face, having
forgotten
> how sweet 7000rpm sounds.  Doing maybe 60mph (45 or 55 zone, don't
> remember), and I'm rounding an ever-so-slight right hand bend.  In front
of
> me all of a sudden I see a grey strip across the road, about 2 feet wide.
> Looks like someone dug a hole across the street and filled it in with
> gravel.  I brake. Hard. Let go of my brake pedal right before I hit it,
> maybe doing like 45?
>
> ****BBBAAAAMMM*****
>
> I've never felt such forces in a car without being carried off in an
> Ambulance afterward.
>
> My sun visor falls in my face, the sunroof handle falls, and the CD Player
> turns itself off.
>
> I pull over to the side of the road.
>
> The casualties:
> 2 Hockenheim Rs, 15".  Bent slightly at the hub (nasty vibrations)
> My 1-year-old windshield.  4" crack where the mirror is glued on.
> 2 Boge TurboGas shocks.
>
> ...and who knows what else.
>
> I went back with my friend who's a photographer for a regional newspaper--
> and I'm trying to get these pics published.  Whatever asshole filled in
the
> ditch didn't put enough gravel in, so it sank, leaving a 2-foot-wide,
> 4-inch deep ditch.  While photographing the ditch, we saw Jeep after SUV
> after full size pickup bottom out over the bump... drivers subsequently
> pulling over and inspecting the damage on their cars.
>
> Spoke with PennDOT this morning, and I need to supply pictures of the loss
> scene, pics of the damage to my car, and either 2 estimates for repair, or
> 1 repair bill.
>
> Anyone have any experience with getting PennDOT to pay for being ASSHOLES?
>
> ARGH.
>
>
>
>
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