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A kid was driving a little too fast this weekend and lost control of his car in front of our house and ditched it, destroying the body of the car and taking out our mailbox at the same time. He was not hurt, and his mom showed up quickly. They were both trying to right the mailbox and replace some of the rocks as we walked out to the accident scene.
We made sure no one was injured and the nearby neighbors all came out and pitched in getting the car moved off the main road until it could be towed, and picking up the pieces of undercarriage and bodywork strewn along the ditch. A couple helped route traffic. No one did any yelling or blaming or guilt-tripping. No police were called or involved.
After a couple hours everything was cleaned up. We told the mom we'd take care of the damaged mailbox and yard repair. The car was loaded onto the dad's flatbed truck and we all dispersed.
No one's insurance jacked up by traffic citations, no threats of litigation, no dogpiling on a youth for a youthful mistake.
Just neighbors helping neighbors and strangers through an unfortunate lesson in physics.
Felt like America.
Thanks for the uplifting story. 😀
Nice! We all made mistakes when young and this kind gesture may have totally changed this child's life. It takes just a glimpse of kindness to do a world of good!
This kind of reminded me of the question, "Which is more powerful to a person, God's judgment or God's forgiveness?"
'Government' would suggest he'll only learn his lesson and slow down once police have been involved, he has been cited, had his insurance go up, and been required to take a driving class.
OH.. And pay his fines and fees, of course.
A crime was committed against 'the state' since he used the road improperly. Might want to charge him with reckless endangered driving with intent to commit a terrorist hate-driving crime.
What's that? The owner of the mailbox is white? It's a nice neighborhood? We'll drop the hate crime, but charge everyone who helped move the vehicle onto the flatbed for 'doing business without a tow-company license', and various safety violations for potential damage to the environment from oil, petrol, glass, etc. Gotta keep the public safe.
Oh and fees and fines. Can't forget those.
That is a wonderful story.
I had someone back up their tesla right into my Rav4 because I was parked and outside of the car and the driver had her eyes on me without looking back.
I didn't have my license andshe called her husband who agreed to pay for the damages without calling insurance or police.
We drive to a shop and when they realized the damage was closer to 2,000 than 200, suddenly she and her husband started trying to shift blame to me. By then we had already left the scene of the accident and I didn't want to get fined for driving without a license.
Defeated, I called her insurance to explain, turns out she had the same insurance as I did si insurance companies didn't have to Duke it out for fault and liability. I was awarded the full repair amount :)