Cheech

We had a Director at my old gig who was here from England, he said he originally came in as a H1B. Not sure if he ever got his green card or not, but I do know they bounced him around the US a while. As long as your employed by your sponsor company, I think you're OK.

I quoted it out for Brisbane, renting a bike and associated gear is something along the lines of AUS$350 per day. Pretty spicy if you ask me.

FUCK YES. I'd love to go to NZ. Funny story, when I was in Brisbane I went out with Brit, a Kiwi, and a native Aussie. The Kiwi was the only one who couldn't hold his liquor.

Would you people just hire me already? Jeez, I already work right down the street from you... Flounder's got me beat. Longest was Columbus - Atlanta - LAX - Sydney - Brisbane. LAX to Sydney was about 14.5 hours, in coach. At least Virgin Blue in Australia has hot flight attendants and they allow you to enter and leave the plane from the front AND back entrances.

Bingo. You've done your due diligence and then some, Brian. If this has his heart set on a Busa, and he has the means to get one, a Busa is probably what he'll end up with. This is why a "spirited ride" as a rear won't work. He'll immediately equate his riding "ability" on a quad to the guy in the front who's driving the bike. It always looks easy until you try and do it yourself. This would be the preferred method of deterrence, I know I wouldn't have been able to shoulder a 3K/yr insurance bill at 17. However, if he doesn't have any respect for the law, who's to say he's going to carry insurance at all? And if he blows his wad on the bike, who's to say he's planning to buy gear at all? Bottom line, Brian, is that you've done all you can for him. You can try to have his parents take control of his finances to the point where he couldn't move around the 5K necessary to buy one, but all you can do is make the consequences of his decision known to him.

I see two issues with this: How, exactly, would you enforce a clawback of that type from your employee? Wouldn't that be a violation of labor laws if it wasn't a willful fraud perpetuated on the company by the employee? Second, wouldn't reporting the car as stolen even though you have a valid sales contract fall under filing a false police report?

If that was true, then everyone with car alarms is shouldering a pretty major liability. I think what's being said here is discharging a flashbang, or any flashbang substitute could be intent to cause bodily harm.

I will reiterate that asking LEO's for advice does not in any way give you a defense to wrap yourself in in court. Law enforcement is not the judiciary. That being said... Since the criminals themselves aren't being induced by the State to break into his car, what other definition of entrapment is there? I would think that after 2 break-ins, you would be able to prove a pattern of criminal activity prior to using a lure like leaving marked bills in plain view. Scruit and redkow's right as usual on the rest. If whatever you do or set up causes lasting physical or even psychological damage to the assholes, that's something that they (if they think of doing it) can take you to civil (you're liable for the damage that was inflicted) or worse case, criminal court (intentional battery). Only way you're going to get these guys is if you set up a shitload of cameras and get a PD that's willing to go after them, or if you set up something similar to "Bait Car" where they are locked inside of the car after they've broken into it.

I'm going to assume you meant $1100, otherwise I call immediate dibs and I'll be there with cash in hand tonight.

That depends. Are you here to perform circumcisions?

paging Parks to the thread...

Don't hate me because I'm beautiful, hate me because I'm right. Seriously, it can be a scary thing getting nasty calls from salesman and dealerships making demands on a car that you just bought. High-pressure sales can be used for extortion as well, and if the dealership is already shady enough that they are resorting to stuff like that to get the car back over $1000, something tells me they are being less than truthful on the phone to the customer as to the consequences of not complying with the dealer's demands. Couple that with someone who doesn't know any better or is too scared to look up their rights in this situation, and they'll fold pretty quick.

So you would trust the service department that just destroyed your clutch and is only accommodating you because you caught them to fix everything and make you whole from their fuckup? Again, what if something happens later on that you could reasonably attribute to this incident, like a synchro shredding or something to that extent? Would you trust that they would fix that as well? If it were me, either they buy the car back, or I bring it to a shop of my choosing where they (the dealer) will pay to have the tranny/engine ripped apart and every worn part that can be pinned back to this be replaced. My guess is buying the car back might be cheaper.

...I have the weirdest boner right now...

Well, at least we know that the unborn kid, if he/she is actually brought to term, will never know that kind of abuse.

I see his viewpoint, though. If these guys banged on his car so hard that the fried the clutch, who knows what other ancillary damage was done? The article says they were doing hard launches (and I could be showing my lack of info on internal tranny workings), maybe there's some synchro damage or something to that effect. From a owner's standpoint, this is a tainted car. Would you, as the owner, really trust the same service department to make sure that they fixed all the issues surrounding this incident, and not just replace the clutch, do something to make that rattle go away, and get you and the car out of the garage as quickly as possible so you cease to be their problem?

Dammit Scruit, I had this legal discussion!

There are only 3 reasons in Ohio contract law that a contract can be voided, duress, a unconscionable mistake, and fraud. In your example, I can't imagine any court, small claims or otherwise, would consider a $1000 variance on the price of a $20,000 car (I'm assuming it's new-ish) to be a "unconscionable" mistake that makes the deal grossly unfair to the dealer. $10,000? Sure thing, that puppy's getting thrown out. If your people lawyered up like this guy in the article, they'd at minimum kept their car. There is no "three day cooling-off period" in Ohio at least, that you can rescind your contract with a car dealership. Once you sign, assuming all other contingencies like financing have been locked down and you take delivery of the vehicle, you just bought yourself a car.

Verbal doesn't mean shit. He was given a contract offer for the listed price and he accepted. No one was under duress, there wasn't a egregious mistake in the contract that would make it unenforceable (like if they sold the car for 3,339 instead of 33,339, a reasonable and voidable error). That's a valid contract.

False equivalence. When I go to Enterprise (because fuck Hertz, that's why ) to rent a car, ownership and title does not change hands. The contract presented to me by the dealer (with numbers that the dealer has agreed to by virtue of presenting me with the contract) states that all ownership of said vehicle is transferred to me, or in case of lease transferred to the leasing bank. Now that being said, I have first-hand witnessed someone sign a "contract" for a used car that they did not have financing locked-down on, essentially "borrowing" it. Financing didn't go through (they never even talked to the F&I guy as he just left for vacation), and they ended up bringing the car back (and not happy about it). Since that's not what happened here, this exception doesn't apply. Once you have ironclad bank approval, the F&I guy signs off that financing has been executed (which didn't happen in my exception example), and you sign on the dotted line, that's a done deal. Just because Chevy is offering that 60-day return policy for it's customers doesn't mean that the same applies for the dealers. I hope this guy enjoys his new pile of money.

more FWD:Fwd:FWD:FWD:Fwd:FWD:Fwd:FWD:FWD:Fwd:FWD:Fwd:FWD:FWD:Fwd: nonsense bullshit. Yay. Seriously noobs, take that shit to FreeRepublic. At least there you'll have an echo chamber.

bonus points for use of the word "scrog"

Honestly we're pretty good in net, our goalie's been very good to us. Thanks though!

Seeing as the boot's a pretty rigid shell surrounding your ankle, pretty hard actually.

I've been on skates ever since I was a kid, but I haven't started playing in beer leagues until about 2003. Cost of entry is a little high to get all the gear, but it's fun as hell once you get started. If you're interested, there's probably a spot for a sub opening up on our team for next session in the Winter.