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SOME #### HAS JUST BUMPED MY ####ING CAR. IN THE LAST 3 MONTHS IT HAS BEEN KEYED, HAD A MIRROR SMASHED AND NOW THE FRONT WING IS ####ING RUINED. I’LL ####ING KILL THE NEXT ####ER WHO ####ING TOUCHES IT.
Bet you miss your Fiat really 🙂
AT LEAST I WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR ALL THE DAMAGE TO THE FIAT.
On top of that your caps lock is stuck.
Calm down its only a car.
It is annoying but its really not worth getting so wound up about it.
London?
Manchester. I'm guessing it happened last night in Tesco's car park and i've only just noticed it.
I've got an interview for a promotion any time now... and i'll i want to do at the moment is beat someone to death with a hole puncher. Time for a walk round the carpark and perhaps kick a couple of traffic cones.
hand on a minute, in the last three motnhs theres been threads about.......
keys on handlebars
ripping wing mirrors off
any money theres one with a "i kicked his wing in" coming soon.
Which Tescos (so I can avoid it!).
[i]any money theres one with a "i kicked his wing in" coming soon. [/i]
Kicking his doors in?
[i]Kicking his doors in?[/i]
For a million quid?
That's where you're going wrong - just say no to Dame Shirley Porter's Grocery Company.
Nice work Harry 🙂
Our nice almost new car has had scratches, dings and all sorts inflicted upon it by careless and unknown individuals in the two years we have had it. None of them big enough to make an insurance claim.. so it's gradually getting the crap beaten out of it 🙁
Presumably the more battered it looks the less likely someone is to nick it and the less you care when it gets further damage?
That's how it works with bikes anyway, I assume it's the same with cars.
😉
As a rule of thumb, if you leave scratches or a small dent on the side of your car other motorists wont be as kind when climbing in and out of their thus accelerating the problem, kind of a vicious cycle. As soon as you get a scratch on your car- get it fixed. Seriously, people think you dont care about your car/its apperance and react accordingly.
it's only a car
Was it Ton, were you blocking a bridleway?
[i]it's only a car[/i]
If its a leasecar its avery expensive outlay at the end of the lease period.
If you own the car its also your property that someone else is damaging.
[i]If its a leasecar its avery expensive outlay at the end of the lease period.
If you own the car its also your property that someone else is damaging. [/i]
it's only a car
If it's a lease car then get it fixed that's all I did when someone put a dent in our car door, it needed a new skin cost me bog all.
New skin/door respray might cost sub£250 (under someones level of excess) but why should you pay money out for someone idiot?! Hey my car is scratched- I dont care as my sort of car looks better scraggy but I do possess the understanding that some cars need to look nice/some STW'ers are proud of their posessions.
[i]but why should you pay money out for someone idiot?![/i]
As sadly the person who did it didn't own up, the car has to go back in reasonable condition so I got it fixed the car was 3 weeks old they didn't charge me the excess.
I still giggle when I think of the time I lent into someones rear 3/4 panel with my knee and dented it severely after they had left a deep crescent-shaped mark on my door with their paint still lodged in. Seemed apt.
my leasecar is to be replaced tomorrow...
There is a huge cratch (gouge) out of the right rear wing where my lady failed to notice our big white house whilst reversing.
I am just hoping it is accepted as a freebie due to vandalism (we claim hit & run car park incident).
hora strikes again....
😉
"its also your property that someone else is damaging"
and
"I lent into someones rear 3/4 panel with my knee and dented it severely"
even you, hora, has to see some sort of contradiction in these two statements?
wwaswas, the person obviously heard their car door slam into mine considering the depth/level of damage in the middle of my door. I did entertain the thought of waiting for them but as it was a huge shopping centre on a Sunday morning I could have been waiting there for a few hours. The least they could have done was leave a note on my windscreen but then again certain people in our society seem to think there isnt a consequence for their actions. They could also have just driven off and parked somewhere else. The car in question had no doorstrip to protect so took the full brunt. Yet again, they left their own paint embedded in mine and it didnt take Einstein to look at the arc and correspond the missing paint from the corner of their door either.
so it's wrong to accidentally damage someone elses car and not leave a note but perfectly acceptable to thwack it with your knee deliberatly and do a runner?
