Way to go, Milwaukee! Just for that, you can be the team to break the Cubbies hearts this season.

I did this before in Fort Lauderdale. I filled out an accident report. The city paid for my new tire.

A friend of mine tried the same thing. Fail.

Des Moines paid for one of mine, too. They balked at the price but they still paid it.

As a beer geek, I gladly make sell-out my discriminating palate for more practical budgetary concerns.

,,, it also tastes good, for p*ss beer. Miller High Life as well

Hero?

This happens routinely in Chicago. This isn't really a big deal.

Cheapest publicity the city ever bought itself.

Wouldn't it be more economically sound to just fix the potholes?

Cheers!

Okay! Cmon Seattle! Blew a tire twice on the same road in Georgetown, on different pot holes.

rocinante721

Holy crap that's amazing - when PBR is "cheap" here (DC), it's freakin' 2.50 or 3 bucks.

Pabst blue ribbon? Tasty?

Hold on, I need to see this for myself.

...

What the hell, subby? You lied!!!

That's one happy tire!

Wouldn't it be common sense for any city to do this. For a while, the city I live in replaced a drainage pipe and initially covered up the pipe by filling in the gap they cut in the road with dirt and gravel. Several days later, rain came by and washed out the dirt and the gravel, thus making a huge dip in the road where the repair work was done. What this could have caused is that any cars with a low wheel base would end up scraping with the road or could get stuck trying to pass through. There were no reports that I knew of of this happening, but I was forced to take an alternate route to get home until the city repaired the road the right way.

Buttle not Tuttle

Cheers!

Hey you wanna go for a ride?
No thanks.
No thanks? What does that mean?
I don't wanna go.
Go where?
For a ride.
A ride! Now that's a good idea!



/we're takin' our neighbor out to f***in' country

rocinante721: As a beer geek, I gladly make sell-out my discriminating palate for more practical budgetary concerns.

,,, it also tastes good, for p*ss beer. Miller High Life as well


It should taste just like Miller High Life. There is no PBR beer anymore, it's just a brand owned by an investment agency. PBR contracts breweries out to put their beer in a PBR can. In the case of Wisconsin, it's Miller. So the PBR you get here will not be the same PBR you get on the west coast.

This is nice. :)
I like hearing about reimbursement given because it was owed, not because someone wanted to exploit a legal loophole.

Besides, last winter was murder on the roads in Wisconsin, turning pavement into mush, and making small holes large enough to lose a pickup in - she's lucky she only blew a tire. (!!!)

//more afraid of the holes than the ice last year.
/hopefully this year will be less damaging.

tardmitter, PBR is and always has been and always will be tasty!

wyrdwyrm: Besides, last winter was murder on the roads in Wisconsin, turning pavement into mush, and making small holes large enough to lose a pickup in - she's lucky she only blew a tire. (!!!)

//more afraid of the holes than the ice last year.
/hopefully this year will be less damaging.

This winter is supposed to be worse. :(

Pabst, in it's day was one beer that had taste. For cheap beer.
/in it's day
//for me it must have been the Newark watershed water

Most of the time when this happens, technically, the driver can be fined for unsafe driving. And it does happen.

I'm drinking a Pabst right now, so I'm getting a kick out of some of these replies.

/totally serious
//you can't beat it for the price

I have heard of several people here in Florida who have done the same thing.

We lie to ourselves about what we like.

The masses don't really want a strong beer all the time, they actually do like the weak beers. Otherwise those wouldn't sell so well.

They don't want a strong cup of coffee, they want a weak brew. That's why we put all sorts of things in our coffee that isn't coffee. That's why we value 100% arabica over that damned robusta.

Wait, what was this threat supposed to be about?

Cincinnati has this policy too. I'm not sure what kind of hoops you have to jump through to get reimbursed, but I know people who have done it. I was kinda hoping I'd hit one of those massive, post-winter holes when I had my old car just so I could get a new tire or two...no luck.

cecil36: Wouldn't it be common sense for any city to do this. For a while, the city I live in replaced a drainage pipe and initially covered up the pipe by filling in the gap they cut in the road with dirt and gravel. Several days later, rain came by and washed out the dirt and the gravel, thus making a huge dip in the road where the repair work was done. What this could have caused is that any cars with a low wheel base would end up scraping with the road or could get stuck trying to pass through. There were no reports that I knew of of this happening, but I was forced to take an alternate route to get home until the city repaired the road the right way.

The itsy bitsy city replaced a drainage spout
Out came the rain and washed the gravel out
Out came the cars and scraped up all their paint
Now the itsy bitsy city must pay for their complaints.

I've done this before in Brooklyn Park MN and gotten reimbursed $200, here's the deal.

1. your run over pothole and bang up your car.
2. you hope someone else called in said pothole or it's on record from a city employee.
3. if no one called it in you can try submitting a road hazard claim to your insurance company.
4. if someone did call it in, you submit your repair bill to the city and they reimburse it

Basic arguement being that if the city didn't know about it they aren't liable. If they did know about it, than it's their responsibility. As long as your not a prick about it, you might be surprised how willing they are to cooperate.

bukketmaster: /we're takin' our neighbor out to f***in' country

Let's hit the farking road!

PBR is the best cheap beer out there

wyrdwyrm: This is nice. :)
- she's lucky she only blew a tire. (!!!)

You'd think the tire'd be lucky if she blew it.

Tristan Fabriani: Holy crap that's amazing - when PBR is "cheap" here (DC), it's freakin' 2.50 or 3 bucks.

That's because in DC, people are drinking it to be seen drinking it, sort of ironically. "LOL look at how blue collar I am! Check out my tattoos!"

