Thread: Bastards that run into your car and then nick off

Originally Posted by 1950landy

I find it annoying , it doesn't matter how far you park away from the other cars in the car park there is always some body that will park next to you , even though there are lots of other car parks between you & the shop entrance.
At least your vehicles are higher than trolley wheels.

Yes, it's bizarre. At times I've deliberately parked as far from the shops as possible, with no other cars anywhere near and I'll come back and find cars on each side of me.

A lot of people probably don't realise they have hit you. Twice now I've had poeple back into my POS Rangie while I'm filling it's LPG tank (so yes, its something that is done very often). I see them backing up... release the gas and watch the car rock around as they hit the bullbar..... They then just put it into drive and drive off ....... I figure they have just backed up until the car won't go any further ....... So they go forward again ... I've never had it happen in any other car (just as well.... I'm be immensly ****ed off if someone crashed into my oldies that certainly don't wear big 'roo bars).

I often find odd colours of paint on the bullbar and rear bar as well... You would think people would show something that looks big, ugly, battered and very unbreakable a bit more respect ( just so they don't damage there own car by hitting it).

seeya,
Shane L.

Originally Posted by Arapiles

Yes, it's bizarre. At times I've deliberately parked as far from the shops as possible, with no other cars anywhere near and I'll come back and find cars on each side of me.

Human nature.

If you go surfing somewhere with a choice of breaks along a beach someone will paddle out and join you, even though there are similar quality waves nearby.

The other funny one I've noticed is rec fishers in boats pre-dawn. One gets out there first and all the later ones make a beeline to be right alongside.

DL

I have to admit I wrote my signature down the side of a brand new Ford Territory with my bull bar about 5yrs ago.
I had no idea, there was no movement of the other vehicle, no scraping sound, from my vehicle no indication , but I put a 2mtr long crease down the side of that vehicle.
It was months later that my insurance contacted me saying a claim had been made against me. It was all on cctv and there were witnesses , but no one approached me and I was being actually questioned as a possible hit/run, which I thought was crazy.
The matter was very easily resolved but it just shows that some one can unknowingly damage your car parking without realising it.

I know a guy who flew out of town to do a job and hired a car at the airport, but when he got to the hotel he forgot to put the handbrake on, needless to say the car rolled out into the (main) street and was hit in the back by a truck. Witness accounts said the sedan looked like a hatchback, so he took it back to the car co. Not wanting to admit fault he said it was hit in a parking yard, when they asked who buy, having no particulars to give he said a "shopping trolley"!

Parking "accidents" make my blood boil.
I know every inch of my Rosie (p38) and I always spot new marks.
Im still on one of my "I'll take up two spots in the farthest corner of the carpark" sulks at the moment. - this one has lasted a month!.
Rosie is not new, has a few battle scars and a fade here and there, but she is my property. Hands off.
Gotta say tho'....dang those panel's dint easy

Too right "Parking Accidents" are why when one parks in a disabled zone, one has to park across two spaces so that the car doesn't get scratched by wheelchairs. Before I get flamed, I'm only joking.

Originally Posted by RANDLOVER

Too right "Parking Accidents" are why when one parks in a disabled zone, one has to park across two spaces so that the car doesn't get scratched by wheelchairs. Before I get flamed, I'm only joking.

No offence taken But !
As much as you get a laugh out of that and Jokes aside please don`t make a habit of these sort`s of jokes .
Yes i have a Disabled step son that is permanently in a wheel chair .
Jokes like this are no longer the flavour any more pick on the able bodied at least they can defend them selves easier
As they say try living in his shoe`s for a day