The top ten whacky excuses are:
1. Angry farmer – a driver who repeatedly annoyed a farmer by parking in front of a gate to his field, one day returned to find his car had been dragged into the field and his windscreen and roof smashed by an axe.
2. Squirrel – an innocent squirrel fell out of a tree and landed on the windscreen.
3. Lady’s stiletto – the high heel chipped the inside of a windscreen.
4. UFO - something fell from a plane.
5. Clay Pigeon – the skeet from a clay pigeon shoot hit the glass.
6. Deer - a deer left hoof shaped cracks on a windscreen as it jumped out of the way of an oncoming car (the deer survived.)
7. Mother-in-law – an angry mother-in-law wreaked havoc with a baseball bat.
8. Shelves – a stack of shelves went through the screen when a motorist hit the brakes.
9. Carwash brush – the big bristly brush turned a chip on the windscreen into a crack.
10. Is it a chip? - a customer called to arrange a chip repair and during the call, realised her son had stuck a sweet to the inside of the screen.
Source - tinyurl.com/68n77ys
No sniggering at the Autoglass® managing director's name either.
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Have been close to 6 - first deer we saw on Cannock Chase jumped across the bonnet as we were doing 35-40.
Still don't understand how we missed it.
All I saw was a brown blur.
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I broke the windscreen in SWMBO's Picasso at Christmas with the screen washers!
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>> No sniggering at the Autoglass® managing director's name either.
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Lucky he wasn't Paul.
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Nothing wrong with matthew.
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I think Pierce would be the name his parents wanted to avoid.
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had a waggon wheelbolt smash my screen a few years ago
i kept the bolt as it had landed on the scuttle
i now know what it feels like to see the bullet fired at you the millisecond before it penetrates the frontal lobe
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"8. Shelves – a stack of shelves went through the screen when a motorist hit the brakes."
Couple of years ago I came up behind an old saloon car on the A33, think it was a Lada. It was leaning so far over on the passenger side that the suspension must have been fully compressed on that side.
When I got closer I could see that he'd got three or four concrete fence posts in the back seat with their tips laid across the backrest of the passenger seat.
Obviously it wasn't his week for the braincell timeshare.
Kevin...
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Did you have to 'Post' that?
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...Did you have to 'Post' that?...
So long as no one takes o fence.
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>Did you have to 'Post' that?
I thought that Mr Mycock would appreciate some independent concrete evidence to support his top-ten list :-)
On another note, the A33 does seem to provide some amusement on my daily commute.
The weirdest thing I've seen was a Transit van doing about 15 to 20mph down the dual carriageway towards M4 J11 with a long line of cars overtaking at 70+mph.
As I went past, I saw that it was being towed by a horse! The poor animal was at a gallop and looked absolutely terrified.
Probably a Heathrow cab service.
Kevin...
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whacky windscreen damage excuses - IJWS14
