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15 hours ago, Jan van Eck said:

This is known as a "Bad Faith Insurance Settlement Practice."  My guess is that the insurer was either Allstate, State Farm or Nationwide, the worst offenders out there when it comes to bad-faith settlement practices.  The insurer has what is known as "an Utmost duty of care" to you as they are your Insurer, and I would argue that, by the receipt and exchange of confidential information, they are also your Fiduciary.  All that places great burdens on the insurer to engage in good-faith claims settlement, and generally they would have 90 days to settle your claim. 

Personally I would sue the insurer, in multiple counts alleging bad faith claims settlement practices, breach of fiduciary duties, unjust enrichment  (they took your car), breach of contract, and engaging in those acts and practices with scienter.  Then I would ask for the value of buying a spanking new car, plus the sales taxes, as damages, special damages, exemplary and punitive damages, costs, and a reasonable attorney fee on an attorney-client basis.  I would also toss in a claim for Unfair Trade Practices Act violations, assuming your State does not carve out an exemption for that from liability  (some states exempt banks and insurers from UTPA violations).   Any jury that hears this story is going to totally hammer the insurer. 

Why would they take the car?  If they are rejecting the claim, they would also reject surrender of the car.  That part is puzzling.  Get someone who will go the distance and retire on the proceeds.  Insurers like that are pond scum. Kick their ass. 

P.S.  You are a lot cooler than I am.  If I were in that situation I would have ... well, you figure that out.   Scum of the planet. 

   The insurer is SF, funny they were on your list, and they have treated me like I did this to my own vehicle all along. Since the punks slammed into my car three separate times, they decided to make three separate claims. I received two of the estimates for the repairs and have never even seen the third one(I have asked to see it on several occasions) and they will not produce it for me to see. They sent me an e-mail the day they decided that I was now to be responsible for the "storage costs" of having the car sit at the dealer, so i took off work a little early that day and ran down to the repair shop to release the vehicle to them, at which point the estimator told me that they don't charge storage fees to SF, so it was just another ploy for them to get my car. I know for sure they can make most of their money back on parting out the mechanical systems on the car, everything worked great, so I think they have probably parted the car out, and I still have the title for it in my safe. Then they sent me an e-mail telling me that because it had been so long and they had not received a police report that they were going to let the matter drop. I can't get a response from the police, I have e-mailed the officer on multiple occasions and nothing....So I went out after two weeks and bought a Suburban so I wouldn't be racking up rental charges. I even called them and asked them to go ahead and settle the claim out and we would take care of the difference when the police finally did come out with a report. That means they would have been laying the blame on me, three incidents, each with a 1000.00 dollar deductible(250.00 each if the blame goes to the other driver), and the only thing that has  has happened since is an e-mail basically telling me "F-off". Had no problems collecting the premiums though..... My girl friend is now urging me to find a lawyer to at least find out what my rights are. We had let this float for so long because the police were telling us that reports from February would not be available until at least July.

   I also want to sue the dash cam mfg, the stupid thing had ten 30 minute blocks of me driving down the highway, nothing from when I was slammed into three times. I figured out that it wouldn't store the settings that were there when I set it up initially if it lost power, no battery to keep those settings, and I had just replaced the battery about a week before the incident. Kind of ironic, those punks wanted that cam, they did not want to have video evidence of them causing the accident or probably driving a stolen vehicle. 

   And through all of this, the Sync decided in the middle of all of this to pull it's tricks and just not connect up to my phone, so I want to talk about suing Ford/Microsoft for that one. The one time I really needed that to work and I had to manually reconnect the system while trying to get away from those punks, trying to make sure I wasn't going to cause an accident with anyone else while cutting around traffic to get away. I understand there are actions already hitting the courts for this exact issue....

   I just want everyone to understand, carrying a firearm around with you is a GREAT responsibility, and when the time comes, will you be willing to use it? You will think of things you never thought of before.....

   If I had known then what I know now, there would have been three bodies lying on the ground when the police did finally show up. This has done a lot of damage to my financial situation... I am pretty sure they would have shown a rap sheet on those punks with a long history of ignorance and stupidity.

