Posted on 09/24/2023 4:38:51 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
Poor actions always have poor consequences. Here’s an incident that revolves around similar plot!
A netizen recently asked, “Am I a jerk for suing my girlfriend after she had my 1967 Impala project taken to the scrapyard?”. We need you to find out!
The Original Poster (OP) had a 1967 Impala 4 door that he bought in Feb 2019. A couple of months ago he bought his first house that had a 2.5 acre car garage. OP moved the car in and started tearing it down for a complete restoration.
“I had the body in one bay and the chassis in another, plus the whole garage filled with parts.”, says OP.
About two months ago, OP’s girlfriend came to live with him during this whole crisis and the whole time has hated that car. She wants to park in the garage, but OP has 2 acres of land with a lot of nice places to park under shady trees or hell even in the barn if it has to be inside.
“I tell her tough luck it’s my house and it’s not like I can just throw it back together real quick.”, says OP.
Anyways, OP was out of town for a couple of days on a business trip for the small local company he works for.
When OP got back, his girlfriend was all smiles. Making him food all the time, doing all the chores, all that. OP thought maybe she was just happy to have him home but then he realized that he didn’t see her car in its usual spot.
OP asked her where she parked so he could make sure he mowed that area and keep it clean and she said not to worry because she parked in the garage. OP asked how and she told him to go check it out.
Turns out that while OP was gone, she hired some people to come over and move everything related to that car, including the drive-train, body, chassis and all parts, and take it to the local dump/scrapyard. OP was absolutely dumbfounded.
“I had spent over 11k on that car including new parts, services, and the car itself.”, says OP.
OP told her that he was going to be taking her to court for that and she brushed him off like he was being dramatic. OP told her that it was done between them and to pack her things and leave.
“I admit I was really angry but I did end up getting a lawyer. As I have all the receipts for all that money spent and I have her on my house’s security camera footage letting the guys in and watching them take it all I think I can win.”, says OP.
The girlfriend’s family and friends are absolutely blowing OP up saying it’s just a stupid old piece of junk that she cannot pay back all that money OP spent, and that he should just let it go.
“But I have been putting all my time, effort, and money into that car for a year and a half now and imagine now even getting justice for what she did. Am I a jerk?”, asks OP.
Not the jerk. Relationship-wise: this was a gross overstep on her part just to get her way on something minor. Ending the relationship immediately was the right thing to do.
Legal wise: Don’t destroy something you can’t afford to replace. Take her down, let her pay it off over the next few years.”
“Not the jerk. That is messed up and I can’t believe anyone is defending that behavior. I mean maybe if you were married for years and that stuff had been sitting around for like 10 years or something and it was also her house I could see an argument…but none of that is the case here. I would be livid. Wow just wow. Yeah unless she can get it all back somehow she owes you.”
or Longaberger...
He should sue the wreckers too if they picked up a vehicle without verifying ownership. I would think that if she did not hold a salvage title the wreckers should not have picked up the car.
“Sam and Dean will NOT be pleased.”
Especially Dean, or rather Jensen Ackles the actor who portrayed Dean.
When a TV series comes to an end the studio lets the actors take home a souvenir from the show. Ackles said he fell in love with the car at first sight.
When he heard the series would be ending he started lobbying to get the car. He was always told NO. The series filming was about to finish when someone gave him the magic YES.
When the filming stopped and everyone knew the car wouldn’t be needed again the studio handed him the title, he immediately had it loaded up and taken to his home.
The only thing different is the props aren’t in the trunk anymore.
I'm approaching Earth in my 2012 Hyundai, which has gone 215,000 miles and is still going strong.
So? It’s his choice.
To be honest with you, I can’t imagine a gear head sending a letter into a site like that asking if what he did was OK.......And if it is true and it was me, I would have gotten into my car and headed off to whoever it was who hauled my junk away after a call to the police.
If he loses the case, he still got out cheap because this would just have been the first in an endless series of these type of utterly selfish actions she would commit. She owes him for the money he spent plus car restoration rate labor costs.
So, she PAID people money to come take his property that they then kept??? If I were him, I'd find out who these people are and try to get MY property back! Ex-gf really messed up.
Assuming the story is true, which I suspect it isn't.......See my prior posts
This was an expensive lesson, but a drop in the bucket compared to what it would cost him if she had a child with him and dragged him through the courts after leaving with another man. He’s better off in spite of what it cost him.
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