Parking Horror

[S13Grl]

It's 7<img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wow.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':0'>0 am, and I'm driving my mom to some management class she's taking. I park on the city streets of Chicago, and parallel parking with numerous other cars is an accepted fact. Very often, people park so close that it's virtually impossible to get out of the spot. And they &nbsp;bump your car, yadda yadda...
Anyway, so we're getting into the car, and my mom goes to me:
&quot;Did you see the way this guy behind you parked.&quot;
I'm like, &quot;No, I don't really care.&quot;
She says: &quot;He's sitting on your car.&quot;
So I get out, and this guys license plate and the screws that are holding it dove into my bumper and pushed on my car. The rear end of the car is totally risen up. So I look behind him and there's like three feet of space. So, I get in the car, put down the E-Brake, move the car a little, go back there, and there are huge f'n screw marks and scratches from his license plate. I also notice that there's a big chip of paint missing on my left bumper-corner and that there's some red paint marks and that the rest of my bumper's paint is cracked. His truck is red, and he's got a little mark where he drove onto my bumper. So... I take my nice little Nissan Key and write
<span style='font-size:12pt;line-height:100%'>#######</span> on the hood of his car, and take my car to see how much would it cost to fix my shiznit, and the body shop quotes me $300. The plastic has been cracked and the paint can't be touched-up. The whole bumper has to be re-painted if not replaced.

So, bash at me and tell me I was wrong to do this?

[BlankFlip]

&quot;u were wrong to do this <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'>&quot; seriously though, i would've left the car how it originally was, took his plates down n call the cops to take a look at it so they knew it was his fault.

[DSC]

While your mom's at her management classes, I think you need to attend some anger management classes. <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'>

(Edited by DSC at 1:47 pm on Nov. 17, 2001)

[ca18guy]

Should have gotten a cop involved right there and not have moved a thing,so his insurance could have paid for it. Now your the one paying for the bumper not him. Atleast you got some revenge but seriously you need to settle down, if you got caught keying a car a cop would'nt care what he's done to your car you would be the one in trouble.

[dave2u]

Good on ya. &nbsp; I saw a guy &nbsp;pull up next to mine ( in a brand new nissan micra in a retail carpark outside my work &nbsp;years ago ) &nbsp;and they all bailed out.
He hit his door so hard against mine it was like my car was just an object like a tree or a lampost not a persons property.
Total lack of respect for me and my property. He obviously thought no-one was watching.
When they`d gone i went over and sat in my car and left the door open. I took out a Stanley blade (for cutting carpets) and dug a deep slash into his door.
Anybody who shows you or your property no respect deserves any backlash coming there way.
And YES my door was dented!

Its one thing saying claim off his insurance but like the judicial system in general justice is not always dealt.
If you CAN get away with it an eye for an eye will make you feel a whole lot better. &nbsp;If you CANT get away with it bring the police and insurance into it. &nbsp;Either way make that f**ker pay! &nbsp; Or be a sap and be crapped on all your life. &nbsp; I hope those key marks were nice and deep S13grl!

[S13Grl]

Dave, thanks for understanding. You can only take so much. The other morning I woke up to find my whole quarter panel dented and scratched. Then today, I see a car pushing mine in a parking spot... and not giving a shit about it either. And police dont' care about it here. I asked them to fill out a police report for me when someone broke into my car and they told me I was wasting their time and that I'd get nowhere with it since I had liability only. So... you figure it out...

[BlankFlip]

i agree dave n irena. i mean i'd probably done the same thing in both of ur situations if i was actually there, but obviously i wasn't so i just say what u SHOULD do. just like last weekend somebody cut my strings off of my guitar n i actled like i didn't notice n walked away so he found the right sleeve of his jacket cut off w/ beer spilled all over it, thing is he's like 16 years old (not like i'm much older) n i could've easily kicked his ass, but this was better n plus i couldn't get it trouble.