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23 hours ago, Jan van Eck said:

At the risk of being pedantic, your Springfield contains the ammunition in  a magazine.  A "clip" is as in the picture I supplied above, where the ends of the cartridge fit into a mating groove in an open holder.  A magazine has the rounds fully enclosed and they are pushed into position with a spring underneath a floating plate inside. One aspect of the magazine is that it can be swapped out for an extended-capacity magazine, such as the one in the picture below, without any changes to the gun itself.  Incidentally, these are banned in Vermont, considered unnecessary for the purpose of that gun and thus inherently dangerous to society. Not needed in a rural society, no gangs of criminals coming at you if you are a single woman........

 

Again, one of the most unfortunate aspects of urban life is these gangs of criminals that prey upon the unarmed.  You get that in Sao Paulo and in Capetown, to the nth degree.  The defense measure is the high-capacity magazine  (and the ability to use it effectively against the vicious criminals).  All of that is in an urban setting, excepting perhaps India, where predators rape and murder young women constantly.  They do that because the State is impotent to administer any effective punishment.  Another good reason not to go there. 

Jan,

Generally a ‘clip’ in internal to the weapon while a ‘magazine’ is external. Therefore this man’s Springfield is likely supplied with the original ‘clip’. 

Once you go aftermarket and get essentially an extended ‘clip’ which extends (externally) below the butt of the weapon, it would be called a ‘magazine’ as n the ad shown.

This is simply symantics as each device feeds rounds to the chamber.

You would change ‘clips’ in a Colt 1911 .45, you would change ‘magazines’ in a Thompson .45 submachine gun.

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16 hours ago, Tom Kirkman said:

Earlier:

 

https://mobile.twitter.com/BlazeTV/status/1171830331902758912

Won't be much longer and the lefties will be denying anything happened on 9/11. They are already running around touting that the holocaust was a farce, the Soviets and Chinese didn't kill off millions of their own people, WW2 was nothing more than white imerialism in action etc, etc, etc. And if they think they are going to push that socialist crap on us and take all our guns away, we will become America's deadliest terrorists just as they are seeming to want. 300-600 million guns mostly in the hands of conservatives, trillions of rounds of ammunition against people that need comfort animals and aren't sure what bathroom they should go to. That will go well for them lol....

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They forgot to mention being illegal in New Orleans as well....lol. People say the stupidest things

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A couple kinda make sense.

If I ''carried her openly'' I'd be in hospital.

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5 hours ago, SERWIN said:

   If I had known then what I know now, there would have been three bodies lying on the ground when the police did finally show up. This has done a lot of damage to my financial situation... I am pretty sure they would have shown a rap sheet on those punks with a long history of ignorance and stupidity.

If you would kill 3 people over some damage to your car, then you are a prime example of a person who should not have guns.  Frankly the gun had nothing to do with your story (you responsibly didn't use it and came out safe without needing it).

Your car is replaceable.

#BlackLivesMatter (only say that because you mentioned they were black several times...).

Sounds like you could use some government assistance to help you through this time of need. Socialism saves lives. Haha

Edited September 13, 2019 by Enthalpic

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30 minutes ago, Enthalpic said:

If you would kill 3 people over some damage to your car, then you are a prime example of a person who should not have guns.  Frankly the gun had nothing to do with your story (you responsibly didn't use it and came out safe without needing it).

Your car is replaceable.

#BlackLivesMatter (only say that because you mentioned they were black several times...).

Sounds like you could use some government assistance to help you through this time of need. Socialism saves lives. Haha

The car is replaceable, but I am not, the whole problem is they were willing to hurt me to get that dash cam and they didn't care how they got it, and yes, they were black. Is that racist? What should I tell the police? They were dark skinned or had a really deep tan? #BlackLivesMatter is a bunch of crap dreamed up by some loser that wanted to make money off of other black people, MLK did more in a couple of years than they will ever accomplish, and he never blocked roadways, held violent demonstrations, etc. MLK was a great man, BLM is nothing but a bunch of punks, kind of like Sheila Jackson Lee is a horrible excuse of a congresswoman. And I don't want my government to help me with the exception of getting punks off the streets for good, throw away the key

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1 hour ago, Enthalpic said:

If you would kill 3 people over some damage to your car, then you are a prime example of a person who should not have guns.  Frankly the gun had nothing to do with your story (you responsibly didn't use it and came out safe without needing it).