There are people like that here too, but mostly people drink it because you can get a pitcher for $5.

/well, that and everything is more expensive in DC

You guys just don't know how true the headline is if you live in Tulsa.

I have a personal relationship with two monster potholes down my street that the city has yet to fix.

But, the city first has to fix itself; we have the WORST city government I've ever seen. It's like nine dysfunctional family members (our city councilors).

Smeggy Smurf: PBR is the best cheap beer out there

PBR is in a binary-star relationship with MHL.

i am the infidel: A friend of mine tried the same thing. Fail.

my dad and a friend had their whole car (caddy hearse) fall into a sinkhole in ritzville washington. was reimbursed .....12 years later.

AlwaysRightBoy:
//for me it must have been the Newark watershed water

I swim in that water!

/2 minutes from my house
//35-foot rocks to jump off

Really?

Can my brother get reimbursed for the TWO tires that were asploded by construction debris on the highway, in a DOT work zone?

/it was in Oregon
//so I guarantee, no

onyxruby: I've done this before in Brooklyn Park MN and gotten reimbursed $200, here's the deal.

1. your run over pothole and bang up your car.
2. you hope someone else called in said pothole or it's on record from a city employee.
3. if no one called it in you can try submitting a road hazard claim to your insurance company.
4. if someone did call it in, you submit your repair bill to the city and they reimburse it

Basic arguement being that if the city didn't know about it they aren't liable. If they did know about it, than it's their responsibility. As long as your not a prick about it, you might be surprised how willing they are to cooperate.

It's hard to find a good pothole in MN. I have to say that we have the best maintained roads of any state I've been through.

I was going to make a comment about how she must have a friend in City Hall but it sounds like they actually stick to their policy. Good for her. Around here, the Dept of Public Works handles road related claims and they will tell you: A. Nobody told them about that pothole even though people have been driving around it for 10 years. B. You ran into something else and are trying to screw us into paying for it.

Never cared for PBR but I'm waiting for the new Classic Schlitz to show up here.

Crow The Robot: rocinante721: As a beer geek, I gladly make sell-out my discriminating palate for more practical budgetary concerns.

,,, it also tastes good, for p*ss beer. Miller High Life as well


It should taste just like Miller High Life. There is no PBR beer anymore, it's just a brand owned by an investment agency. PBR contracts breweries out to put their beer in a PBR can. In the case of Wisconsin, it's Miller. So the PBR you get here will not be the same PBR you get on the west coast.

No, it's PBR brewed by SAB/Miller in a PBR can. PBR recipe, Miller brewery. Just like Pete's Wicked- Pete's recipe, Yuengling brewery. Like the oil business, they found out that plants close to every market are expensive, so you are better contracting out in the places you don't have plants. Eventually they did away with all of their breweries and kept the intellectual property like recipes and logos.

BigOkie: You guys just don't know how true the headline is if you live in Tulsa.

I have a personal relationship with two monster potholes down my street that the city has yet to fix.

But, the city first has to fix itself; we have the WORST city government I've ever seen. It's like nine dysfunctional family members (our city councilors).

Find yourself a couple of politicians and fill the potholes in.
/problem solved

HowlingPook: I was going to make a comment about how she must have a friend in City Hall but it sounds like they actually stick to their policy. Good for her. Around here, the Dept of Public Works handles road related claims and they will tell you: A. Nobody told them about that pothole even though people have been driving around it for 10 years. B. You ran into something else and are trying to screw us into paying for it.

Never cared for PBR but I'm waiting for the new Classic Schlitz to show up here.

I tried the classic Schlitz and it wasn't my cup of beer. It does have a strong flavor though, so I'm sure a lot of people will like it. Oddly enough, it almost has a micro-brew flavor.

rocinante721: As a beer geek, I gladly make sell-out my discriminating palate for more practical budgetary concerns.

,,, it also tastes good, for p*ss beer. Miller High Life as well

Your newsletter, subscription, etc, etc...

"We lie to ourselves about what we like.

The masses don't really want a strong beer all the time, they actually do like the weak beers. Otherwise those wouldn't sell so well.

They don't want a strong cup of coffee, they want a weak brew. That's why we put all sorts of things in our coffee that isn't coffee. That's why we value 100% arabica over that damned robusta.".

This is complete and utter bull-shiat. I NEVER drink American lagers - no flavor at all. I will give you a prime example: I am a member of the American Legion and my post started stocking stout beer just for me. Before that I never drank a beer there in the 5 years I have been a member.

This is complete and utter bull-shiat. I NEVER drink American lagers - no flavor at all. I will give you a prime example: I am a member of the American Legion and my post started stocking stout beer just for me. Before that I never drank a beer there in the 5 years I have been a member.

Exactly the kind of post I would expect from someone named flaming___ ;)

I used to work at a collision repair shop, and we once had a car come in that hit a pothole on a highway and tore most of the suspension off the right front corner. The state of colorado picked up the bill without batting an eye.

I love PBR. So there.

Yuengling Black and Tan is the best beer for the money, but Pabst is the best cheap beer there is. It is the only full flavor subpremium beer I will drink (Natty Ice is the devil's piss) and the only Non American American beer I will buy (yes, I am talking about all Anheuser, miller, and coors brands)

/Drinking 3 Samuel Adams Octoberfest beers out of my liter stein right now. Malty but very good, will be buying more.

I stopped reading the headline after the first three words. I was disappointed when I clicked the link.

DeRosso: Wouldn't it be more economically sound to just fix the potholes?

That's why most cities require a complaint to have been filed previously. If they wait 20 days to fix a significant problem, they're making up for being negligent.