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Tl;Dr: Took a loaner car and noticed damage several days later. Should I try to weasel out, or offer to pay something?

My car is in for body work and the shop gave me a loaner. It's a really poor condition Subaru SUV.

I've been driving it and today I noticed really weird damage to the fender. Looks like someone flung a rock or something heavy at the fender. The paint is flaking and the edge of the door has a little chip. The thing is, I have no idea if the damage was there when I picked it up. Probably wasn't because I think I would have noticed it by now.

It seems unlikely it was that way when I got it. There's a bunch of ground bare metal with no rust. You'd think a body shop guy would at least hit it with some paint to prevent rust.

I don't even see how this damage could have happened from a parking lot hit and run, and I didn't hit anything. There's a very deep round dent at the top of the fender, but the lower fender sticks out farther and isn't damaged at all. I don't think it was damaged while parked at my house, either. I have a narrow driveway. Whatever hit this came with serious force.

The only paperwork I have is a handwritten thing on one of those carbon copy receipts. It has my contact info, the mileage and vin of the vehicle and one line that says, "Customer is responsible for any and all damage to vehicle". I signed at the bottom.

Should I be straight up and tell him about it? Should I offer to pay something? It's a little shop and the guy has been pretty good to me. On the other hand, it could be a pretty expensive fix if the guy wants to milk it. To be returned to new condition it would need a new fender and paint on 2 panels.

I can't imagine the entire car is worth more than $4000. It has bad brakes, bad suspension, bad transmission, bad interior, etc. Its a 2018 with 156k miles.

Part of me thinks I should just return it and hope they don't notice right away, but it's kind of a cowardly move. Another option is to point out the damage and see what he says, and if he's unreasonable, force him to sue me/claim against my insurance.

I can afford it, but it also sucks to have to pay thousands for some parking lot hit and run or even damage that was there before I took it.

Any advice, ethical or practical?

How do other countries deal with this?

I need to find a job in the next few months. I'd been eyeing a particular part time position that would be really good for me, but I procrastinated a bit. When I got my resume and cover letter together, the job had disappeared from indeed and their website.

The same organization had a somewhat similar position still open, but with full time hours. I'm coming back into the workforce after 15+ years on disability, so I prefer part time at least to start. But the part time job was gone, so I reworked the cover letter and submitted it for the full time position.

This morning I checked and the part time position is back on both sites and says, "Hiring multiple candidates". These jobs have been open for over 6 motnhs, this is a hard area to hire in, especially given the wages.

The full-time position doesn't have any contact information listed, so there's nobody I can email and say, "Would you also consider me for (other position)?". It's not a large organization. I'd be surprised if the hiring manager was even a different person, but only the part time listing had contact information listed.

Should I just submit for the other position? Or wait and see if I get an interview/hired before applying for the other? I get the impression that they'd rather fill the full-time position, and it's a better fit for my resume/skills. I don't think it would look good to immediately apply for the part-time position after selling myself as the perfect person for the full time.

They haven't even had 1 business day to consider my first application. Indeed says they normally respond within 1 business day, but I don't know how trustworthy that is.

So, should I apply or wait a bit?

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Body camera footage obtained by Kentucky Public Radio shows that as Lt. Caleb Stewart walked closer, the woman yelled, “I might be going into labor, is that okay?”

Her water had broken, she said. “I’m leaking out,” she told him. She grabbed a blanket and a few personal effects as a bright orange city dump truck pulled up to remove the makeshift bed.

The woman had no phone. She said her husband went to call an ambulance, so Stewart called one for her. But as she walked toward the street to wait for help, Stewart yelled at her to stop.

“Am I being detained?” she asked.

“Yes, you’re being detained,” he shouted. “You’re being detained because you’re unlawfully camping.”

Stewart was enforcing a new state law that bans street camping — essentially, a person may not sleep, intend to sleep, or set up camp on undesignated public property like sidewalks or underneath overpasses. He has issued the majority of the citations for unlawful camping in Louisville.

“So I don’t for a second believe that this woman is going into labor,” he said.

He returned to find the woman sitting on the ground, with legs askew and labored breathing, waiting for the ambulance. Stewart hands her a citation, and she balls it up and tosses it aside as the ambulance arrives to take her to the hospital.

“You’re all horrible people,” she said, as she got to her feet. “I’m glad y’all got this job to f*** with the homeless and not help society.”

Later that day she gave birth to her child, according to her attorney, Public Defender Ryan Dischinger. He said both the woman and her son are healthy three months later, and the family is now in shelter without assistance from LMPD or the court system.

“The reality for her, and for anyone who’s homeless in Kentucky, is that they’re constantly and unavoidably breaking this law,” Dischinger said. “What she needed was help and compassion and instead she was met with violence.”

Now, she’s waiting for a late January trial date on her citation, which could carry a fine and requires the people charged with street camping, who are mostly homeless individuals, to appear before a judge.

I was running on an unused logging road and came up behind a wild cat. It didn't see me coming, so I got pretty close, maybe 20 feet away. It turned and stared at me for a second and then took off up a steep hill.

It was about 2.5 feet to the top of it's head, a little smaller than a Labrador. It wasn't a bobcat or lynx, because it had a long tail, but I don't think it was long enough to be a mountain lions tail(I don't remember seeing it curled). It had a brown coat and the tail had a stripey bit at the tip. 100% a cat from the body shape and movement.

But after looking it up, it seems like mountain lions basically don't exist in new england, or at least are extremely rare. Its limbs were not as thick as the mountain lion images I'm finding online.

I thought maybe it was one of those megasized housecats, but this trail is separated from town by a deep and wide river, any housecat would have had to walk 3 miles and across 2 bridges(one of which is a metal mesh footbridge) or 7 miles along the logging road to get to the nearest house. It's also below freezing out and there's 5+ inches of snow on the ground.

It's making me feel like I hallucinated this or something, because it doesn't seem possible. Hopefully I'll see it again now that I've looked at a ton of wild cat pictures. I was trying to remember as much detail as possible when I saw it, but I didn't know what to look for.

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