 

No, I would kill someone that was assaulting me though, which is exactly what was happening. They came up to my window and were hitting me. They rammed me three times with a jeep. Yeah, I probably should have, if for no other reason than to ensure they couldn't ever do that to someone else. Maybe next time they could be assaulting your wife or daughter... People like this are useless to society, and sticking them in a jail cell doesn't fix that, it has to be from within themselves. And if you've ever had to listen to the whining when a BLACK person is killed by a white person here in the US, you really get sick of hearing about it. Especially when it is found that the dead person has a rap sheet from when they were kids, nothing has discouraged them from a life of crime. But no one whines when a black person kills another black person, and that happens a LOT in Houston and it seems to be just fine. A woman was killed because two black kids had an argument on the side of the road, and one of those idiots pulled out a gun that he was not supposed to have(felon) and fired off some rounds. One of those rounds blew the back window out of a passing SUV and struck a little old lady, killing her in the seat beside her husband. He didn't even realize she had been struck and killed until he got pulled over. No one is whining about that one with outrage, that seems to be just fine. But we have to listen to the complaining when some useless crud gets killed during his last escapade. There also seems to be this common misconception that black people can't be racist themselves. What a bunch of crap that is.....

And I'll tell you what, you sit in a small car while some useless piece of crap is ramming into you and see how you feel about it, and then find out your insurance that you have been paying for YEARS without ever having filed a claim decides they are going to ignore you when you need them. I would have been defending myself from bodily harm. In Texas it has been decided that when a useless piece of crap decides they have the right to do whatever they want to you, you also have rights. Stand your ground means you do not have to run away if you are being attacked, you have just as much of a right to be there as anyone else does, and that loser has no right to be attacking you. 

And I'll also tell you this. I held my first wife's hand while she died in a hospital, do that and please tell me you will be the same person you were a year ago. Basic respect for human life has a new meaning afterwards, but those three, they didn't give a crap about anything but their needs, and they had willfully decided they were just going to take what they wanted from whomever they could. Scum on the bottom of whale turds.

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So the Democrat's debate in Houston went really well...

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5 hours ago, SERWIN said:

They forgot to mention being illegal in New Orleans as well....lol. People say the stupidest things

Hey! But she impressed her friends with a clever placard!!!

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10 minutes ago, Tom Kirkman said:

So the Democrat's debate in Houston went really well...

Well that’s typical...asking for money.

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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-neo-nazi-white-supremacist-hate-groups-southern-poverty-law-centre-a8222351.html  

Neo-Nazi and white supremacist groups have multiplied under Trump, report finds. Harsh immigration rhetoric has invigorated hate groups, study says

Yep. If in doubt ...

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3 hours ago, SERWIN said:

 

No, I would kill someone that was assaulting me though, which is exactly what was happening. They came up to my window and were hitting me. They rammed me three times with a jeep. Yeah, I probably should have, if for no other reason than to ensure they couldn't ever do that to someone else. Maybe next time they could be assaulting your wife or daughter... People like this are useless to society, and sticking them in a jail cell doesn't fix that, it has to be from within themselves. And if you've ever had to listen to the whining when a BLACK person is killed by a white person here in the US, you really get sick of hearing about it. Especially when it is found that the dead person has a rap sheet from when they were kids, nothing has discouraged them from a life of crime. But no one whines when a black person kills another black person, and that happens a LOT in Houston and it seems to be just fine. A woman was killed because two black kids had an argument on the side of the road, and one of those idiots pulled out a gun that he was not supposed to have(felon) and fired off some rounds. One of those rounds blew the back window out of a passing SUV and struck a little old lady, killing her in the seat beside her husband. He didn't even realize she had been struck and killed until he got pulled over. No one is whining about that one with outrage, that seems to be just fine. But we have to listen to the complaining when some useless crud gets killed during his last escapade. There also seems to be this common misconception that black people can't be racist themselves. What a bunch of crap that is.....

And I'll tell you what, you sit in a small car while some useless piece of crap is ramming into you and see how you feel about it, and then find out your insurance that you have been paying for YEARS without ever having filed a claim decides they are going to ignore you when you need them. I would have been defending myself from bodily harm. In Texas it has been decided that when a useless piece of crap decides they have the right to do whatever they want to you, you also have rights. Stand your ground means you do not have to run away if you are being attacked, you have just as much of a right to be there as anyone else does, and that loser has no right to be attacking you. 

