Δαφνη Ευτυχια Αρθουρος

Several blocks away, someone [stole|borrowed] the keys to his girlfriend's car or his girlfriend's mother's car (I'm a little fuzzy on that point), spectacularly demolished my next door neighbour's Miata, narrowly missed winding up in my across-the-street neighbour's living room, then backed into another neighbour's car while getting off the sidewalk and getting pointed along the street again, and finally swerved across the street one last time to clobber my car before swerving back onto the right side of the street and turning the wrong way down a one-way street at my corner. He later parked that car neatly on the same block he'd taken it from, and put three bullets in it (apparently in a harebrained attempt to make it look as though something other than his wrecking it had happened). Last I heard (late in the morning) the police had found him and had gotten a written statement that "didn't match what happened on Lombard St." (I don't think he knew how many of us looked out our windows and watched after that first impact got our attention -- or maybe he was too drunk to remember what had happened) and were looking for two other guys he'd talked about in his statement.

(The fourth parked car was the wagon moved six feet up the street by the Mazda being crushed into it -- it looks like the crumple zones at both ends of the Mazda protected the wagon.)

The tires all look right, but I'll check with a pressure guage in the morning. It looks like he struck my left front wheel as well as the surrounding fender. At this point, a bent frame or Unibody, bent or broken steering/suspension parts, a bent wheel, or merely the alignment being knocked askew all seem equally likely to my very inexpert self, and I've got my fingers crossed hoping it's the cheapest of those. Hey, if it does turn out to be one of the tires, that'll be even cheaper.