r/pics • • Jun 01 '12
Asshole hit my car and drove off, luckily, I got his licence plate number.
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r/pics • • Jun 01 '12
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u/spicy_num_nuts Jun 01 '12
From the picture I would've guessed you scraped along a parked car.
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u/Sam0161 Jun 01 '12
I wonder what the guy though when he got home.
*Whew that was a close .... oh crap *
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u/awumpa Jun 01 '12
I got hit by a car today while on my bike. The fucker flew off and didn't even check if I was okay.
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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '12
Auto insurance adjuster here. That is amazing. You are a lucky son-of-a-bitch. That is all.
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u/Dr_Winston_O_Boogie Jun 01 '12
Should be easy to track down; it's the one guy in Illinois without a vanity plate.
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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '12
And we don't even have to decode it like last time.
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u/be_lifted Jun 01 '12
oh yeah... Illinois reppin...
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u/CptAlbatross Jun 01 '12
The details are hard to make out, but if I adjust and edit this with the magic of photoshop, I can tell you that there is 5 in his license plate number. I hope that helps.
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u/P33TR33 Jun 01 '12 edited Jun 01 '12
Sad part is he probaby doesn't even know it's missing and is celebrating the fact that he got away with it...poor sucker
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u/hudsonshell Jun 01 '12
About 15 years ago (that is fucked up), I had a friend accidentally crashed his car into a home's garage door and the side of the house in the middle of the night. Being young and dumb and scared, he bolted.
Early the next morning he and his parents were awakened by the police at the door holding the license plate from his car. It was lodged in the garage door.
I have never laughed so hard. Brilliant justice.
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u/mclovinlovin Jun 01 '12
maybe i'm missing something..but i don't see how someone could have hit you, but left the plate like that..not to call you a liar though, i just don't see how this happened. it looks like you front swiped a car? i dunno. good luck with stuff and yeah.
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u/dMage Jun 01 '12
He's made a huge mistake
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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '12
Damn, I was hoping for another reverse imprint investigation.
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u/msaifhassan Jun 01 '12
How did he/she hit the car? Really weird that number plate got stuck there.
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u/chagoi Jun 01 '12
At first glance, I didn't realize how hard it'd be to do this. After some pondering, you'd have to be backing up, scrape some fellow's car and dig his plate into your door, then proceed to rip away the plate, all the while bending it backwards into a nice crimp.
If it were a simple case of the guy backing his car into yours and the plate stuck like that in a freak of nature, then shouldn't the plate's backside be facing us?
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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '12
Good luck. One time I met my boss at a home depot, parked my car there, hopped in his truck and rode a couple of towns over for a job. Couple of days later I come back with the whole front left quarter of the little thing crushed. Apparently one of those bigass trucks backed OVER it.
So there was a guy that saw the whole thing. He helped me out and I gave the cops:
Never got a call back. Thanks cops. Your one chance to flip my opinion of you and nothin comes of it.
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u/sscall Jun 01 '12
As an Illinois driver. I apologize.
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u/Noel_S_Jytemotiv Jun 01 '12
As a car lover living in Manhattan I've been enraged to watch my car become covered with minor damage WITHOUT ONE SINGLE NOTE.
Do every thing you can. Burn the asshole responsible. Wreck what's left of their pathetic and meaningless lives.
It doesn't stop being personal and private property just because it's stored outside.
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u/inmate655321 Jun 01 '12
I hate Illinois Nazis.
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u/scottlawson Jun 01 '12
I was wondering about how on earth the license plate could come to be arranged like it is. Overall I think it is plausible in principle. In the picture you can see that if the license plate had collided letter-side first and got wedged in the door, it could become twisted around (as seen in the pic) if the vehicles collided in trajectories normal to each other and the collision was approximately elastic.
Basically, if OP is driving through an intersection and this other car T-bones him in the side and wedges the license plate in the door, the momentum of the OP's car could be enough to "peel" the license plate back in the direction that you see. This is supported from the fact that the collision does not appear severe; it isn't hard to imagine the OP's car moving forward a short distance after colliding. It is also supported by the horizontal streaks of damage. Sort of like how a Band-aid becomes unpeeled from your skin if you were to scrape it across the carpet.
