100%.  I had a similar experience with what to the naked eye looked like a fender-bender.  Between airbags, tech and the proscribed repair procedures for the car, what appeared to be a few thousand of damages ended up in the mid-teens.  Car = totaled.

I found that the only leverage you have is not signing to release the car from the holding yard.  I was able to extract a few extra thousand from my insurance company by stretching out the process (a hassle, yes, but I also had a free rental for 30 days).  They REALLY want to clear the claims off their desks. 

Airbags all over the inside of the vehicle add a lot as well.  It costs something like $5,000 to replace them if they go off.  

I had a similar experience (well, my daughter did) in a VW Tiguan. It looked like a fender-bender, no airbags, but it also has to have the roof removed to fix a slight bend to the door frame. Three year-old car with what appears to be superficial damage, totaled.

All true, but I expect the other drivers in the area are pleased that someone this dumb and careless is off the streets.

Plus this courthouse appears to be in the middle of Ann Arbor, right next to the school.  I expect there was available bus service.

People talk about the DMV as a representative cross-section of humanity, but if you want to see real stupidity in action go sit in one of these courts for a morning.

Judges in these low-level courts have seen pretty much everything so I expect his poker face is well practiced at this point.

By attracting a whole lot of the never-Trump universe. She’s consistently polled ahead of Biden since before the primaries even started.

I really hope McHale shows up at the restaurant and tells Carmy he has to calm down, he’s acting like a nut.  

It’s definitely a bit better.  Whatever she does, it’s time to lay off any further work.  We don’t want a Courtney Cox situation on our hands.

I expect AF still draws pretty well, their shows are events.  Kinda surprised Tame Impala could fill an arena, though.

It’s still way up my list, just haven’t gotten to it yet.

And here I was thinking her face looked like it was finally starting to relax a little.  I guess everything’s relative.

Fair point, especially since Ticketmaster now also controls the secondary market.

You nailed it with the concessions.  The venues saw those ticket prices and were like “cut me in on that!!”  Beers are $15 and mixed drinks $20.  

Can’t believe it took someone this long. Bye bye, Enormodome.

Yep. I’d go see them (although maybe not in a stadium) if it was part of a night out as opposed to a major financial event. $500 for my wife and I to get a couple of shitty seats and a few drinks?  Hard pass.

Well okay, problem solved and tour’s back on!!

Count me among those who knows and likes the band but was not aware they’d even released a new album. I surf up and down the various XM rock channels and don’t recall hearing anything new from them. So this isn’t the most surprising news. El Camino was 13 (!!) years ago.