Cranford St strikes again - Another car crash.

**Deviant Esq** · 28th February 2006, 17:32

Already seen two major accidents living where I am, and here's another into the mix. Corner Cranford Street and Winton Street. Not exactly sure what happened, but there were a couple of loud bangs, the lights in the house flickered (later found out neighbour's power is out completely) then steadied. I grabbed my camera...

Just got back inside.

**Deviant Esq** · 28th February 2006, 17:34

Some more...

**Deviant Esq** · 28th February 2006, 17:35

And the last few.

Apologies for the generally poor photography - was tying not to be too obvious

Sure is handy to have a decent zoom though. Check the ambulance light in the wing mirror...

**GR81** · 28th February 2006, 17:42

impressive!

**Deviant Esq** · 28th February 2006, 17:43

Sup GR81`. Red Dragon!! + est.

As you were.

**Kjell** · 28th February 2006, 17:44

Kinda hard to see who was travelling where, must of hit pretty hard. Any pedistrians injured? Sunstrike?

Used to have a few boys races on Geraldine Street (couple blocks east for you geographically challenged).

Best impact I've seen though was out of Ilam Road, intersect with Wairakei Road. Nissan Terrano 'missed' the corner and jumped the curb into a wall made of volcanic stone. Completely snapped the front axle and shoved the engine block up and back, but had little body damage. The driver (DUI) attempted to drive off. Would have been funny if she wasn't drunk.

**kiwifruit** · 28th February 2006, 17:47

on ya for whipping the camera out! hehe
i hope no one was hurt.....

**BEAMER89** · 28th February 2006, 17:57

Good photos mate, You dont do it 4 a job do u. HA HA HA. l especially da 1 in the wing mirrer, well down.

**Deviant Esq** · 28th February 2006, 17:59

Originally Posted by kiwifruit

on ya for whipping the camera out! hehe
i hope no one was hurt.....

First thing I thought of... post the carnage on KB. Hehe..

Don't think anyone was hurt. Both cars had driver and passenger airbags, and all airbags were deployed. The Toyota (as can be seen in one of the pics in my first post) was smoking pretty badly as it had a fuel leak, but happily the smoke stopped and it didn't explode (though that might've made things interesting...

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**Sniper** · 1st March 2006, 06:43

Fucken sucked, power was out till midnight and when it came back on I realised the flatmate had left oll the lights on. Floating round at 2 this morning turning them all off. Im going to kill him..........

**Deviant Esq** · 1st March 2006, 09:26

Hey... whoever moved this, I'm sorry it was started in the wrong forum. But holy heck, talk about shooting me down in flames with red rep for an honest mistake. Taken me forever just to get two green blob things, and then wham. Never had red rep until just then... I don't think I'll get out of red now!

*Goes and crys*

**Deviant Esq** · 1st March 2006, 22:55

This has been on my mind all day now, and now I'm just plain annoyed. Whoever moved this thread to Rant and Rave, maybe it wasn't in the right forum. But I challenge you to look throught the first few pages of General Discussion (where this was originally posted) and not find at least 5 other threads that strictly speaking are in the wrong forum. There are two others that are on exactly the same topic as this one.

So, did I deserve to get slammed with so much negative rep, just for posting this in the wrong forum (and surely that's open to debate, as this sure as hell didn't start off as a rant)? I don't think so.

I've tried hard not to do anything wrong since joining here, and let's face it, I'm still a new member, and this came with no warning, just whammo. If I haven't had anything constructive to add or haven't anything nice to say, I don't post at all. But this to me is very severe and unfair treatment... it's been on my mind enough that I've got my back up about it. I got out of bed specifically to make this post as it won't leave me alone.

I think I deserve an explanation at minimum.

Thanks for your time.
Redge

**Ixion** · 1st March 2006, 23:02

Oh dear. I'm sorry about your rep. I didn't move it (and I certainly didn't red rep you), but here's some green to try to compensate

**Deviant Esq** · 1st March 2006, 23:21

Thanks Ixion, appreciate it.

For the record: I was given 300 points of negative rep for this. I had 110 beforehand, and was suddenly at -190 from three consecutive bad reps, same person (no idea who).

A few people seem to agree that I've been treated heavy handed and have green repped me (much appreciated to those who did). This has brought me back up to -153 rep. So as you can tell, it takes a hell of a lot of bling to overcome such a slamming. And I sure don't think I deserved to be slammed in the first place.