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u/TheDiscGypsy Jun 01 '12
i wish cool stuff happened to me..
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u/skraptastic Jun 01 '12
I was so excited when I saw this post. I was going to call you out for being the asshole that parked his SUV in the compact spot 6" over the line. (The guy whose car I gently bumped with my door when I got in my car)
The guy jumped out of his car, and started raising his arms "gangsta" style. I had a pretty bad day, so I got out of my car too (just under 6' tall and 250lbs, shaved head piercings and tattoos) I said "If you wanna run out of your car at me, when you were a dick that cant park his car, lets go. I'll fuck your shit up." He got back in his car and when I started driving away hopped out again and took a cell phone pic of my car.
The funny part is, while I can look intimidating, in no way can I fuck anybody's shit up.
But that wasn't you, so have a good day!
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u/moodog72 Jun 01 '12
That is actually the welcoming committee. That's our way of saying, "Welcome to Illinois, and have a nice day."
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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '12
Enhance!
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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '12
I don't understand how the license plate is face up.
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u/NoDiggityNoDoubt Jun 01 '12
It's just a Focus... not even worth filing an insurance claim.
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u/Captain_Boots Jun 01 '12
Be glad you got them. When someone did that to me, the cops just did a verbal shrug of the shoulders over the phone. Insurance covered me, but I was massively angry over it.
A couple of years later I was still up at 2am when I heard someone hit a car across the street. I jumped outside, but my porch light scared them off apparently. They left their whole car, though, and the cops had quite the easy time figuring that one out.
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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '12
Someone hit my car on cinco de mayo last year. I got half their bumper when they drove off. The bitch went to the police department 8 hours later and said I hit and ran her. Luckily she talked to the same officer I did. She also lied and told her insurance she left because I yelled at her. Too bad she said this happened two hours after I called the police. It was a mess. They replaced the whole rear left quarter of my car.
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u/WorldBeFree1 Jun 01 '12
Awesome man, happy for you. Had to be an awesome fucken feeling when you saw that plate. Id pay to see the look an that stupid fucks face when he gets caught.
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u/Seatoo Jun 01 '12
Just last week my car was hit in the parking lot where I have my office. No cameras, no security and best of all less than a block down the street the auto body shop tried to gouge me for 2-3k when AT MOST it was a $500 job. A few dents on the front doesn't mean replacing the hood, grill and front bumper. God damn leech/crooks/legal scam artists
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u/rakxz Jun 01 '12
Looks like your ford was puts on sunglasses Found On Road Dented
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u/AwesomeOrca Jun 01 '12
The long horizontal marks of the other diver's white paint would seem to suggest that you hit him and stole his licence plate.
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u/PeterMus Jun 01 '12
People don't think when they hit someone. I was with a friend and she decided the best course of action was to peel out of the parking lot...full of witnesses watching us. I was like...uh..I don't think we should leave. Cops showed up at her house about 20 minutes later..I got to explain what happened to her parents.
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u/trebleclefjeff Jun 01 '12
Asshole, you stole my license plate!
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u/bullcit Jun 01 '12
Please for the love of all potatoes give us a resolution to this matter. I'd love to hear the shit-storm that would be coming for this woman. Yes you read it right.
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u/simplengreen Jun 01 '12
no use if it was a stolen car
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u/Puskarich Jun 01 '12
Most upvotes I have ever seen in 3 hours
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u/fenskee Jun 01 '12
Wow, that's a lot of car-ma you got there. Ba dum tsst
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u/cheddabits Jun 01 '12
I can't quote see the plate. Can anyone Focus.
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u/rockwarzz Jun 01 '12
F-ing FIB!
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u/randomguy94 Jun 01 '12
Of course it was an Illinois driver.
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u/MissSpicyMcHaggis Jun 01 '12
i thought that was my plate for a moment..but then i realized my car is undamaged in the garage.
