Bandit Alley
GENERAL MOTORCYCLE FORUMS => GENERAL MOTORCYCLE => Topic started by: jbrough7 on May 10, 2006, 05:06:07 PM
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I park it off on a side drive (we live in the country) and he (18 years old)likes to peel out in his jeep. He appears to NOT see the bandit as he backs up so I scream and he slams on the brakes but still hits the bike - it rocks a bit but, thank god, doesn't go over! Check the damage and there are a couple of scratches on that back section through to the black...He says, "sorry!" and commiserates a bit and then takes off.
I think about possible consequences/actions (see poll):
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Does said 18yo son live @ home? If so, immobilize his Jeep until you feel he's suffered enough. Make him do (additional) chores to make up for the cost of the damage if he can't pay.
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And what's wrong with making him pay for it? Getting the part sanded/repainted will take a couple hundred, but if he's old enough to procreate, drive, vote (I assume that's true up there in Canadia), serve in the military (ibid), then he can work, dammit!
I'm not sure anything else will teach him to be responsible for his actions. Well, I guess he could get some local eskimo gal knocked up....
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What Red said...
I guess it kinda depends on if he's your kid or someone else's...
He's 18, gotta learn sometime... we all did... be responsible...
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You know, I've got this theory about the 'video-game' generation...whatever bad sh!t happens, it's really okay because you just have to press 'reset' and you can go back to the way you were! No muss, no fuss and no strained conversations.
Wouldn't it be nice if life were really like that?
jim
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Two words.... personal responsibility.
There's just not enough of it these days. At least put a stop to the peel-outs in your driveway.
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It's only brand new once.
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You can't have anything decent around teenagers. They are just retarded. Its all the extra hormones running around in their bodies. My son closed the garage door on my Wife's brand new car.... twice. He doesn't intend harm. He is just simple.
All of them are like that.
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Jim, go get a hammer and just beat the living sh!t out of your bike from from front to back, then from top to bottom.
You weren't meant to have it. You may be cursed. Sorry, dude.
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Add a few dents and scratches to his jeep. Maybe then he'll undertand how you feel about your stuff being mistreated.
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Dents and scratches won't work...they'd be a sourse of pride....RIP OUT THE RADIO/TAPE/CD, SPEAKERS and say when the bike looks new again you'll have sound again! Yeah I know...I wouldn't do it either but it's a great thought!! :wink:
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:shock:
Man I really feel for the kids or future kids of the two that voted on snipping his manhood with rusty pliers. I mean I thought about it but that would be too harsh and cruel.
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Buy a club for the jeep until he smartens up (FYI, I smartened up around 21).
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Jim, has it not been made apparent by your son that in fact it is your fault entirely. :duh: :duh: :duh: :duh: :duh:
Fancy parking your bike there in the first place.
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Wow Jim,you just have'nt had any luck with this Bandit thus far!!
Same thing happened to me a few years ago!
Went to a friends "House Party"
Parked behind his Suburban,I knew he was'nt goin anywhere with a yard full of people!
A friend of his decided to borrow the Suburban,Jumped in Threw it in reverse,Plowed right into my bike!!
Almost $1000 in damage!
Luckily the ass had a credit card,took the bike to the shop and Swiped his card to pay for the damage!
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Jim, has it not been made apparent by your son that in fact it is your fault entirely. :duh: :duh: :duh: :duh: :duh:
Fancy parking your bike there in the first place.
Good point there, Mick! I still think, though, that there's some element of Satanic cursing involved. Jim, are you baptized?
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I still think, though, that there's some element of Satanic cursing involved. Jim, are you baptized?
I would tend to agree.
You might want to trade in the Bandit on a mode of transportation that is more INDESTRUCTABLE.
Like this....
(http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y156/PaulVS/Jumping.jpg)
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Or maybe have the son trade the Jeep in for one of those blue balls...
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I have, in fact, been baptised - although I was sleeping at the time so I don't think it really 'took'.
Another angle - we have SEVERAL AMERICAN relatives who seem to love to come over and escape - I mean visit - lately. With more and more contact with more and more said EVIL americans, then there can be no doubt where the trouble doth come from!
Satan! Get ye back over the border!! :soapbox:
Then, the clouds shall part over my most beloved Suzuki and I shall be able to ride again with head held high as my 'bad luck giving relatives' hide under the clouds in the U. S. of A.!!
Thanks you one and all.
Jim
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I have, in fact, been baptised - although I was sleeping at the time so I don't think it really 'took'.
Another angle - we have SEVERAL AMERICAN relatives who seem to love to come over and escape - I mean visit - lately. With more and more contact with more and more said EVIL americans, then there can be no doubt where the trouble doth come from!
Satan! Get ye back over the border!! :soapbox:
Then, the clouds shall part over my most beloved Suzuki and I shall be able to ride again with head held high as my 'bad luck giving relatives' hide under the clouds in the U. S. of A.!!
Thanks you one and all.
Jim
Uh huh. So, guy, does the number "6" appear repetitively on your license plate, or in your VIN? Hmmmm?
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"Canada.
Leading the World in being just North of the United States."
:lol:
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"Canada.
First in being just North of the United States."
:lol:
Yep. When we think of Canada, we think...lebensraum!! :wink:
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"Canada.
First in being just North of the United States."
:lol:
Yep. When we think of Canada, we think...lebensraum!! :wink:
Eh!!!!
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(http://www.dribbleglass.com/images/billboards/canada.jpg)
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(http://www.dribbleglass.com/images/billboards/canada.jpg)
THAT'S the pic I was looking for...............
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okay, smart alecks! Let's tally up the score:
Bigger Superpower..............................USA
Bigger Bandits on BBS...........................USA members
Biggest Member on BBS........................Jim (Canada)
In this case, one out of three ain't bad! :banana:
jim
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I'm not cetain what you're refering to by the term "biggest member", but I have to wonder if you're taking into the conversion rate into account......
:lol:
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Yeah.... somehow saying you're gonna give 'em 10 centimeters just doesn't have the same effect.
:scaredmouse:
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I don't know if Jim's talking about his weight or his beer belly? :motorsmile:
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Yeah.... somehow saying you're gonna give 'em 10 centimeters just doesn't have the same effect.
:scaredmouse:
If you're talking girth it's okay.
Jim
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When my 17 year old daughter took out one of the neighbor's mailboxes (a hand built stone pillar) we made her pay for it. Fortunately she had a part time job and had income - her car at the time, an '85 Caprice, had no damage. Had she run over one of my bikes... :crybaby: I don't know what might have happened.
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My son is basically a good driver - he just doesn't seem to think sometimes. Out on the road he seems great but-----I can go out to do some gardening and I'll see tracks through the flowerbed 2.5 feet from the gravel drive and he'll say he didn't notice!!??!!WTF??? Yet, I let him drive through Toronto and I sit there and don't sweat at all. Maybe his mind isn't in gear until he gets out on the highway??
Hope my daughter is a little more cautious or careful or whatever-
jim
TEENAGERS!!