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Old Jun 20, 2008 | 08:57 PM
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I hope this story still works.
http://www.wisn.com/news/16662058/detail.html?taf=mil#
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Old Jun 20, 2008 | 09:02 PM
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ouch!
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Old Jun 20, 2008 | 09:03 PM
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Hmmmm, a ticket or never driving a vette ever again... He chose unwisely
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Old Jun 20, 2008 | 09:07 PM
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Saw that on the Milwaukee news tonight. Looks pretty folded up. Pretty stupid.
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Old Jun 20, 2008 | 09:17 PM
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That breaks my heart.
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Old Jun 20, 2008 | 09:51 PM
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Old Jun 20, 2008 | 09:55 PM
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To think,,, That car survived all these years to end up like that.....
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Old Jun 20, 2008 | 10:10 PM
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Old Jun 20, 2008 | 10:33 PM
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Old Jun 20, 2008 | 10:43 PM
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That poor pole.

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Send it to OHIO, it will be a vintage numbers matching L-88 in a year or less.
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Old Jun 20, 2008 | 11:18 PM
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"The accident is currently under investigation."

I think it's kinda obvious what happened.
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More ebay parts......dumbass. Stop take the ticket. It's just that simple.
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Old Jun 20, 2008 | 11:57 PM
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That poor girl, just along for the ride.
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Idiot!!

Running is just plain stupid. And it shows here when the guy kept running after the cope crashed.
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Send it to OHIO, it will be a vintage numbers matching L-88 in a year or less.
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It was dumb for the person in question to run but it was also dumb for the Police Officer to give chase at such high speeds. As doing so not only puts himself in danger but also bystanders that are not involved at all with the situation. In this case the Dumb Police Officer also had a wreck. So how does two dummies make a right lol.
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Old Jun 21, 2008 | 02:03 AM
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Originally Posted by SHAKERATTLEROLL
It was dumb for the person in question to run but it was also dumb for the Police Officer to give chase at such high speeds. As doing so not only puts himself in danger but also bystanders that are not involved at all with the situation. In this case the Dumb Police Officer also had a wreck. So how does two dummies make a right lol.
Right, so the cops should just let everyone get away because it's not worth chasing them?

Ah well, at least our C3's all just became a little more rare & went up in value :P
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