lastnight, had an issues with a freind's boyfriend. he had gotten drunk and started flippin out. he started thrownin crap around, he completely destroyed the kitchen and dinning room area of thier apartment. he had ripped the stove to pieces and halfway ripped the frig doors off. i grabbed my things and told my freind to head for my xB because it was scaring the living crap out of her. the guy came around, grabbed her and punched her in the ribs. i chucked my sobe bottel at him, hit him on the forhead. got my freind back up on her feet and started heading for the door... she turns around for her phone charger even though i told her not to worry about it. the guy gets back up, locked the door before i could get inside to help her and he starts hrowning her around the apartment room. so i went next door and grabed this guy's so called best freind and got him in on this. got the door open and this guys freind pushed the guy into a chair and started questioning his motives. at this time i grabbed my freind to get out and headed toward the xB. we noticed the guy was trying to follow but he was still up on the second story walk ways of the apartment building so we rushed over, got inside and started driving off. not 30 seconds later, the guy comes right behind us in this heavy a$$ car trying to tail us. this is where my respect and confidence in the xB has increased greatly. it was raining really bad durring all of this which gave advantage to me whilest the guy was driving some 2 and half ton Linkon Town car by the looks of it. i started taking random turns in a housed area at around 45-50 on the corners and 60 through the straights. too about 15 turns to loose him and then we pulled the old trick of hiding in a random parking way of some random house and waited untill he passed. after that i pulled out and spead the other direction toward the freeway and took my freind to her mother's.

and yes, we attempted to call the uniforms, but the phone was boken in the process of trying to talk to the dispatcher. after that i took matters into my own hands and got her out. let this be known to future box buyers... the handeling on it is amazing, even when the roads are wet.

Cliff's notes?

Wow. So did the guy have any reason to flip out?

Friggin crazy. Good work. I am a little disappointed it took 15 turns and not like 3, but good work nonetheless.

Cliff's notes?

:rofl:

the guy was somewhat drunk and my freind went to give him one of them peck kisses or whatever. he wouldn't let her have a kiss and so she just turned around and left him alone and thats when he just lost it.

as for the turns, there wasn't alot of cover and i didn't want to risk parking in a driveway that left me in plain site. the one i finaly parked in also gave me enough time to park carefuly without hitting one of the house owner's cars. it was kind of like a basement garage in a way. the garage doors were 10 feet below the front yard so you can imagen, a house looking like a single story, but is a two story and is noticable as soon as oyu pull into the driveway parking area that leads straight into the basement garage.only the top of my fin on the back was visible so it made it a perfect spot to sit. i had about 5-7 seconds of time ahead of him so i had plenty of time to do it right at that point.

dam dood, rough night.... glad he didnt hit the box too while he was at it :P keep us updated on what happens,,, sounds crazy. is she ok? sounds like she got a couple blows...

ya shes fine, she tweaked ehr back pretty good but other then that she took the other blows he did just fine. they were mainly around her hips on the sides. no bruising or pain in those areas so she'll be fine. her back wasn't all to great to begin with so that was expected.

this is about as far as it's really gona get. lastnight was the first time i've ever met the guy and i don't plan on meeting him again. even though how much i want to go back and beat the crap out of him for what he did, i have no idea where he is now. all i know is that i'm 80 miles north of where it happened and i plan to keep that distance haha.

dang!!! crazy story. thats why i dont involve myself with people like that or ones that hang out with people like that LOL.

glad to hear the box tore outta there with no problems though and didnt get damaged.

i was thinking the whole time that the guy was gonna like try and vandalze the box somehow. whooo!

Very good story, hope everything works out and thanks for sharing.

lol i just noticed... there is a VERY noticeable amount of new ware on my front tire side walls hahahah.

*sigh* i need my new suspension and wheels...

Glad the box worked the chase OK. It was probably scared, too.

Sounds like you should stay out of the Longview area...

Were the police eventually involved? They should have been. :(

Take care!
Tom

"Crazy boyfriend" and "Tacoma" seem to be a nice match. :ponder: Sorry, I'm an a-hole. I just had throw that in there. :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

well, i over exadurated about how far away it was there Tom. this was down in Graham. i'm not sure if any uniforms did actualy show or not. we didn't stay around long enough to find out ofcourse. when i saw a window i took it and got the h3ll out of there.

