Re: Very cool news RE my hit and run on the UrQ

[Timothy C Salazar II <tsal2@juno.com>]

THERE IS A (AUDI) GOD(S)!!!

Love, Like, or Just Plain Tolerate,

Timothy


On Sat, 13 Mar 99 22:48:05 -0800 Michael Williams <urquattro@surfree.com>
writes:
>hey all, i dontk now how many of you remember the time that my UrQ was 
>
>hit and run while it was parked across the street from my work, about 
>2 
>weeks after i got it back from 2bennett.
>
>Anyway, its the craziest thing.  The cops never found the guy or even 
>
>followed up on it past the day after the accident as far as i know.  
>Anyway, so on wednesday i was driving up woodside road (only pertinent 
>
>for people from the bay area), and i noticed this grey camaro in one 
>of 
>the left turn lanes.  I thought to myself "hmm, interesting".  Then i 
>
>noticed the license plate:  3TZZ360, one digit off from the 3BZZ360 
>that 
>we gave the CHP on December 22nd.  I screamed out many explitives in 
>the 
>excitement, quickly wrote down the license plate number and decided i 
>had 
>to pull a U-turn.  
>
>Unfortunately, the next place i could turn was about a quarter mile up 
>
>the road and had a signal.  Argh...so i drove up there, and by this 
>time, 
>i was sure that the camaro was gone.  Well, of course i just missed 
>the 
>left arrow so i had to sit at the light for what seemed like 5 hours 
>when 
>it finally changed.  I love quattro, i just put it in first, turned 
>the 
>wheel and floored it.  Man that thing is cool when it kicks the tail 
>out 
>when the boost comes on.  anyway, so i drive back down woodside and 
>take 
>a right on to the street that i thought they might have turned on.  I 
>
>drive down there for about 3 blocks and am just about to give up when 
>i 
>see it.  The car is sitting in the driveway of one of the houses 
>there.  
>I almost pissed in my pants when i saw that.  I wrote down the address 
>
>and took a better look at the car.  Not only was there corresponding 
>damage on the right front of the car (alot more than is on my car, 
>thats 
>for sure), there is a bunch of red paint transferred onto the car as 
>well.
>
>So i called the CHP.  Well, they assigned possibly the stupidest 
>officer 
>ever to the case and she went out to the house the next morning.  I 
>asked 
>her to call me as soon as she found the car, but she didnt.  I called 
>her 
>at 1 in the afternoon and this is the conversation: 
>
>Me:  Hi, were you able to find the car?
>Her:  Yeah, i found the car and talked with the registered owner.
>Me: And?
>Her:  Yeah, i talked with him and his girlfriend and neither of them 
>matched the description of the person driving it at the time, and they 
>
>said they werent driving.
>Me:  Umm...okaaayyy...what about the damage?
>Her:  Yeah, i saw that.
>Me:  And the red paint?
>Her:  Yeah, i saw that too, it was red, but i cant prove that it is 
>yours.
>Me:  Uhhhhhhhhh.....okaaayyyy
>Her: yeah, so thats all i can do, i will file the supplementary to the 
>
>original report and you can pick it up next week if you want to try a 
>
>civil suit.
>
>I hung up the phone, complete disgusted with the CHP and police in 
>general.  Apparently my father, a lawyer, talked to her a little prior 
>to 
>that and she said that she would NOT take a paint sample from the car 
>
>because neither of the people she talked to seemed to be the driver of 
>
>the car on december 22, so its not a criminal matter.  My father went 
>ape 
>sh@t about that, and faxed and called her supervisor.  The next day 
>they 
>told him that the lieutenant reviewed the case and decided that it 
>warranted further investigation....DUHHHHHHH.
>
>Anyway, so now they are actually looking into it, taking pictures, 
>paint 
>samples and everything.
>
>Suddenly the estimate on my car will go from 2300 to about 8000 or so, 
>
>since i will want everything replaced of course....
>
>
>God, if you want something done, you just have to do it yourself.
>
>
>so now my car will be fixed and i wont have to pay for it.  I just 
>hope 
>he has insurance, but if he doesnt, they own something like 5 cars and 
>
>they are all relatively new and modified, so im sure they arent 
>broke.
>
>just wanted to share the good news with all of ya....
>
>later...
>
>Michael Sheridan Williams
>ICQ# 11740998
>1983 UrQuattro, MC'd, koni yellows, borla, OZ Mito's w/ SP8000's
>1985 4000S Quattro miles, Koni Yellows/Coilover (2B), strut brace, 
>Sport 
>8000 Tires, K&N
>http://members.aol.com/daserde2
>