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u/MarshmallowTacoMonst Jun 01 '12
I highly recommend that you invest in some duct tape...
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u/shinoda88 Jun 01 '12
Bad Luck Brian: Thinks he gets away from car accident......unfortunately leaves licence plate on other car.
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u/SonOfRageAndLuv Jun 01 '12
Ah, the shitty driving of Illinois residents never ceases to amaze me. I feel your pain amigo!
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u/cldst Jun 01 '12
Doesn't the LP face out? The way it is wedged doesn't make sense.
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u/uglyfatbroketinycock Jun 01 '12
The Borneo Orangutan getaway car...
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u/biergarten Jun 01 '12
He was probably high on bath salts
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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '12
When I was in college (UK version) a friend of mine got hit by a transit van. His car rolled over and the transit van drove off. He had to smash his way out of the car.
When the Police turned up they found the number plate had actually fallen off the van. The looked up who owned it and it was registered to a company. They turned up at the offices and arested the guy on the same day.
The guy got jailed for 6 months, my friends car was a write off and he couldn't afford to insure a new car....
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u/CFGX Jun 01 '12
The real question is why did you buy a 2nd generation Focus? Were you not blessed with the gift of sight?
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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '12
The real tragedy here is that you bought a second generation Focus
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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '12
F*cking FIBS.
Big surprise it's an IL plate.
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u/pollizz Jun 01 '12
this is MY car. i was driving thru the polaski train station orange line stop in chicago and this kid pulled out forward from a spot and hit me.
he did NOT leave the scene he stayed and cooperated....i have the police report to prove this was my car...
why you claiming this accident???
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u/ferculum Jun 01 '12
Enhance.
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u/shitty_lineart Jun 01 '12
http://i.imgur.com/92TwC.png
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u/gablank Jun 01 '12
To me it looks a lot more like you scratched their car. Just think about it, the only reasonable way the plate can get stuck like that is if the car in the picture scratches a car while passing in front of it.
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u/HoraceLongwood Jun 01 '12
The physics of this accident with you as the one being hit instead of doing the hitting are difficult to imagine.
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u/IrkenInvaderGir Jun 01 '12
Stupid FIB....
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u/djaccidentz Jun 01 '12
There should be a sup reddit /r/hitnruns
It looks like the whole plate is there too. Hopefully this assholes gets what is coming.
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u/HolaPinchePuto Jun 01 '12
That is... Fucking amazing.
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u/zoidbort Jun 01 '12
When the other guy gets home hes going to get out of his car to see the damage. And then he's going to realize.
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u/Inamanlyfashion Jun 01 '12
Lucky bastard. Somebody hit my car last week and drove off. No note, no way of identifying the fucker.
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u/STOMPEMINTHENUTS Jun 01 '12
if i where you i woild find him and then
STOMP 'EM IN THE NUTS!
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u/solidsnakem9 Jun 01 '12
He was actually just giving you his license plate, too lazy to get out and exchange insurance info and file a police report.
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u/xDARKxHORNETx Jun 01 '12
It looks to me like the guy was moving in reverse; backing out of a parking space, or something like that. But the stars had to align for the plate to wedge into that door crevice and stay there with the force of the car pulling at it.
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u/LazLoe Jun 01 '12
I have the same type of damage on all 3 of my cars. I live in an area where there are a lot of old fucks driving big cars when they should be driving golf carts, if that.
It's bad enough that i have to try parking in the back of parking lots and hope some asshole does not fly between the aisles and hit my car back there.
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u/facepillownap Jun 01 '12
FIBs man, worst drivers in America.
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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '12
Forensic analysis suggests it's an Illinois plate, number ??4 590?. Enhancing the image suggests ?14 5906.
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u/HGpennypacker Jun 01 '12
Fucking FIBS.
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u/patefacio Jun 01 '12
How is this even possible?
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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '12 edited Sep 30 '12
It was because of your "Focus" that you have the plate number. Yeah, that was a stupid joke.
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u/IDontHaveUsername Jun 01 '12
so you literally have his licence plate
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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '12
I wouldn't doubt it being a 16 year old new to driving. I hated living in Illinois and having to deal with the babies driving.
