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  • #1

    Did you just hit my car with a soft drink??

    I was at Sonic last night (mmmmm.....Sonic.....*drool*); I'd received my food, and was just chilling out in my car, reading (Interview with the Vampire, fyi). I hear this loud chattering, and look up to see a group of young people goofing off, and coming my direction. Just as I'm about to go back to my book, I see something fly through the air, apparently thrown in the direction of one of the girls in the group: a full styrofoam drink cup. It sails through the air and splatters against the front bumper of my car!

    One of the girls' eyes get very wide, and she begins apologizing, over and over. I just wave her off--it's just a soda, and my car needs washing anyway, so it's not a big deal. The whole group was laughing hysterically, and piled into their car and peeled out of the parking lot.

    I mean, it didn't hurt anything, but who throws a full drink? Especially a Sonic drink!
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  • #2
    Could be worse. Years ago I was at Fenway Park in Boston when a rowdy group several rows behind us started throwing full, unopened 20 oz Coke bottles at each other.

    THAT didn't last very long however, because before you could say "oh shit" park security AND the Boston police appeared. Several people were ejected, and one was led away in handcuffs.
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    • #3
      BWA?!?! They threw a FULL SONIC's DRINK?!



      Best drinks ever.
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      • #4
        The last Sonic drink I had was a milkshake over 10 years ago.
        Found a roach in the bottom of it.
        And with a shake, there's only one way to see something at the bottom of your cup...
        Have not gone back to any Sonic since.

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        • #5
          Well look on the bright side: At least it wasn't a hard drink!

          /somebody had to say it.
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          • #6
            Quoth Irving Patrick Freleigh View Post
            Well look on the bright side: At least it wasn't a hard drink!

            /somebody had to say it.
            *throws an ice-filled drink at Irv for his punnery*
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            • #7
              Try a rock. A few years back, I was driving through downtown on my way to work. Now I wouldn't want to be alone in downtown after dark, but during the day it's fine. Especially during the week when all the banks and local businesses are open and people from all walks of life converge on downtown. Anyhoo, I'm driving to work when I see two guys running through a parking lot. No idea what sort of beatdown was involved, but one guy was running like a bat out of Hades and another was in hot, angry pursuit. Suddenly the angry guy launched a child-fist sized rock and I watched in horror as it sailed through the air. I cringed and ducked as it crashed against my car at eye-level. Needless to say, I wasn't about to stop. I later checked for damage - the rock amazingly hit the jam between the two windows and didn't even leave marks . I came so close to either having a rock through my forehead or at least the back window.
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              • #8
                Quoth bainsidhe View Post
                I came so close to either having a rock through my forehead or at least the back window.
                How about a rock dropped off a highway overpass?

                There've been problems in the past with kids pulling that shit, and it's actually severely injured/killed a couple of people.
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                • #9
                  Thankfully all I've ever had lobbed at my car were snowballs. The most recent was about a month or so ago, with our last snowfall, and the kids were lucky they hadn't packed a rock into it. It hit square on the rear passenger window and had it gone through, likely would've hit my daughter.
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                  • #10
                    how about a body? that was the single worst ride of my life. It just happened on March 23... I still shake when I think about it. I'm glad we didn't hit him. He was in the lane next to the one we were in. it was horrible.
                    Everything sucks. I must be living in a vacuum.

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                    • #11
                      Wow...don't think I can top a body.

                      But still, my personal story from a few months ago...(copied and pasted from my Myspace blog for laziness):

                      I was coming back from the mill, heading to the drop yard. I pass a ghetto-type area on each trip back and forth. A group of kids decided, "Hey, let's throw rocks at trucks!" I was off in my own world, singing to the CD, when suddenly I heard a loud "thunk." I started freaking out a little, thinking maybe I had gotten shot at, but since my cab didn't appear to be damaged, I got to the yard and checked everything out before backing up into a spot. I found a small hole in the nose of the trailer. Upon further inspection there was a scuff on the top of the grill of the truck, peeling back the chrome slightly, and the air faring (?) on the top of the truck had a huge scratch on it. Neither of these were there when I started work that night.

                      We run two trucks. I'm backing up my truck, and my co-worker comes driving in. This is several minutes after I arrive at the yard, but he left the mill immediately after me, so I knew something was up. Instead of backing into his own spot he drives right up to me, sets his brakes, rolls down his window and asks, "Did they get you too?" I said, "Yeah, what happened?" He points to his windshield, which I didn't notice. There's a baseball-sized hole in it, with spiderweb-shatters criss-crossing the entire passenger side half of the windshield. He said someone else had already called the police and that he stopped when it happened, backed up until he met the police coming his way. He talked to the deputies and they said they'd meet him at the yard to file a report.

                      The inside of his truck was covered in tiny shards of glass. The force of the impact caused the glass to not only cover the passenger seat, but spray him on the driver's side as well. He wasn't cut by it, but it naturally scared him. The sheriff's deputies arrived and took a report; apparently the kids took off as soon as they saw the lights and they couldn't be caught. I showed them the damage to my truck and trailer as well, and had the fun job of calling my boss at home to tell him what happened, as well as calling one of the big-gun safety people for the company at his house. We had a third truck for emergencies such as this, so the other driver got in that truck and finished his night. We didn't see any more trouble, but one of the deputies parked out in the area for a couple of hours just in case.

                      I bet it was the same crowd that on New Year's were throwing fireworks (Black Cats, I believe) under my truck when I passed them. Remember, that's 200 gallons of diesel a few feet away from flaming mini-explosives! So diesel doesn't burn easily, but they don't know that!

                      If that rock (and we did find the rock inside the truck) had been about four feet to the right, it would have hit the other driver in the face, possibly killing him. They may be punks, but I don't think they were out for murder, they just wanted to cause a little panic. But it very nearly could have been a LOT worse. And this a day after one of our drivers was just killed in a nasty accident in the same area. Our company isn't having the best of luck right now...

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                      • #12
                        A kid who lived up the street from me as a kid threw a rock at a car as it was driving by. The guy stopped threw the kid in the car and then drove to the kids house (right up the street) and made his parents pay for the damages.

                        I don't know if they knew each other or what. But it went

                        Throw
                        Crack (against the door)
                        Screech (tires)
                        Yell
                        Throw
                        Peel out

                        This same kid later threw a rock at my head.

                        His parents told my mother it was obviously my fault as her precious child would never do such a thing unprovoked.

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                        • #13
                          Kid is sooooo damn lucky that he was driven to his own house, and not the driver's or some unknown location!
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                          • #14
                            That's what bugs me about the thought of the snowballs possibly having rocks in them. The kids were walking home from school and just lobbing snowballs at cars driving by, so I'd have just their physical description to go by since they'd likely run as soon as I stopped the car. Which means it'd probably be our own insurance having to pay for damages.
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                            • #15
                              Not in a car, but as a teen I once had a glass Coke bottle thrown at my head that missed me by about a millimetre. O_o The reason? I was dressing in gothic clothes, with my face painted like Alice Cooper. -.- There was once a time when to do that meant social death; thank cheese those days are over.
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