You should have lifted it evenly.

I have a door that is ten feet wide and 16 feet tall that broke a spring overnight this winter. Took five days to get it. I had to lift that thing many times. Heavy mother ****er.

Then I had to hold it up with one hand and shove a bolt through the track to keep it up.

I was glad to get the spring fixed and the opener back on it.

Frazod.

Enjoy some late night reading.

http://chiefsplanet.com/BB/showthread.php?t=301001

Yes we did, but they cancelled it on us without notification. We had to have it if we used charcoal, that's pretty much the only reason why we had it.

They cancelled it on you? Meaning you didn't have it when the incident took place?

We had ours through State Farm when we had renter's insurance.

Oh I could lift it.

I think evenly was my problem.

Sorry, not versed in garage door opening.

Door was fixed by noon today.

Holy shit! Now I understand. :eek:

I had a grill fire once on my deck once - if I hadn't owned a fire extinguisher and been able to put it out right away, this could have been me.

And a word of advice to everybody - if you don't have a fire extinguisher in your house, ****ing get one.

Yeah I never doubted you being able to lift it lol. But yeah evenly was the problem.

Correct, if I would have known they cancelled it on us I would have never lit up my smoker.

LMAO

Here's the link to my grill disaster story. It ended well, but at the time it definitely graveled my ass. LMAO

http://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/showt...ighlight=grill

Here's mine

http://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/showt...php?p=12331452

Yeah, I saw that a few minutes ago. Happened during my three year time out, so I missed it.

That whole situation sucks, man. I hope you can reach some sort of settlement with them.

We have a consultation tomorrow with the lawyer, hopefully we get some good news.

Good luck.

Thanks brother

So the complex is suing you?

Surely $235K can't be the damage. There wasn't that much bad there.

If you were still paying your premiums, how could they cancel your insurance without notification?

We had automatic withdraw, we didn't notice that they stopped taking out the funds. It was only about $23 a month so we're not going to see it.

A lot of people are saying the same thing. I don't see how myself.

Sounds like you have a good case against the insurance company. I'm not sure what the law is in California, but I know in certain states it is illegal to cancel someone's insurance without proper notification.

Damn Inmen. That some sucky shit you gotta go through. Battling the insurance company is NOT fun. Good luck man. We give you shit about that but do wish you the best possible outcome and are glad no one was injured.

Only thing I can think of is if they had to move a bunch of people out and have lost rent for several months. Or there was smoke damage to a shitload of other units.

Good luck man. Let me know what the lawyer says. PM me if you don't want it public. Hopefully they negotiate to a few thousand or you can extract something from the insurance company.

Hopefully your lawyer is good. Coincidentally I've been (ancillarily) exposed to s shitton of bad lawyering recently.

Hope it works out for you Inmen.

I have a feeling it will.

Thanks everybody, you guys are awesome. I'll give some feedback later this evening.

Insurance companies are the definition of the suck. They bring top drawer heat to court to **** over the little guy.

It's the biggest scam going. Everywhere else they call it gambling, it's just a huge money grab.

Yea, unless they document that you gave notice to waive the insurance, they can't just stop it. It's automatic renewal until cancelled in most states.

Thanks !

Well after talking with a couple of lawyers & bankruptcy lawyers, our only option was to file chapter 13 bankruptcy and be placed on a tight spending budget for the next 5 years. We made too much money to file Chapter 7 which was our first choice.

They also recommended that we call the insurance company to see if they'll settle and THEY DID!!!! We offered our minimum, but it wasn't going our way. After negotiating for about 5-8 minutes I offered 20k and they accepted. Our savings isn't touched, thank god for a good job bonus and income taxes :D

Also, when filing Chapter 13 you have to keep in contact with them if the wife and I were to get any pay increases, if so they'll be able to adjust our income and disposable income, it would have been a mess.

Jesus, that's still not great.

So did not having renter's insurance **** you? Or wouldn't it have mattered as they could have claimed negligence on your part anyway?

Wow. I guess that's better than the worst case outcome, Inmem, but it's still painful to hear.

