Dreamer
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Last night I was in Greenville working on a project with a friend. We wrapped up around 10pm, and I decided to go home, but first I stopped at a convenience store to get some soda and smokes.
I was OCing (so this post is ON-TOPIC)...
I parked and exited my vehicle in the parking lot. I noticed that across the street were several Greenville PD cruisers, and some of the officers were standing there, chatting with each other, and a doorman at one of the downtown clubs that was open. So I checked my voice recorder to make sure it was ready to go, and exited my vehicle.
As I'm walking around the front of my vehicle, I see a young fellow backing his Chevy pickup into the spot next to mine, and he's coming in at a REALLY oblique angle, and I can tell he's going to hit my HHR. I start shouting and waving my arms right behind his truck, but he keeps on backing up. The cops hear me and are now watching the whole thing happen...
The guy doesn't even hit his brakes until his bumper has creased 2/3s of my passenger side door and the side view mirror snaps off...
So I'm thinking "oh right, here we go..."
So I go back to the passenger side of my vehicle, unlock it, get my registration and insurance out, and have that info AND my DL and CHP already in hand as the officers approach, and I inform the officer that I'm carrying. He says "yeah, I see", takes my info, and tells me to go back to my vehicle and sit in it until they get this figured out...
About 45 minutes later, he hands me my cards all back, and the other drivers insurance info, and lets me know that the accident report will be available in 2 or 3 days.
Never a mention of my OCing, never tried to disarm or detain me--everyone was really cool.
Except for the dude who backed into me... He actually tried to recommend a body shop to me. The nerve of some people...
I was like, "listen--you just backed into my vehicle in an empty parking lot in front of three cruisers full of cops. I don't have a lot of confidence in your judgment right now. I'll use my own shop. I'll have my people call your people, and THEY can sort it out. Have a nice day..."
So my car is smashed up now, and I don't have a side-view mirror on the passenger side. But at least OCing as the "victim" in a collision wasn't an issue...
One officer asked me why I was carrying--I answered, "it's downtown Greenville, it's after dark, I have a family who I love and I'm a law-abiding citizen." He just smiled and nodded.
I was OCing (so this post is ON-TOPIC)...
I parked and exited my vehicle in the parking lot. I noticed that across the street were several Greenville PD cruisers, and some of the officers were standing there, chatting with each other, and a doorman at one of the downtown clubs that was open. So I checked my voice recorder to make sure it was ready to go, and exited my vehicle.
As I'm walking around the front of my vehicle, I see a young fellow backing his Chevy pickup into the spot next to mine, and he's coming in at a REALLY oblique angle, and I can tell he's going to hit my HHR. I start shouting and waving my arms right behind his truck, but he keeps on backing up. The cops hear me and are now watching the whole thing happen...
The guy doesn't even hit his brakes until his bumper has creased 2/3s of my passenger side door and the side view mirror snaps off...
So I'm thinking "oh right, here we go..."
So I go back to the passenger side of my vehicle, unlock it, get my registration and insurance out, and have that info AND my DL and CHP already in hand as the officers approach, and I inform the officer that I'm carrying. He says "yeah, I see", takes my info, and tells me to go back to my vehicle and sit in it until they get this figured out...
About 45 minutes later, he hands me my cards all back, and the other drivers insurance info, and lets me know that the accident report will be available in 2 or 3 days.
Never a mention of my OCing, never tried to disarm or detain me--everyone was really cool.
Except for the dude who backed into me... He actually tried to recommend a body shop to me. The nerve of some people...
I was like, "listen--you just backed into my vehicle in an empty parking lot in front of three cruisers full of cops. I don't have a lot of confidence in your judgment right now. I'll use my own shop. I'll have my people call your people, and THEY can sort it out. Have a nice day..."
So my car is smashed up now, and I don't have a side-view mirror on the passenger side. But at least OCing as the "victim" in a collision wasn't an issue...
One officer asked me why I was carrying--I answered, "it's downtown Greenville, it's after dark, I have a family who I love and I'm a law-abiding citizen." He just smiled and nodded.
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