Destruction out West

[Nicksta]

I'm house sitting for my parents, go to bed at 12am, wake up at 5am....
walk up to unlock the gates to find someone has decided to smash them down for us for the 2nd time in 9 months...
we live on a straight bit of road... and the car has crossed across the road into out fence.....
this time skidding all 4 wheels... by the debris left for me to pick up
it was a Red Mitsubishi sedan/wagon (by the weheel base of skids)
it has lost both head lights and front badge ...
the foam from behind its shoddy front bumper is still in our gutter...
red as its paint is all over our fence...
hit with some force as it has tumbled over our Solid brick pillar and side fence (brick also)
and we had reinforced the pillar from the last idiot that hit it and knocked it for 6..

my complaint.. i call the henderson police.. and get.."if the car isant still there we wont send anyone out.. its a damage property complaint, please come in and file a complaint and take photos if you wish"

so if you see a red Mitsubishi trying to get its drivers side and front fixed cos it should be pretty munted by now... please let me know
or if you drove along hobsonville road and saw something.. i'd really appreciate to know also... between 12am and 5am saturday morning....
rant over.. pics below

[ZeroIndex]

damn that sucks... hope you catch the bastards

[RT527]

Bloody hell....Hard to tell from the photos but that looks like Two sets of skids from 2 vehicles,,,maybe road rage and someone cutting someone off?...real hard to tell, could also have been towing something heavy third mark to the right of other two skids looks like a single skid , something going sideways perhaps a trailer?....or are those other marks still there from last time?

also damage to the kerbing suggests two separate hits from diff vehicles, Just observations , need the experts on here to confirm that , spud, xion, s/dog,patrick?.

Just glad you wernt awake and went to investigate, could have got nasty.

or you wernt collecting the mail.

[Nicksta]

from the skids on the road.. its one car going sideways... i would say that they would have needed another car/truck to tow them out... it was more damage than last time and that car was totalled......

we usually hear the crashes at night (unfortunately there is one once a year at our gates) and if its late.. and our gates arent damaged.. we just call the cops.. but i guess i slept through this one... if i hadn't, i would have just called the cops straight away.... the house is always dead locked everywhere even when we are home.. and i set the alarm downstairs at night....
its a lovely world we live in.. and scum get to do stuff like this to us.....
and other awesome people suffer.....

[RC1]

im quite suprised you or neighbours heard nothing

[Nicksta]

neighbours may have.. i live on the rural side of the road.. about 100m away from the entrance... so not strange we didnt hear it....

[Karma]

Looks like the pillar just wasn't sunk well enough... if you put it back up, stick an I beam in there and make sure it drops at least 2 foot under the ground, should stop it from happening in future.

Also... you saying you didn't hear this? Must be a heavy sleeper.

[Nicksta]

it was sunk in hard... and reinforced.....
but if we put it too hard in... it causes way more damage.....
tried that the time before last.....
and no... house is far away from the entrance....

[Patrick]

Is hard to tell from photos, but looks like one car going sideways, somehow...

Check the neighbours... shame his numberplate didn't fall off... without that, sorry to say, there is very little that can be done...unless someone came up with a reply to your damage request. An ad in the paper perhaps?

Explain your situation again to the Police and ask them to check to see if any red cars stolen recently and located locally with heavy damage (ie: insurance rip off... )

Bummer though all the same...

[Nicksta]

it was funny enought the front badge came off....thats how i knew it was a mitsi....
mum called the cops again after i told her on the phone about the badge and the foam from the front body kit... and she called the watch house.... she mentioned Boi Racers... and the watch house jumped and said they would send a car today to investigate....
so a little progress for us....
it cost us a few thousand last time to fix it... that was only 9 months ago.. our insurance is starting to go through the roof with these nasty people hitting our fence.... the dude is paying it off at like $10 a week... from that time...

[Nicksta]

well, i sopke too soon.. just got a call to say that they are too busy to send someone (at least the called and didnt leave me waiting for them) and if we dont have a licence plate or anything to go by, to go back to plan one and go to the station and lodge a complaint..... is this what i pay taxes for???

[Drum]

That sucks, and I feel for you and your family. However, what are you hoping will be achieved by the cops turning up? All they can do now is take photos, and you have already done that.

[RT527]

Hmm reason i thought another vehicle was involved was that if a vehicle slides sideways into a kerb they almost always end on there side just seems strange seeing only 3 slide lines on the road and by the damage on the kerb i dont think the would have got far.

[Edbear]

well, i sopke too soon.. just got a call to say that they are too busy to send someone (at least the called and didnt leave me waiting for them) and if we dont have a licence plate or anything to go by, to go back to plan one and go to the station and lodge a complaint..... is this what i pay taxes for???

This is where I support the employment of non-sworn officers. Why use badly needed uniformed Police to do the mundane stuff like coming and seeing you to take statements and photgraphs, etc.? Even contracting a PI to do it would help free up the Uniformed guys.

Funny how the mention of Boy Racers got their attention! What's the difference if they weren't? Whoever it was, they're just as bad! And the $10 per week is a joke! These sods need to be hit hard in the pocket if they're ever going to learn anything! And they should be made to come and clean up/repair the damage!

[Nicksta]

true.... about the PI....
they wouldnt do a very good job cleaning up/repairing.. we would rather a professional built our brick work.. not some skinny Boi Racer....
but yeah... its a kick in the face the repercussions they get these days... and the last guy... went nuts and assaulted a few people.. he had a bail condition not to come here... so he's definately not rebuilding the fence....