Posted on 01/28/2011 7:44:41 AM PST by Responsibility2nd
I’m with ya. Never look a gift horse in the mouth. Wipe it down good with some Hoppes and keep it for a rainy day. It is a disposable item if you can keep your prints off of it.
wonder if she is kin to Luis
“I kept yanking, and yanking, and yanking because I could feel something.”
It’s a good thing I knew she was talking about a weapon. I had conjured up in my mind that she was talking about something else.
I know Hertz has the “Neverlost(R)” GPS system.
Maybe this is the “Nevermugged(R)” tourist defense option.
You turn a gun over to a cop and he will be the one saying free gun, free gun. A friend of mine got killed in a hunting accident, it took the widow three years and three judges orders to get the his guns back. And she only got them then when the judge odered the sheriff to pay a thousand dollars a day in fines. When he started to go search his deputies homes the guns turned up.
LOL, agreed. If this is her reaction to a loaded gun then theres no way Hertz should have rented her a car. Some people are just mysteriously stupid. I strongly suspect she’s one of the many drooling mindless who’ve been preprogrammed by the MSM to react this way. A cooler head would have recognized the gun is a passive agent, neither good or bad. Its this last bit which is a true revelation of inner intentions; an admission they’d use it in ways not acceptable in a civilized society.
A big overreaction, IMO. I could understand her being upset, thinking of what could have happened if her grandkids had found it, but she acted as if the thing was going to start shooting her and the kids by itself.
Also, it sounds like she had to work hard to get the gun from under the seat and that she couldn’t tell it was a gun until she pulled it out (felt just like a child’s shoe to her I guess?). Given that fact, I’m not sure Hertz’s negligence was all that bad.
Fine.
Let him have the theft on his conscience, not me.
And if he ever angers his colleagues, and they find out that he owns a gun that was used in a robbery or a homicide, and he can't come up with a good explanation as to how it came into his possession - well, it turns out the weapon wasn't really free after all.
Why has this NEVER happened to me?
This should be an option whenever you rent a car. Just like getting a GPS in the car. It would save the hassle of flying with your own.
“No doubt this woman was on her way to the PayDay loan store but instead will now swing by the local ambulance chaser lawyer’s office where she’ll collect a much better return.”
Not if any FReepers are on that jury.
;-)
It’s fascinating, the stuff that people will brainfart and leave behind.
If the car wasn't cleaned properly, I would be more concerned about pathogenic microbes left by previous renters than about a loaded gun under the seat.
Gonzalez says the incident has left her family traumatized.
"A lot of lives could have been ruined," said Gonzalez. "Mine! My kids! Lives could have been taken!"
What a frickin idiot.
“Guns Make Bunny Cry!”
Winning post of the the day.
Sounds like a job for R Lee Ernie Psychiatrist!
I was in Chicago waiting in line for a car one time and this guy comes in drunk and raising cane over $17K that he said he left in the trunk of his rental when he turned it in.
After that, I always checked the trunk of my rentals as soon as I got to the hotel...
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