jeep fire and the crazy woman
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From: Fayetteville, AR
jeep fire and the crazy woman
So today I was browsing through the random pictures on my cell phone and realized that I have two JK-related photos from my pre-JK-ownership days (just bought mine about a month ago).
The first one is something that we've seen a little too often on here... a Jeep fire. I'm can't tell for sure if it's a JK, but I believe it might be. Judge for yourselves:
The poor picture quality makes it kind of hard for me to tell... that and the fact that the thing was pretty well burnt to a crisp. I actually saw the Jeep ablaze in person on my way to work one day, just didn't act quick enough to snap a real-life pic. The pic is from the campus newspaper the next day (the fire happened in a dorm parking lot).
The second JK-related picture has a slightly more interesting story behind it. The place where I work at the University is located right next to the campus parking enforcement's impound lot. For some reason, the actual parking office is located on the other side of campus from this lot. Whenever someone wants to get their vehicle out, they have to go to the parking office, pay their fines, make it all the way across campus to the impound lot and then wait for someone to show up and unlock the gate. Parking always takes their sweet time getting there, so we generally end up having to deal with these pissed off people who want to know why the hell someone isn't there to let them get their car.
So one afternoon, a few of us are hanging around outside the building when this woman comes up. She looks very, very pissed off. She says something to the effect of, "Go unlock that gate so I can get my damn car out of there. I'm in a hurry."
"Well, ma'am, we can't do that. You'll have to wait until someone from parking comes down and let's you in."
"Dammit, I don't have time for this. I have to go pick my kids up from school, and I'm late already, and I just paid $200 in parking tickets, and I have places to be," etc., etc.
So we explain to her again (very politely, mind you) that there really isn't anything that we can do... she'll just have to wait.
She storms off towards the impound lot and begins pacing back and forth in front of the gate looking royally pissed off. We don't really pay any more attention to her and go back to talking to one another. Then, someone says, "Uh, guys, she's climbing..." The woman had slid her purse, keys, etc. underneath the gate and was scaling the fence like f*cking spiderman. She got the the top, made it over the barbed wire and dropped down inside. At this point someone was already in the process of calling parking and the University Police, while the rest of us were just watching, dumfounded. She crosses the lot, gets into her Wrangler Unlimited, starts the engine and pulls up to the gate... and just sits there. She does this for a good 2 or 3 minutes, probably, and we're all just watching her sit there. Then she backs up, puts it in drive and does this:
Unfortunately for her, she didn't think her plan through well enough to aim for that cross-member there in the gate, and instead of busting it down and making a run for it, she trapped herself in the gate. PD showed up about 20 seconds later, pulled the woman (who was probably 5'2" and all of 100lbs soaking wet) out of the drivers side, cuffed her and tossed her in the back of the patrol car. It was quite a show (and much better than actual doing work).
The first one is something that we've seen a little too often on here... a Jeep fire. I'm can't tell for sure if it's a JK, but I believe it might be. Judge for yourselves:
The poor picture quality makes it kind of hard for me to tell... that and the fact that the thing was pretty well burnt to a crisp. I actually saw the Jeep ablaze in person on my way to work one day, just didn't act quick enough to snap a real-life pic. The pic is from the campus newspaper the next day (the fire happened in a dorm parking lot).
The second JK-related picture has a slightly more interesting story behind it. The place where I work at the University is located right next to the campus parking enforcement's impound lot. For some reason, the actual parking office is located on the other side of campus from this lot. Whenever someone wants to get their vehicle out, they have to go to the parking office, pay their fines, make it all the way across campus to the impound lot and then wait for someone to show up and unlock the gate. Parking always takes their sweet time getting there, so we generally end up having to deal with these pissed off people who want to know why the hell someone isn't there to let them get their car.
So one afternoon, a few of us are hanging around outside the building when this woman comes up. She looks very, very pissed off. She says something to the effect of, "Go unlock that gate so I can get my damn car out of there. I'm in a hurry."
"Well, ma'am, we can't do that. You'll have to wait until someone from parking comes down and let's you in."
"Dammit, I don't have time for this. I have to go pick my kids up from school, and I'm late already, and I just paid $200 in parking tickets, and I have places to be," etc., etc.
So we explain to her again (very politely, mind you) that there really isn't anything that we can do... she'll just have to wait.
She storms off towards the impound lot and begins pacing back and forth in front of the gate looking royally pissed off. We don't really pay any more attention to her and go back to talking to one another. Then, someone says, "Uh, guys, she's climbing..." The woman had slid her purse, keys, etc. underneath the gate and was scaling the fence like f*cking spiderman. She got the the top, made it over the barbed wire and dropped down inside. At this point someone was already in the process of calling parking and the University Police, while the rest of us were just watching, dumfounded. She crosses the lot, gets into her Wrangler Unlimited, starts the engine and pulls up to the gate... and just sits there. She does this for a good 2 or 3 minutes, probably, and we're all just watching her sit there. Then she backs up, puts it in drive and does this:
Unfortunately for her, she didn't think her plan through well enough to aim for that cross-member there in the gate, and instead of busting it down and making a run for it, she trapped herself in the gate. PD showed up about 20 seconds later, pulled the woman (who was probably 5'2" and all of 100lbs soaking wet) out of the drivers side, cuffed her and tossed her in the back of the patrol car. It was quite a show (and much better than actual doing work).
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From: Fayetteville, AR
agreed... but i'm pretty sure the woman was, to put it nicely, unstable... i'd be pissed off too, but she'd already paid her parking tickets/fees and all she had to do was wait like 5 minutes for someone to come unlock the gate... apparently she'd rather go to jail for the afternoon... 
