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Anthrocon 2012 ends with a BANG
13 years ago
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I'll get on the whole AC redux for me, including apologies to the relevant parties, after I get some rest...
BUT, this year, me and the Tucson gang decided to road trip it to AC and back, awesome pictures were taken, I'll crosspost them here, we got to howl with wolves and hike in the painted desert, we saw petrified wood, had a bag of chips and a bottle of scotch blow up almost 3 miles up a mountain, and had amazing BBQ, we saw great friends in Pittsburgh, and I can cross "See Tanidareal Fursuit as the Schnolf" off my bucket list. I bought a fursuit, and got to watch 2 propose to Toast live on stage (TOUCHING!). Much much more, it was a great con.
1/2 a mile from my home, after dropping everyone else off, I picked up my phone to call the person who was watching my house to tell him to please be ready to help me offload all my crap from the van, about 1/4 mile behind me, a police officer was running the license plate of a stolen Mercury Grand Marquis, the driver panicked and floored it, striking the rear passenger area of our 2005 Kia Sedona at probably in excess of 75 mph on a surface street while I was braking to make a left lane change.
The van spun around completely twice before I was able to recover into a slide in reverse(rear axle was shattered, complete recovery was apparently impossible), and slid it up onto the curb.
The entire passenger side is caved in, and the reciept from the petrified forest from earlier in the day landed some 30 feet from the final stopping point where it was blown out of the van with a bunch of broken glass.
I was a little shaken up, but totally fine, thank god for seat belts.
So long Road trip van, we hardly knew ye.
BUT, this year, me and the Tucson gang decided to road trip it to AC and back, awesome pictures were taken, I'll crosspost them here, we got to howl with wolves and hike in the painted desert, we saw petrified wood, had a bag of chips and a bottle of scotch blow up almost 3 miles up a mountain, and had amazing BBQ, we saw great friends in Pittsburgh, and I can cross "See Tanidareal Fursuit as the Schnolf" off my bucket list. I bought a fursuit, and got to watch 2 propose to Toast live on stage (TOUCHING!). Much much more, it was a great con.
1/2 a mile from my home, after dropping everyone else off, I picked up my phone to call the person who was watching my house to tell him to please be ready to help me offload all my crap from the van, about 1/4 mile behind me, a police officer was running the license plate of a stolen Mercury Grand Marquis, the driver panicked and floored it, striking the rear passenger area of our 2005 Kia Sedona at probably in excess of 75 mph on a surface street while I was braking to make a left lane change.
The van spun around completely twice before I was able to recover into a slide in reverse(rear axle was shattered, complete recovery was apparently impossible), and slid it up onto the curb.
The entire passenger side is caved in, and the reciept from the petrified forest from earlier in the day landed some 30 feet from the final stopping point where it was blown out of the van with a bunch of broken glass.
I was a little shaken up, but totally fine, thank god for seat belts.
So long Road trip van, we hardly knew ye.
My roommate had a pretty rough wreck on the way out to AC himself, got his nice Scion wrecked by a deer. Destroyed the radiator pretty good, it's still trapped in Rockford IL or somewhere near. :I
So, what then happened with the person who had been stopped and hit you?
If you check out my gallery the last picture I uploaded of the van explains a bit more of what happened, and what my educated guesses on the subject are, tomorrow when the report is complete, I figure WTH and I'll post it.
Also need to sit down and summarize AC w/road trip and pictures, and make
If I'm very lucky, these were some stupid kids out on a joyride and their parents have money to actually replace the van, otherwise I get to deal with what I can get out of insurance.
We definately need to chill again, i'd love to hang out again.
It was funny cause we pissed off your room mates cuz we were drunk as shit.
blind leading the blind =p