Re: So I sold my boat, and the buyer sunk it
During college a guy at work was going through hard times, car repo'ed, lost house, etc, etc, and was looking for transportation. He said he would take anything so I sold him a 72 Buick LaSabre (BIG ol' land yacht) for $100. All the tires were flat on the ground so we pumped them up and I told him to take it down and have the tires replaced. Next week he comes in complaining that he had 4 blowouts...
My response,,, Well what do you expect for $100?
I found out later he drove the thing 500 miles on the bad tires,,, it must have been like driving a circus wagon
On the boat problem, sure s*cks that HE ruined HIS boat
I had a buddy do the same to me, I gave the guy a pickup, (which I had been stripping for parts), that had no tires on it, and was missing most of it's interior. I told him that if he went out back and found four 15" tires I'd mount them up so he could tow it home. I put 4 used, well worn tires on it, they were even all the same size and the correct size at that. He proceeded to jump start the truck, which also had no exhaust, and drive it home. I didn't hear from him for a few weeks when he called screaming at me saying the truck had left him and his family stranded 800 miles from home and had cost him a fortune to tow home. When I asked what all he did to the truck, he said "Nothing", it ran fine so he took it on vacation. Four bald tires, no exhaust pipe, cracked windshield, front seat nothing but springs and unbolted, no rear window, and no shocks and only a couple of working brakes. He took it home, felt it ran and drove fine so kept driving it. He never even registered it. I still had the title in the safe at the shop. He seriously wanted me to pay for the towing and repair. He got the hint after I stopped laughing. I told the fool he should be in jail not there trying to bilk money from me for a truck that should have never seen the road again.
I had given him the truck since he had a similar truck at home that had been hit in the rear, figuring he'd use the bed and maybe the frame to fix his. The truck I gave him was rough with lots of miles too. I bought it for $50 and taken more than that off it in parts and no longer had a truck to match.
I haven't seen him since. I'd have loved to see the look on a judges face when he heard such a story. (....."Well, you see your honor, I was driving this truck with no insurance or registration with my family inside with four bald tires and no brakes when it just quit on me" ..."What? Do I have proof of ownership?)
When he got that thing running, I never figured anyone would take a truck in such shape down the road, especially late at night. When it started, he headed right out and never came back with it. Never even asked about a title. I had never even transfered the title over, it was in the name of a deceased former owner with a state issued reassignment certificate attached from his estate. So technically he couldn't even say it was mine. It was junkyard bound if he hadn't of taken it.
It all just gives some insight to how some people think. I'd have not even considered using it for a field vehicle it was so rough, yet he thought it was worthy of a family vacation.
