The Scum of this Earth.

[meggersdog]

Some of you may remember a few years ago I had a fall-out with a neighbour and came home from work to this.

It still pisses me off that all those people who witnessed this attack refused to give a statement for fear of it happening to them.

[splatthefat]

You have my sympathy. A good few years ago now there was a spate if violence against cars in a little Norfolkshire village I lived in, including windows put in on my vintage caravan (well I say vintage, it was an early '70s Sprite), and my Scooby, which was nearly impossible to find owing to the rarity of the car.

 

Unfortunately the scrote who was suspected of doing the deeds had a nasty 'accident' on his moped one night.......

 

CJ

[RoadworkUK]

My sisters' Puma was keyed a while back, the "artists" involved made a thorough job of things, a full 360 degree encirclement of the car. Smashing.

 

So her 1.7, Luxury Pack, moderately rusty Puma with 180k on the clock is now basically valueless. Nice one.

[messerschmitt owner]

My sisters' Puma was keyed a while back, the "artists" involved made a thorough job of things, a full 360 degree encirclement of the car. Smashing.

 

So her 1.7, Luxury Pack, moderately rusty Puma with 180k on the clock is now basically valueless. Nice one.

I'm sure it was worthless beforehand. Just less easy to sell the rusty panels now.

[RoadworkUK]

My sisters' Puma was keyed a while back, the "artists" involved made a thorough job of things, a full 360 degree encirclement of the car. Smashing.

 

So her 1.7, Luxury Pack, moderately rusty Puma with 180k on the clock is now basically valueless. Nice one.

I'm sure it was worthless beforehand. Just less easy to sell the rusty panels now.

 

No point arguing with that, you're dead right.

[oman5]

one of the many reasons I drive a shitty old transit van. it has an underseal tidemark up as far as the top of the arches and the rest of the body is fifty shades of grey. one more scratch won't really notice. I gave up owning stuff worth having after my one owner from new pristine '89 audi 90 got keyed.

[dieselnutjob]

a few years ago someone keyed the length of my 607

to my surprise most of it T-cut out

on one door they went down to the primer though

eventually I will have to respray the top half of the door, but it is definitely worth having a go at t-cutting

[Morgan84]

Black paint scratches can be 'improved' using a black permanent marker pen,or black boot polish. Also a good kicking has great educational values when the little bastards are caught in the act

[oman5]

My 2.3D sapphire was in ford Diamond white,I discovered tipp-ex is really good for covering up stone chips

[Morgan84]

I have heard of tippex being used before;its pretty good !

[R9UKE]

There's an idea - might go along the Mégane with a permanent marker!

[Leyland Lawrence]

As well as the E21 I also have a Honda Caren moped for short trips around town. 1981 (x) and only 6 or so left on the road. Huge sentimental value as it's the same bike I had when I was 14 in the early 90s and I learned how to mend motorcycles using it.

 

I was in a more "vibrant" part of Bristol a few months ago undertaking a survey to an old victorian building where the moped was parked up in a car park right in front and had been fine for the day until around 3pm when I just, by pure chance, happened to look out a window to see a scrote had managed to defeat the lock, get it started and was disappearing down the road on it. Had I looked out of the window as little as 1 second later I would have missed him altogether and it would have been too late.

 

I ran out of the building and ran after him. Unfortunately, wearing site boots and not being at all fit I soon realised I wasn't going to catch him up and he was disappearing down the road on my bike. No helmet etc.

 

I stood in the middle of the main road and flagged down a lady in a Ford Fiesta. She (fortunately) stopped and I said "Someone's stealing my bike! Chase after him!" Very luckily she was content to do so and we caught up with him. She stopped the car, I got out and, because the engine had stalled and he was now coasting down the hill, was able to catch up with him and push him off.

 

What amazes me is that, instead of running off, he actually started arguing with me and started saying "Oh an old person didn't want it anymore and let me have it!"

 

If I was in a different line of work I would have punched him for stealing my stuff but police would probably have arrested me. I got my bike back, that's the main thing.

[Morgan84]

There's an idea - might go along the Mégane with a permanent marker!

 

Permanent marker,and if it still looks ugly,polish it with some black wax to take the ink off the paint,but leave it on the white exposed base coat.

 

I just hope the person who did it has a really nice car some day they have worked hard to buy,and I hope that some little bastard comes along and scratches that for them so they know how it feels

[retrogeezer]

Fill the scratch up as much as possible with black shoe wax, then use normal car wax over the top (the stuff that is colour matched) - that should at least make it look a bit better.

