I’ve been offline for a few days. My broadband was being upgraded then it all stopped working. But I’m back now, on a shinny new speedier connection too.

So this weekend my car acquired air conditioning thanks to a couple of local crack-heads. At around noon on Saturday two crack-heads were walking past my car which was parked on my street, when they saw a four pack of Guinness on the front seat. Being smacked out of what remains of their brains, they decided that it was an entirely reasonable thing to do to slash the roof of my convertible to get into the car are steal the Guinness and other beer that was rather foolishly on display.

Unfortunately for them the roof wasn’t all that easy to get into so they had three attempts at getting into the car. The final attempt involved the girl kneeling on the floor while the guy used her to step onto the back of the car and then tear the roof and lean into the vehicle to retrieve the beer. To his delight, no doubt, there was my wallet also, so that was also taken.

Eye witnesses saw what happened but claimed they didn’t realise what was actually happening until it was too late. Reasonable I suppose, I mean the sheer gal of this crime at midday is unbelievable. The Police were not able to find the thieves who caused several thousand dollars of damage to the car in order to get a $6 pack of beer!

On the upside, the car did actually kind of need a new roof, and I am taking this opportunity to upgrade the roof to the sleeker, sexier (heated glass rear windowed) Sportster model. Plus I am also getting the back of the car re-sprayed and the scratches repaired, the inside refinished and cleaned and the who car polished courtesy of the insurance company who will also be renting a car for me while the work is done. And I figured I might as well get a rear wind deflector too so that the air doesn’t rush back into the car when the roof is down. So in a way, the crack-heads have kind of done me a favor here. I just hope they don’t feel an encore is in order.

My car before the damage
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