And I'll also tell you this. I held my first wife's hand while she died in a hospital, do that and please tell me you will be the same person you were a year ago. Basic respect for human life has a new meaning afterwards, but those three, they didn't give a crap about anything but their needs, and they had willfully decided they were just going to take what they wanted from whomever they could. Scum on the bottom of whale turds.

Serwin,

You are a better man than I. I’d have shot them (as long as I was legally maintaining the ‘veil of innocence’. For those who don’t know what that is...look it up.

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I have a funny feeling that's directed at me. But yes, agreed. 

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2 minutes ago, DayTrader said:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-neo-nazi-white-supremacist-hate-groups-southern-poverty-law-centre-a8222351.html  

Neo-Nazi and white supremacist groups have multiplied under Trump, report finds. Harsh immigration rhetoric has invigorated hate groups, study says

Yep. If in doubt ...

Perhaps they are not neo-Nazi-white-supremacists but your run of the mill white folks who are tired of being the whipping boy for every perceived social ill!

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1 minute ago, DayTrader said:

I have a funny feeling that's directed at me. But yes, agreed. 

It wasn’t...

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3 minutes ago, Douglas Buckland said:

your run of the mill white folks

No, no. It's his harsh immigration rhetoric. They are invigorated. 

4 minutes ago, Douglas Buckland said:

It wasn’t

Haha ok, just wondered buddy

 

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Those damned white folks are getting invigorated as well!

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11 hours ago, Enthalpic said:

Sounds like you could use some government assistance to help you through this time of need. Socialism saves lives. Haha

There is nothing funny about what Serwin has described. 

11 hours ago, Enthalpic said:

If you would kill 3 people over some damage to your car, then you are a prime example of a person who should not have guns.  Frankly the gun had nothing to do with your story (you responsibly didn't use it and came out safe without needing it).

Since this is an oil forum and not a locus for discussion about guns, I shall not comment further except to note that you are being beyond absurd.  Had Serwin not been able to demonstrate that pistol, he would be dead today.  It becomes apparent that, living in your polite cocoon of Canadian society, outside Toronto where this sort of thing now also happens, you have no real experience with murderous urban violence.  What do you think, that scum was crashing into his car because they wanted to shake hands?  That is not how it works.  He has pulled into a refuelling station and the scum is viciously ramming into him in a fashion guaranteed to turn him into a cripple, or to kill him.  The original intent was to rob; the current intent was to kill.  You just don't get it.  Houston is a violent place, and the police are thin and basically ineffective.  The scum learns that this is what they can do, and being total scum, they go out there and do it. 

Had I been placed in that position, I can assure you that Houston would now be minus three members of its predator class. Period.   The other place where this ramming from behind stunt is done big-time is in Miami, outside the Int'l airport, where rental cars are rammed late at night when the flights from Europe have arrived.   Those tourists are prime targets, they are now arrivals and thus flush with cash, they are totally unsuspecting, they pull over on what is a deserted sub- or stub- section of road  (airport into the I-95 sub), so there they are, rich, naive, all alone.  There are cases of German tourists being murdered by the armed predator gangs, the police find the bodies next to the rental car. The thieves also know the tourists in the rental cars don't have guns.  Nice juicy target.  Their life?  Not even interesting.  Live or die, who cares, better off dead, no witnesses. 

You, sitting up in Canada, just don't get it. It has nothing to do with the damage to the car, it has to do with killing you, first to rob your corpse, second to make sure nobody can identify them.  They arrive; no gun, you are dead.  Try to focus on that.

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typing error

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6 hours ago, Douglas Buckland said:

Serwin,

You are a better man than I. I’d have shot them (as long as I was legally maintaining the ‘veil of innocence’. For those who don’t know what that is...look it up.

I would have shot them, veil or no veil.  If you have ever been shot at in an urban setting, where the shooter is attempting to kill you, you would not hesitate either.  The round struck the wall behind my head about three inches high and to the left.  He was a total moron; couldn't even shoot straight. 

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I think that would be covered under the ‘veil of innocence’ Jan...🤔

As those silly Texans say, ‘Better to be judged by twelve than carried by six’.

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17 hours ago, SERWIN said:

 

No, I would kill someone that was assaulting me though, which is exactly what was happening. They came up to my window and were hitting me.