 

And yes, some w4nker did the door on my Bluebird last xmas, Jon (watanabe) and I were just talking about it earlier:

 

[drum]

Somebody scratched the word 'HOOR' on my dad's land rover.

 

Fortunately it was only on the rear panel of the tub.

[Micrashed]

It annoys the living fuck out of me that people are so disrespectful with other peoples property. Scrateches and creases in the bodywork of the Zaffy due to a shit on a BMX bkle with those foot peg things who rode off a pavement and clobbered the car, wing mirrors kicked off (happened a few times that in the street I live in) peoples tyres slashed (again the street I live in) cars getting keyed, dints in the supermarket car park from derange twats parking b=next to ou and flinging the door open (go for the mother and baby parking spots and leave a car seat in the car with a doll in it - they are wider spots).

[fotorabia]

I talked to the owner of this 280CE..he told me he had a fully restored Vespa parked on the street..and someone torched the moped..BBQing the side of the Merc so the insurance paid for it to be fully resprayed..he was quite happy with the result..it was mint..original 1 owner prior to him

[jonny69]

Outside my old place I used to get pissheads get in my T on a Friday and Saturday night, but I couldn't see the car fromt he flat, so I used to come down and find the door or boot open. It used to annoy me at first but there wasn't much I could do about it because it didn't have any locks or side windows. The main thing was none of them pissed in the car and there was nothing in there that could get broken. What really annoyed me was just after I'd sold the car and was sitting on the deposit, someone decided to jump on the roof and tore all the canvas. Luckily, I managed to palm it off as perished fabric to the new owner. It probably would have gone by itself after a short while because it was actually completely perished, but at least I'd have been able to give it to the guy with a functioning top for emergencies. I kept it under a cover from then on.

 

SWMBO's brother has it pretty tough though - someone thinks it's funny to keep kicking the wing mirrors off cars down his road and nobody has managed to spot who it is yet. Again, because of where he is, it's probably pissheads.

[nigel bickle]

Hateful.

 

I went through something similar a few years back. Started with the wing mirrors, progressed onto broken windows.

 

Then it seemed fun to roll my lil 127 on its side- in the middle of the road. When that didnt seem to 'work' (I had no idea who, or why), this happened:-

 

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Massively T boned at the dead of night. In case you cant work it out, it was parked parallel to the road, normally -and was physically rammed, presumably at high speed -by (I think, a private dustcart or beavertail)

 

Shortly afterwards- this happened:-

 

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You'll notice that they have carefully avoided the truly rare- so were clearly ''aware'' - although I've no idea why.

To this day I dont know who (-or why) but some of my neighbours clearly did -and decided enough was enough ( I think!).

Old Bill couldnt care less (-wouldnt even give me a crime number on the 127).

Look me up on Google Earth- you can still se the Fuego -smashed but kerb realigned!

 

I still suffer mindless ongoing small but annoying nonsense (smashed sidewindow on the Barkas last week) but I guess I'm kinda asking for it.

 

Postscript:-127 went to Vek -I'd lost heart. Fuego was transpanted into my 18 estate.

 

Police help was limited to trying to tow my 127 off the road (- on its side). 4 of us rolled it upright- no further damage. And warning me that the Fuego was in dangerous condition & I would get nicked if it stayed there long!

[RedSparrow]

I remember you telling us about this now. Horrible. I wonder what they used to ram them with.

Nice that plod were so helpful.

[nigel bickle]

White dustcart & blue beavertail.

 

Only I obv couldnt know that at the time -as I knew nothing about it.

[CreepingJesus]

Where my folks used to live, dad's old Mondeo and my sister's Cinq were parked in the parking bay outside their flat, with a neighbour's Avensis at one end, and another's E46 at the other. Some kindly folks decided one night, to run over all the cars and kick the pavement side mirrors off. Not content with all that damage, they stamped the Mondeo's sunroof in. Didn't nick anything (iirc), just stamped the sunroof in.

The police knew perfectly well who'd done it, and it wasn't the first time. The three guys they had in mind weren't workshy wee malnourished junkie neds either, they were in their 20's! I can't recall the police doing much about it, but some summary justice was handed out. Which I'm sure the police pursued with equal vigour.

Dad wasn't well at the time, so I'd said I'd get bits from a scrappy and go across for a few hours to get them fitted. Silly old fool did it himself, but he scrapped the Mondeo not long after, and never owned another car.

