Car park runners?

[dangerous]

Fuck me, rant time... :facepalm:
Ok so twice in as many weeks both my cars have been backed into or hit in a car park.
Last week my truck was backed into stoving in the rear door, the city cear driver was about to do a runner when a witness stoped him and his reply was "ohh didnt know I hit it bro" later on he said he thought it was the tyre he hit :motu:
Any ways apart from the inconvenance it shoud work out all right.

BUT to day the car was hit in the pasangers door, fucker did a runner and no one seen anything, was a big mall car park... this one will cost me. :motu:

So the attached poll is a anomious one so post truthfully...

Do people run cos its the intial reaction, cos they dont want to pay, anything else?

[JimO]

i had a new 98 accord and a small truck backed up onto the bonnet and fucked off, leaving big gouges half way to the windscreen, cunts that do runners need stabbing

[Icemaestro]

they sometimes have cctv in big mall car parks..might be worth chatting to security and see...that is if you can remember where your car was parked!

[mattian]

A large mall should have security cameras installed, surely...... like what he said.

[bogan]

Depends on whether this counts, was in a supermarket carpark and the wind caught my van's door, which blew into the car next to me with very minor force, to say it scratched it would have been an overstatement, but there was a visible mark. There were also quite a few other similar little nicks etc and I reckoned a good cut an polish would have fixed the one I left anyway, if not the rest as well. So I fucked off (actually I think it was on my way in), does that count as a runner? :innocent:

[dangerous]

A large mall should have security cameras installed, surely...... like what he said.na a no go, checked that out allready

[DrunkenMistake]

I work in a supermarket here in Dunnerz, a guy had his car t boned in the car park by an old fella, who then backed up (with a fucked up front end) and drove off..:facepalm: I have had people push trolleys up against my bike and all sorts, drives me nuts.

[PrincessBandit]

I tend to keep a note of regos and colours of vehicles which are parked dodgily next to mine (I never do the dodgy parking, mind). I know it's probably not necessarily helpful as another car could park there in the meantime...

I thought that kind of shit only happened in Aucks!

[sidecar bob]

Some piece of shit Honda rider dropped his bike against the side of my car while parked at the Cemetary Circiut a couple of years ago. He thought nothing of riding off & leaving $2500 damage behind (door, bumper, light, sill, mirror).
Fortunately a nice chap wrote down his details & stuck them under the wiper.
The bloke was a fuckin weasel when confronted about it.

[Oblivion]

At least our problems with this are nowhere near as bad as Thailand's. I hear that It is absolutely atrocious the amount of people that crash into other cars and just drive off. :facepalm:

[superman]

If I happened to crash into someone in a car park, or damaged anyone's property when they were not within the vicinity. I would wait or not depending on my schedule, otherwise leave a note with name, number etc and a short explanation of what occurred. I'd feel far too guilty having caused someone a financial burden as well as having wasted their time out of my own accord.

[Virago]

We had a hit-and-run on one of our cars outside our house earlier this year - around $1,500 of damage.

The side-on damage suggested that it had been reversed into, and likely from someone backing out from the house opposite. The old guy who lived there had regular visits from family, caregivers, and medical personnel, so I went to talk to him. He confirmed that he'd had a visit from a Medical Laboratory lady - he gave me her name.

I tracked her down at her workplace, and checked her company car - sure enough, damage on the right rear corner which matched the damage to ours, although it had obviously just been cleaned. I went inside and confronted her - she denied it, claiming that the damage on her car was already there. She also said that she hadn't parked in the driveway, which was later confirmed as an outright lie - she had been seen there by other neighbours.

I took photos of both cars, and presented them to her manager the next day, along with paint samples. The evidence was pretty clear - the unique shape of the Honda Jazz bumper was boldly stamped into the side of our car, along with a fair amount of paint. The boss lady immediately accepted liability for the damage caused by her employee.

The thing is, this was a respectable middle-aged woman - who not only did a runner, but told several lies in an attempt to avoid responsibility. It was a real eye-opener.

[TOTO]

The thing is, this was a respectable middle-aged woman - who not only did a runner, but told several lies in an attempt to avoid responsibility. It was a real eye-opener.

yea man, people are wankers these days.

[neels]

I just make sure I park next to cars that are flasher than mine (not hard), that way I know they are going to be more worried about it than I am.

And a funny story I heard, owner of a damaged car found a note under their windscreen wiper that said.....

Sorry I hit your car.
I had to leave a note because someone was watching.
Sorry.

[mrchips]

Car Park Carnage to my once prestine car.

Trolley imbeded in the rear panel.
Trolley #2 imbeded in rear passenger side door.
Mum & kid in 4wd swings back door into 'fixed up' rear panel
Mum & kid # 2 decide their subaru door needs to scatch & dent the fuck outta mine.

Moto.. drive a shit box & don't give a fuck.

Some people are so cosumed in their own pitifull little lives they're oblivious to whats going on around them.. who am i to lecture them on respect & common decency. :violin:

[Taz]

+1 to owning a shit box car in auckland. Years ago I lived in Te Atatu and owned both a Subaru Legacy (was fairly modern then) and a Bedford CF decked out in primer. Coming on to the western motorway in peak traffic I would indicate in the Sub and people would try not to let me in (fuck knows why they do this) but in the Bedford I would indicate and start to merge and a large gap would just appear as if by magic :lol:

[dangerous]

+1 to owning a shit box car in auckland. Years ago I lived in Te Atatu and owned both a Subaru Legacy (was fairly modern then) and a Bedford CF decked out in primer. Coming on to the western motorway in peak traffic I would indicate in the Sub and people would try not to let me in (fuck knows why they do this) but in the Bedford I would indicate and start to merge and a large gap would just appear as if by magic :lol:

haha... same, white just looked bigger I spose but I never was taken on LOL
243728

I think the most of us here would own up as we have bikes that we take pride in... the avarage cage driver its just transport so why give a shit about others.

