People keep messing with my VX

[WormGod]

Umm harris...



...take a good look at the pic.

Bust balllllloooonnnn ...

...on the wing.

I agree its hard to believe...

..but he was there...and so is the evidence.

Why dispute it ...


jo



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Don't need to prove it to us. Disputing it would only be an issue with an insurance company. It's getting them to believe it that will be the challenge, heh.

[SlowPro48]

Must have been one of those sharp, square-edged water balloons. Check out the crease it made...

Glad it didn't hit a person! Could have been deadly. Or caused a concussion at the very least. Should buff right out of the VX though...

I dunno... I threw many a water balloon into a parking lot from a 4th floor balcony - hit many cars while aiming for the people hiding behind them - and never saw one cause any damage whatsoever. Could they have tossed something else and followed it up with a water balloon?

[tom4bren]

I've seen a wet roll of TP crush a hood.

No - I wasn't the throw-ee.

I was the target. Glad they missed.

[SlowPro48]

Yeah - I can see that happening. With wet TP there would be a fair amount of mass and it wouldn't compress much - so all the momentum would be concentrated in the area of a roll of toilet paper. With a balloon, it seems the energy would be dissipated since the balloon stretches and then breaks. Looks like the PSI delivered would be limited by how stretchy the balloon is. If the balloon hit a concave area and thus trapped the energy of the mass of water I can see how it would make a dent but still it wouldn't have the psi necessary to crease steel. If it hit a convex shape like the crown of a fender it seems like it would scatter the water and dissipate the momentum (in addition to the crown shape being structurally stronger) so it wouldn't even create a dent much less crease the sheet metal like that.

I'm not saying this couldn't happen, I'm just saying he might want to look around and see if there was something else thrown because if there wasn't then that is one FREAKY water balloon accident!

[Ldub]

I think all y'all armchair scientists might be missing an unknown here...

Did the person filling the baloons have a water softener in good working order???

I rather doubt it...

[nfpgasmask]

Maybe it was a Water Grenade!



Bart

[Gussie2000]

Maybe it was a Water Grenade!



Bart

Wow that's terrorist action man,call the FBI

[Thmstec]

I can assure you guys it was only a water balloon, that crease in the middle is where the metal wrapped around the FRAME of the car There are no scratches anywhere around the impact... and the area was free of any gel-like or otherwise soft things that could've been thrown. I'm just glad that I won't have to be convincing insurance that a water balloon did it.

[WormGod]

I can assure you guys it was only a water balloon, that crease in the middle is where the metal wrapped around the FRAME of the car

Your frame runs clean up through your fender? One hell of a sturdy VX you must have there.

*poke poke nudge nudge*

Still, I would have called police, no matter how cool those cats seemed and filed a vandalism report. No guarantee your damage will get repaired by those clowns. (though I think the cop would be asking the same questions we are, hahaha)

[SlowPro48]

I'm just glad that I won't have to be convincing insurance that a water balloon did it.

Amen to that, brother.

This comment reminds me of my first experience with crinkled sheet metal. Only it involved convincing Mom instead of the insurance company...

I was cruising home on I-40 in "The Blue Bastard", my first car - an MG Midget. The top was down - the temp was perfect - I was young and healthy - my teeth were shiny - I had a hot girlfriend with a really nice set of t..... teeth of her own - basically, the world was my oyster. Then all of a sudden a bunch of deer jumped out in front of me. I nailed the brakes and instead of that satisfying feeling of deceleration one hopes for when one stands on the brakes, my speed hardly changed at all - but my ears were met with a loud zzzzzzZZZZZZZZIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIZZZZZZzzzzz sound followed quickly by a thud as I smacked into a deer at 55mph. (This was when that shiny-toothed Jimmy Carter decided the hell with state's rights, I'm setting a national speed limit because you people need to save fuel and burn up your lives poking along the interstate instead)

Hmmm... Wha happen...?

Splines on those wire wheel hubs not quite up to par?

What did you expect for a $500 car...?

Let me tell you, a deer will mess up an MG Midget. But in an unexpected way. There was no damage whatsoever to the front of the car. The Midget was so low it went under the deer - the only thing the front hit was its skinny little legs - just took the deer's legs right out from under it and the heavy body fell further back near the cowl. It looked like a tree had fallen on it. I didn't have a problem with the insurance company but it took a long time to convince my mother that I'd hit a deer. She thought I'd rolled The Bastard and then got handfuls of fur off the German Shepard down the street and put it all over the car and made up a tale about hitting a deer so she wouldn't know I'd been driving recklessly...

OK that's my story for tonight. Carry on.