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Found this website by chance. If you scroll to the bottom there are a few pics of my 712. Now I wouldn’t really mind that someone took the pictures but there are pictures of the interior with the door open. Who goes around opening other people’s cars?

You can go to a who is site and type in the website like freewayfotos.com
it will give you all the information you want


http://who.godaddy.com/WhoIsCheck.aspx

If I came out and found someone in my truck, they'ld have a Glock screwed in their ear.

I'm more than happy to let anyone see in my truck if they ask.

Here in WY it's crime to enter someone car without permission.

BERNHARD, nice looking truck!!!

Todd
We need one of those laws here in Colorado!

I find people clambering around in my customers' trucks all the time.

If we challenge many of them we usually get an earfull of abuse not a Glock!
Dennis

I find people clambering around in my customers' trucks all the time

Same!
Mind you, sometimes you just see the feet sticking out from underneath!

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lindenengineering wrote:Todd
We need one of those laws here in Colorado!

I find people clambering around in my customers' trucks all the time.
Dennis

Best "get the hell out of my truck" story:
I go in the barber's to get a haircut. Get into my 710, start to back up and hear a little kid screaming for his dad. "Oh sh_t! Did I just run someone over?" I think to myself.

Stomp on the brakes (I'm only going about 1mph backwards) and kill the engine. There's a little kid about 3 years old inside the bed of my truck playing with one of my kids toys that was left back there. I didn't see him when I got in because he was down on the floor playing. His father was on the passenger side of the Pinzi, looking underneath so I didn't see him either. Apparently, I missed crushing him by a few inches.

The father starts cursing at me(!?) and grabs his kid out of the back of my truck and leaves. He comes back as I leave and apologizes after he realized that it was his own stupidity that almost caused me to kill him and kidnap his kid.

Here's the question; should I every time I enter my own vehicle

1) Do a complete walk around including underneath the truck to make sure no moron has decided to plant himself there.
2) Shout as loud as I can "I'm going to move my truck now, please step away, or
3) Enter my own vehicle, start it up, look in my mirrors to make sure I'm not going to hit anyone, and back up.

The funny thing is, I probably would have been at fault if I drove off with his kid.

An entertaining story!

Yes most certainly if you had driven off with the tot in the back you would have been clapped in irons.
Equally driving over someone, even if prostrate under the truck would have you sitting in the back of a cruiser for a ride to the lock up until things got sorted.

Dennis

YIKES!! Good advice about looking around. In almost every state the law is worded to the effect that it is the driver's responsibility to insure it is safe to move a vehicle before doing so. A shame when we have to look out for other people's stupidity. Of course I make a living out of it!!

A funny thing happend to me on the way to the forum!
This was a stage comedy in the UK years ago.

Well here's a comedy with a guy that took place today in Home Despot.

Essentally I needed a few sheets of plywood and roof felt to repair a gazebo. I grabbed a Pinz and joined the procession of weekend warriors going into the local "HD" with my 8 year old young 'un.
As my kid was pushing the cart up the aisle and me dragging plywood off the rack up comes this punter about 40 odd and in my face.

"Was that you driving that ugly old truck"? came the aggressive question.
The Pinzgauer I replied!
"I don't care what that piece of s--t is' don't you know that the brake lights are yellow"? he retorts.
"Yes I replied they were built like that during the period they were made".

Well that's illegal!
No it isn't it's made prior to the regulation so it complies I replied.
There should be a law about "a holes" like you bozos who drive around in illegal vehicles and don't get caught. I bet it can't even pass a smog check.
Well actually it can ol mate I jumped in (thinking be nice) It easily complies to all Federal and CARB regs for the year. In the case of CO 6%co and 1200ppm of hc's. See if any American iron can do that in 1971 without a smog pump?
Guy walks off appropriately rebuked, & probably pissed about having to do a hunnydo list.
At the self checkout I asked him do you live in Boulder? no Broomfield! came the gruff reply.
Struth I thought, the Peoples Republic of Boulder is expanding into the nearby connurabation!
Just goes to show you never know what nice people who you might meet in the local hardware store! So beware.
Cheers Dennis

Gee's Dennis, sounds like you got a "right royal nana" there! (Aussie slang for "idiot")
Guess he picked on the wrong guy to talk about vehicle legalities and emissions etc to

I've noticed that in major urban areas (Wash. DC, Boulder, many places in California) where there are highly educated people, with very little common sense that the ignorance level is only exceeded by the arrogance level. I don't think it is coincidence that these places generally appear in the blue areas when one looks at election result maps.

Peter, your "right royal nana" fits very well here with those that are pushing for a "nanny-state." Where the government will take care of all problems.

It almost seems to me that most of those nut-jobs must be leaving California. I have had nothing but great experiences with almost everyone I meet out here in Orange County.

I've even had small children say, "Please" and "Thank you!". Something I had thought disappeared about 5 or 10 years ago...

I'm glad my "attractive nuisance" has locks on all 5 doors. Worst I get are people sticking things under the wiper blades.

I did take off the mud flaps so I might get some people pissed at me if I drove it in the rain.

We've got alot of those do-gooder, greenie, whiney babies around here too. We have more Subarus per capita than anywhere else in the world I think. I am want to get a bumper sticker that says, "Gets 5 Subarus per mile"

So far all my encounters have been positive though. Even the hippies like it. It is green after all.