I've never really thought about it, but I bet the building had insurance on top of the insurance that renters have. If I owned an apartment building, I'd darn sure have insurance as a backup in case one of my renters didn't have it. So I wonder if your payment is really just covering their deductible or something.

Having said that, I have no idea what I'm talking about on this stuff.

I think it's a small thing because it caused me no harm, but I was in a restaurant today and two people brought dogs in. Both times the owner said, "Hey, dogs aren't allowed", and both people said, "It's a service dog." The owner then said, "there's no service dog coat" and they said, "I didn't bring it." One of the dogs was a little Yorkie who hung out inside a backpack and other one was some mid-sized houndish thing that was out of control trying to jump on people. There is zero chance that the second one was a service dog and less than 25 percent that the Yorkie was.

Last Saturday in the park, I was running on the trail and one of the Rangers pulled up to a woman near me and very politely said, "Ma'am, your dog is required to be on a leash in the park." As I ran by, I heard the woman say, "I'm just finishing up and going to my car." The Ranger then reiterated his polite request. Hey, dimwit, it's not an option. It's a rule so your sweet little mutt won't go out of control and attack someone, which has happened to me more than once on my runs.

When did dog owners become loathsome, selfish, self-centered, inconsiderate, lying pieces of human excrement? I always thought that dog owners were cool, but in the modern world they've apparently become loathsome, selfish, self-centered, inconsiderate, lying pieces of human excrement.

--sarcasm-- Because it is my dog. And I am more important than you. /font

Dogs are really cool. I like dogs when they're not attacking me. It's the loathsome beasts who are following them around that I can't stand.

i am irked when the vacuum picks up a coin. dammit.

People who drive and smoke with their windows down and throw their cigarette butt out the window. Disgusting pigs. I believe if you want to smoke you should have to do it with your windows up and use an ashtray.

They were probably loathsome, selfish, self-centered, inconsiderate, lying pieces of human excrement to begin with. The dogs are incidental.

I saw a lady at a stop sign when it was 30 degrees out with her window cracked and her hand sticking out holding a cigarette, then I had to follow her down the road like that. She would pull it in and take a drag then back out the window it went. She even pulled into the head start with her hand out the window. ROFL

Can you report someone for littering if they throw their cigarette out the window (license plate number)? I was on a two lane road with just brush on both sides the other morning, much of the brush being VERY dry here, and some dumbass throws their butt out the window. Who in their right mind didn't understand any fire danger at that point?!?!

It seems like you'd want to do it with the windows up. Isn't the whole purpose of smoking to inhale smoke? They're just wasting smoke when they let it go out the window.

That's worse than just littering

Agreed. I was driving behind them and totally had their license number. Wasn't sure if I reported it, if anything would actually be done.

Yes, it ****ed us. We had it, but it lapsed and we were sure we were never notified, but proving that in court is a different story. It's not worth spending 10k on a lawyer when we would just lose.

It was either settling with them or be on a tight budget for the next 5 years. They pretty much take as much as they can from your disposable income. I hate stressing over money so 20k was worth it.

I don't care if people smoke but when they decide any place but their yard is an ashtray you deserve a hot steamy load of shit on the drivers seat of your car in return. I mean, what the hell, it's just a natural human function on your investment as opposed to a cancer stick with your saliva on the end from sucking it. Not gross at all.

In a world of bad outcomes, that's probably the best you could have gotten.

i remember you. and you make shit up.

TWO AGGRAVATIONS IN JUST ONE DAY WITHIN A FEW HOURS!

AGGRAVATION #1.
This Tuesday I went to the post office in my hometown in New Jersey to get a single money order because I needed to get excess cash from selling my belongings for my move to AZ, into my Scottrade brokerage account .

The postal lady helping me destroyed money order #1, destroyed money order #2, destroyed money order #3, wouldn't listen to me and get help from the guy next to her, destroyed money order #4, destroyed money order #5, wouldn't listen to me to let someone else get me the money order, destroyed money order #6, destroyed money order #7 and FINALLY after 15 minutes and the line growing to 12 or 13 people, she got the guy to come over to figure out what was wrong. The stupid bitch put the ink ribbon in wrong and over the printing mechanism. The guy made the fix and after 7 tries, money order #8 worked like a charm!

