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To: IceShark who wrote (24256)	10/3/2000 9:16:43 PM
From: robnhood	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

Yeah, Ice,, I agree... My son want's a 928, s4... Actually, I'm all for it...<g>

To: IceShark who wrote (24256)	10/3/2000 10:45:24 PM
From: Gary M. Reed	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 436258

Ice, put me down as another in the camp of guys that love their cars...although my Audi was certainly not in the same league as your sleek Porsche. Here's my completely off-topic sad story of how I lost "the one I love" today... While I was thoroughly enjoying the prelude to the Melt today, the power went out at my home office (not an uncommon event here in New Orleans). There's a dickhead who owns a house around the block from mine who has a termite-infested tree in his yard that rubs up against the power lines every time the wind blows, resulting in the lines shorting out. I've complained numerous times about this guy's tree, as it causes the power to go out once a week. Entergy keeps telling me there's nothing they can do, since the tree is on this dick's property. Usually the power's only out for 30 minutes...today it was out for 2 hours...as such, I decided to go out and see what the problemo was. Much to my dismay, Mr. Penis' tree fell down onto the power line, severing it. The line--still live--boomeranged into my vehicle, rendering the car totally fried. No joke--the line burned holes straight through the metal which burned holes deep into the friggin' interior. As well, the electrical system is totally fried. One of the tires even melted--the rubber was still bubbling 2 hours later. Yeah, ok, it's only a car--so they say. But this vehicle...well, I bought it with my first big bonus check 5 years ago...this car was like my first-born child. I pampered the hell out of it...to see it melted infuriated me. Then I talked to the Entergy supervisor, who told me the tree-hugger was warned several times about his dead tree and rebuffed their pleas to cut it down, saying the $6,000 cost of having it cut down was too much for him to worry about...well, that was it for me. I knew the tree-hugger got home from work around 6...I sat on his doorstep waiting for him. I told him I needed his homeowner insurance company because of what happened--very politely I might add. The dick tells me, "ahh, no, not my problem--sorry about your car but you ought to go after the utility company--that tree in my yard adds to the ambiance of the neighborhood and there's no way I was going to knock it down...there's no way I'm giving you the name of my homeowners insurance company--you need to deal with your problem on your own..." Well, that was it...I haven't struck anyone since probably the 3rd grade, and perhaps at age 37 I should act more mature, but I planted a knuckle-sandwich on this clown. It didn't bring back my vehicle from the dead, but I'll tell ya, it felt good seeing that numbnut fall on his ass. I hope the asswipe had his entire 401K in AAPL. I'm still so furious, I'm thinking about knocking on his door again tonight for Round 2. Sorry for this off-topic rant on CFZ.