OH THE MISERY!!! POOR BUDDY!!!

MikieTaps · Post by **MikieTaps** » Wed Jul 16, 2008 7:48 pm

I just saw this when I was on my way to lunch!!! Oh the huge manatee!!

Poor buddy, this was just off of Denny in Seattle, is this anyone here?

emoboy44 · Post by **emoboy44** » Wed Jul 16, 2008 7:50 pm

MMMMMM Cookies....

Looks like someone tried sitting on the top case...

Vandals

addictionriot · Post by **addictionriot** » Wed Jul 16, 2008 7:51 pm

wtf I'm sitting outside so I cant see the picture that well but sheeesh

docutech · Post by **docutech** » Wed Jul 16, 2008 7:51 pm

WTF happened?

Did someone hit it?

MikieTaps · Post by **MikieTaps** » Wed Jul 16, 2008 7:52 pm

I have no idea what happened... It is up on the sidewalk... so I dont think someone hit it when it was parked...

docutech · Post by **docutech** » Wed Jul 16, 2008 7:53 pm

Looks like someone dismantled the top case in order to get into it. All they found was cookies...lol LMAO

Xena · Post by **Xena** » Wed Jul 16, 2008 7:54 pm

OMG that is awful...that poor owner when they find it like that

jfrost2 · Post by **jfrost2** » Wed Jul 16, 2008 7:55 pm

Maybe he rides it that way? But someone was being nosy in his top case?

There is a guy who rides a vintage vespa that is badly bent, but it still rides fine.

Queen · Post by **Queen** » Wed Jul 16, 2008 7:55 pm

Wow!

I hope no one was sitting on it when it got folded in half!

Smiziley · Post by **Smiziley** » Wed Jul 16, 2008 7:58 pm

Think I actually saw that scoot in Capital Hill yesterday.

That sucks. Should have protected the cookies from a potential thief.

MikieTaps · Post by **MikieTaps** » Wed Jul 16, 2008 7:59 pm

yeah I have seen it around also, not sure who rides it tho. It does have Ducati Seattle stickers on the rear cowls

emoboy44 · Post by **emoboy44** » Wed Jul 16, 2008 8:00 pm

I know who did it:

Wingman · Post by **Wingman** » Wed Jul 16, 2008 8:01 pm

Police have identified a suspect:

addictionriot · Post by **addictionriot** » Wed Jul 16, 2008 8:01 pm

great minds... (great?)

jfrost2 · Post by **jfrost2** » Wed Jul 16, 2008 8:01 pm

Yes, the hamburgler did it. He thought maybe the top case had hamburgers inside when the bike was clearly parked at a Denny's.

MikieTaps · Post by **MikieTaps** » Wed Jul 16, 2008 8:02 pm

HAHAHAHA

I feel bad laughing about this crashed buddy... but you guys are hilarious!

addictionriot · Post by **addictionriot** » Wed Jul 16, 2008 8:02 pm

Denny's uses real cow? Coulda fooled me..

MikieTaps · Post by **MikieTaps** » Wed Jul 16, 2008 8:39 pm

jfrost2 wrote:Yes, the hamburgler did it. He thought maybe the top case had hamburgers inside when the bike was clearly parked at a Denny's.

HAHAHAHA... Denny is a street...

n00b4life · Post by **n00b4life** » Wed Jul 16, 2008 8:57 pm

It just looks like a stoppie gone horribly wrong to me.

Either that, or maybe Napoleon Dynamite took it off a sweet jump.

EP_scoot · Post by **EP_scoot** » Wed Jul 16, 2008 8:59 pm

WOW !
in looking at the pictures it looks like it got rear ended and pushed towards the car in front (probably a truck as there is almost no damage to the front fender) and pushed it hard enough to fold the frame in half !

The rider is either very lucky or in a hospital bed.. Damn, hope she/he is OK.

twoscoots · Post by **twoscoots** » Wed Jul 16, 2008 9:02 pm

It looks like it got rear-ended to me. There is a decided lack of seat-front-to-glove-box clearance in that photo. There's also a lot of air space where there should be none.
If my Buddy looked like that, I would've eaten all the cookies myself in a sorrowful binge.

MikieTaps · Post by **MikieTaps** » Wed Jul 16, 2008 9:05 pm

I will cruise by there again after work... take more photos... see if we can figure out what happened

ScootingInTheRain · Post by **ScootingInTheRain** » Wed Jul 16, 2008 9:06 pm

Interesting - I was talking at lunch with a guy who lives near downtown who said he sees an Orange Buddy in his area a lot, it's parked outside unchained every night. I wonder if this is it...

~SITR

MikieTaps · Post by **MikieTaps** » Wed Jul 16, 2008 9:07 pm

thanks for putting that photo up... i was looking for it to add to my OP

BigColdMartini · Post by **BigColdMartini** » Wed Jul 16, 2008 9:12 pm

Is that the same scooter from yesterday that was hit by the car?

