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Holy Quattro weather batman!!! What a circus tonight!

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Old Feb 13, 2007 | 02:05 PM
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Default Holy Quattro weather batman!!! What a circus tonight!

I'm on my way home, Ohio is getting slammed with snow right now. Very busy highway, with commuters crawling along. Idiots aplenty I tell ya.

This one kid in a Jetta was shopping lanes in middle of a snow storm during rush hour!!! He decides to squeeze in front of me with inches to spare. He gets a little squirrley with the snow mounds in between the lanes. We're doing about 20mph and I cant get the A8 stopped fast enough when he got it in. I tapped him gently in the rear and he started to rotate to the left. I couldn't really do anything, and I didn't want to check up since there was like 5000 cars in line behind me. So I tried to feather the throttle from T-boning him. He rotated once more than I kissed his bumper again, putting him into the deep snowy center median (gently). It was like something out of NASCAR! Well I didn't bother stopping because there was no shoulder(deep snow) and too much traffic. I hope he had a cell phone and learned his lesson about driving safely in foul weather.
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Old Feb 13, 2007 | 02:13 PM
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2 hours from Tower City to Mayfield Rd.
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Old Feb 13, 2007 | 02:15 PM
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I know. I was chanting "cmon kid you can save it you can save it" but noooo
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Old Feb 13, 2007 | 02:30 PM
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Don't feel bad, body shops need love too
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Old Feb 13, 2007 | 02:56 PM
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From the look of it, it looked like a nice clean, soft landing into the snow.
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Old Feb 13, 2007 | 03:10 PM
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Go get 'em!!!!
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Old Feb 13, 2007 | 03:38 PM
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damn, I have 8.4 liters of A8 ready to roll and we're gonna get about 4"
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Old Feb 13, 2007 | 03:47 PM
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I would not worry about the lad. He got what he deserved-- I hope you got "nothin" to show for it.
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Nothin really. Looks like my Euro Plate panel popped out a bit, but the clip was old anyways.
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Old Feb 13, 2007 | 05:18 PM
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Default Bob, I was just in your neck of the woods last weekend. I was in Hartford and Danbury. Skiied at

Ski Sundown. Not a bad little MTN. Couldn't make it up to Killington due to a lively night out the night before in Springfield! LOL
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