(Edited by BlankFlip at 4:43 pm on Nov. 17, 2001)

[ca18guy]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Quote: from S13Grl on 2:30 pm on Nov. 17, 2001
And police dont' care about it here. I asked them to fill out a police report for me when someone broke into my car and they told me I was wasting their time and that I'd get nowhere with it since I had liability only. So... you figure it out...</td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'>

Thats the thing, you had him caught in the act. You should have treated like it was a auto accident. If a car came barreling into your car at 30 miles per hour while it was parked, would you get in and drive off mad and pay for the damage? No you would have stayed and the person that ran into your parked car would have payed for it. Now if a person runs into your bumper at 2 miles per hour and leaves how is that any different? Don't give me the cop's don't care BS. If thats the case you need to move where there isn't complete anarchy. Either way if you stayed you stood a chance of the other person paying, now you have no chance and by the sound of it, keying his car did'nt make you feel much better (ie. your still angery) &nbsp;Of course when i get pissed i do some crazy shit to.

P.S. &nbsp;so far I got you down for reckless driving (ramming a car) &nbsp;Assault (kicking a guy in the nads) &nbsp;and now vandalism (keying a car) your awesome <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'>

[BlankFlip]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Quote: from ca18guy on 4:44 pm on Now. 17, 2001
P.S. so far I got you down for reckless driving (ramming a car) Assault (kicking a guy in the nads) and now vandalism (keying a car) your awesome</td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'>
n still so young..... <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'>

i agree w/ what ca18guy said for this certain case u were in which is totally different from the breaking in one, but i guess i can c where you r coming from 2.

[ca18guy]

Yeah if his car wasn't still actually on your car then I would have gone nut's on his car, but the fact that it was still laying on your bumper is why I think you could have gotten his insurance involved.

[chickenmanq]

Personally, I would have driven to the store, gotten a gallon of gasoline, and poured it over the guy's car, and torched it. &nbsp;THEN I would have gone to my anger management class. <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'>

Actually, I don't have a problem with this, being I'm in Arizona, but since I have a truck, I would have backed into him and beaten the shit out of his car with my bumper.

[whateverjames]

i agree with calling the cops and having the evidence right there, but ####, what irena did would be so fun. it's a hard choice, the right thing? or the fun thing?

[BlankFlip]

if she wouldn't of done the fun thing i wouldn't of been able to read a nice story to keep me busy <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'>

(Edited by BlankFlip at 5:16 pm on Nov. 17, 2001)

[whateverjames]

i never thought of it that way. keep up the ball kicking and paint scratching.

[dave2u]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Quote: from chickenmanq on 3<img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wow.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':0'>9 pm on Nov. 17, 2001
Personally, I would have driven to the store, gotten a gallon of gasoline, and poured it over the guy's car, and torched it. THEN I would have gone to my anger management class. <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'>

Actually, I don't have a problem with this, being I'm in Arizona, but since I have a truck, I would have backed into him and beaten the shit out of his car with my bumper.
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yyyyyyyyyyyeaH!!! kICK HIS ASSS! &nbsp;Revenge , eye for an eye , drive over the f*cker Yeeeeeeh! &nbsp;much more fun!!

put it this way *has slashed tires before* LoL <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=';)'> n eye for an eye

[dave2u]

I watched some old sad sack the other month pull into a spot at the road side , bumped the car parked car in front reversed , bumped the car behind , moved forward a bit &nbsp;, stopped and walked off without a care in the world.

[bing]

holy shit s13grl u are a god......

i would have done the same thing, except i would have gone all over his car and then smashed in a window,


if his doors were open i would piss inside his car too,
no i'd say mom, stay in the car... and beat off and gid all over the interior of that truck..

was it a nice truck???

[gh6o6]

#### yeah i have a $500 deductible and it sucks so eye for an eye is the way to go. personally i thing sugar in the tank is the best but smashing headlights with the screwdriver in my trunk is fine by me. if its one of the neighbors, do it a couple of times

[misnomer]

Well, I don't think writing &quot;#######&quot; oh his hood is quite worth the three hundred dollars you'll now have to pay for your bumper paint. . . But that's just me.

