November 16, 2004

enjoy, looter!

i went to move my car yesterday and found that someone had sliced my top and broken into my car. oddly enough, they really didn’t take anything. some of the things they didn’t take:

  • thomas guide
  • spare hat
  • spare jacket
  • maps of the bay area
  • assorted former keychains (tintin, sunny funny from parappa the rapper)
  • map light
  • tire pressure gauge
  • various pens
  • sugar-free mints from the dentist
  • emergency hair gel

this was helped by the fact that i don’t keep anything of value in my car, and that i’ve also disabled the trunk release so that you can’t get into the trunk without a key.

the only thing that they did take, oddly enough was my cellphone headset. which only works on a nokia 8000 series phone. and had already been chewed up by my cat and is now held together with electrical tape.

enjoy, looter!

meanwhile, my convertible top is now patched together with gaffer’s tape. i’m now driving the ghetto miata.

in other news, condoleezza rice is going to be our secretary of state, replacing colin powell. after the last few weeks, you’d think that you couldn’t get more depressed, but the bush administration just continues to surprise you, doesn’t it?

also, the nba tells vince carter that he can’t listen to his ipod. i guess there won’t be an nba-ipod ad for xmas.

Posted at November 16, 2004 10:30 AM
Comments

drat! how awful. sorry that happened to you!

Michael’s Miata suffered the same fate several years ago. it sucked. he sewed the top himself with heavy weight thread and drove around with Frankencar for quite some time.

insurance eventually gave him a fancy new top though, which was the upside to the whole thing.

still, it suck to be violated in that way. there are clearly more fun way to be violated. ;)


Posted by: rlv at November 16, 2004 11:05 AM

well, it’s not the first time it’s happened. it happened during the halloween space cowboys party years ago when it was over on van ness.

i’m not sure it’s worth reporting to insurance, though. how much do tops cost? and is it worth the increase in premiums?

although i do need a new top, which has several holes due to breakins and wear and tear…

Posted by: e at November 16, 2004 11:12 AM

ahhh… this reminds me of the time i was driving my old car down the 5 from Seattle. it had one of those fake ragtops — you know, a cloth cover on a hard roof to, uh, look cool? whatever. it was a free car.

then, driving, we heard this sound like a giant bird flapping and pulled over. it had come unglued from the roof and was flapping around like a big ear. i taped it down with an entire roll of gaff tape and that held for about ten minutes.

so i had to just rip it off.

man, was that car ghetto.

i think i’ll think of better ways to be violated instead. thanks rachel!

Posted by: xz at November 16, 2004 1:55 PM

Comments are now closed for this entry. Thank you for playing.