dont you just love when someone backs into your car and say's nothing

Never let it be said that people that go to church on Sunday, are "always good!"

I live behind a church, and there are parking stalls across the alley from where I park my truck. I came out of the house one Sunday afternoon to find a GIANT crease on the left side of the box. No note or anything. (6 month old truck by the way) I then filed a "hit and run" report with the police.

I waited until the next Sunday to see if any of the members of the church just might have some paint on their rear bumper. Sure enough one had a big white patch of paint on the left rear corner of the bumper. (same color as my truck)

I approached the pastor of the church and asked if he could speak to the owner of the car. The pastor reported back to me that the owner (a dear sweet little old lady) SWORE, (hey, it was Sunday after all!) up and down that it wasn't her!!
But ... a friend in the police department took a sample of the paint from HER bumper, and determined that the paint DID come from my truck. The only trouble is; without a witness, the police couldn't do anything.

Then the little 'ole lady filed a harrasment charges against me for accusing her of running into my truck! (dropped by the way)

So .. I paid for the repairs; $3,700.00 !!

 

I would have said fine, let her go, and she would have come back to all four tires with the air let out of them and the valve stem guts gone to the winds. For the sake of like $5 of parts she'll probably have to have it towed... I'd hit a pay phone and report the illegally parked car, too.

Fat bitch like that, one would probably be enough, she can't sit on the right side to raise the left side off the ground and change the tire at the same time.

Just make sure there's no security cameras in the parking lot -


I hate people like that, though, sometimes don't you wish it was legal to just deck someone for being stupid and knock them flat on their ass?

 

Should have taken her to small claims. If you have a police report that says the paint did come from your truck, photos of her car and yours with a yardstick to show the height matches, that should be good enough. She goes into court and lies, the judge should be able to see right through her pretty fast. She can't get anywhere with harassment charges if you're trying to collect for the damage, either.

 

No prob, glad you liked it.

People piss me off. I understand that most of the people walking around have no idea the hours and dollars we sink in our cars, but they should have been taught manners and respect for other peoples property when the were toddlers. The lack of respect I think stems from society protecting people so much that they never face any direct negative reinforcement for their actions. If there is blowback for something they've done it's taken care of by insurance companies, lawyers and the like. This leaves them with nothing more that a monetary loss that on some level they find acceptable. The only thing I've found that is effective whatsoever is behaving in a manner which they find terrifying, making them afraid for their own well being. This is the negative reinforcement that is missing from modern society - the realization of "I fucked up and this big guy's going to beat the hell out of me, Maybe I should reflect upon my past actions and place more consideration into what I do in the future".

Yet I digress. I never have figured out why that woman thought it was a good idea to act that way toward a twitchy kid with a green mohawk and combat boots. I bet she didn't do it again

 

I haven't been to the super market in almost four years because I don't want my car to look like my wife's car. Also, I carry my digital camera with me and IF I have to park next to another car or between cars, I take a picture of all three cars with license numbers readable in case I get hit... knocking on my forehead while saying Knock on wood.

 

And before anyone thinks you're crazy... I do it too. Except usually I just won't park in those spaces if the surrounding cars look nasty. I have specific parking spaces at specific places and will pass on by if those spaces are taken.

 

at work, a coworker doubleparks, then proceeds to hit my front bumper on my new truck. Luckly somebody saw him, he thought I was frustrated about the truck being hit. I was mostly mad about all the damn doubleparkers. I end up going had to get three quotes to get a check out him. now he wants a reciept? Now only did I have to leave work early to get the quotes, my truck will be out of commisions for three days, he ain't paying the rental! Also this damage is light enough that the DMV don't have know. The damage is basically a dent and spray job.Weird situation because you know, in the real world I can live with the small dent.. after all it is a truck. Also had this happened elsewhere I know he would not have left a note. It's like 600 bucks burning a hole in my wallet!! I also got the cost of doing the fix myself and it about the same in time and supplies. sorry to steal the thread but suggestions would help.

 

I used to park an MGB on the streets of North Side Chicago, where street parking is a premium. I had just scored a decent spot, was still sitting in the car, when a chick squeezes some POS in ahead of me, by backing into my grille, denting my grille guard. I jumped out, asked her WTF she's thinking, she says, "Hey, this is Chicago, you gotta live with that shit". Walked away. MGB's back then had a little copper hammer in the trunk for wire wheel removal. It fixed her taillights real good. But then I had to find a new parking place... The whole scene pissed me off so much I moved out to the burbs, where two weeks later a 13-yr-old joyriding his mom's Buick missed a turn and totalled the MGB... It's karma, man!

