Cretin(s) strike

[Hitcher]

Sometimes I wonder whether or not I should judge others by my own standards. It may make bitter pills easier to swallow at times.

After enjoying a simply splendid overnighter to Napier on Saturday, Mrs H and I returned home on Sunday evening to be greeted by our respective motor vehicles (both of which we left parked on the street during our absence) sporting panel damage. Mrs H's has had its front right mudguard (fender for any Merkins lurking) stoved in, and the righthand rear door on mine has suffered a similar fate.

The mind boggles as to how this may have happened.

Needless to say, the perpetrator of this damage has not made themselves known to us. Prick. And now there is a thousand or so dollars to be invested rectifying our cars. Not that I would necessarily demand full restitution, but I think that it's good manners to fess up and offer to make things good.

Or have I gone completely barking mad?

[Highlander]

You've gone Barking mad man (:bleh: sory couldn't resist since you left the opening there).

Actually I think you are spot on and it shows a sad reflection on the state our society has slipped to. :oi-grr:
I note a car parked on the road side next door to our place ended up with a Road marker cone smashed through the rear window on Thursday night too - small consolation I know but you are not alone.

[onearmedbandit]

Unfortunately this sort of event is becoming more and more common. I'm sure there are a thousand reasons people have as to why this is so, but at the end of the day no reason is worthy.

[Streetwise]

thats got to suck, I cant understand why people have to break other peoples things, i hope the weekend was good anyway,

[kickingzebra]

Armed guards I say!! Idiots seem to have been out in force this weekend... Wankers need testicular rearrangement...

[The Pastor]

This is the reason garages where invented.....


Bad luck mate.

[OMG]

Sorry to hear that dude. I use to own a BMW, but that got targetted by vandals - dents, scratches, oil and shit meered over it. I just don't understand what they get out of wreaking other people's property.

[Motu]

My cars used to live on the street...I used to pull engines out there.Bartards will even steal your rubbish bin.Cars have to come off the street now.

[Hitcher]

All of this talk about gargres and off-street parking is fine. But we live in Wellington city. We're lucky to have a vehicle deck (two-thirds of which is on a Council encroachment) on which to park both bikes and usually one car. One car has to live on the street. Unless I "rationalise" it...

[kickingzebra]

Time to move to eketawhere bro.... Those narrow streets don't help manuevreability much!! specially not with every 3rd twit driving a remuera tractor, or yank tank.
Nothing worse than when that happens.

[scumdog]

Sorry to hear of your incident Mr H. - I bet had the offenders been located they would have had some crappy excuse starting with "I was just...."

Luckily for me I have garaging for two motorbikes and five cars and only have to leave two cars out in the public view. (but still off the street)

[kickingzebra]

Two arms, two legs... Shucks, how many cars and bikes can a guy ride at once?!? LOL

[MSTRS]

Sorry to hear of your troubles there Hitcher. After your enforced 'holiday' and subsequent delight in returning to 'work', this is salt in a wound. Not much you can do though.:cry:

[Motu]

When I lived on Waiheke Island only the rich people had driveways,everyone else just used to park on the road...when I first went there in 1985 I used to take a dump truck home every night,just parked out on the road,not even a night light in those days.Then sometime in the early '90's kids started smashing every rear screen on parked cars,they just threw bottles at them as they drove past,arseholes...and I don't think anyone got done for it.

[vifferman]

My sympathy, Mr H.

We too have to park at least one car on the road, as we have no driveway, and limited car garaging.
Last year we returned from holiday, and had shuffled vehicles around. Our son's car had been on the road for no longer than 5 minutes when a boy racer smashed into the back of it, then fled the scene. The repairs cost $2900. It has since been vandalised by someone pushing a shopping trundler into it at the supermarket he used to work part-time at, and then more recently, someone dented and scraped the right-hand doors with some white painted object.
Other 'indignities' include not infrequent egg attacks on our house, garage and the car, probably for no other reason than the garage door is only 2 metres from the road.

Even though we live in a very nice and quiet area, yobbos and senseless vandals still trouble us too.

[Sniper]

Bugger Mr H. If it makes you feel better, we spend in excess of $7500 per month in fixing our cars that have been vandalised. It seems to be coming a more common form of entertainment amongst the younger dregs of society. We have even resorted to cable tieing the hubcaps on as a wee deterrant.
Unfortunatly even having an alarm on the car these days makes it more exciting for the little malodorous pests.

If only trip guns were legal, losing a leg would teach the little buggers

[oldrider]

Sorry to hear that Hitch, just when you get out and about on your bike again you get a low blow back home! :slap:
Hope your year improves from now on.:o Cheers John.

[terbang]

Yup its a bitch when someone dings yer car and does a runner. Sorry to hear you got hit twice.
Dunno what the answer is though. As a perspective, I lived in Basel, Switzerland for a while and our first apartment had no parking so we had to use the street with a permit to park on the Blue zone. This also meant I had to park my trusty old bandit on the road outside our building which concerned me. I went to a local bike shop and purchased a decent cover as it was snowing on a regular basis and tried to get a good lock as well. They didn't have any locks in the shop at all and the salesman looked at me as if I was from another planet and said "only about one Motorcycle gets stolen in Switzerland in each year and none in this town". I did notice that there were a lot of bikes sitting on the side of the road with no locks.
Also when I was there they closed down a local Kindergarten because of the noise and it is against the law for a male to piss standing up, during certain hours, when living in a high rise. And everyone has to join the Military and the heroin addicts are paid to stay out of the public eye and it seems that every second citizen must have been a school prefect or similar.
Take yer pick..