Purchased a motorcycle to help the friend of a friend in a rough divorce situation.

Motorcycle turns out to be not the one originally claimed.

Purchased it for the high market value value.

Have helped the person and family since with mechanical issues on vehicles.

Situation has continued to get increasingly weird.

Service of vehicle is expected at no cost and motorcycle has turned out to have salt water in entire fuel system that has destroyed much of it.

Moral of the story is don't. Just don't.

A bleeding heart is just a mark for many.

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That's truly awful to jump into. Geez.

I hate helping friends. Those are the ones that go sideways, anything that can go wrong will.

It depends on what friend it is, for me.

I am just speaking from automotive experience, and moving lol

Yeah, it can be pretty bad.

One of my friends ignored ALL the advice that he solicited after his last car was totalled (not his fault). He bought a car from a shady place, Ave he chose a terrible car with too many miles and sketchy service history. He got boned. Hard. Total lemon. And now he doesn't really talk to us anymore after the latest round of really expensive repairs I'm not sure how he's able to afford...

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The phrase "no good deed goes unpunished" comes to mind.

I should've been paying better attention initially. Lesson learned.

It's a good reminder to be careful.

The upshot is I get to teach a couple of my kids how basic 4-stroke fuel systems work.

OMG... I was supposed to have a chill night with friends before going to the beach tomorrow... But I ended up helping said friends diagnose and fix a washing machine that barfed all over the floor.

Stuff like this only happens when I show up... 🙄

This is the way. Appliances seem to have favorite victims.

Yeah, they sure do. But, if this had happened when I wasn't around, they wild have likely spent money on a new washer unnecessarily, tried to install it, then still had the same issue. So, it worked out and they are thankful, even if it was gross to deal with.

Very good.