[i]so it's wrong to accidentally damage someone elses car and not leave a note[/i]
Its accidental if you compensate or attempt to compensate the owner of the damaged property. It becomes malicious if you shrug, walk off and do nothing.
wwaswas, I'd say so if someone has OBVIOUSLY ****ted your car and not left a note or anything. Why not give them some damage in return?
The alternative I suppose is to leave a note with your contact details saying you have taken photo's, have their reg no and will be contacting the police if you don't hear from them regarding the damage they have caused.
Some people treasure their possessions less than others and see banging doors into car bodywork as no big deal. I hate it when I find small parking dints in my car, even a bit of paint rub with not dent gets me peed off.
My car has got long doors with few 'stop' points, but I never let my door touch a neighbouring car, even if it means contorting myself to get out, or moving to another spot.
you're missign the fundamental point - you seem to think that it's ok for you to damage someone elses property (for whatever reason) but wrong for them to do it to yours.
If you felt that strongly about it you could have given their vehicle details to your insurers/obtained cctv/contacted the police and dealt with it legally. Instead you decided an eye for an eye was appropriate. Which is fine if you feel happy with that but does rather undermine the rest of your statements about the sanctity of property.
wwaswas. You dont think I considered all this? I parked at the furthest point away from the doors. completely empty for at least 100m's around me. All the cars at that point were crowded/clustered around the entrance (****in lazy mouthbreathers). I assumed if I ran in and out car would be ok. Came out- the ****er had parked next to me- NOT near all the doors like the rest. My car must have been a magnet? Couldnt get my head around the logic on that. I did look for CCTV - none in sight. Contacted the police/insurer? Are you mad?
[i]'oh hello, is that the Police? I'd like to report someone opening their door on mine please...yes yes, whats that? Me a timewaster? Why I never'.[/i]
Contact insurance? Have you ever contacted your insurers over damage? The last time I did (someone drove into the back of me), my insurers asked me to pay my excess upfront and I would get it back if the claim was found in my favour.
I was up for waiting but considering it was just after opening time on Sunday I didnt expect them to be in and out in a hurry like I was. So you'd still call the Police or (no CCTV) call your insurance company and take lots of pics?!
hora, frankly, the reason you inflicted criminal damage on someones car is of no interest to me.
What does interest me is the fact you were prepared to do this whilst simultaneously holding such strong views on the sanctity of your own posessions.
anyway, I'm clearly not making the point sufficiently well to engage you in debate so I'll leave it now I think.
wwaswas. My property is very important to me and I can understand that this is the case for other people as well. Strange concept huh? But havent you heard of an eye for an eye? If you were in my situation you would have waited, phoned your insurer and the Police? What would you have gained? Or would you shrugged yourself and put it down to just being a car then driven off? This might help you understand, not everyone thinks the sameway as you. Strange concept for some STW'ers on here.
"This might help you understand, not everyone thinks the sameway as you."
Not at all but I've always made the assumption that everyone thinks which was clearly erroneous.
I agree wwaswas taken out malicious damage to someone else's is just as bad as not owning up of not worse as you intended to do it revenge or not. I learned along time ago to ignore Hora as not matter he says he's guaranteed to contradict his self although this time it was particularly impressive.
Bangs head against desk
[i]Bangs head against desk [/i]
Did the person next to you get a coffee ring stain on your desk?
If there's not a lot of room I will get out with my fingers between my car door and the next car, also when the kids are climbing out. There's just no excuse to bash someone's car, that has generally cost them thousands of pounds.
Comes back to cyclists hitting cars for near misses/perceived attacks. A huge no-no. To attack someones car can be a very serious event and escalate badly. People on here either troll or assume everyone doesnt care about their car- to such a degree that they'd let any £damage go? Madness. I can understand if this viewpoint is based on their own experience if owning 'sheds'/bangers but not if they have paid/paying out a great deal to own a good vehicle.
The roads would be a much safer, much less aggressive place for everybody if all drivers accepted that their cars are likely to sustain a certain amount of damage from being used. It has always puzzled me that people are so precious about their cars - they are only tools for getting from a to b, surely, no matter how expensive?
