Will insurance cover this one??

fatlazyless · 01-24-2008, 07:39 PM

Mass. man's SUV fished out of Big Lake

By Adam Drapcho
The Laconia Daily Sun

GILFORD - It took Gulbicki and Bertocchi towing companies two days to extricate a 2007 Ford Explorer from Saunders Bay, but they did so late yesterday afternoon. The SUV broke through the ice Monday afternoon, at about 1:15 p.m. It's owner, Michael Pandelina, of Andover, Mass., had driven the 4,700-lb vehicle onto the ice, he said Monday, to check the ice condition in preparation of a fishing trip he planned for the coming weekend.

He said he heard the ice cracking and stopped, and then the front end of the vehicle began to sink. Pandelina narrowly escaped through the driver's side window before his vehicle completely submerged, sinking some 35 feet before reaching the lake bottom.

Charles Gulbicki, of Gulbicki Towing, said the ice was about two-inches thick where Pandelina's vehicle went through, and so it was unsafe for the recovery crew to attempt to pull it up there. After a diver attached a cable to the Explorer, workers for the wrecker company used chain saws to cut a path in the ice to shore, where a tow truck with a winch dragged the vehicle about 250 feet.

Once closer to shore, beams were positioned under the Explorer, and it was dragged up the planks and onto the ice, then up onto the truck's bed. By the end of he journey, every body panel of the vehicle was crumpled and most windows were smashed.

Gulbicki said it was a two-day-long effort to remove the vehicle, and he was quite relieved when the truck was finally secured on his tow truck.

If Pandelina had not arrainged to have his vehicle removed from the waters of Lake Winnipesaukee, he could be facing a fine of $500 per day that he left it there under the state's water protection laws.

Laconia Daily Sun
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Got to wonder how this incident gets reported on his insurance, how many points, and what it does to his future Massachusetts insurance bills?
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Just thought of this one...hey Buddy Boy...iffin a woman passenger in the backseat didn't make it out, he could be running for the US Senate from Massachusetts! .....budda-bing!...ugh...shame on me!

Before all you "Live Free or Die-ers" start bangn' on Senator Ted Kennedy (age 37 at the time) for his July 18, 1969 midnight drive off of Chappaquidik Bridge on Martha's Vinyard, resulting in the drowning death of Mary Jo Kopechne, age 28....did you all know that NEW HAMPSHIRE has a similar skeleton rattln' around in its' historical closet.

H Styles Bridges, 1898-1961, NH Governor and US Senator, and most powerfull senator for NH in the 20th century. It has long been rumored that he was involved in the 1936, hit & run death of 36 year old Della Call, when she was struck and killed by a large black vehicle that hit her after dark, by the side of the road, and then took off. He went on serve in the US Senate until 1961, and served as the minority leader. He was also involved in blackmailing a Wyoming US Senator who later committed suicide. (source wikipedia)

So, NH is not exactly an all boy scouts and Senator John E Sununu, nice-guys-come-in-first, type of a place, either!

01-24-2008, 07:39 PM	#29
fatlazyless Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 8,738 Blog Entries: 1 Thanks: 300 Thanked 1,007 Times in 735 Posts	LaDaSun, Thurs Jan 24 Mass. man's SUV fished out of Big Lake By Adam Drapcho The Laconia Daily Sun GILFORD - It took Gulbicki and Bertocchi towing companies two days to extricate a 2007 Ford Explorer from Saunders Bay, but they did so late yesterday afternoon. The SUV broke through the ice Monday afternoon, at about 1:15 p.m. It's owner, Michael Pandelina, of Andover, Mass., had driven the 4,700-lb vehicle onto the ice, he said Monday, to check the ice condition in preparation of a fishing trip he planned for the coming weekend. He said he heard the ice cracking and stopped, and then the front end of the vehicle began to sink. Pandelina narrowly escaped through the driver's side window before his vehicle completely submerged, sinking some 35 feet before reaching the lake bottom. Charles Gulbicki, of Gulbicki Towing, said the ice was about two-inches thick where Pandelina's vehicle went through, and so it was unsafe for the recovery crew to attempt to pull it up there. After a diver attached a cable to the Explorer, workers for the wrecker company used chain saws to cut a path in the ice to shore, where a tow truck with a winch dragged the vehicle about 250 feet. Once closer to shore, beams were positioned under the Explorer, and it was dragged up the planks and onto the ice, then up onto the truck's bed. By the end of he journey, every body panel of the vehicle was crumpled and most windows were smashed. Gulbicki said it was a two-day-long effort to remove the vehicle, and he was quite relieved when the truck was finally secured on his tow truck. If Pandelina had not arrainged to have his vehicle removed from the waters of Lake Winnipesaukee, he could be facing a fine of $500 per day that he left it there under the state's water protection laws. Laconia Daily Sun ........................ ........................ Got to wonder how this incident gets reported on his insurance, how many points, and what it does to his future Massachusetts insurance bills? ......... Just thought of this one...hey Buddy Boy...iffin a woman passenger in the backseat didn't make it out, he could be running for the US Senate from Massachusetts! .....budda-bing!...ugh...shame on me! Before all you "Live Free or Die-ers" start bangn' on Senator Ted Kennedy (age 37 at the time) for his July 18, 1969 midnight drive off of Chappaquidik Bridge on Martha's Vinyard, resulting in the drowning death of Mary Jo Kopechne, age 28....did you all know that NEW HAMPSHIRE has a similar skeleton rattln' around in its' historical closet. H Styles Bridges, 1898-1961, NH Governor and US Senator, and most powerfull senator for NH in the 20th century. It has long been rumored that he was involved in the 1936, hit & run death of 36 year old Della Call, when she was struck and killed by a large black vehicle that hit her after dark, by the side of the road, and then took off. He went on serve in the US Senate until 1961, and served as the minority leader. He was also involved in blackmailing a Wyoming US Senator who later committed suicide. (source wikipedia) So, NH is not exactly an all boy scouts and Senator John E Sununu, nice-guys-come-in-first, type of a place, either! __________________ ... down and out, liv'n that Walmart side of the lake! Last edited by fatlazyless; 01-25-2008 at 12:15 PM.