Me, I’m a vindictive bastard. I’d have paid for lawyer to help me talk to both the local district attorney and the state Attorney General. 

Hah. You are blacklisted from Turo... As if it’s not exactly the opposite situation where you’d never touch them again with a 30ft pole.

I’ve heard these Turo nightmares before. I’d love to see a class-action against them because you know this is some systematic bs. 

Broken down and stranded just like X

Every angle is stupid looking.

Agreed. It doesn’t even look like a “truck,” but more like a RAV4 someone put a body kit on. It has no ground clearance...

It’s stupid looking from all angles. 

Wow, Ive never seen it from that angle. That is stupid looking

And I’ll add, since you mention insurance fraud which this almost certainly is, the ironic thing is no insurance company would accept a $35K quote for this type of damage and this guy is under no obligation to accept that quote either. Guy 100% needs to get a very vindictive lawyer to go after this scammer.

I sincerely hope you told whomever was responsible for that invoice to eat a bag of dicks. 

Yoooo, Turo is hell. I have rented though them without any issues for a long time. Super pleasant until there was the one time where something went wrong. Turo 100% protects the hosts of the vehicles and loves damage claims because they stick 20% on top. Its free money to them and the more the hosts scam the more they…

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I fly literally all the time, and of course eat in restaurants ALL the time when I am travelling for work. I don’t find (sit-down) airport restaurants to be notably more expensive than the equivalent restaurant elsewhere in a given area. But I don’t buy booze in restaurants (I can’t expense booze, and for me it’s free…

Ooh, I hope he managed to shoehorn in a comment about absentee fathers in black households!

David Brooks whines about everything.

It’s time we make cops write checks from their personal accounts.

Just a few bad apples, right?

This. Car dealers don’t want EVs because they make most of their profit margin on service, not sales. They’re called stealerships for a reason - if they can’t overcharge the customer for something, or create a fault in some esoteric part of the suspension or drivetrain, they can’t make money. With EVs, the ability to…

I’d imagine that tactic would need to be reserved for people who you’ve already created some connection/rapport with. After a lengthy discussion, a handshake, or a pat on the shoulder on the way out. Not just rubbing your hands on them like a weirdo, but the kind of body language contact that you’d see amongst fiends.…

Here’s a Jedi mind trick I read about years ago that I SWEAR works like a charm: You are in conversation with someone who just won’t let you get a word in edgewise. You NOD EMPHATICALLY THREE TIMES and it stops them in their tracks. Maybe it’s mumbo-jumbo that gives me the confidence to interrupt a blow hard but it…