homeless man to the rescue

[Perfectlap]

So I'm driving in a monsoon and I run over this flooded area, rips something loose underneath! Car is making a crazy sound. I pull over in a not so great area on a busy highway in downtown newark. Exhaust cover is hanging and twisted facing the wrong way. Call tow truck and they tell me 2 hour wait! Then a homeless guy starts knocking on my window! I try to wave him off but he gets under the car! He runs off and comes back with a jack! Starts raising car with me still inside!so I call the police figuring they should be here anyway to direct traffick away from me. Homeless guy taps on my window holding the cover. I give him $20 bucks and he runs off.

[Perfectlap]

By the way what is this part exactly?

[Boxtaboy]

I know what you mean by monsoon.... I was in Edgewater driving home from the supermarket in torrential rains this evening. Many of the roads were flooded. Luckily, I was in my A4 Quattro instead of the Boxster.

I think the part you are posting is item number 6 here: http://www.pelicanparts.com/PartsLookup/HTML/986_USA_KATALOG/501-01-Frame3.htm

It's listed as a rear axle bracket.

[rick3000]

That's bizarre, but at least he was well intentioned. Why would a homeless guy be lugging around a jack?

[9eighty6]

THAT, sir, made me laugh. Thanks.

That's not a "homeless" guy........just a rather good entrepreneur!

Originally Posted by rick3000

Why would a homeless guy be lugging around a jack?

Obviously, to make $20!

[2000SoCalBoxsterS]

He may have been a layed off homeless auto mechanic. Or not homeless at all, just looked that way. What street in Newark was this?