The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #46867   Message #696862
Posted By: SharonA
23-Apr-02 - 05:53 PM
Thread Name: BS: Unknown Risk From Car Bike Racks
Subject: RE: Unknown Risk From Car Bike Racks
I'm guessing that "bin the whole thing" means dump it in the trash bin, DustBuster, glass and all.

Either that, or it's some obscure Taliban member... bin Daholethin.

Add my name to the membership in the Safety-glass-in-the-seat-and-up-the-a** Club. I had a car that was broken into 6 years ago; some kids broke the driver's-side window and attempted to pop the lock but only succeeded in breaking off one of the plastic phlanges. So they popped the hood instead and made off with my battery. Insurance paid for that, but I never did get all the glass out of the seat and floor of that car before I sold it to a junk dealer 4 years later.

The thing that really steamed me, though, was that those punks stole my case of cassette tapes! Car insurance didn't pay for the car's stolen contents (that's how I found out I needed renter's insurance to cover my possessions, whether in the apartment or the car!). I mean, okay, you'd expect that thieves would steal music... but I'm willing to bet that they just threw it away somewhere as undesirable and unsellable, and that's what angered me. After all, what underground dealer would buy tapes of traditional tunes on hammer dulcimer?