What the f*#*k do I do?

**PirateJafa** · 24th February 2009, 07:28

Good to see you didn't mess around [at least, any further than you already had].

Now, pics of ya bike, or this thread is worthless.

**Damon** · 24th February 2009, 08:53

Nice

it's so much easier when insurance do it all for you,

i had to go to court just before christmas to help my insurance company nail a guy who broadsided me as he was coming out of a give way back in Nov 07, it was only a gental knock but cost him almost $4000 hahahaha

In the mediation he was all no but yeah but no but yeah but umm but no, he tried to say i tried to drift my bike between his car and a traffic island to beet an oncomming car but didn't make it, i'd be the man if i could do that!! now he has to pay State $20 a week for the next million years

**Max Preload** · 24th February 2009, 09:01

Let this be a lesson to any ditsy skanks out there who may be reading this - don't fuck with other people's shit all uninvited like. We don't give a fuck how cutsie you think it is or you are.

**The Pastor** · 24th February 2009, 09:03

glad to see you got your bike fixed up and that you've learned a valuable lesson about insurance.

**Max Preload** · 24th February 2009, 09:06

Originally Posted by jaymzw

They wernt going to pay excess either but they finally did. A lot of you were right about the price especially of painting, it ended up costing me around the 8-900 dollar mark all up!!!!

However the next claim for a motorbike will only be when i drop it because NO-ONE SITS ON MY BIKE NOW!

This doesn't actually make much sense if you involved the insurance company and told them she did the damage when she messed with it, uninvited. She should have been required to pay for the full cost, not just the excess.

**MarkH** · 24th February 2009, 09:40

Originally Posted by Max Preload

Let this be a lesson to any ditsy skanks out there who may be reading this - don't fuck with other people's shit all uninvited like. We don't give a fuck how cutsie you think it is or you are.

There are 2 things that I care about - the cutsie ditsy skanks are welcome to sit on one, but not the other.

**MarkH** · 24th February 2009, 09:43

Originally Posted by jaymzw

In hindsight (yes i like to think i learnt from my pissing around) I have learnt that i pay my insurance company for a reason and that when given all the correct information they do a very effective job! In future if i come across a sticky situation like this again i will simply call my insurers and let them deal to it.

Maybe others reading this can learn from your experience and do the same thing that you will do next time.

**vifferman** · 24th February 2009, 10:03

Originally Posted by jaymzw

I have learnt that i pay my insurance company for a reason and that when given all the correct information they do a very effective job! In future if i come across a sticky situation like this again i will simply call my insurers and let them deal to it.

Yup.
We had a case where my wife backed into someone in the SUV we used to own - she was backing out of the drive, looked both ways, no-one coming, and the next second there was someone behind her. It bent the rubber overrider on the rear bumper, and totaled the side of the other car.
The guy that was in the passengers seat got very aggro, phoning us several times to say they were without a car and we should be paying for a rental one. My wife was getting very upset by the abuse, so I rang the insurance company and they said, "The other party shouldn't be contacting you at all! We will handle it."
That was that.

In hindsight ( wonderful thing), we let the guy railroad us a bit. He pretty much took control, and legally my wife was at fault as she was reversing. However, there was something dodgy going on: they were both from Eastern Yurp, and we never saw her driver's licence. I suspect she didn't have one, and was having a lesson, and that she was going too fast (explains how she wasn't there one second, and the next she was, and how she managed to get backed into), and instead of stopping when she saw my wife backing out, she continued around behind her. Had the guy not leaped out straight away, said my wife was at fault, asked for our insurance details, my wife's licence, etc., I would've asked for the driver's details (she stayed in the car, and we never talked to her - probably under instruction to do so). It was my wife's first ever incident of any kind in 25 years of driving, and she was very shook up, not helped by Aggro Dude.

So - never admit fault (that's what the insurance company say too), always record ALL details, and let the insurance company handle it. Don't let personal issues or emotions come into it.

**motorbyclist** · 24th February 2009, 10:51

Originally Posted by jaymzw

Since then i recieved a couple of abusive phone calls from the girls parents calling me all sorts of names, but my old man got on top of that quite quickly.

that's pretty disgusting, really. something tells me they think they're the victim here, and the girl may not have entirely learnt her lesson

**Slyer** · 24th February 2009, 11:28

Something tells me that they got her twisted side of the story.

**Blackshear** · 24th February 2009, 11:56

Originally Posted by Slyer

Something tells me that they got her twisted side of the story.

And so I like, got pushed into the bike, and he, is like, all 'ohmigod, you have to pay me now'.

Actual transcript, true story.

**MarkH** · 24th February 2009, 13:43

Originally Posted by Blackshear

And so I like, got pushed into the bike, and he, is like, all 'ohmigod, you have to pay me now'.

Actual transcript, true story.

It really does have a believable ring to it. But there should be more embellishment and more reasons why it is not her fault and how hard done by she is by the whole experience.

**jaymzw** · 24th February 2009, 15:06

Originally Posted by MarkH

Maybe others reading this can learn from your experience and do the same thing that you will do next time.

Yeah i hope so. The whole experience turned me into a hard bastard.

Glad its over too!

Pics to come.

MBB and myself are picking up my new project http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/List...x?id=203865883

tonight

**Naki Rat** · 24th February 2009, 15:12

Originally Posted by Damon

Nice

it's so much easier when insurance do it all for you,

i had to go to court just before christmas to help my insurance company nail a guy who broadsided me as he was coming out of a give way back in Nov 07, it was only a gental knock but cost him almost $4000 hahahaha

....

I'm confused

Is that a gentle knock or a genital knock? Potentially quite a difference

**MarkH** · 24th February 2009, 20:39

Originally Posted by jaymzw

Yeah i hope so. The whole experience turned me into a hard bastard.

There is no need to be a hard bastard in the situation you were in - you give all info to the insurance company and then leave it up to them to be hard. The silly bitch unhappy or her parents unhappy - don't be hard, be apathetic! Don't care it is all between your insurance company and them, carry on with your life and forget about them! The girl or her parents have to pay some money - NMFP (Not My Fuckin' Problem).