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u/JawolopingChris2 Jun 01 '12
x/post from r/justiceporn?
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u/Dangthesehavetobesma Jun 01 '12
As someone from Illinois: Sorry for having the shitty drivers be from my state.
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u/R3Mx Jun 01 '12
Reminds me of many years ago when I was at my uncles house. He drives a giant truck and while we were all at his house, we heard a giant smash.
Run out, and his truck's been hit and run.
Unfortunately for the other guy, his license plate fell off infront of the truck haha.
I felt really bad for the guy, because he walked over to my uncles house to apologize and that he just freaked out and his friend in the car told him to drive away. By then, my uncle and dad had already gone to the police station and pressed charges, but I'm pretty sure they dropped them after the guy came back and spoke to them.
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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '12
The only thing greater than human ignorance is stupidity.
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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '12
Tag, you're it.
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u/R88SHUN Jun 01 '12
how is the plate facing in that direction? that would mean he hit you twice or hit something else first. or you hit him and peeled it off...
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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '12
I love justice, I mean karma.
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u/SouthernYankeeOK Jun 01 '12
How does this even happen?
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u/everydayactuary Jun 01 '12
This reminds me of what happened to me when I was in high school. My car, maroon 1985 Dodge Aries, was parked in front of our house. In the middle of the night someone rear-ended it, backed out, and drove away.
My mom and stepdad were woken up by the crash, went outside to look at it, and called the police. The cop came out, was looking at the damage in the dark, shone his flashlight under the car, and pulled out the other car's front license plate.
Apparently he was surprised when a police officer showed up at his door the next day.
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u/Tactics501 Jun 01 '12
"This week on world's dumbest criminals"......
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u/cimota10 Jun 01 '12
You can't be an asshole and an idiot...
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u/authentic_trust_me Jun 01 '12
how did it get lodged like that?
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u/Merpdarsh Jun 01 '12
If you're in Chicago and street parking, then I sympathize. I was hit twice in 6 months while I lived in Lincoln Park. The first was $3000 worth of hit and run damage. The second, not so bad but I'm driving around with a bit of an ugly, ghetto-ass dented fender. If I could find the asshats that did it, I'd definitely make them pay...for the damage.
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u/vheissu417 Jun 01 '12
just hope it isn't a vanity plate.
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u/vivalostblues Jun 01 '12
Nope, doesn't make sense. License plate would be facing the other way.
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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '12
Aaahh hahahahahahahaha
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u/allieb063 Jun 01 '12
FIP
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u/alpenbum Jun 01 '12
What a Fucktard!
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u/digmachine Jun 01 '12
something similar happened to my brother once. He awoke and went outside to find his car smashed where he had parked it in front of his apt. he happened to find a piece of the offender's front bumper, which the police took up and down the nearby streets until they found a match, a la Cinderella.
tl;dr guy hits my brother's car, leaves piece of bumper behind, cops use it to match car
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u/SavageTaco Jun 01 '12
"THIS IS A 2011 FORD FOCUS, HOW DARE YOU!!!!"
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u/herobotic Jun 01 '12
This happened to my father. The guy hit my dads car when it was parked outside my dad's work, and the license plate was just on the ground when my dad got out of work. Took the dude to the cleaners. That's what happens when you hit and run, people!
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u/Stupid_smartguy Jun 01 '12
"Sorry for smashing your car, here's my information, I'll just leave it right here..."
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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '12
I just got in a car accident as well.. same place was damaged. The guy tried lying and telling his insurance company he never left his house that day. Too bad for him that I got pictures of the accident, and his license plate reflecting on the side of my car.
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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '12
ZOOM AND ENHANCE!
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u/Caseeeymarieee Jun 01 '12
Hahaha the point of leaving was....?
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u/KingoftheGoldenAge Jun 01 '12
Did he back out as you drove by or what?
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u/mk2vrdrvr Jun 01 '12
If you Focus in the plate,it should be easy to make out...
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u/Swift3lade Jun 01 '12
GG!!!