[lb99]

I try not to park beside anyone if can, or close to a wall/rail/bollard whatever so at least one side of my car is protected. My bikes dont go into carparks at all unless I know there is a barricade I can park behind.
Sadly fat people with small children are a prime cause of door scratches and dents simply due to the logistics of a small space and having to lean into cars to do seatbelts and stuff.
I usually wait in the car when my wife is in the supermarket, as I suffer from shopping rage and just get too wound up being surrounded by ignorant dickheads and wind up having to say something rude.
So I spend a bit of time watching carpark antics.
Twice my car was damaged while I have been in it, once from a woman loading kids and stuff into an old wreck that was already so full of shit that she had to pack the groceries in around her kids in the back seat, as she was doing this her wide load arse was grinding the door into the side of my car enough to make it rock on its springs.
She gave me an earful when I politely pointed out the damage she was causing, but after a stern dressing down and a lecture about taking better care of her car, kids, and body she left in tears. My insurance sent her a bill I imagine.

second was a young mother walking and texting with a full as trolly, who pushed her trolly off the kerb between my car and the one next to it, but the camber caught the trolly (as can sometimes happen) and it rolled into my car, she looked at me, and while still holding her phone in one hand proceeded to push the trolly with the other, scraping the side of my car the whole way, it was clear she was planning to ignore me the whole time, i was a bit nicer to her than the other one but she still got told......

Then theres the one where I saw a driver get his passenger to move a bike so they could take his park, need less to say the combination of heavy bike, steering lock, and disk lock left the bike on its side in the car park, they drove off, plenty of witnesses, noone said anything I was too far away to stop it but got the rego of the driver for the biker.

Is like people turn their brains off when they have to go to the supermarket or mall, is insane

I mean, who takes a 25 foot boat on a trailer into the supermarket car park on a thursday night ffs, it happens all the time here.

[scumdog]

second was a young mother walking and texting with a full as trolly, who pushed her trolly off the kerb between my car and the one next to it, but the camber caught the trolly (as can sometimes happen) and it rolled into my car, she looked at me, and while still holding her phone in one hand proceeded to push the trolly with the other, scraping the side of my car the whole way, it was clear she was planning to ignore me the whole time, i was a bit nicer to her than the other one but she still got told......
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I have heard tipping the offending trolley full of groceries onto its side stops it from scratching any more of your car and the lucky person who owns the groceries gets some excercise sorting out the mess. (AND maybe learns something, maybe..):innocent::shutup:

And it your luck the trolley will be chocker full of good shit like glass wine bottles and eggs and flour and similar stuff that mixes well.

[Pixie]

+1 to owning a shit box car in auckland. Years ago I lived in Te Atatu and owned both a Subaru Legacy (was fairly modern then) and a Bedford CF decked out in primer. Coming on to the western motorway in peak traffic I would indicate in the Sub and people would try not to let me in (fuck knows why they do this) but in the Bedford I would indicate and start to merge and a large gap would just appear as if by magic :lol:

It's due to issues with penis size.
Actually I've always used this technique driving all kinds of vehicles and no one ever actually hit me.
I bet they feel tiny when their ploy fails.

[FJRider]

I have heard tipping the offending trolley full of groceries onto its side stops it from scratching any more of your car and the lucky person who owns the groceries gets some excercise sorting out the mess. (AND maybe learns something, maybe..):innocent::shutup:

And it your luck the trolley will be chocker full of good shit like glass wine bottles and eggs and flour and similar stuff that mixes well.

That method works really well in the rain ... So I've found ... :innocent:

[mrchips]

it was clear she was planning to ignore me the whole time, i was a bit nicer to her than the other one but she still got told

+ 1000

I thought it prudent to inform a lady who drove into the rear of my car about the expectations of social behavior & she had the cheek to call me a friggin arrogant a-hole !

Them crazies are taking over the planet, just like those zombies on 'The Walking Dead'. :shutup:

[dangerous]

Yeah, but why are these attudes becomming more and more common? were is it comming from?

[YellowDog]

My wife wants her new car to have sliding rear doors so that others can park as close as they like and dent her car getting out of theirs; yet she will still be able to get the kids in the back, without any trouble :blink:

[maggot]

My missus has just got her car restricted, been driving a fair bit, her mum's car and all that. We were out to dinner last night, she failed a parallel park, ditched it and went to find another, was an optimistic gap at best. Anyhow, she got home later and called me to have a bit of a cry, she found a scrape and paint matching the car she'd try to parallel behind. She had just got too close, scraped and didn't notice.
She was just so upset that she hadn't noticed at the time and couldn't have left a note or talked to the owners, she felt bloody terrible. Her attitude gives me hope at least.

[PrincessBandit]

And it your luck the trolley will be chocker full of good shit like glass wine bottles and eggs and flour and similar stuff that mixes well.

you could get the beginnings of a cake out of that...