What do you think happened here?

[arcadian]

Date: 11/04/08
Time: 21:20
Duration: 5-10 seconds
City: Northbrook
State: IL

The entire left side of my car appears to be scorched but no paint was removed.

I was driving 40-45 miles per hour heading north toward I-94 East towards Chicago on Lake Cook Road. While I was in the middle lane, I felt a nudge on the left of my car which made my car shift to the right. I did not swerve out of the lane and gained control back quickly.

I slowed down and as I got my bearings, I realized that my left side mirror was knocked off and so I turned right onto Revere Drive and put on my hazard lights.

I got out of the car and saw that I had several dents on the side of my car. There were two that were deeper and larger than the others; one was located in front of the rear wheel and the other was in the center of the driver door.

I called 911 to file a police report and the officer said that I was side swiped by another car but, there were not any cars around me before or after the hit and also there were no paint scratches from other cars on my car.

http://www.nuforc.org/

[DarkTirade]

1. Aliens.

Only explanation.

[arcadian]

3. Ale-weeums

I think so too, time to repent for the end is nigh!

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

6. I think aliens explain a lot of things

[arcadian]

10. It explains how I had artichokes for dinner.

[Orrex]

2. I suspect a certain Rightwing Terrorist group

They're mad at you for all of your Googling.

[arcadian]

4. Did you used to have a cupie doll for an avatar?

Maybe I'm thinking of somebody else.

[Orrex]

8. I did, and quit stalking me!

The Kewpie design was my wife's. She sold stuff through Cafepress until the people who own the Kewpie trademark shut her down.

Who knew that Kewpie was still trademarked?!?

[arcadian]

9. It's a swarm thing.

Next they have me driving around at night with my lights off until sombody flashes their brights at me. Then... well you know the rest.

[DS1]

5. I'd expect nothing less from Revere Drive

unless I'm wearing elastic socks

:shrug:

[Tangerine LaBamba]

7. The car is melting .........

It's been sad for a long time, so this is no surprise.

Soon, it'll be nothing but tires and a puddle of oil ..........................

[elana i am]

11. alien skin eye candy

[mwooldri]

12. I suspect a pick-up truck...

I had dents like this on my minivan when I wasn't reversing carefully.

I don't think paint was removed in my case either.

I think a pickup truck was driving too close to the car and did the damage in such a weird way that it just pushed in those door panels - and then in passing knocked the wing mirror off.

UFO my foot...

[petronius]

13. You brushed past the Schwarzchild radius of an ultra-micro black hole

The extreme gravity crumpled your panels.

Scary stuff... :scared:

[krispos42]

14. quantum black holes only last for very short periods of time

It's an inverse relationship to mass. The itty-bitty ones evaporate almost immediately.

Alas, too bad. The basis for an assortment of good stories from Larry Niven... killed by Stephen Hawking! :-(

[petronius]

16. But how do you know that the OP didn't just have really bad timing?

Maybe the car passed by at the precise picosecond when the infinitesimal singularity came into (and left) existence...

I suppose a snowbank is technically a possibility as well, but it's a bit far-fetched, IMO. :)

(And I agree: the universe would be an even more interesting place if not for that buzz-kill Hawking.)

[krispos42]

15. Clipped a snowbank

The snow wouldn't damage the paint but would press in the metal like that and break the mirror.


Was there snow on the ground last November?

[Gormy Cuss]

17. Looks like it shrunk in the wash.

Next time use the permanent press setting.

[NV Whino]

18. Bet your insurance company loved that explanation.