Don't forget to film it.
Pelting cars with snow balls
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Don't forget to film it.
I can do that, I'll stick my phone cradle to the drivers side window!
Jalapeno sauce and cheese...Tasty...
And put it on youtube when you get back from the police station and finished your community service.
And put it on youtube when you get back from the police station and finished your community service.
You can see the headlines, "Manaic mows down snowball throwing kids whilst firing water pistol through window."
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Can't remember doing it as a kid, I probably knew better. I know it seems like a daft laugh to most people but I can see how it could cause a serious accident.
What really annoys me these days though is people scraping snow of cars to make snowballs. It wouln't be so bad if they got it off the windows, but mauling your bonnet and wings for snow really annoys me. I had to confront 2 people doing it to my car last night. they were gathering it off the grass, then the gravel / loose tarmac then my bonnet. when I told them to stop I was greeted with 'why' *then proceeded to scrape more snow off it*
and then 'it's not as if i'm doing it with a wire brush is it?' ... So I went down to have a word with them.
No, it's not as if you're doing it with a wire brush; but it is my car, with an airbrushed bonnet, which is blatantly obvious as its been parked in this same spot every day since september; for you to have never noticed the painted bonnet is pretty much impossible.
They still didnt apologise in any way. I bid them farewell and told them to enjoy the snow, just keep off the paintwork.
Student halls by the way. they're all like 18 year old children round here with no respect for property.
What really annoys me these days though is people scraping snow of cars to make snowballs. It wouln't be so bad if they got it off the windows, but mauling your bonnet and wings for snow really annoys me. I had to confront 2 people doing it to my car last night. they were gathering it off the grass, then the gravel / loose tarmac then my bonnet. when I told them to stop I was greeted with 'why' *then proceeded to scrape more snow off it*
and then 'it's not as if i'm doing it with a wire brush is it?' ... So I went down to have a word with them.
No, it's not as if you're doing it with a wire brush; but it is my car, with an airbrushed bonnet, which is blatantly obvious as its been parked in this same spot every day since september; for you to have never noticed the painted bonnet is pretty much impossible.
They still didnt apologise in any way. I bid them farewell and told them to enjoy the snow, just keep off the paintwork.
Student halls by the way.
they're all like 18 year old children round here with no respect for property.
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This. We particularly used to enjoy trying to get them into buses.
"It's only water"
Yes, it's only water. However, water doesn't have a great track record what with an icerberg sinking the Titanic, a tsunami nailing Malaysia, snow bringing in numerous rooves, people being drowned...
Throwing a snowball can be comparable to throwing a rock, if you pack it hard enough. Even if you don't, it could still be seriously distracting and potentially very dangerous.
</miserable killjoy>
Are you choosing to ignore this smashed car window story then?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-11876511
And yes, if someone was to smash my car windscreen with a snowball they'd have to hope they have a big enough head start before I caught them.
I dont have fully comp insurance, so I'd be politely requesting they cover my damages.
If I drive I don't know what I'm talking about, mmkay.
If you fail to control your vehicle and cause an accident then I'm sure the police will be really happy with the excuse 'I **** myself cos of a snowball and ploughed into a mother and toddler that I didn't see'. There are just so many things that you could do if a snowball hits your windscreen instead of putting your foot down and mowing into a pedestrian/s, really can't understand how someone's first instinct would be to accelerate and panic.
Meh its a snowball, laugh it off, turn the wipers on, carry on.
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Well, the ones that subjected my house to a 2-hour assault using the most heavily compacted snowballs you've ever seen, after 11pm last night, didn't particularly target the car with snowballs. They just kicked the wing mirror off it when they were done instead.
Does that count?
Does that count?
Does the same hold for truck drivers who have breeze blocks thrown through their windows by kids on motorway bridges? If so, I'd like to know where the dividing line is.
Are you choosing to ignore this smashed car window story then?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-11876511
How on earth has that made the news? lol.
It's very easy to determine whether or not what you have in your hand is likely to cause any serious harm.
Most kids use their brain and draw the line at throwing plain old snowballs.
Boring children throw nothing.
Idiots throw solid ice and bricks.
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Mount the pavement and mow away
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Friend of mine once threw a snowball at a bus, because the driver was egging him on (several kids already had pelted him).
Went through the gap in the driver's window and clocked him square in the head
Went through the gap in the driver's window and clocked him square in the head