On 11 Mar 2004 08:19:56 -0500, Tom Line
wrote:


Plant some big rocks out there.

Yep, that's on the agenda as well.

Looking at the marks, I have to wonder whether someone was being
chased by the police. It looks like they came out of the alley at a
high rate of speed. Also, looking at the trajectory, I'm really lucky
that the little cherry tree was there as I suspect that it kept my car
from being hit. I think it deflected the car *just* enough. I'm amazed
that they were able to regain control of their car enough not to hit
my house.

Here are some shots:

http://www.pbase.com/teleburst/inbox

In the first one, the track you can see is the *outside* wheel (if you
look *really* closely, you can see in the distance the redbud sapling
that was completely run over - I've righted it). You can see how close
the car came to hitting the house. In the other shots, my car is
actually about 3 or 4 inches further than there the car passed (I took
these shots the nest day after I had moved my car).

Oh yeah, I just found out the car was a Mazda - they left a badged
piece of plastic at the scene that I didn't see).

dave weil wrote:
: So, this morning, I go out to my car to make my morning trek for the
: paper and coffee when I noticed deep tire tracks through my yard. I
: then noticed that my 3 year old cherry tree had been hit, the redbud
: sapling planted late last fall was almost knocked over, a couple of
: just emerging narcissi crushed and one of my Don Juans apparently
: driven over (but seemingly relatively unscathed. The car missed *my*
: car by about 3 inches.
:
: The kwaaza cherry had a nice patch knocked off of the base and is at
: about 20 degrees list now. I white glued the wound and will probably
: get some stakes and rope, although it's going to be hard to get it
: upright without using turnbuckles or something (it's got a 3 inch wide
: trunk, so it's not a tiny tree). The redbud was small enough for me to
: simply upright it, and I hope that no permanent damage was done. I
: don't know how it escaped being snapped as it was directly between the
: tire tracks. I'm hoping that the Don Juan wasn't damaged, but it's
: hard to tell what shock might have been incurred.
:
: One bright side - I found bits of car plastic and a wedge-shaped slice
: of headlight glass. Hee hee.