So the insurance company called

Driving a sports car, fell asleep, great driving record.

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, must not have been sporty enough car.

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John Vanlandingham
Sleezattle, WA, USA

Vive le Prole-le-ralliat

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CALL +1 206 431-9696
Remember! Pacific Standard Time
is 3 hours behind Eastern Standard Time.

I know a physical therapist dude who fell asleep at the wheel of his STI on a windy road and wrapped it round a phonepole...Jon ain't alone!

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Jay Woodward
Snohomish, WA
'90 Mazdog Frankenprotege
Chronologically, 46...

john vanlandingham Wrote:
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> Driving a sports car, fell asleep, great driving
> record.
>
> Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, must not have been sporty
> enough car.


hoh! wow....zinged me on that one...I just can't keep up with your mordant wit, John.

oh wait...maybe you should READ. If I'm currently driving a sports car now, in 2008, it certainly isn't the same car I crashed in 2004, now, was it?


ohhhhh....waiiiiiiiiiiit......you're trying to make fun of my Subaru. oh, John.....you grumpy old man, you're so cuuuuuuute.

so, how about that beer? you never replied to my invite?

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Jon Burke - KI6LSW
Blog: http://psgrallywrx.blogspot.com/

Jay Wrote:
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> I know a physical therapist dude who fell asleep
> at the wheel of his STI on a windy road and
> wrapped it round a phonepole...Jon ain't alone!
>
> Jay Woodward
> Snohomish, WA
> '90 Mazdog Frankenprotege
> Chronologically, 40...

buddy of mine (who is now a neurosurgeon, kind of crazy) was doing a long ass road trip from Duke back up to his parents place in VT. anyway, on one particular long stretch of road he fell asleep....kept going strait....road kept going strait....he still doesn't know how far he went, but he came up on a mini-van who suddenly saw him coming up and not switching lanes....the guy gunned it and my buddy ended up just barely bumping this van in the rear...woke him up. lucky fuck.

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Jon Burke - KI6LSW
Blog: http://psgrallywrx.blogspot.com/

I know someone, stole a RA media vest, fell asleep, totaled his Subaru, and lived to sell on eBay another day.

I fell asleep on my way to STPR in 2001, ended up in a swamp. Whoops!

Jon Burke Wrote:
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> john vanlandingham Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Driving a sports car, fell asleep, great
> driving
> > record.
> >
> > Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, must not have been
> sporty
> > enough car.
>
>
> hoh! wow....zinged me on that one...I just can't
> keep up with your mordant wit, John.
>
> oh wait...maybe you should READ. If I'm currently
> driving a sports car now, in 2008, it certainly
> isn't the same car I crashed in 2004, now, was
> it?
>
>
> ohhhhh....waiiiiiiiiiiit......you're trying to
> make fun of my Subaru. oh, John.....you grumpy
> old man, you're so cuuuuuuute.

Shut up.
>
> so, how about that beer? you never replied to my
> invite?

No thanks, I am very busy.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Jon Burke
> KI6LSW
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John Vanlandingham
Sleezattle, WA, USA

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CALL +1 206 431-9696
Remember! Pacific Standard Time
is 3 hours behind Eastern Standard Time.

Carl S Wrote:
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> I fell asleep on my way to STPR in 2001, ended up
> in a swamp. Whoops!


Insurance Company: So you were on your way to what?
Carl: STPR
Insurance Company: What's an STPR?
Carl: It's a rally.
Insurance Company: What sort of rally? One of 'dem pep rallies? Or some political things? You going to protest and cause trouble somewhere?
Carl: No, it's a car rally. People driving somewhat street-legal race cars down closed roads.
Insurance Company: Oh, so you were going to race your car there then. Well, I don't know if we can cover you then.
Carl: What are you talking about? I wasn't even at the event, and I'm not even racing my car there; I am going to service/spectate/work...
Insurance Company: Oh, so what were you doing? Racing down the road pretending to be some sort of race car driver? We don't cover that sort of stuff you know!
Carl: Wait... did I say car rally? I meant pep rally. I'm going to watch the girls dance around in tiny outfits.
Insurance Company: Oh, well ok then, why didn't you just say so! Jeeze, you had me going there for a minute.

A few years ago AIG tried to void a warranty of a waverunner that the previous owner had paid a kings ransom for. It was an extended warranty for... get this 99999 KM - on a watercraft ! The insurance companies don't even have the sense to insure for what's on the clock of a watercraft... HOURS !

I fought their Toronto office, then started sending faxes to their New York executives. Then all of a sudden, like magic... the Toronto office re-opened my claim.

It took me proposing a metalurgical engineer to do a failure analysis to determine whether there was a catastropic engine failure of if it had first ingested salt water.

It took 6 months of BS, but I won.

NOW... in British Columbia we have 1 insurance company, that's right ONE. ICBC (Insurance Corporation of BC). You can get 3rd party liability for up to 200K through a third party company but all the other insurance has to be through them.

When the corporation makes poor investments... our premiums go up.

When a corelation between speeding and accidents is made... new fines are mandated by the insurance company.

We're stuck with ONE company and cannot shop around.

I'd hate to be on their shit list !