Institute for Psychic Reform
TECHNOCAR
The story by Alan Evil:
The Technocar began its life as a red 1990 Nissan Sentra. I bought it in 2002 and It was the first car I'd ever owned that was free of dents and dings. The paint wasn't very good as is the case with so many early 90's automobiles. The clear coat was decaying on the roof and trunk and in a few places the grey primer was showing through the red paint, but where it remained entact on the sides and hood still looked nice and shiney.
One day in late 2003 in the Red River Gorge after a particularly great day of rock climbing, swimming, and a delicious pizza at Miguel's my two friends, two of my cousins, and I returned to our campsite after dark and parked on the side of the road as is required by the Forest Service. As we were milling around our vehicles, I getting my dog out of the back seat where he was sleeping and the others winding through our cars away from the road, a very drunk and very high woman in a pickup truck came screaming towards us down the gravel road, rammed the truck we'd just driven up in, piling our three vehicles against the gate and one another.
Miraculously everyone, including a pregnant woman, managed to run away to safety except me. I was trapped between an open car door, truck, and ditch but somehow my friend's truck's topper popped up and over me and the impact knocked my car away from me. According to the forest service police that showed up several hours later it was the most cars in an accident in the history of the Red River Gorge. The back right corner of my little car was crushed and there were numerous other scrapes and scratches from where it was thrown under the chest high gate. My cousin's truck came out with a couple of dents and my friend's truck that took the brunt of the impact required frame straightening and all sorts of stuff. All three vehicles remain on the road today, two Toyotas and a Nissan.
Barely two weeks later my car was parked in front of my house in the city. A Sudanese refugee driving a Jeep Cherokee in a rain storm mistook the gas pedal for the brake, spun repeatedly and slammed into the passenger side of my car right where the door panel meets the front quarter panel.