 

I had a similar thing happen to me but the car wasnt primer it was just a 5 year old car. She hits me while Im in it, I get out and we have a conversation, she didnt see what the big deal was and walked away. I didnt chase her, I kicked her door in, were even I can be a bigger asshole if I have to. That was 30 years ago, would I do it today....I dont know

 

I wouldn't know what to do if someone hit my car and left a note on my windshield here in Los Angeles. As much as it hurts to see, I've written off my daily driver as a dent magnet, and there's nothing you can do. If you park on the street, forget it, you're screwed. Bumping cars while parallel parking is the norm.

When I worked in the valley a coworker and I would have to go check our cars (4 hour parking) in the middle of the day, and we'd see it all the time. There was a medical center that a lot of seniors would go to, and they would hit cars like mad!!! You'd always see a little old lady getting out of a big ass lincoln or something. One day, we saw this gray haired woman back her caddy into a car trying to parallel park. She slammed the shit out of it, then *HAULED ASS* down the street! We couldn't stop laughing. Maybe she came back and left a note, hey who knows, but she sure got down that street in a hurry. Whenever someone was parallel parking we'd watch the show. Usually we weren't disappointed. I'll eat in my car when I grab lunch usually(too many freaks inside), and I can't tell you how many times I've had people hit my car with their door so hard it shakes the entire car. They never even say they're sorry or nuttin.

Anybody in this town that has a car over a few years old doesn't have any insurance, and even if they do it's in their cousin's uncles name. And it was cancelled. There's zero chance of getting satisfaction for parking lot dings here, unless you handle it yourself

My friend in Austin Texas had someone hit and run his truck in a grocery store parking lot. No note from the driver, but *3* notes from people that saw him do it and wrote down the license plate and offered to be witnesses. Now *that's* a law and order state! Don't mess with texas

 

I'm guilty of road rage, bad... and I carry a gun.

I've NEVER been one to act like a dumbass when I am the one that fucked up. If I fuck up, I wave the 'courtsey wave' of apology and if close enough I say I'm sorry. (just hard to see those little import bastards sometimes) Nothing pisses me off more than a fucker that fucked up and then waves the finger at me or lays on the horn. Wow that's a good way to get fucked up, fast.

And I never get mad when someone does the same after they fuck up, ya know, an apology.

When someone fucks up, and they are the ones with all the attitude, I always take it way too far.

Could I have possibly said 'fuck' anymore?

`Ficus! I have to stop swearing so `darn much, might be `freakin virgin eyes on here.

 

sometimes being the "big tattooed creepy guy" has it's benifits.

My Cutlass isn't pretty. not at all.the rear bumper,however is very nice (gotta love pate) and about the only part of the car that wont require a whole lotta work when it gets finished.

I was driving home from the shop about 6 months ago and stopped for a red light. few seconds later,and I got hit from behing-while taking a drink of sangria-(basically non alcoholic carbonated grape juice.its delicious. and very red.)
shit. I am in the process of shutting the car down and taking off the f point when I realize the owner-a smallish black fellow-is yelling at me! something about stopping where I shouldn't have,wonk wonk,wonk on and on.

when I got out of the car, all he said was "oh,shit" under his breath. I am not as big as Big Rick, but I am 6'2, 210 pounds of heavily tattooed whiteboy. we are on the east side of Austin, and I am Bald (nature,not nurture) you can see what this guy was thinking,cause he looked like him and Natalie Portman would be a good fight. (really, I am a teddy bear,kids. mostly.)
so as I walk towards the back of the car,he keeps walking back. I look at my bumber, and it is inside the grille area of his newer model Impala (the little one,thank god...) so I look at him and say"pull into the parking lot" and point at the restraunt right next to us. he says "okay..." and gets kind of a run for it look in his eyes so I mention-"I can catch you in this car" and smile. He just deflated. it was kind of sad.
we pulled into the parking lot, I get out to look at my car, and hey! it apparently cleaned some of the road grime off the bumper! no dings....and in fact, it was a little out of adjustment on that side, and it fit right all of the sudden...cool. I went to look at his car, and the grill was destroyed,the bumper cover looked like it had a fat lip and the hood was pushed back. one headlight smashed, and the front edge of a fender was wrinkled up. pretty heavy stuff.
so I asked him "well,YOU hit ME...so what do You want to do about this?"
his response was "Man,...I don't really..Care about this car. Is yours alright?"
"It's fine"
his exact words were "No Harm,No Foul,Sir. Let's go home."
his car was smashed and he said "Sir?" what gives? screw it Donny,Let's get a lane.
I looked at myself in the mirror. I had been wearing a white shirt, and the sangria was all over the front of it. I looked like I had been eating children when he hit me. poor guy.in retrospect, I feel bad about it, but I think that if he had hit my wife, or someone else, it would have been a different story.