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MikieTaps · Post by **MikieTaps** » Wed Jul 16, 2008 9:15 pm

no, this one has cowl protectors, the one from the parking bit did not.

BigColdMartini · Post by **BigColdMartini** » Wed Jul 16, 2008 9:21 pm

I think there is an orange Buddy serial killer on the loose in Seattle.

toddrw2251 · Post by **toddrw2251** » Wed Jul 16, 2008 9:36 pm

Anyone that keeps cookies in their top case is a friend of mine.

Post by **jmazza** » Wed Jul 16, 2008 9:49 pm

See, I told you guys those Genuine top cases were flimsy.

You didn't listen.

MikieTaps · Post by **MikieTaps** » Wed Jul 16, 2008 9:51 pm

i should leave them a message on the scooter and tell them I will buy the old transmission and motor off of them if they dont have insurance, or if their insurance is gonna total it. It would just be nice to have my own personal stock pile of extra parts... hmmmmmmm

Racenut · Post by **Racenut** » Wed Jul 16, 2008 10:01 pm

It was the cookie that broke the Buddy's back.

Christy · Post by **Christy** » Wed Jul 16, 2008 10:49 pm

wow, it's totally folded in half!!!

Corsair · Post by **Corsair** » Wed Jul 16, 2008 11:27 pm

how does that even happen???!! what the heck caused that? I think I would throw up if I came outside and found my buddy like that

twoscoots · Post by **twoscoots** » Wed Jul 16, 2008 11:40 pm

Corsair wrote:I think I would throw up if I came outside and found my buddy like that

Then you would have more room for cookies!

MikieTaps · Post by **MikieTaps** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 12:52 am

update

I cruised by afterwork and it was still there... I wonder if they just dumped it?

betsy q. bramble · Post by **betsy q. bramble** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 12:56 am

that is really difficult for me to look at.

MikieTaps · Post by **MikieTaps** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 12:57 am

and the buckled frame

sotied · Post by **sotied** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 1:05 am

MikieTaps wrote:update

I cruised by afterwork and it was still there... I wonder if they just dumped it?

There's a plate on it, so I'd say not just dumped...yet.

And who dumps cookies?

runtotorun121 · Post by **runtotorun121** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 1:12 am

Well they didn't use Roadside Assistance or take their cookies/groceries. Maybe the rider was hurt and left via ambulance, or maybe the Buddy was kidnapped and wrecked. . .

MikieTaps · Post by **MikieTaps** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 1:13 am

well from what i could gather there was no blood in the street... good sign #1, I have also been checking to see if there are any news stories about it or anything on the interweb about it... havent found anything so far... so good sign #2 whatever it is worth.

bunny · Post by **bunny** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 1:21 am

Probably joyrider...Rode it like they stole it, which they did...then they wrecked it and ran...

addictionriot · Post by **addictionriot** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 1:40 am

I'd call the po-lice.. Even if I wrecked it, I wouldnt want someone walking by and taking parts from it.

I cant even imagine how the heck you would do that, let alone what the driver must look like.

ernie · Post by **ernie** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 1:46 am

How do you think they bent the frame like that?

ScooterTrash · Post by **ScooterTrash** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 3:05 am

Looks like it ran into the back of an suv, Ghost ride the whip is my guess or someone lost their legs

anndelise · Post by **anndelise** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 3:29 am

I'm thinking that if someone had been riding it, and taken to a hospital in an ambulance, then there would have been a call into the police to have the accidenct checked out and reported, and the buddy would be brought in and not left out like that.

There are lots of other scenarios I can think of, and the best one is that it was stolen and dumped out of a truck...no, best one is that it was parked and got squashed between two vehicles. All the other scenarios are far worse... (ok ok, so I have a gruesome imagination).

Whatever the scenario, I'd suggest contacting the police and reporting it and maybe you could ask them if the owner/rider is in the hospital or whatever. If the scooter was merely stolen and then dumped, then the police would contact the owner and at least the owner would know.

Keys · Post by **Keys** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 9:22 am

I'm thinking that's the PERFECT starting point for a new custom...

Possibilities, people...think in possibilities.

--Keys

iinigma7 · Post by **iinigma7** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 1:42 pm

"Allllll.... I... want.... is a low rider."

rx · Post by rx » Thu Jul 17, 2008 4:09 pm

where on denny is this?
i'm wondering if someone smashed into it while it was parked, then moved it onto the sidewalk to get it out of the way.

MikieTaps · Post by **MikieTaps** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 4:17 pm

its on Denny and 8th inbetween bell and blanchard

bunny · Post by **bunny** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 4:25 pm

Was it still there this morning? What about the cookies?