The other day i was in a shopping centre car park in the wifes car, just as i opened the door a gust of wind caught it (wierd as it wasn't very windy) and it caught the neighbours car door, leaving a dent, i hate it when this happands to me, and i know a panel beater, so went to leave a note, found a pen, but no paper, so popped in to the bank in the centre to pick up a paying in slip to leave a note on, but the car had gone in the 5 minutes it took to get there and back. No note on my car, and luckily no dent either, just as well i didn't get back and find some idiot giving my car a shoeing for what was only an unfortunate event!!!
Back to my OP.
The bloke next door has the same damage on his car too. It would appear to be the work of scroats.
Harry_the_Spider - samething happened to an old car of mine and two other neighbours. do you to the angle/blind bend of our road we had to park two wheels on the kerb (just the kerbstone) with a wide pavement still. Still plenty of room (normal) to get passed. Anyway further down our nice estate is a typical Manchester estate (its like this all over Manchester) anyway scrotes always turn down our road on their way to theres. One morning theres some lovely keying down all three cars. Neighbour told me it could only be a regular daily passing of two young scrotes, their pram and three kids. What can you do though? How can you prove it?
If I owned a Audi S3*, washed and polished it twice a month why should I have to accept that other road users and pedestrians have a right to be clumsy, not watch where they are going and after just wander off quickly whistling? If you reversed into someones car in a carpark you'd feel obliged to pay wouldnt you? What kind of thinking is that you say 'ah, the bloke should accept that cars will get damaged by people like me'?
Madness. Anyway, thats enough from me.
*I almost bought a S3 from my bro in law but decided against it due to worry about its paint etc 🙁
Hora - parkig on the pavement is illegal and thus by your own logic the car deserved to be keyed
TJ, how?
According to you an eye for an eye is reasonable. someone parks illegally on the kerb blocking the pavement and forcing inconvenience on pedestrians. an eye for an eye / your logic as above in damaging a car in retribution means that by your logic keying an illegally parked car is reasonable.
Kerbstone, wide pavement. Isnt inconveniencing anyone. Unfortunately you confront such people means your car cant defend itself when your not around though. Chav-thinking must have been 'c'ants with nice cars 'look at 'em lets r'an our keys along em 'huh'...thus they also think like you TJ. Agreed?
Hora - above you said it was perfectly acceptable for you to damage a car in revenge. When it happens the other way round it suddenly becomes unacceptable.
Not agreed. Cars on the pavement are illegal and very annoying. By your logic above keying them is perfectly reasonable - I don't agree - but I am just pointing out the massive hypocrisy in your posts
[b]How has the car damaged anyone?[/b] Its not even in their way or impeding their access. Can you not visualise? the cars were lined up ready like a canvass ready to key.
Surely if you are looking to marry two situations they have to have matching circumstances. Do you understand this?
I do Hora - you obviously don't. follow your own logic as espoused above and keying the cars is seen as fair.
I am sorry you cannot see your own hypocrisy
TJ, do you actually own a car?
Reminds me of how I do not run decent cars,Why go out for the day then come back to your car to find it damaged for it to spoil your day out.Was actually considering buying a brand new car when this actually happened (someone rubbed my bumper scraping white paint into a dark bumper).next time I washed the car I polished the bumper as best as I could (did not look too bad)But if it was brand new I would have had to get it fixed (probably through insurance) at a decent cost to me.
TJ, do you actually own a car?
Hora - you know I don't - but that has no relevance to the hypocrisy that you show in that for you to damage a car is acceptable and for others to damage yours is not.
No I didnt, unless Im bloody good at Stalking! Just trying to figure out your logic and approach to driver/car-ownership.
I'm still lost with Hora is he saying it's ok to damage someone's car or not?
Drac - its OK for him to damage someone elses car but not OK for someone else to damage his.
[i]I'm still lost with Hora is he saying it's ok to damage someone's car or not?[/i]
Didnt you read my original post?
[b]Simply attacking someones property because it takes your fancy makes it wrong.[/b]
I do not own a car, and do not give a monkeys, big-style, about any of this. BUT, it seems to me that if you have something worth, say, £10,000, and you leave it lying around unattended all over the place outside, the chances of something mildly bad happening to it occasionally are quite high. So it makes a lot of sense not to be too precious about it when something does.
And Hora, I'm not arguing with you, but you're making almost precisely no sense at all on this one. 😉
[i]Didnt you read my original post?
Simply attacking someones property because it takes your fancy makes it wrong.[/i]
Yes but then you posted how dented somone's car with your knee because you suspected they may have dented yours.