[transient]

I would have probably gone the police route, but I'll tell you that if I didn't, I would have WRECKED his truck. Find the smallest window on the thing and bust it. That's good for 300 dollars right there. Take off my socks and shove em up in the tailpipe, piss in the gas tank if it wasn't a lockable one... Well you get the point. I've got a lot of stress, and I would have taken it all out on his truck.

[matic 240sx]

here on the coast, we have a rule... &nbsp;you never mess with anyone elses car... if you do you will pay for it thru the cops... and you get your ass beat after.... &nbsp; but if the cops can't help you get it to your car worse... and you get your ass beat... <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'>

[drift freaq]

Well , I probably would have taken his license plate and then gone to the nearest police station and made a hit and run report. &nbsp;<img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wow.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':0'> &nbsp;<img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'>
Anyways I know how you feel Irena . I live in Los Angeles and it seems like people down here don't give a shit about opening there doors on your car in parking lots. I must have picked up three new dings in the last week . My car is in cherry condition too. It only has 19,000 miles on it .
I have just resigned myself to the fact that I am going to repaint the whole car when &nbsp;I put on my 96 jpsec 180sx front bumper with integral spoiler and my custom rear lip .

[chickenmanq]

Yeah, I really don't think I would have written ####### across the hood. &nbsp;I prefer subtle &quot;getting evens&quot;. &nbsp;Being from Idaho, potatoes up the exhaust are always fun. &nbsp;Although I did punch the door on this Jeep that totally blocked the entrance to one of the parking lots near NAU. &nbsp;Plenty of spaces, yet she had to park where there wasn't a space. &nbsp;Moron. &nbsp;So, I felt justified in punching her door.

Oh yeah, in high school, some people would take up 3 spaces to park (you know, parking sideways or slanted), and we'd get about 4 guys and lift the rear end, or the front end of their car so they were stuck in the grassy median of the parking lot. &nbsp;It was heavily sloped for drainage. &nbsp;Hella funny.

[91CRXsiR]

that happend to me once.. i took my &quot;club&quot; from my car and took out my anger the right way... by bash the crap out of the other car.. =) took some anger management.. they taught me to channel it =)

[Grant]

That was pretty, dumb. now if people saw you (or caught u in the act). guess who's going to pay?? gotta control your anger, sorry for being so harsh, but I'm being realistic here.

[KoukiS14]

Well.. I agree with you =)
I would've taken it one step further and pissed in the air intake vent for his climate control, but that's just me... haha

-Rob

[S13Grl]

Ooh, guys... you need to live in Chicago and try and report an accident here. Honestly, the cops would have told me to buy a bottle of touch-up paint and consider it taken care of. That is NOT gonna happen.
I don't have a penis, so pissing in his gas tank wasn't an option. I think writing &quot;#######&quot; on his hood compensated for it, he definitely needs a new hood now, those scratches are pretty deep.
Also, the guy doesn't live in my area, I never saw that truck here before.
I have major control over my anger, and I let go of stuff all the time. I wasn't too pissed about someone denting my quarter panel, was I? No, cause I didn't know who it was. Okay... I guess that doesn't really count. But... this guy set himself up for disaster; he left the car there, parked like that. I wasn't gonna call the cops so they can give him a $20 ticket for improper parking and tell me to go get touch-up paint and suck it up, no. Writing ####### on his hood is a much more effective way. Slashing his tires or breaking his window/s would be a more extreme thing to do...
I learned that eye-for-eye was the best way to go around this area: I've had my car broken into, dented and bumped and scratched, my sideview mirror broken because someone tried to steal the blind-spot mirror... I mean, come on! You're setting yourself up for disaster if you leave your car pushing on mine without an apology note or anything. Honestly if he'd apologized, I would have said: alright, who the fuck cares, i'm painting my car anyway. But... you know...

