Marsupialized wrote:I am at a red light and a dude runs up and hurls a chunk of a cinder block thru my back window, the little one on the door not the big back one...

WTF - so it wasn't even to rob you or carjack you - it was just for shits-n-giggles? I guess I don't get it...

Is it possible to scour a junkyard and just get the glass you need and replace it yourself? If it was the windshield or black glass, I'd have a professional do it, but if it's just the door glass, it might be easier than you think to take the door apart, get all the busted crap out of the track and replace - assuming you can find the right glass you need, that is... just a thought.

johnh wrote:Fernandez Auto Glass
2733 N Western Ave
Chicago, IL 60647-2015
(773) 252-5106

I've gone a bunch of times to get the big side window fixed and every time it's less than $40. The first time I went to Pilsen and it cost $220.

Damn. That is cheap. It's usually $90 total for me at Pilsen, and it takes about an hour.

clocker bob wrote: Second that. Fast, good and cheap the one time some humboldt park scurv busted the window of my no stereo Ford Escort to peel my city sticker off and resell it.

Grr. That's annoying.

Marsupialized wrote:I am at a red light and a dude runs up and hurls a chunk of a cinder block thru my back window, the little one on the door not the big back one....
It shatters all over and he laughs like a crazy fuck and spreads his arms open and says 'What?! What?!' He's about 5 feet from my car as he's doing it.
I didn't know what to say back to him, I was actually at a loss for words.
I just kind of made a 'what the fuck?!' gesture with my hands.
He says 'Yeah bitch yeah! That's right' and some other gibberish I didn't really catch.

what with all your macho bravado around here, i'm surprised you didn't, at the very least, tell this guy off.

Ally In Exile wrote:what with all your macho bravado around here, i'm surprised you didn't, at the very least, tell this guy off.

Surprized... and to be honest disappointed.

Ya startin' to get soft over there?

You should have hit him with your car. Then tell him "that's what's what BITCH!"

Ever since I saw that youtube video somebody linked to a month or so ago, with the crackhead who starts smashing some woman's car while she's sitting in traffic, every time I'm driving on the south side, I always make sure to leave at least a few feet between my truck and the car in front of me, so if some psycho starts smashing it up, I can at least pull out of traffic and run the red light I'm sitting at. Rather than get smashed up more.

People sure can suck.

So Pilsen seems like the way to go, gonna bring it over on my day off thanks for the heads up, till then I have some stylish surgical tape covering the hole with 'There's nothing inside worth stealing, I promise' written on it in marker.
To answer the questions, I was at Cicero and like, Washington.
I am getting soft, yes. I am a married man. I've made commitments, at this point if I were to run off and get killed or maimed over some dumb shit like a broken window I'd feel real bad and miss her sweet sexy ass very much.

russ wrote:

clocker bob wrote: Second that. Fast, good and cheap the one time some humboldt park scurv busted the window of my no stereo Ford Escort to peel my city sticker off and resell it.

Grr. That's annoying.

There was a rash of sticker jobs that summer, it made the newspapers; if it ever happens to you, just get a police report and take it to the City Clerk and get a new one for I think it was $5. And score your sticker with an Exacto so the fact that it is scored is visible to the crackhead peering through your windshield- same for your 'year sticker' on your back plate, score an 'X' on that, too. There's a market for those as well.

clocker bob wrote:

russ wrote:

clocker bob wrote: Second that. Fast, good and cheap the one time some humboldt park scurv busted the window of my no stereo Ford Escort to peel my city sticker off and resell it.

Grr. That's annoying.

There was a rash of sticker jobs that summer, it made the newspapers; if it ever happens to you, just get a police report and take it to the City Clerk and get a new one for I think it was $5. And score your sticker with an Exacto so the fact that it is scored is visible to the crackhead peering through your windshield- same for your 'year sticker' on your back plate, score an 'X' on that, too. There's a market for those as well.

Or you can just register your car in the suburbs and not have to worry about any of that bullshit.