"Crazy boyfriend" and "Tacoma" seem to be a nice match. :ponder: Sorry, I'm an a-hole. I just had throw that in there. :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
HAHAHA :rofl:
i know i hate Tacoma!

i zip with mine from time to time (when the wife not in the car, she yells at me) ive got a manual and as long as i keep the RPS around 3 to 3 1/2 at the bottom of a shift its like a bat out of h3ll. i walk away for mid to small size cars with a V6 with no problem on the highway

ya it's power band may not be all that great, but get it in there and it will take off.

freind of mine wants to race me. he has a 91 corolla and claims it's got the 2.4L VVTi from the Camry, new steering system and it's a manual.

i know for a fact that i can take him off the line, but as soon as he hits 5th i'm out. his 1st through 4th is the same as the xB's 2nd-5th. his 5th is ratioed around 0.57 so once he hits his mid 4th hill start to leave me.

i had my freind hangin on the "oh sh!t" handels the intire time. thankfuly, she didn't make a single noise cause i needed all the focus i could get when driving that fast in the heavy rain.

Scion pride FTW!...dont mean to get off topic but...until i bought my tC i never really liked "the box" but now i have full respect for the most unique car on the road...the mighty xB! and i want to pick one up eventually

Oh... Graham, eh?

http://tijil.org/SCO_MIT.jpg

'Nuff said... :)

Tom

Oh... Graham, eh?

http://tijil.org/SCO_MIT.jpg

'Nuff said... :)

Tom

EXACTLY! :rofl:

Oh... Graham, eh?

http://tijil.org/SCO_MIT.jpg

'Nuff said...

Tom

AAAAAAHAHAHAHAHa!!! "daymit, git me mah shotgoon!! thars wun of them therr box-lahk cars 'n the drav-way!!"

on a serious note, glad to hear it all ended ok!!

HAH! get this, the guy came to her mother's house lasnight. apparently her mothe and her brother grabbed freakin display swords they had in the house and went after him hahaha. and her dad was actualy going for the shoty hahaha.

Graham... almost seems more hick'ish then Hoodsport / Shelton *no offense to any hicks here, i actualy take great respect in seeing such old over dead equipment somehow still work.*

Hmmmmmm... That reminds me that I need to get my non-display sword back from a friend who borrowed it. Hope he didn't leave fingerprints on it - that high-carbon steel blade rusts if you just look at it wrong, and I'd hate to have to take it back to the swordmaker to be put right again. (Urk! I don't even know how to find my swordmaker - he's not in the phonebook anymore!) :(

Tom

One hell of a story glad everyone is ok and the box saved the day!

wow just wow! there is a great consideration in the box when making those turns.. it can handle pretty dam well despite the way it looks.

can't wait to get that TIEN SS-P and some nice sway bars. still back and forth about the whole front sway bar issue. i want to have lituraly no body roll but i hear that putting a heavier duty sway bar in the front will cause it to understeer alot.

I will be up Seattle way in July, if your friend needs someone to whup his A$$, let me know. No one hits a woman. I am glad it turned out OK. Good to know I can now chase my daughters boyfriends at high speeds!

Sorry to go a little off topic here, but I kept being reminded of this pic every time I came to this topic. Sadly, I don't remember who's xB this was - and there were some really excellent videos of it wailing around the track, too. Anyway, xBs do pretty darn well when pushed beyond all reasonable expectations for a flying box...

IIRC, this particular box was giving a Corvette fits - the Corvette would simply pull away strongly every time the track straightened out, but that pesky box kept closing the gap every time there were corners. Eventually the 'vette spun out trying to get away from the box. :D

http://tijil.org/xB_race01t.gif (http://tijil.org/xB_race01.jpg)

Tom

y bother beating him up when you can grab a kitchen knife and chop his jewels off

y bother beating him up when you can grab a kitchen knife and chop his jewels off

haha well i did chuck a bottle at his head to distract him. he got a little dazed by that so i took the opertunity to get my freind heading to the door. we would have been out of there then but she felt that her phone charger was important enough to go back and risk her life again for it. she got a ration of crap for that move from the mother unit


Good to know I can now chase my daughters boyfriends at high speeds!

haha! you could when it comes to cornering possibly. it's it any honda though you would have a hard time unless you did suspension mod to your box. any little car would cause a problem i think because they would be right there with you.


Hey Tom, do you know if that box there had an aftermarket front sway on it or it's stock or none at all? i don't care about top end, i want my handeling and acceleration so i'd like to know for my handeling interest.

I think that box had a really beefy suspension setup, and some really fine tires.

Wish I could remember who's box it was. :(

Tom

I have heard it all when it comes to Pierce County now. You never know if the cops got involved you all could have ended up on COPS!

HAH no i know that for a fact. the cops didn't show up at thier apartment until after the guy had gotten back home there from the chase. the guy was the one who started calling the cops and tried claiming we were trespassers when the apartment is leased to my freind and me being the whitness to it all i wouldn't have been told to leave.

