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Written by Kacey Green
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Wednesday, 12 September 2007 |
 Today there was a moderately stiff breeze. I gained a new appreciation for redundant hood latches, and I can even understand why for some of the races I considered entering my Prius into, many required hood pins. Thankfully, nobody was injured and property damage only occurred to a vehicle already declared a total loss.
I was just over halfway through my first day at my new day job and my manager asked me to help move some vehicles to service. My assignment was a Chevrolet Malibu that recently had a crushed bumper, creased hood, and it wore a spare tire in the rear. It started and ran fine around the lot.
Speeds on the route we took were low, but not low enough, I completed the first turn and accelerated to 30 mph just fine, I thought, "Ok this will be quick and we'll be on to something else." Did I mention that today we had a mild steady breeze? Up until this point, the hood on this vehicle bounced about half an inch on bumps and in the headwind as if it were latched but had a slight bit of play (like many old cars' hoods). Did I mention the breeze?
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