Car got vandalised last night

JRS

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I'll spare you the full details, since it's not as if it doesn't happen all over the country. Suffice to say I plunged outside to find six ~20-25 year olds with the drivers door of my car open. I got within 1 metre of one of the mutant chavvy scumbags involved. If I'd caught him....well, there were two ways that would end:

1) I'd have caught him, hurt him a bit, his five mates would have buggered off, he'd have called the police in the morning, and I'd be done for assault.
2) I'd have caught him, his five mates would've turned round and kicked the crap out of me, and I wouldn't be typing this right now.

Either way, not desperately good for me!

The police don't give a toss, which is unfortunate given that I've defended them over the years. Guess I won't bother now, not as if they're bothered about me apparently. The car (a '00 X-reg Fiat Seicento SX with a whopping 899cc engine) is worth the sum total of sweet **** all, so going through insurance is about as brainless as a particularly brainless thing. A quick look at the damage totals it out at:

1) drivers side wing dented
2) drivers side mirror casing scratched to all hell
3) drivers door badly dented and creased
4) Rear quarter panel very badly dented and creased to ****

I know it'll be written off if I go through the insurance company. The trouble is.....I'll have driven this car ten years by this October. I learned to drive in it. I have a slight sentimental attachment to it. It's stupid I know (especially given the car involved), but I really don't want to see this particular car get scrapped. So unfortunately I've now got to spend quite a lot of money that I don't really have on fixing it up. All thanks to some ******* mutants who think they can **** with someone's car.

/awaits the 'cool story bro' brigade
 
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This isn't GD so hopefully you'll be spared the 'cool story bro' brigade with a tale like that. Sorry to hear what happened, I hate the kind of scum a lot of people are breeding at the moment and it sounds like this was just done out of malicious boredom? ******s.
 
DiamondMark said:
Sorry to hear that mate, there's not really a happy ending to be had out of that is there.
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Eh, there might be. I'll spend the money to sort it, so at some point it'll look very good (as good as a 'cento looks anyway!) again.

Right in time for mutants to attack it once more.

Hey ho.

sanaxe1 said:
Sorry to hear that although to be honest when i see a fiat Seicento i have a similar reaction.
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Heh :)

Wicksta said:
it sounds like this was just done out of malicious boredom? ******s.
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I suspect drunkenness was involved, given my proximity to the local park....
 
Too many scum in britain these days, about 4 years ago 2 youths ran down the street and ran over the top of about 5 cars and vandalised about 7 others. Luckly i live in a street where everyone knows everyone and they caught one of the lads. After a beating and a rope around his neck he was told if he was ever seen on this street again he would be hanging from the lamp post.

Not one car has been vandalised since then.
 
I am very sorry to hear about it. I've had my car just over 1 year and it has been attacked 3 times since I acquired it, the most recent time causing irreparable damage because the manufacturer doesn't make the parts any more. It never gets easy to see that worthless scumbags have been having their way with your pride and joy. It feels like a personal violation.

So you're not going to get a "cool story bro" from me. I hope you can get it fixed up the way it was, even if it costs more than the car is worth.
 
doofski said:
Too many scum in britain these days, about 4 years ago 2 youths ran down the street and ran over the top of about 5 cars and vandalised about 7 others. Luckly i live in a street where everyone knows everyone and they caught one of the lads. After a beating and a rope around his neck he was told if he was ever seen on this street again he would be hanging from the lamp post.

Not one car has been vandalised since then.
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See as appealing as that story sounds, in the UK that sounds like about 8 years to me, for the monkey hangers not the vandal.
 
Scum :( sorry to hear that.

As above we've had youths running over the tops of cars and breaking the side windows as they made their way down the street. Fortunatly there was a load of people at the pub at the end of the road who didn't take kindly to them doing it.
 
JRS said:
1) I'd have caught him, hurt him a bit, his five mates would have buggered off, he'd have called the police in the morning, and I'd be done for assault.
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Then get someone to do it for you? Don't you have neighbours? I'd be rounding up goons before even thinking of the police in such a situation.
 
asim18 said:
Then get someone to do it for you? Don't you have neighbours? I'd be rounding up goons before even thinking of the police in such a situation.
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Then the next thing is, rather than having your car keyed, you'll have bricks thrown through your windows and burning oily rags pushed through your letterbox.
 
JRS said:
I'll spare you the full details, since it's not as if it doesn't happen all over the country. Suffice to say I plunged outside to find six ~20-25 year olds with the drivers door of my car open. I got within 1 metre of one of the mutant chavvy scumbags involved. If I'd caught him....well, there were two ways that would end:

1) I'd have caught him, hurt him a bit, his five mates would have buggered off, he'd have called the police in the morning, and I'd be done for assault.
2) I'd have caught him, his five mates would've turned round and kicked the crap out of me, and I wouldn't be typing this right now.

Either way, not desperately good for me!
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I'm really sorry to hear your car has been damaged, it's not a pleasant thing to have to put up with. I have had my door mirror broken twice because I had to park on the road and live near a few pubs.

I have to tell myself to keep calm and would never attempt any intervention. The way I look at it is that car parts can be replaced at relatively low cost, whereas body parts sometimes cannot be.

Unfortunately this vandalism is mindless human behaviour which many of us have to put up with and learn to rise above. However, I do wish the police would take an interest as a zero tolerance policy might help to get the message across.

Rgds
 
asim18 said:
Then get someone to do it for you? Don't you have neighbours? I'd be rounding up goons before even thinking of the police in such a situation.
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Wake up and smell the coffee, its one thing giving a someone you catch in a car park a clump, its another when you live in the road.

So both the police and the offending dick can come and drive you mad.
 
asim18 said:
I'd be rounding up goons before even thinking of the police in such a situation.
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Yea, because everyone knows a pack of trouble makers who would be happy to beat somebody up on our say so, you must move in lovely circles, do they also 'boost' fast Audi's? ;)
 
sanaxe1 said:
that's even worse .. Why would a group of people who are not your friends suddenly drop anything they are doing and beat up someone just because You said so? I think the mafia theme of this forum has gone to your head.
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Do you know whats even more amusing? He was shocked and couldnt understand why I called him a 'known fantasist' in a previous thread :confused:
 
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