So this past memorial day weekend, Jay, Caleb and I had just come back from grocery shopping and getting some plants at the Farmer's Market.....and as Jay was unloading the groceries from the car, and Caleb had JUST walked across the front yard and into the backyard, our neighbor's car comes careening out of his driveway (2 houses down) and comes crashing into our house.
He said that he was changing the break pads on his mini-van and they didn't work for some reason.....if I were him, there were many other places to hit that would have sustained less damage than my house. For example, he could have hit is OWN car....which is what he swerved to miss before he came careening over to my HOUSE!!! How often in one's lifetime does this happen?
If Caleb had been anywhere near the car when it had happened, I WOULD have gone to jail....
He plowed through the white railings, knocked down one of the beams (which the building assured me wasn't a structural support beam) and knocked the doorframe to our house askew. The interior wall is cracked up to the ceiling and the other wall is bent inwards with the floor moulding now cracked in a weird angle. The front door was open so it slammed itself into the railing and has split the moulding.
He begged me not to call the police (but we did anyways) but we have not filed a report as of yet since the cop that showed up said that there was no time limit to file the report. He told the police that he was going to pay for all the damages but it looks like it'll be expensive to fix. I'm waiting on my home insurance to call me back but of course they were closed all weekend for memorial day.
This makes all those State Farm commercials make sense. Perhaps after all this is said and done, I'll have to switch to State Farm.....
He said that he was changing the break pads on his mini-van and they didn't work for some reason.....if I were him, there were many other places to hit that would have sustained less damage than my house. For example, he could have hit is OWN car....which is what he swerved to miss before he came careening over to my HOUSE!!! How often in one's lifetime does this happen?
If Caleb had been anywhere near the car when it had happened, I WOULD have gone to jail....
He plowed through the white railings, knocked down one of the beams (which the building assured me wasn't a structural support beam) and knocked the doorframe to our house askew. The interior wall is cracked up to the ceiling and the other wall is bent inwards with the floor moulding now cracked in a weird angle. The front door was open so it slammed itself into the railing and has split the moulding.
He begged me not to call the police (but we did anyways) but we have not filed a report as of yet since the cop that showed up said that there was no time limit to file the report. He told the police that he was going to pay for all the damages but it looks like it'll be expensive to fix. I'm waiting on my home insurance to call me back but of course they were closed all weekend for memorial day.
This makes all those State Farm commercials make sense. Perhaps after all this is said and done, I'll have to switch to State Farm.....
2 comments:
that's insane.. sounds like someone hit the bottle a little too hard... seriously, soudns like he was going pretty fast to do that much damage.
It's tooo funny, especially the part that he made a conscious decision to choose your house over his car. Good thing no one was hurt. My best friend up in Vancouver BC had a similar experience. It was a drunk driver who drove into her living room in the middle of the night.
Caleb is so big now! Time really flies huh?
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