Needs more paragraphs.

you did the best thing you could ever have done.. if i saw a guy hit a women.. he would be hurting very badly when i got done with him.. drunk or not you dont touch women.. your friend is very lucky she has a friend like you..

I hope both of you (and the xB) are fine, and I'm sorry the ordeal had to happen. Good people don't deserve idiots like him at all.

oh ____ earnhardt jr. lol i agree my friend i just put on lowering springs and a strut bar and def. noticed great cornering, no offense but better then my brothers tc and alot of peoples i work withs cars.

I give you mad props for doing the right thing in that situation for sure. hope your friend is ok.

Jerry! Jerry! Jerry! :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Any updates yet? I've been gone for a week. lol

Well, this 23rd at 1pm, we go to court for the restraining order and ofcourse the _______ will be there... saddly surrounded by law or else i'd play dentist with a pair of needle nose plires... no pain killers.

Did he ever ask you how you lost him?

Once the restraining order is granted, courts usually require the parties to exit at different times to reinforce that the separation has officially started right then and there. If the court doesn't do that, it wouldn't hurt to do it yourselves. (Last time I was involved as 'moral support' for a young lady getting an order, we borrowed a friend's 6'6", 320 pound college football boyfriend for the afternoon as punctuation. At least the look on the other guy's face was fun when the door was fill by a guy the size of a '58 Buick.)

Wish you well on the order!

Tom

ACTUALY bBtuner... i heard from my freind's mother that he did infact say something along the lines of "your fast little f%^k face of a freind can go f%^k him self with his speedy little piece of sh!t box". my only words were "should have driven something else that didn't weigh 2 tons..." hahaha. ofcourse this is what my freinds mother heard him say, my reply was in a joking manner when she told me about it.

oh and Tom, my freinds family is big enough as it is ahaha. no offense to them or anything, her family is on the big side of things for thier genetics... i'd say her mother is around 300+, her sister is around 300+ and MUCH nastier aditudes then most that i've seen... for once, the only overly large ladies i'd ever be afraid of... hahaha.

Too cool!^^^ What a dumb piece O crap.LMFAO

i have a fresh tank of gas so this monday will be fun, if he attempts it =P.

Jerry! Jerry! Jerry! :P

Well?

http://tijil.org/tom_icon.gif

Next time, don't bother trying to lose him, just drive to Batman's cave ^^^, he'll take care of it, permanently. :P

HAHA!

Sorry to go a little off topic here, but I kept being reminded of this pic every time I came to this topic. Sadly, I don't remember who's xB this was - and there were some really excellent videos of it wailing around the track, too. Anyway, xBs do pretty darn well when pushed beyond all reasonable expectations for a flying box...

IIRC, this particular box was giving a Corvette fits - the Corvette would simply pull away strongly every time the track straightened out, but that pesky box kept closing the gap every time there were corners. Eventually the 'vette spun out trying to get away from the box. :D

http://tijil.org/xB_race01t.gif (http://tijil.org/xB_race01.jpg)

Tom



Hey Tom, do you know if that box there had an aftermarket front sway on it or it's stock or none at all? i don't care about top end, i want my handeling and acceleration so i'd like to know for my handeling interest.

I think that box had a really beefy suspension setup, and some really fine tires.

Wish I could remember who's box it was. :(

Tom

I can't believe some random thing I found on the internet would actually come in handy. I can't even remember what I was googling for when I ran across this, but here it is......

http://dpcars.aprsworld.com/scion/

Start reading at the ? mark, and work your way left.

HAH! i love my box... and by what i've read, he's just running it stock with some nicer rims and trd spring is all and harassed a vet... freakin love it, makes me want my suspension mods even more.

Fantastic! First time I've actually seen that site, Andy.

All I can say is that the box has one heck of a suspension setup for just an ordinary car. If it had a bunch more HP and a limited slip it just might take a lot of those "fast cars" it is shown running with. Love the videos. :)

Interesting how this serious driver ended up driving the box by preference so much of the time. I guess we're NOT all nuts. If a guy with BMW, Aston-Martin, Lotus, Porsche, Ducatti, and other snazzy vehicles to chose from, sometimes just prefers to drive his box, they can't be ALL bad, eh? :D

http://tijil.org/xB_outline02.gif

no joke!
first to order, progress rear sway and FX1 C pillar bar! :P

...

Wow, Tomas, you ain't messin' around. o_0 Thanks!

*makes twilight zone noise and waits for this one to go too*