you take your life into your own hands when walking through a carpark.

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Originally Posted by AndyG

Sounds like we need a group buy on reversing buzzers, preferably the realm annoying ones.

I wonder how many people who reverse park on their work site do so when they go home? We hear tragic stories too often.

One can buy replacement globes that include a beeper. I had one in my RRC.

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Originally Posted by PhilipA

I was roundly abused one day at the car park at Supercheap Erina.

A young bloke and his wife with baby in stroller were walking along just behind the row of cars I was parked in, even though there is a perfectly good footpath in front of the cars.

I looked in both side mirrors and rear view, placed into reverse and started slowly reversing in my Jazz. ( as I have already been hit at Erina Fair by a young girl who backed out opposite me and hit me after I had stopped to go forward).
Next minute this bloke is banging on my window threatening to punch me and actually punched the window . Luckily it didn't break.

I tried to analyse what had happened and it is impossible to see behind the car next to you with any mirror or by turning your head when you are in a normal car with another wagon/ute etc beside you .

In retrospect I think the bloke was a bit simple ( up on ICE?) but wanted to grandstand in front of his other as even when he was walking in front of them and I couldn't see them even when he was ranting. My riposte was that he should take better care and his kid was his responsibility.

It would not have happened in the Disco!
Regards Philip A

I reckon I've got it worked out over the last decade ... You have heros and phsycos out there in the community.

Your guy was a hero, I've struck a "hero" about 8years ago, I was wondering out to my car in the carpark at Safeway and could see someone trying to get in.... So I yelled out really loudly "MATE I CAN SEE YOU TRYING TO BREAK INTO MY CAR .... PI$$ off before I call the cops"..... I was deliberately loud 'cos I wanted everyone in the carpark to keep an eye on him and there cars..... Problem was this guy was a hero, so he runs away over to the public toilets, and by the time I'm at my car, I'm fronting him (big guy, about 6' 4"... probably 18->20'ish) and I think I counted 12 other teenages including 2girls backing him up. So now he's a "hero" as he has all his mates there .... 14 onto one. I just blocked his punches and slowly walked backwards into safeway at which point they all ran off (no way was I hitting back the other 13 weren't joining in and I didn't think they would unless I gave them a reason too). This was 400meters from the cop station mind you. Everyone watched the show from iniside the supermarket, no-one came out to help, and I gave up waiting for the police to arrive after 40minutes (a 2minute walk away from the station). before I gave up and went home.

So we have heros.... Luckily they usually can't fight, and just want ot show off....that'll run away if they don't have friends there with them (like he did to get his backup).

Then we have phsycos... crazy people... These are the ones that are problems. Last weekend I was down at the portarlington caravan park. One of the biggest parks in Australia and almost always has hundreds of kids, toddlers and young-un riding bikes and scooters around the park. Well what I thought was a hero came through in senator towing a trailer... flooring it between every speed hump, he tried his best to get it sideways down into the boat ramps area.... which is where I was with my kids. So I wondered over "Hey mate, can you make sure you only do walking pace through the caravan park .... there's kids everywhere" ...... Well his face dropped, and his eyes went all wide and sparkly and I thought "**** I've found a phsyco" ..... before he'd even replied.... Sure enough he comes storming up the boat ramp intending to beat the **** out of me..... It was about then I found out he was driving like a dickhead 'cos he was with the guy at the other boat ramp ... and they were racing each other through the caravan park....

I went from thinking "No worries, I'll just work my way back into the park blocking his punches" ... to thinking "I'm going to have to really hurt these guys" ... you see his mate wasn't a physco, he was a hero, and he was trying to get beside and behind me to punch me in the back and side of the head. 2 against one means I'm going to get hurt here ... Just as I decided I'd take phsyco out, 'cos then hero would run away ... my brother wondered down to see what the commotion was ( isn't it strange the way no-one else ever helps). 2 against 2 meant we managed to back away without hurting them.

All I did was say "mate, can you not speed through the caravan park" (infront of plenty of witnesses) and it was on .... There sure is some nutters out there :( You could tell by his eyes ... right away, it was like his whole brain shut down... there's no reasoning with a phsyco.

When I wandered over and told them at reception, I found out they'd have several complaints across the park already. So I warned them to call the cops and not get there rangers to front them.... 'cos they'll attack them for sure.

Oh yeah, I'm not tough guy, I'll run away like a scared little girl everytime if given half a change ( I've been doing martial arts for about 15years ... currently training in too different types just for the fun of it).... my brother? he was the sensai in ninjutsu in town for about 10years.

I dont' understand any of this. I've never picked a fight, abused or attacked anyone in my life.... Yet I'm averaging a nutter trying to hurt me about every 5years lately (that's someone that never goes to pubs, nightclubs ... has a family with young kids and only really goes to supermarkets and work). I reckon it's the drugs and lack of discipline in the current generation that are becoming adults.

seeya,
Shane L.

Went to Bunnings this morning in wife's new car , just one week old & parked beside a Toy people mover with sliding door on the side , the owner was coming out with a 10 L can of paint & a 5M length of plastic angle in one hand , this angle was wiggling around all over the place, I am still sitting in our car wailing for him to get out of the way so I could get out . He then tried to open the sliding door with the same hand he was holding the can of paint & angle , couldn't use the other hand because he had his keys in it.
The angle hit the side of my wife's car & when I spoke to him about it he just shrugged & went about putting the angle into his vehicle in the process hitting our vehicle again. At no time did he look at our vehicle to see if he had done any damage just hopped into his Toy & drove off. We were lucky the angle was only plastic & not metal other wise it would have scratched the paint. His vehicle looked like it hadn't been washed in the last 10 years.

A few years ago we owned a Rover 3500SE (SD1) , on Sunday I would get up early & wash it then go to shops to get the news paper around 7AM .
I'd park the car with not another vehicle around & go in & get the paper & come out to fond the front bump bar damaged & not a car parked near our vehicle . These bump bars are made of fibber glass & the over riders would brake the main bar. New bars cost $800 so after buying the first I always had a spare bar that I had repaired to fit on. After about 3 times I made a nudge bar that fitted into the jack points on the front & could bb quickly removed when going to car shows by just removing two pins. People just don't care .