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I'd get out, look at the damage he did to my car and do 10x to his with my boot. If you're feeling confrontational, do it while he's there. If not wait until he leaves and leave him a nice note just to make sure he knows you did it. Passive aggressive, yes I am.
I don't really give a crap. Less than a year after I got the car some lady in a giant pickup backed into it. She was pretty hysterical but I managed to understand the her husband would go ballistic if she got in another accident and did body work. Well, turns out he sucks at body work so instead of the hatch having a hugantic dent the size of my head it's just got several small ones and some cracking on the paint on the bumper. Whatever. The first of many and the big ass honker of a door ding on the rear passenger's side is the only one that really bothers me.
My favorite is still a neighbor I had in an apartment. There was this one Camaro that parked in everybody's damn parking spot like he owned the place. Well, the idiot parked in front of my neighbor's garage so he couldn't get out. He called up a friend with a truck, hooked a tow chain to the Camaro and dragged it 50 feet across the parking lot and left it in the fire lane. Great show. All I did was let the air out of a tire.
On another note, this thread has made me want to get pepper spray on my upcoming trip West. Any laws pertaining to pepper spray out there? Or is it a free-for-all?
I’m sitting in my car in a car park, my two year old Daughter is asleep in the back seat, some twit pulls in beside my car and opens the his back passenger car door against my car, then proceeds to drag things out of his car while scratching mine. I don’t like confrontation, besides, I don’t want to get stabbed.
What would you do?
Um, I would get out, point out the damage, and demand their insurance information.
Stabbed? How sad is it that we can't even ask people to be responsible for what they do without worrying about being stabbed...?
Btw, my truck is 10 years old and I would still care if someone dented it all up because of being inconsiderate.
I park far away when I can. But whenever I'm in England, it's impossible. They don't have oversized lots over there.
Tradtionally, that was true, but things are apparently beginning to change in the UK.
Sure, if you are in central London, or even in a smaller burg like Oxford, you will have a hard time finding a car park of more than very modest dimensions. However, if you visit one of the growing number of Costco locations, or if you go to one of the newer, larger, suburban Tesco stores, you would find car park areas that are actually quite large.
If it was my G6, I'd ask for money or a report, since the car's body is in great shape. Not even swirls in the clearcoat, from using crappy rags, or autocar washes.
My Camaro(beater). I'd call them an ******* and get really confrontational, and likely use my door to put a good sized dent in their car if they become a dick back to me. I really hate people that have a lack of care for other peoples property. I try to make an example of them. "It is just a scratch, nothing to worry about" Maybe for your car, but its going to **** me off everytime I wash my car for however many more years I have it.
Don't underestimate a person in a beater. Greatest story I heard from a friend of mine when we were at UCF.
Parking sucked, they had several garages but you followed people to get a spot. Either way my friend was in a lot, saw a guy waiting in an early rough 90s silverado, for someone to pull out and leave. How the guy pulled out, he blocked him, and some girl in a near new Maxima, zipped in and stole the parking spot.
The guy in the truck just pulled forwared, tagged her bumper/trunk, probalby caused $1-3k in damage, then sped off.
I am interested in what goes through the mind of people like that. I can't say I have never accidentally hit another car when my door swung open more forcibly than I intended, but to slam a door and drag personal items across someone's car is beyond me.
Yes, it was one thing to whack the car, but it was the continuing, and in a manner that would lead you to think that he felt untouchable, especially when he knew I was there, that sets alarm bells ringing. There has to be something wrong with such a person.
My favorite is still a neighbor I had in an apartment. There was this one Camaro that parked in everybody's damn parking spot like he owned the place. Well, the idiot parked in front of my neighbor's garage so he couldn't get out. He called up a friend with a truck, hooked a tow chain to the Camaro and dragged it 50 feet across the parking lot and left it in the fire lane. Great show. All I did was let the air out of a tire.
In college, a girl parked in the mouth of our apartments parking garage entrance. It's only 1 car width wide.
We called a tow truck, she still hadn't come out so basically she blocked the entrance for at least 2 hours....not just a quick run-in.
He had to drag her out of the entrance left two big black streaks...once in the street he circled around and hooked her up from the front and then towed her off. No telling what that did to her transmission etc.
Posted this before but had a guy park very close to my 2007 Z06 which I'd intentionally parked 10 spots away from anybody in a home depot parking lot....way out.
Yep, there was a mark on my door too...but it rubbed out with my finger or I'd have called the cops on the spot. I left him a generous coating of snot and spit on his door handles and windows and drove off. Thank god for a good old sinus infection!
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