Son of a... someone hit my car.
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Lucky Todd. My insurance has a $500 deductable, and my paint is waivered off my policy. Probably a grand+ out of my pocket. I've been up my driveway 100'* of times each winter for 3 winters now and this morning she wouldn't make it up 1/3 miles of glare ice for the first time. 3/4'* of the way up she came to a spinning stop and with the brakes on I just just kept picking up speed backwards. Dropped the drivers rear in the ditch, the car spun 180 degrees and I went down the hill after the passenger side bumper smacked the bank on the road. After regaining my sanity, I now view it as "could have been alot worse". Blew the passenger side of the Bumper cover to pieces and broke the headlight cover, but the body'* ok and the door unaffected. Time to put the 1000 pounds of rock in the bed of the dually and chain up. The rain/snow bout we had left a layer of ice like I never seen here.
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Well, well, well. Someone in shipping saw a truck backing in to the lot by my car with a trailer that had a bobcat on it. This was the guy that clears snow. That name is now with the police. That made my day.
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Wow, this thread exploded! Crazy stuff happens to our cars. Venom, I'm so sorry about the Bonneville! To think, just a few months ago I spent 10 minutes waxing that car! 
Dan, if you remember how someone backed into my car and simply scuffed up the bumper cover, no cracks: The estimate was over $500, and another estimate I got was $400. In fact, I told someone it cost me $300 to get the bumper repainted, thinking that was a lot, and the guy said, "Well, you were just nicked!" Your $250 deductible is probably never going to cover such a crack. I guess car work is way too expensive.
Dan, if you remember how someone backed into my car and simply scuffed up the bumper cover, no cracks: The estimate was over $500, and another estimate I got was $400. In fact, I told someone it cost me $300 to get the bumper repainted, thinking that was a lot, and the guy said, "Well, you were just nicked!" Your $250 deductible is probably never going to cover such a crack. I guess car work is way too expensive.