I can't believe what I saw!
By ersmommy1
@ersmommy1 (12588)
United States
November 22, 2010 7:58pm CST
I'm walking home from picking my daughter up at the bus stop. A neighbor of ours up the street turns into his own drive way and hits his other vehicle..a van! I know that I stopped pushing the stroller and gawked..I just couldn't believe it. When the guy got out to examine the damage..I couldn't help it, I almost laughed..My daughter was saying "Mom did you see that he hit his own van!" Have you ever seen anyone damage their own property before?
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@spalladino (17891)
• United States
23 Nov 10
Not too long ago I was backing my truck out of our driveway and I hit the fence...hard. It's a wooden fence, about four feet high and that entire section almost hit the ground. The reason I hit the fence is because my husband decided that our camper should live in the driveway so I have to pull in and out in an angle...which I forgot to do because I was distracted by HIM!
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@ersmommy1 (12588)
• United States
24 Nov 10
I'll be willing to bet he didn't take much responsibility though, huh..
@djbtol (5493)
• United States
23 Nov 10
I may be the oddball here, but I'm not laughing. Yes he was careless, and stupid if you please, but I still feel his pain. Recently, someone I work with hit a second vehicle while backing out of his driveway. He mainly knocked the sideview mirror off, but he felt really foolish.
I have also heard of people running into their garages.
Thinking of how hard it is to make the money stretch already, to think of wasting money like that is painful.
@ersmommy1 (12588)
• United States
24 Nov 10
I was mainly laughing at my daughter's shock, but yes I see your point.
@katsmeow1213 (28716)
• United States
23 Nov 10
I used to live next door to an old lady who scraped her garage every single time she pulled in or out of it. If that were me I'd probably stop parking in the garage!
@reckon21 (3479)
• Philippines
23 Nov 10
How about spilling your own coffee in your own table. Like dropping your beloved expensive newly purchased cellphone in the toilet bowl with lots of your$$$ in there, so yucky right. Just wonder will you get it back? How about having just do your laundry and you finally realized you have left some hundred dollar bills on there and when you run to get it, already turn in two or worst of all were tiny bits of pieces left.
We do things we never though possible and it is a bit frustrating maybe because were being careless all the time. It's human error that needs to be avoided at all cost because we might damaged other properties not ours in the next run.
@ersmommy1 (12588)
• United States
24 Nov 10
true! Have to admit to dropping my cell in the sink myself!
@PastorP (1170)
• United States
23 Nov 10
Perhaps it was not carelessness. Illness, or a malfunction in the braking system could have done it. Years back I was a supervisor at a KFC. One of the workers, a lazy one whom I had to chase off the phone or out of chair at times while she was on the clock, just did not like me after some time. I went to make a delivery one day. Pulled up behind a car. Bumped it. Later I found out there was a gash in my brake line.
@ersmommy1 (12588)
• United States
24 Nov 10
those are good points. I wonder if he checked the car he was driving in? I have to admit I didn't think of that.
@surpriz3 (77)
•
23 Nov 10
Haha it is quite funny yes, i've never saw with my eyes someone damaging his property but i know many cases of people doing so for example i've got a friend that got completely mad about a soccer match that he completely broke the washbasin in the bathroom, his family was really mad and he had to take big punishment + he had to pay it with his own money.
@ersmommy1 (12588)
• United States
23 Nov 10
wow, that's pretty angry. I bet he keeps his temper better now!
@carolscash (9492)
• United States
23 Nov 10
I would have laughed too. I can't imagine hitting my own car in my own driveway. I would enjoy seeing it happen as it would show that someone else would be as goofy as me though. I could see not paying attention and doing something stupid.
@apples99 (6556)
• United States
23 Nov 10
Whoops yikes I hope he didnt hurt himself but my goodness haha I wounder why he hit his own car in the drive way was he sleepy or finishing happy hour what in the world would cause him to do that I dont think I've ever seen anything like what you described before, well whatever the reason for such a freak accident I hope the guy is ok haha.
@JudgeIronFist (2472)
• Singapore
23 Nov 10
LOL! His mind must have been somewhere lingering. He's there physically but mentally, he's not. LOL!!!
@MagicalBubbles (5103)
• Canada
23 Nov 10
He might have been talking on his cell and was distracted. Surely he didnt do it on purpose. My dad drove through his garage door by accident as his foot slipped off the break pedal and hit the gas pedal. We were happy he wasnt hurt and now he makes sure theres no snow under his boots in the winter.
I also drove right into a ditch once as I was backing out of the driveway. Nobody could understand how it happened because of the way the car was positioned. Everybody thought I was driving IN the driveway when I was actually backing OUT of it. I have hypoglycemia and if I go too long without food, I do goofy things and always hope that nobody is around to laugh at me!!
@sweetloveforeve (13120)
• Portugal
23 Nov 10
ahah thats funny really your neighboor is very clumsy ahah yes im sure that your kid was like what? ahah this man is crazy? ahah anyway at least you could laugh even if were a bit tired of going to take your daughter from school at home. anyway i really wish that it didnt make a big damage ahah poor guy i guess that he really got pissed. and his wife when see it and knows was her own hubby that did it? ahah
@toniganzon (72535)
• Philippines
23 Nov 10
That was really funny. I've never seen anybody trying to destroy their own property yet and I believe that if that neighbor was in his right mind, he wouldn't do such a thing. Was he drunk or just plain stupid? Something must have been going on in his mind when he did that.
@majorroald (454)
• Netherlands
23 Nov 10
Than must cost much to repair own to cars! I never have had an accident like that, but this is a very unuasal car accident hitting your own vanXd
If i had stand in that sutuation i would lung very hard in my own but not that he can see it because that isnt sociaal, but thanks for sharing us this cool information that you have seenXD