Ok, just some facts to consider against some continously nonsensical remarks going on:
-I am a member of ADAC since 2000. Basic membership covers Germany only. For coverage in foreign countries too you need to pay for "Gold" membership (whatever it is called). I usually never make road trips by car to foreign countries. The trip to Belgium had been the first since about 10 years and the last one since.
So why buy Gold membership for a trip lasting not even a day? Nobody would do that. I have bills to pay and can't waste money on things I don't need.
My co-driver had gold membership, but ADAC refused to acknowledge it because he didn't drive. Not because he wasn't the owner of the car, but because he didn't drive. If we only claimed that he drove it would have been ok. Sincerity gets punished. Go figure.
-The car jack I had with me (the one supplied by the car manufacturer) could not be used because due to the way it was built: the flat tire caused the heavy front (motor) to hang down towards the ground that much so that it was impossible to fit the the jack beneath it
-My car looked crappy, yes, but was technically perfectly alright. Don't judge a book by its cover. I would have loved to have a nicer car but I am not rich and simply cannot afford it. At the time this van was my only car and I had to use it to drive to work, shopping, everything.
-The tire blew because of extremely damaged belgian roads, not because my car "was a wreck". I have never seen damaged roads like that.
-When my friends and I started this hobby and did some warehouse raids we took all the stuff by ourselves and did not do generous "community raids" because in the late 90s/early00s there was no community, none of the forums I know today existed. I signed up to the first one in 2005.
-"Scanning some stuff" might not be as heroical as helping people get cabs but it so happens to be one of the small things I am able to provide for everyone. I can't repair other peoples PCBs but I had been willing to sit down and scan and process 5000+ pages of stuff and upload for other people to use for their repairs/building adapters/etc. I don't even put my name in flaming red letters on the front because I don't do it for any acknowledgement. Though it sure is nice to get any. Still have hundreds and hundreds of pages to do. It's a stupid and tiring work, and sometimes I feel stupid and tired because I do it.
-Wurstkopp and I know each other for years from the german forums. Even in times when we where in good terms with each other I probably would have answered to his "joke" the way I did here. I might even be really rude and write "Shut up and piss off, asshole" and no one would be pissed about it because that was the way we were joking at each other. André doesn't know shit about me and just because I don't go to community meetings doesn't mean I don't know anyone in person. It is always a good thing to shut up if you don't know the background of things and moreso even if it is none of your business. It was "my" thread, Wurstkopps posting had nothing to do with my question, don't I have the right to ask him to stop offtopic remarks? I think so. But I may be wrong, but then the only person with that right is Bruno, nobody else.
I am seriously astonished about the BS going on here and I should really be disappointed in some of those people posting here that I considered decent human beings.
Oh well, lesson learned, life goes on, stupidity never ends.