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Message: [QUOTE="Camstyn, post: 415951, member: 16494"] I have a similar story.. Working for a delivery service, I was driving a beat up, worn out '96 Dodge 3/4ton van.. Finally a day came where the light shone through the clouds, and I was rewarded with a brand new '99 Ford E350 van to replace the clapped out Dodge. On the way home that same day (picked it up in the morning) I was filling it up at the gas station, a guy backs into the van with a snowmobile rack on his truck.. I laid on the horn a good 3 seconds / 5 - 8 feet before he hit me and I saw what he was doing, I guess he thought I was honking at somebody else.. He just kept coming! He hit the van with the corner of the snowmobile rack up on the hood, and kept backing up another 3 feet all the way up the hood and over across the top of the driver side fender, right beside the windshield. Now there is a 2" wide slice through the fiberglass hood about 2 feet long, and the top of the fender is bent down and back, with a nice crease in it. Odometer reads 270km's. (~170 miles). It wasn't MY van but I've never been more pissed.. Two days later, I pull into a loading area at a warehouse, get out, load up the van.. Get back in, crank wheel hard to the right to back out the same way I came in, so I wouldn't hit anything.. Well, somebody moved the forklift outside and parked it in my blind spot, which I failed to notice while I was loading the van. I manage to scrape the side of the van up against the forklift, bending the rear bumper on the passenger side, and denting in/scraping orange paint all the way along the bottom 2' of the van between the rear bumper and wheel well. By this time, I was wanting my beater van back. I drove that thing for over a year, about 80,000km's, without putting so much as a scratch on it (it was already covered in dents/scratches before I got it).. Three days with the new van and two accidents causing very noticeable cosmetic damage. Chalk another one up to Murphy's Law. [/QUOTE]

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