@LuckyChuck asks, What's the opposite of oppositelock?: You are correct and thanks for saying it.

If your carpenter pulls up in one of these add some zeros to the check you're writing.

@harvey_birdman: I was not present so I can't verify first-hand, but my ex-stepfather told me the story the day it happened, not years later. To my mind that greatly reduces the chances of it being urban legend. I reduced the story to its basic elements in the interest of brevity.

@black_peter: That's why you turn.

@albertotorresr.1001: I think they were more worried about the harm done by the story getting on the news.

My ex-stepfather worked sales at a CT Subaru dealership in the '80s. One day a retired state trooper came in and tried to buy a new 4-door and a used 2-door with a stack of placemats that had $100-off coupons on them. The sales manager threw a fit, the trooper asked to use the phone and in 5 minutes the local news…

I drove a 944S once, it was slower than my '88 E150 5.0 van. ,

My inner hooligan is thrilled but my inner bicyclist is horrified. Hooligan wins.

We don't need no thought control.

@Ash78, special Caucasian: There's been more than one President who went to law school?

@ryszard: That's what I was thinking.

@GuardDuck: Wait, did you find baby pigeons being wacked on the 'tube? It's the end of civilization.

@GuardDuck: I wasn't sold until your baby pigeon remark; now I know you're right.

@t('-'t): I would have given it a 9 but he didn't flip it so we could read his t-shirts and stuff; 8 it is.

@Fergie24: I believe it depends on how the building is wired, ie if each apartment has its own separate breaker panel they would probably work.

'73 911 for $2'500. It had a crappy faux ducktail spoiler and needed new leather on the driver's seat. And tires. And probably a bunch of other stuff. But it was a 911...

@Necroscope: I understand how insurance works, and the FD system there isn't insurance, it's a fixed fee for a fixed service. Granted some fires will cost more than others to put out, but they'll be more in-line price-wise than the costs of say a scraped bumper vs. a fatal crash. Seeing as the equipment and personnel…

@Necroscope: I gotcha, but why they wouldn't accept the $75 at the scene I don't understand.

In cities and towns that pay for the FD with taxes, I'm pretty sure they'll put out your house fire even if you're behind. It's not the FD's job to keep track of who paid and who didn't.

@tundraboy: Sure, accepting the premium on the spot would expose an insurance company to a potentially much greater loss, but the $75 is a fee, not insurance; heck, AAA let me renew when my battery died, and then they sent someone to give me a jump start...