Photos attached.


AGGRAVATION #2.
I went to the local Scottrade office after getting the money order to make the deposit into my account. Never been to this office before as I don't live in the area. Stopped in and a nice gentleman came over to help me. He took my money order, filled out a receipt and told me it would be in my account within the next 20 minutes. We began chatting along with another Scottrade employee about how I used to go to the movie theater that used to be there as a kid when I lived in town and how everything had changed so much since 1970. I then left after some chit chat and went out visiting friends.
It was NOT in my account and I had to call the service center in St Louis because the local office forgot to enter the deposit. No matter what I do in life, there always seems to be some small wrinkle or issue that doesn't go right. Really aggravating! :#

TO THE RIGHT MOTHER****ERS!

I blame Walmart for putting entrances on the left, but for at least a hundred years we have had an understood tradition of baring to the right when meeting someone going the opposite direction in a hall, aisle or doorway.

TO THE RIGHT!

I usually get naked on the left. You apparently "bare" to the right, but I'm not sure that it is an understood tradition to disrobe in a particular direction.

But you're correct regarding direction. I usually traverse in the right side and allow opposing traffic to pass on my left.

People like this. Wow, talking about being a buddy****er!

Mauled cop was riding mountain bike at full speed when he hit grizzly

Brad Treat, 38, was descending the "Outer Trail" of the Green Gate Trails in the Flathead National Forest between 1:30 and 2 p.m. June 29 when he rounded a blind curve and collided with the grizzly, according to a Board of Review Report.

Treat was traveling at an estimated 20-25 mph when the accident occurred. There were no tire skids or evasive steering that would indicate that he immediately saw the bear. He hit the animal at full-speed and flew over the handlebars, fracturing his wrists and his left shoulder blade when he tried to break his fall.

When Treat's companion, who was not identified, came upon the scene, the "very big, brownish-black" bear with "bristled up" fur was standing over Trent. The fellow rider reported that he had heard the bear cry out, making a sound "like it was hurt."

The companion froze, not knowing what to do. Neither man was carrying bear spray, a firearm or a cellphone.

According to the board report, the companion left to seek help because he did not feel comfortable trying to get the bear off Trent.
The companion carried his bike through the forest to reach a highway about a mile away and then flagged down a vehicle.

Treat was dead by the time responders arrived. His helmet was reportedly bitten to pieces, but no part of his body was eaten by the bear, indicating that the encounter probably was not a predatory attack.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/mau...cid=spartanntp

I'm not really sure what the friend could have done that wouldn't have ended up with him getting killed as well. Should have been armed.

Tendering Albert Wilson

I agree, bears are ****ing fast too. No reason for me to intervene, maybe get about 40 ft and start throwing rocks? Hop on the bike and jet once he chases you? No thanks. Hope he tasted delicious for you buddy bear.

If the bear just killed him and didn't eat him, is this technically a road rage death?

Yeah I don't understand either, maybe his neck snapped?

It probably would've helped if he had ridden his bike for help instead of carrying it. Maybe he was afraid of colliding with another bear.

The bear is going to be on trial, and it'll say, "I was just walking in the forest and boom! This guy comes out of nowhere and hits me. I was just acting in self-defense."

He's well within his rights to bear arms.

He definitely had bear arms, but were they registered? He killed a man with them and there's no evidence that this was anything other than a tragic accident. Was the bear even in a crosswalk?

I think that bear is going away for a long time. But the good news is that he'll probably own his entire cell block and get everyone else's cornbread.

Maybe he smelled like pooh.

You can be unbearable sometimes

Sheriff's office accused of destroying evidence when all the bear claws came up missing.

Thpse assholes that pull up to four way stop signs, and start directing traffic.

Are we still talking about bears?

He's biPOLAR :D

Assholes who pull up to a four way stop sign well before me and then try and tell me to go first. **** off, dipshit.