ACTUALLY...........if you live in chicago the cops are pretty much a joke about that stuff. and i agree with irena.

but it is a lil dangerous say if someone else saw you or he did. maybe this guy coulda been nuetered, then what would you have done?

still i dont think she would have gotten to far with the cops and insurance and the whole ordeal. its just like that in the city even if yuou park outside for a day.

i once had my sentra parked on fullerton and hamlin left to a club came back went home my mom walks in my room the next mornin and saya are you ok? i was like yeah. turns out my pass side was hit from the rear quarter panel to the front fender! police wouldnt have done nothing and insurance we still would have to pay. &nbsp;not the same circumstances but its the principle. <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'>

actually instead of slashing his tires carry a valve core screw with you to take out just the core fromn his valve stem then put his cap back on while its still inflated park and watch him drive away. <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'> ohh that is evil! ah ah ah haha haha ha ha ha h

*writes down for future purposes*

[S13Grl]

<img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'> haha! That's a good idea! Maybe I&quot;ll try it in the future! <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'>

[S13Grl]

Oh, and it sucks that no one would do crap about your sentra, I'm sorry...

[KoukiS14]

I'm glad u don't have a penis Irena hehe =)

Yeah... dealing with Chicago cops is a total joke, I have a hard time taking those guys seriously... I don't even bother obeying the law around them, they never do much anyway hehe. .

-Rob

[BlankFlip]

i'm never taking my car to chicago <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'>

[DuffMan]

Yeah my aunt and uncle live downtown and someone actually stole their car, and they got no help from the police. Lucily whoever stole it decided to just ditch it somewhere. The Chicago cops don't want to be bothered with writing tickets, because it takes time away from their more important duties like harassing people and staking on LSD for speeders.

The most effective thing to do would be to get some friends and beat the crap out of him, then drag him to the nearest atm, and make him deduct the maximum he can and give it to you. That way you're covered on the damages. Of course that might attract attention.

[S13Grl]

haha <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'> Good one, DuffMan. I wish I could do that... but some scratches on his hood made me perfectly happy.

[HippoSleek]

Guess I fall on the side of - &quot;time for Prozac&quot; for someone. First off, I live in a city too and parallel park on a regular basis. Dings and scuffs happen - it's part of the deal for not living in the suburbs.

Story one: Right before I sold my hatch, I head firsted into a space b/c it was around a blind corner in a bad part of town (I was there doing charity work). Nicked a car. We worked it out b/c I left a note - but due to his mistake, he thought I gave him a bad phone #. He tracked me down and got my ins. co. involved, but then we settled. Moral: Even if the cops don't know or care, his insurance company would have to hear the claim.

Story two: After my stereo was stolen in Sept., my factory alarm was on the fritz. One day, it went off so many times that I came out and the battery was dead... and someone had taken a key the length of my car, probably b/c it pissed them off. Moral: What kind of an a$$hole does that type of thing - why not report it or let me know?

We have laws for a reason - it's what makes us a civilized society. Besides that, involving his insurance would have gotten you what you wanted (bumper cap &amp; paint) rather than making you go out of pocket. Seriously, think about things before you react. Ever see the movie &quot;Falling Down?&quot; I'm not trying to be a jerk, but it seems you have some temper issues with little things that some of us accept as part of daily life. Sure, some of these things ruin your day, but you don't always have to &quot;show those bastards who's boss&quot;... it is unlikely to work anyway. Glad I don't live in Chicago... mark

(Edited by HippoSleek at 7:13 am on Nov. 19, 2001)

[S13Grl]

I'm just sick of everyone taking their shit out on me and on my car.

And insurance companies will not accept a claim unless the insured reports it to them, and if he doesn't want to, than it's my loss. And the police will laugh their asses off when I ask for a report.

I do have a report pending, a lady backed into me at a light, in traffic, she gave me a bad phone number, i found her insurance company and reported it to them and they said they won't do a thing to contact her and won't do anything for me unless she contacts them herself.

And there was no damage on her car since she backed into me with her license plate screws, so she doesn't give a crap. But I do, and I was really nice to her about it too, tried to reason it out with her, explaining to her that the bumper was just repainted and it cost a pretty f'n penny to match the color. Regardless... she didn't care, gave me a bad phone number, her insurance company doesn't have a phone number for her, they won't try and write her a letter or contact her in any way, and the cops told me that it's not even worth filling out a report but that they'll do it out of politeness. That's something you wanna hear... definitely.