[A knight without armor]

"........my car is devouring me. "

You have the funniest story here. All I can see is Basil Fawlty stopped by a cop.


On the other hand, the policeman may have had a very serious situation for all he knew. Experts tell us to disable tail lights if we are ever kidnapped and stuffed in a trunk. Ok, I know you said you were in a hatchback, but still you could have had some victim in there. I'm glad he stopped you just for that caution.

[Darksheare]

What was even better, the tail lights blew out due to there being a stack of full 2 liter soda bottles in the trunk that I'd had to grab for someone for a birthday party or some such.
And when I made the turn, they slid and bashed into the assemblies for the lights, and the rest is history.

But at least I got my turn signals and one marker light back on.
The poor cop though, I have the hatch open, and it slowly comes down and then thuds into my back like a giant jaw.