Ducati Monster Forum

So there I was, about 11:00 PM tonight, just surfin' the interwebz in my house.

Just as I clicked my usual Molley Cyrus/Hanah Montana website, er, I mean, the, um, motorbike website, yeah, that's it, motorbikes, when . . .

SSCCCRREEEEEEEECCH!  BOOOOM! (power slide, sound of cedar fence crunching).

(http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm173/JohnnyDucati66/rooster-rock-20090629026.jpg)

I'm thinking:  "Holy shit!  There goes my fence again!".  Just fixed the damn thing from that last winter storm.

I grab my flashlight and run outside around my back yard onto Mather Road.  All my neighbors are out there gathered around this blue Boy Racer Subaru WRX (the same one that's always terrorizing my neighborhood) and it's now up over the curb and ass-end-first-half-way into my neighbor's yard after wiping out 20 feet of fence.

He was obviously farking around, trying to "drift" it (yo, dude, word!).  It sounded (I didn't actually see it) like he came barrelling around the corner power-on, oversteered and it spun him around, ending up in my neighbors fence.  Those little Subu's are torque monsters, for sure.  That seemed the likely scenario to me and the orientation of the car kind of supported my theory. 

He sat in his car sheepishly with his girlfriend crying next to him and oodles of my neighbor people surrounding him like a lynch mob.  No one was hurt, no airbags deployed.  Popo and EMT were on the spot within minutes.

What a tool that guy is.  I'm just glad he didn't take any body out with his 2Fast&Furious shit.  There easily could have been someone walking their dog (like me!) or just sitting in their back yard when the Grim Reaper Subaru comes along to mow them down.

I'm off to bed to have nightmares of blue Subaru's running me over . . .

"Professional Driver on a closed course", they don't have those words in small print for nothin'!

About 5 this afternoon I grabbed my camera and surreptitiously squirrelled it into my pocket, leashed up my dogs and walked around to the back of my house.

Stopped and took a photo of the damage.  It was more extensive than I thought last night.

(http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm173/JohnnyDucati66/wrx-20090703002.jpg)

I believe Mr. Michael Schumacher Wanna-be started out from this side street, intending to turn left (pic below).  I heard him spool it up to some pretty high revs.  I'm guessing that the rough pavement combined with the sharp turn radius did some unexpected things when that all-wheel drive kicked in and spun him around, ass end first.  You can see the tire marks arc to the left.

(http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm173/JohnnyDucati66/wrx-20090703003.jpg)


The consequences.  He ends up going butt-end first over the curb and into the fence.  You can see the 2 indentations on the curb where his wheels dug in.  He had those spiffy low-profile rims - I'm betting they are shot, maybe even all four.

(http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm173/JohnnyDucati66/wrx-20090703004.jpg)


In the last photo in the distance to the left my fence and big oak tree is visible.  Hopefully no tree branches, Subarus or other vehicles will be crashing through that fence anytime soon.  :).

 :o

Farcking tool.  [bang]

Wanna drift?  There are "racing" organizations that do drifting sessions on closed-course racetracks.

Idiots on the street, not thinking about minor details like... oh... how about the contact patch between tire and asphalt, and how sensitive that is to things like, oh, irregularities in pavement, changes in angle (hills), gravel, steel manhole covers, and whatnot.  And people in their bloody Scooby-doos who think they can defy the laws of physics... *grumble, grumble*

Sorry, this is an extension of my annoyance with every clod who sees "Ducati" and thinks it must go eleventy-billion mph, and proceed to ask how fast I've had it up to, presuming that's the measure of one's two-wheeled manhood.

*sigh*

I think I need to go back out and hide in my mountains.

Johnny is making a big deal out of this because he is no longer the neighborhood hooligan.  [evil]

Glad no one was hurt, glad your fence is intact, and maybe this will slow him down for a bit.  Id rather have him lear by wrecking a fence than something worse.

Scott