I've been mugged and beaten up for no reason before.  It sucks but I don't think it gives me the right to be judge, jury, and executioner for assault and petty robbery.

Really you should have just given them the vehicle.  If it's completely gone insurance would pay out easier than damages.

Defending stuff with your life is foolish, especially insured stuff.

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8 hours ago, Jan van Eck said:

There is nothing funny about what Serwin has described. 

Since this is an oil forum and not a locus for discussion about guns, I shall not comment further except to note that you are being beyond absurd.  Had Serwin not been able to demonstrate that pistol, he would be dead today.  It becomes apparent that, living in your polite cocoon of Canadian society, outside Toronto where this sort of thing now also happens, you have no real experience with murderous urban violence.  What do you think, that scum was crashing into his car because they wanted to shake hands?  That is not how it works.  He has pulled into a refuelling station and the scum is viciously ramming into him in a fashion guaranteed to turn him into a cripple, or to kill him.  The original intent was to rob; the current intent was to kill.  You just don't get it.  Houston is a violent place, and the police are thin and basically ineffective.  The scum learns that this is what they can do, and being total scum, they go out there and do it. 

Had I been placed in that position, I can assure you that Houston would now be minus three members of its predator class. Period.   The other place where this ramming from behind stunt is done big-time is in Miami, outside the Int'l airport, where rental cars are rammed late at night when the flights from Europe have arrived.   Those tourists are prime targets, they are now arrivals and thus flush with cash, they are totally unsuspecting, they pull over on what is a deserted sub- or stub- section of road  (airport into the I-95 sub), so there they are, rich, naive, all alone.  There are cases of German tourists being murdered by the armed predator gangs, the police find the bodies next to the rental car. The thieves also know the tourists in the rental cars don't have guns.  Nice juicy target.  Their life?  Not even interesting.  Live or die, who cares, better off dead, no witnesses. 

You, sitting up in Canada, just don't get it. It has nothing to do with the damage to the car, it has to do with killing you, first to rob your corpse, second to make sure nobody can identify them.  They arrive; no gun, you are dead.  Try to focus on that.

The joke was about socialism, not his incident.  I strongly believe he is suffering, due to circumstances out of his control, and because of that holds onto more anger than necessary.

"Polite cocoon of Canada" a.k.a the land of gun control.  I live in Edmonton, the city alone has about 300,000 more people than the state of Vermont and plenty of crime to go along (Alberta is a "red" state, like as in dumb rednecks).

That's why you always give up the stuff instead of making it a "robbery turned bad." I would kill over a life or rape, that's about it - Not Money ever.  Insured money to boot.

Give them the stuff, and then kill them if they still go for your life.

Edited September 14, 2019 by Enthalpic

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18 minutes ago, Enthalpic said:

The joke was about socialism, not his incident.  I strongly believe he is suffering, due to circumstances out of his control, and because of that holds onto more anger than necessary.

That's why you always give up the stuff instead of making it a "robbery turned bad." I would kill over a life and rape, that's about it - Not Money ever.  Insured money to boot.

Look, Canada, the cases of the German tourists are not a "robbery gone bad."  You just don't get it. The killing is purely wanton.  The tourists have no idea what is happening, they are peaceful people from an unarmed country.  The killers just kill them without compunction.  They don't care if that tourist lives or dies, not even interesting, they kill because they like it.  Who is going to stop them?  You? 

The police cannot stop them except by pure happenstance.  The police are a "reactive" force; they show up when called.  Nobody calls them because the tourists are shot.  The killers just laugh about it.  The lack of any response just emboldens them.  It will go on until the killers are shot, that is the reality.  You just don't get it.  AMAZING.  I invite you to emigrate to some city in South Africa, say Jo'burg or Capetown, and see for yourself how this ends up.  Armed gangs everywhere.  You pull into your driveway and the criminals rush into your garage to kill you and rob  you.  You cannot even stand on the public sidewalk in front of your own house without getting robbed and shot.  You think sitting in your car and having some gang ramming you is not to be resisted?  You are living in dreamland.  Wake up and get real.  Places such as Miami and Houston are violent.  They will kill you in an instant and not even think about it.  You are not visiting Saskatoon.  Or Moncton. Or Val d'Or.  Do try to focus on that. 

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