After he died, my Mum and my sister got out of there pronto, moved up to Bishopbriggs - now they have a neighbour who objects to being asked to keep the music down at 2am, and has taken it out on my sister's Yaris... Thankfully (?) it's black, so boot polish and black Colour Magic should do the job.

 

 

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but I guess I'm kinda asking for it.

 

Taking that a bit hard on yourself, aren't you? Not a criticism, you understand, but I can't see how a keying is justified. Far less someone having an impromptu demolition derby in your street! That is nothing short of brutality.

[Micrashed]

I still suffer mindless ongoing small but annoying nonsense (smashed sidewindow on the Barkas last week) but I guess I'm kinda asking for it.

 

WHAT???

In what way are you "asking for it"???? Are you Jimmy Saville? No? Well yuo are not asking for anything, in fact even if you did wear a shiny track suit and smoke a large Cuban its not up to Joe bloody public to start dealing out rough justice.

 

I know why my wing mirrors were wrecked and I have a good idea who did it but I cant prove anything so just bide my time and hope that next time they try anything they dont notice the CCTV pointing over the road to where I sometimes leave my car.....

[Junkman]

...but I guess I'm kinda asking for it.

 

By doing what exactly?

This is the most malicious thing I've ever seen!

The area looks better than the one I live in, but would this sort of thing happen here, the fuzz would be a lot less indifferent, lemme tellya.

Keying is bad enough, but this kind of thing is unbelievable in a country that considers itself civilised. Actually, it's unbelievable anywhere.

 

When I had the 77 Mercury Cougar, someone stabbed the tyres. This is the only car vandalism I ever experienced, apart from constantly

nicked valve stem caps on all cars in our area (I think the kids from a nearby school need them for some game, or as measuring cups

for drugs, who knows in this day and age...).

Out of all cars parked out there, mine was the only one that had the tyres stabbed, so no, I didn't feel discriminated against, noooooo...

The real problem is, that 14" yank tyres are impossible to come by, at least if you don't want to remortgage. I had to 'inch up' the wheels

to 15" in order to get tyres at a slightly saner tariff.

 

When this happened, the car was parked right in front of a flat a copper lived in. Unfortunately, he was on duty that night. Of course there

was nothing he could do without catching the bastards red handed, but he described very vividly what what he would have done if he had.

[nigel bickle]

Most malicious thing you've ever seen?

 

No -this, too me, rates as the most malicious:-

 

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Some here will remember. 36 cars lost (all roadworthy, most roadlegal -all rare), 6 60-70's m/bikes & around 40 sets of alloy wheels. I'm still not over it.

[DodgyBastard]

This annoyed me last winter, Probably pissheads.

 

 

 

[whitevanman]

I really hoped you wern't gonna post them pics up....makes me very very sad to see them again

[Junkman]

Most malicious thing you've ever seen?

 

No -this, too me, rates as the most malicious:-

 

Some here will remember. 36 cars lost (all roadworthy, most roadlegal -all rare), 6 60-70's m/bikes & around 40 sets of alloy wheels. I'm still not over it.

 

True, but I hadn't seen it before. "The most malicious thing I've ever seen" puts in no way a claim on it being the most malicious thing that ever happened.

Were those pyromantics caught?

[trigger]

I hate seeing those photos Nigel, disgusting.

 

Funny enough I've currently got a police officer outside my house after knocking on my door to chat to me because my neighbours door mirror on their Renault Scenic was ripped off yesterday morning and thrown through a car windscreen belong to someone across the road, I didn't even know anything about it.

 

My neighbours don't have much luck, this was his Fiat Punto a couple of years ago which was right out my house as a few of you may remeber.

 

My neighbours old Fiat Punto. by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr

 

My neighbours old Fiat Punto. by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr

 

My neighbours old Fiat Punto. by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr

 

That was a great awaking at 4 in the morning, another car up the road also got done at the same time.

[nigel bickle]

No. But it was always known who they were.

 

I, however, was arrested, despite being 50 miles away (proven) at the time. I was only released (a very long time later) when it was shown that it couldn't be an Insurance fraud -as there was no insurance. No further action -other than a large Bill from the Council for asbestos removal, & a 3 yr Planning battle to rebuild.

 

Those who know me understand that NO ONE sees my Barns. I broke my own rule and allowed a long term friend (a senior Police Officer) to see this one. He later admitted he told his son, who told his mates - who though a molotov might be fun.

 

We' re not friends any more -and he deliberately avoids all contact.