My dad and I are always replacing refrigerators for tenets, we but about four a year. They end up costing around $600-$700 a peace.<br /><br />A women he knows has a aunt in her late 80's who is moving out of her home and going to a nursing home. She said that she has a refrigerator that is only a few months old, we can have it for $100. Great!, we are getting almost new refrigerator for $100.<br /><br />My dad and I get the the house this afternoon, go inside and get it. The thing looks new, still has the paper on the inside of it. We take the doors off it so we can get it threw the door and use a two wheeler to get it on to the side walk.<br /><br />There wasn't any parking spaces on the street, so we parked around the corner. My dad runs up to get his truck so we can load it on. He got there and found he was stuck on ice, so he put it in 4 wheel drive and got off. He backs around the corner and down the street, the two left wheels on the side walk and the two right ones are on the street, all the sudden I hear a loud smash from inside the house, I come running outside to see what happened, I find him out of the truck looking for a dent. <br /><br />There was a very low fire hydrant on the side walk that couldn't be seen from the high truck. We don't understand, he backed into it REAL hard, be we can't find and damage. We assume he hit it with the trailer hitch, we are feeling pretty lucky.<br /><br />After loading the refrigerator into the truck, and tying it down we jump inside and are on our way, its been a long morning of painting and we want to get home, its about 4:00.<br /><br />We drive down the road and all the sudden my dad realized something is wrong with the front end, when the wheel is straight the truck go's right, steering is very loose and there is a vibration, we pull over.<br /><br />After climbing under the truck we learn that he hit the hydrant with the inside left tire, bending the tie rod into a V, the whole steering system is loose, looks like it is going to fall on the street, the frame is bent too 
..<br /><br />We drove home at 30 mph the whole way, and didn't lose steering......but what a mess all for a $100 refrigerator
..<br /><br />We drove home at 30 mph the whole way, and didn't lose steering......but what a mess all for a $100 refrigerator 