 

A few years ago I was sitting at a set of lights on a minor road. The old lady with the blue hair in the retirement mobile rolled a bit over the line, reversed up and stoped. Still in reverse I was just about to hop out and tell her when the lights go green. Wham strait back into the grill of my 38! She calmly put it in drive and took off. I was out of the car to look at the damage in this time and couldnt believe it!! Jumped back in and nailed it to catch up. Bad move, a cop car across the lights got me fro speeding. Never saw the old duck again, cops didn’t give a shit about the supposed accident. The stupid bitch cop told me that it was probably my fault driving a car like that anyway!! Fuckers. The car is a survivor from the 60s and is little changed, (Except for the big ding in the grill) I kept it in perfect condition.
Another ass hat hit the front right guard in a rare spares carpark (Aussy version of Year One) no note nothing, you’d think in a place like that people would have respect for cars.
Fuckers.
Hope you catch em' fuckem' up for me too.
Doc.


Damn fuckers.

 

i had a 50 stude and a 56 buick riv get the roofs crunched pretty bad from the neighbors 6 euky trees fallin on them .there ins would not pay and my ins would not pay clms act of nature, lucky for me they can be fixed un lucky for me it totally crushed my 67 911 porche coupe, that one hurt...oh yea they did say they were sorry......could have sued and one but i have 20 cars in yard and they could make my life ugly with the city ,,,,,so i just smiled

 

last saturday morning i was saw a older nissan pathfinder back into a brand new dodge pu.the guy got out looked at it and drove off .i wrote down his tag # and put a letter on the truck telling the owner what i saw .he called a bit later and i told him the story.it did more damage to the nissan so i guess carma was working that day.on another note someone hit my moms new mustang at the store a few months back knocked a big hole in the front bumper.no note or anything...

 

LMAO. That story made my day.

-Dave

 

A length of velvet rope will prevent people from hitting your car.

Here's what you do:

1. Go to your neighbors house when they are home.

2. Remove the head of him, and his wife.

3. Get a couple 'Tiki torches', they might have some in the backyard.

4. Place heads on top of torches, setup torches on sides of your rear bumper.

5. Place a length of red velvet rope between posts, protecting your bumper from further damage.

It worked for Genghis Khan. Some strategy is timeless.

 

Do ya think it has anything to do with those damn mirrors that say "objects are closer/farther than they appear"? What's up with that anyway? Why can't the makers use a regular mirror? Anyway, make sure the flyer ends up in all your neighbors mail boxes. And...if you what to keep your masterpiece in one piece...don't park it on the street, and don't take it to the store. Here in South Texas, if you have anything nice, new or old,...BAM!...that will teach you to have nice stuff. I say shoot em on sight!

 

That has happened to me on 2 occasions ,outside my house all the other neighbours told me as the saw it but bastard ol woman denied it and second time at a pub by a drunk driver so i went badk the next week and sorted it out ,again the driver was drunk but i got my dosh and a little anger disposal.....but it sucks when bastards hit n run...rant over

 

Not sure if this applies to this tread, but I need to vent. Ever notice those lines they paint in parking lots? Theres nothing I like more than to take my total beater and park rediculously close to these retards that park on/over the yellow lines. I'll stay in my space, but I'll give them no quater. If you're unable to park your SUV because its too big, take another run at the space, park someware else or, holy shit, get a smaller car! I love nothing more than seeing fresh paint on my doors because some turd was in a hurry to get a coffee.

 

That sucks dude, definitely look around for paint / scratches on your neighbours bumper, i bet you'll find out who did it with a little investigating.

L

 

The father-in-law uses a 2-place horse trailer for his mobile tool hauler for his construction business. He pulled up at his current job on a Saturday morning to find the trailer 25' back of where it was parked, totally on the sidewalk, with bright green and black paint on it. He keeps it full of tools, so its approx 4000 lbs loaded, and he uses a cinderblock between the 2 tires on eack side for wheelchocks.
After filing the hit and run report, he decided on lunch. Pulled up to a 4 way stop and seen a little '80's dodge colt all smashed up painted bright green with black bumpers. Followed the people to where they were goin, and blocked the car into the driveway. after the driver and pass. got out and went inside he decided to ask the 2 still in the car some questions. Opened the door and asked the 2 inside if they knew anything about his trailer.
"I wasn't there, but she was!!" was the 16 y.o. guys response.
The girl came out crying saying she had to get her friend to the hospital, but he kinda blocked the driveaway till the cops got there to take care of things.
She musta been flyin to move the trailer that much, only like 10' of skidmarks in front of the trailer.