So my girlfriend was given a $9,000 estimate by a body shop recommended by her Infinity dealer. Two days later I took the car to a nearby town and got estimates from two body shops. Both shops estimates were around $2,700. Amazing.

Last night I was on the East side on Indy, on US40/Washington street, around 10 pm. It was dark, and that is a very rundown area of Indy with few street lights. I suddenly came upon a Black dude nonchalantly riding a crappy mountain bike without any lights in the middle of the right lane. He was...

I love it when a cop car travelling in the left lane at 20-30 mph over the speed limit is suddenly blocked by a scared ****less LLB who, no matter how aggressively tailgated by the cop, will keep matching legal speed with vehicles in the right lane, trapping the pig behind :)

On three different occasions, all late at night, in three different Indiana cities, I've been radar-ed by cop cars (twice from behind, once from an oncoming) on deserted streets. Who'd think of obeying the speed limit (35-40) on a practically empty street at 3 am?! So the highway robbers are now...

Kinda like cop car lights?

Near my house there is a two lane rural highway with wide shoulders, posted at 55 mph. Most drivers, when turning right into driveways orside streets, first move over to the shoulder and only then slow down and turn. However, some idiots do not use the shoulder at all when turning right, slowing...

Sporty-looking, small (about the size of Miata) coupe or maybe convertible, with the letter T inside a circle on the trunk lid. Any ideas? Thanks.

Wow, Volvo has come up with a new, great invention... now your Volvo will warn you from far away if there is an intruder hidden in the backseat waiting to kidnap and kill you. Volvo has sunk to exploiting Hollywood movie cliches and fearmongering to convince dumb women to buy their overpriced...

The driver was very probably asleep. How can you not realize that you're SUDDENLY CLIMBMING a fairly steep slope? Also note the absence of skid marks. But now it is the highway designers that are put on trial, not the man directly responsible for the crash. Does everything in our society has to...

I have a 05 Maxima SE, and I am very unhappy with the performance of the autodimming rearview mirror. It often fails to detect glare, especially when it is relatively bright outside. Even at night I am sometimes blinded by vehicles behind me because the damn thing fails to oppacify for some unknown...

I'd like to teach my two rather wimpy kittens to hunt, or at least give them something entertaining and instructive to do. I want them to be more like my girlfriends' cat, that cool cat who killed those bunnies and birds. I am considering the idea of buying several small rodents from the pet store...

I was doing 80 on the Indiana toll road (speed limit 65 mph) when I noticed a cop car ahead and slowed down to its speed of about 70 mph. Well, I soon noticed that the cop car had IL plates. Thinking that he cant pull me over, I passed the cop car (on the left) and was soon back to 80 mph. Was I...

A few day ago I was driving on I465 (the multilane belt around Indy). I moved to the rightmost (first) lane to pass a white SUV with smoked windows doing maybe 60 in the second lane. Note that the rightmost was the only free lane at that point. Not far ahead of us, a semi was merging from a...

Funny how some people manage to be angry even though they're totally responsible for causing a collision Post #1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Well, there's a problem. Today, after dropping Mandy and I off at...

Scott en Aztlán wrote: > Here in the US the top story recently has been the large upward spike > in gasoline prices. Some have predicted that gasoline will top > $5/gallon by next year, up from $2.50/gallon today. Since you folks in > Europe have had $5/gallon gas for years (thanks to high taxes),...

I was on state road 37, which is interstate-like (2 lanes per direction, separated by grass median). Speed limit 55. I was in a group of 3 cars, doing only about 61-62 in the right lane. The reason for that is that there was a suspicious looking black, shiny Crown Victoria doing the same speed just...

instead of riding in single file down the middle of the lane? You've seen them--especially Harleys: the first rides close to the right boundary of the lane, the next one close to the left boundary, and they continue alternating like that. Some even ride abreast. How can it be safe for them to ride...

Bloomington police investigate a fatal collision Monday at the corner of Third and Walnut streets. Witnesses said a cement truck struck a bicyclist who was traveling south on Walnut Street, which is one-way north. Police moved the wrecked bicycle out of the roadway during their...

Today on I69 southbound another cop was at work "pacing" as Jaybird put it--that is, cruising in the left lane at the speed limit (65 mph). He did that for 40 miles, causing a huge backup of vehicles behind him because of course nobody dared pass him. This incident confirms what I always...

I guess the guy in the 2 articles I posted above was lucky: Video recording leads to felony charge The Patriot-News Posted by Matt Miller June 11, 2007 08:51AM Brian D. Kelly didn't think he was doing anything illegal when he used his videocamera to record a Carlisle police officer during a...